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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 ... -
Institutional Determinants of Child Protection Systems in the United States
Child protection is a highly consequential social institution that simultaneously supports and regulates marginalized families. This dissertation shows that child protection systems are largely a product of the institutional ... -
Integrating Collective Efficacy and Criminal Opportunity: Disorder, the Built Environment, and Policing
This dissertation proposes an integrative theory that links social structural explanations of neighborhood crime to opportunity-based situational explanations for crime. The first chapter of this dissertation argues that ... -
Interwoven Social Determinants: Race, Education, and Health in the United States
Educational attainment and racial assignment are essential determinants of health in the United States. Despite broad interest in how these social factors affect well-being, understanding of how they interact to simultaneously ... -
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 and Transcending Boundaries: The Effect of Ritual on the Nationalism among Dominant and Subordinate Ethnicities in the Near East
Researchers have examined the role of dividing factors such as occupational structure, economic discrimination, competition, and political recognition of ethnicities on the level of dominant and subordinate ethnicities’ ... -
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 ... -
Marcus Garvey, a study of projected negro myths
(1938)The psychological adjustments of minority groups to their social environment is a problem that holds practical as well as theoretical interest for the social psychologist and the sociologist. The heart of the problem lies ... -
Marriage Timing, Gender Context, and Early Family Formation
University of Washington Abstract Marriage, Gender Context, and Early Family Formation Kerry L.D. MacQuarrie Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Stewart Tolnay Department of Sociology This dissertation explores marriage ... -
Mate Selection Power and Female Marital Mortality Differential in China during Transition
This paper documents a marked sex difference of the mortality differential between the never married and the married population in China 1990. Different from existing studies made in Western societies, the female never ...