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Fatal Attraction: HIV/AIDS and Family Formation in Southern Africa
University of Washington Abstract Fatal Attraction: HIV/AIDS and Family Formation in Southern Africa Cara Margherio Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Samuel Clark Sociology Stewart Tolnay Sociology This dissertation ... -
Feeling a Little Fat: Stereotype Threat and Weight-Based Stigma as Predictor of Marriage
(2012-09-13)Studies on the effects of excessive body weight have historically focused on weight in terms of pounds, or medically in terms of one's Body Mass Index (BMI) score. This research has shown that the social stigmatization ... -
Forced Out: Race, Market, and Neighborhood Dynamics of Evictions
Research on evictions highlights the hardships that low-income families face through structural constraints of stagnant wages failing to meet monthly rent. This area of study expands our un- derstanding of the reproduction ... -
From the Government to the Streets: Why the U.S. is a Policy Innovator in Disability Rights
(2013-04-17)When it comes to disability rights, the U.S. is a policy innovator rather than a policy laggard. Understanding why the U.S. was ahead in disability rights involves addressing the link between institutional activism and ... -
Gender In Context: Immigrant Routes to Healthcare Access
It is well established that immigrant men are less likely to access healthcare than immigrant women. We cannot assume that immigrant men are just reluctant, and immigrant women are not, but that there are structural factors ... -
Gender Structures, Strategies, and Expectations during Nepal’s Labor Migration
Temporary migratory work has long been an adaptive response to concentrated material deprivation. As technological advances make transnational labor movements more accessible, and uneven economic development and growing ... -
The Gendered Effects of Marriage on Health in Japan: Structure, Role Expectations, and Outcomes
(2013-07-25)One of the most robust findings in health literature is the association between marital status and health. A growing body of research in the United States has shown that married individuals are healthier than their single ... -
Growing Up in Taiwan: Counterfactual Models of Part-Time Work, Romantic Relationships, and Crime among Taiwanese Youth
Using marginal structural models for counterfactual inference and Bayesian Item Response Theory (IRT) models, this dissertation investigates the effect of two turning points in the life course, work and marriage, on deviance ... -
Hiring in Bahrain’s Healthcare Industry: Recruitment Methods and Nationality
Although sociologists have begun to examine the employer-side of the hiring process, we know little about recruitment methods. Using the understudied yet internationally consequential context of a Gulf Cooperation Council ... -
How Distinct Is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories
This paper contests prevalent assumptions about recent change in gay neighborhoods. Rising acceptance of LGBTQ people in US society may have led to widespread assimilation, while simultaneously opening up gay neighborhoods ... -
How Ethno-Racialized Residential Histories and Support Networks Shape Residential Stratification for Housing Voucher Holders
Within more than a century’s worth of literature on housing inequalities, a new wave of research has emerged on the residential mobility process, which scholars frame as a key mechanism for understanding racial/ethnic ... -
How Far Up the River? Assessing the Consequences of Criminal Justice Contact
Existing research has shown that the rise of incarceration that occurred during the prison boom had a substantial effect on the stabilizing forces of employment and health. Incarceration hinders the ability to retain and ... -
How social media affects political action: the effects of digital network structures and motivations on movement participation
The advent of utilizing social media for political purposes has been a significant change in recent decades. While most agree that social media can propel political change, the mechanisms underlying why social media affects ... -
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 ...