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The Illogic of Separation: Examining Arguments About Gender-Neutral Public Bathrooms
(2012-08-10)In the United States, gender separation is the norm for public bathrooms. As one of the few remaining public spaces that are regularly explicitly segregated by gender, bathrooms are often experienced as sites of symbolic ... -
Individual-Group Dynamics in a 12-Step Fellowship: Identification, Service, and Recovery in Overeaters Anonymous
Self-help/mutual-aid groups, relative to other forms of voluntary association, continue to thrive. Many of these groups follow the 12-Step model of Alcoholics Anonymous. One such organization is the fellowship of Overeaters ... -
Inequity by Default? Metropolitan Foreclosure and Housing Market Dynamics
The devastating consequences of the Great Recession on individuals and households across the United States are well-documented and far-reaching. However, few studies have attempted to connect the foreclosure crisis with ... -
The Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration: A Re-Examination from a Gendered Lens
Past research on the influence of conditional cash transfers (CCTs)--widespread anti-poverty programs--on migration has focused on the household as a harmonious unit. Drawing on feminist critiques of the welfare state, ... -
Infrastructure of aggression: military expenditure during the British industrial and the American informational mode of development shifts
(2008)Nearly a decade into the 21st century it is evident that the post-WWII American economy unleashed a global socio-technological transformation as profound as any experienced since the early days of the British Industrial ... -
Japanese farms in Washington
(1926)More than thirty years have elapsed since Japanese farmers first appeared in the state of Washington, but it was not until after 1910 that they increased rapidly. The climax was reached in 1920 when there were in the state ... -
Kin, kith, and same-sex couple quality
(2005)This study maps the social networks of lesbian and gay couples and shows how their networks affect couple relationship quality. Respondents had to be ages 30 to 55 inclusive, living together at least one year, without ... -
Labels for Some: Long-term Consequences of Police Encounters and Arrests for African American and White Youth
(2014-04-30)Policing programs, including community policing, and school policies that increase opportunities for interactions between law enforcement officers and youth have become increasingly common over the past two decades. However, ... -
Leading the March: The Role of Latino Religion in the Immigrant Rights Movement
(2013-07-23)As the Latino population living in the US continues to increase, these new residents are adjusting to life in a new host country in a way that merges their religious beliefs and social ties, which has the potential to ... -
Maintaining National Identities: Cuisine, Immigrant Exclusion, and Nationalism
(2013-07-23)National identities are the sum of many different social characteristics. Nationalism collects many different traits to draw a boundary between members of the national community and outsiders or foreigners. Is traditional ... -
Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China
(2014-04-30)This dissertation examines the rise of organized retailing in East Asia. It pays attention to the roles of market makers as intermediary market players who act between the producers and consumers, especially in the contexts ... -
The Malaysian anomaly: understanding the consequences of affirmative action in the developing world
(2005)This dissertation examines the consequences of ethnically based policies of preference on inequality in Malaysia. The New Economic Policy (NEP), that is the compilation of these policies, has been one of the most ambitious ... -
Managing nature: a look inside the salmon arena
(1999)The declining runs of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States are an ideal case of an environmental problem. Like global climate change, declining water quality, and population density, the decline ... -
Migration as an adaptive response to ethnic nationalism in Russia
In this paper, I argue that migration responses to push factors differ along ethnic lines. I examine this hypothesis using panel survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, census data, and regional-level ... -
Modeling the Age Pattern of Human Mortality: Mathematical and Tabular Representations of the Risk of Death
(2013-11-14)The age pattern of vital events is one of the oldest and most well studied topics in demography. Mortality is no exception with the introduction of the life table as a central demographic tool in the mid 17th century. Over ... -
The moral structure of social control
(2000)Perceptions of crime seriousness have been studied since the 1960s. Characteristics of acts affecting these perceptions have been identified and the degree of agreement in seriousness judgements has been examined for a ... -
Moving on Up? Access, Persistence, and Outcomes of Immigrant and Native Youth in Postsecondary Education
(2013-02-25)Despite evidence that prior waves of immigrants have largely been absorbed into American society, concern over the fate of newly arriving immigrants from Latin America and Asia persist. Much of the debate focuses on the ... -
Moving Up or Staying Put? Mobility, Marriage and Gender in Transitional China
In China, despite longstanding inequalities based on gender, social class, and rural/urban status, several factors have potentially challenged the existing socially stratified structure in the recent decade – namely the ... -
A Multi-Racial-Ethnic Model of Perceived Neighborhood Crime
This paper investigates the relationship between Seattle residents' perceptions of the racial-ethnic composition of their neighborhood and their perceptions of neighborhood crime. The study uses questions about perceptions ... -
Neighborhood Change after Investment in Light-rail Transit (LRT)
Recent decades saw renewed interest in alternatives to automobiles from both citizens and policymakers alike, with new investments in light-rail and other transit following as a result. While a growing literature outlines ...