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Quantifying Crime Displacement After A Hot-Spot Intervention
(2013-07-25)Research has shown that urban crime concentrates in specific urban areas, leading practitioners to combine criminological theory to help inform policies and strategies on how to address this phenomenon. Outside of measuring ... -
The Race of a Teacher and Differential Student Achievement: Evidence from Project STAR
This study explores the impact of black teachers on the achievement of black and white students in first, second, and third grade. Using data from Project STAR, I exploit the random assignment of students and teachers ... -
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and the Pursuit of Economic Opportunity in the Age of the Migration Decline
It is frequently assumed that today’s population is more mobile than ever, exhibiting little attachment to the origin places of their youth. Indeed, scholars and commentators espouse this supposed rootlessness as one of ... -
Race, Gender, and County Context in Support for Harsh Punishments across the U.S.
In this paper, I use data from the General Social Survey, F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and other sources to consider differences in attitudes about punishment among blacks and whites, ... -
Racialized Ideology and Structure in Online Rental Advertisements: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Racialized Discourse
This dissertation analyzes how the discursive representation of racist ideology in rental ads link up with the racialized social system in the US, a system I define, following Bonilla Silva (1997) as a “societ[y] in which ... -
Reclaiming the Self: Political Prisoners, Gender, and Subjectivity in Post-War El Salvador
This study analyzes the lived experience of former political prisoners in El Salvador. Based on semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and focus groups, it inquires into how women and men who survived political ... -
Refining the Association Among Race, Education and Health
(2014-04-30)Education holds a complex, multifaceted association with health. In efforts to flesh out this relationship's nuances, researchers have found that how these two factors relate is dependent upon different social characteristics. ... -
Regulation through Legal Ambiguity: Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Turkey
What do rights to reproductive health practises, such as abortion and contraception, stand for in a context that is ripe with obstacles for women as they seek access to safe reproductive healthcare? What is the work that ... -
Religious Capital as Human, Cultural, Social, and Emotional: Toward a Sociological Theory of Membership Dynamics in Religious Voluntary Associations
(2013-04-17)This dissertation theorizes and tests the effect of religious capital on three religious behaviors: religious participation, denominational exit/retention, and religious giving. Religious capital is conceptualized as human, ... -
Residential trajectories: optimal alignment and the structure of residential mobility over the life course
(1999)Drawing from an intersection of different theoretical perspectives and methodological innovations, this study examined the residential careers that individuals follow over the course of their lives. This investigation ... -
Roach Motel: Research, Policy, and Structural Inequalities of the No Child Left Behind Act in California Public Schools
Under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) schools must meet “adequate yearly progress” goals for students’ performance. Schools that fail to meet these goals are identified as “in need of improvement” and are ... -
Rooted or Stuck? The Causes and Consequences of American Mobility Decline
Annual mobility rates in the US have declined by half since 1950, but it is not clear why. The emerging literature suggests that as-yet inexplicable immobility is indicative of an increasing cultural attachment to place – ... -
ROUTES TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (OR NOT): LOCAL, CULTURAL RACISM IN EXCEPTIONAL COMMUNITIES
The gap in low birth weight (LBW; weight of less than 2500 grams or approximately 5.5 pounds) between infants born to non-Hispanic black mothers and non-Hispanic white mothers in the US has remained the largest gap in ... -
A Sacred House for the Lost: Chile's New Museum of Memory and Implications for Human Rights Today
(2012-09-13)This thesis investigates the creation of collective memory by exploring the case of a new government-sponsored Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. The exhibit commemorates human rights violations perpetrated by the ... -
Sacred ties: why religion inspires confidence, community, and sacrifice
(2008)Explaining group solidarity is one of the most fundamental problems of sociology. Understanding solidarity within religious groups is particularly challenging because much of what religion offers cannot be verified in an ... -
The Scarring Effects of Bankruptcy: Cumulative Disadvantage across Credit and Labor Markets
(2012-09-13)Although the labor market functions as the primary mechanism for the distribution of resources in the United States, credit markets can also enhance, maintain, or reduce inequality. My project uses the event of bankruptcy ... -
School Composition, Social Origins, and the Educational Outcomes of Mexican Origin Youth
The Mexican origin population is one of the largest and fastest-growing racial/ethnic minority groups in U.S. schools. Mexican origin students are also one of the most educationally disadvantaged subgroups, exhibiting ... -
Seattle Rental Ad Texts and Processes of Segregation
Recent work on racial residential segregation shows how individuals’ perceptions of neighborhoods influence their housing choices and therefore contribute to the reproduction of segregation. Rental housing advertisements ... -
Segregation in Suburbia: The Changing Structure of Racial and Ethnic Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This dissertation investigates how rising suburbanization across race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status has interacted with the locations and depth of racial and ethnic inequalities in exposure to disadvantaged neighborhoods. ... -
Sexuality Stratification in Contemporary Japan: A Study in Sociology
This dissertation used the Osaka City Residents’ Survey, one of the few population-based surveys that ask about sexual orientation in Japan, to explore the association between sexual orientation and educational attainment, ...