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Browsing Sociology by Subject "Gender studies"
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Dimensions of Discomfort: Examining Child Welfare Professionals’ Approach Toward Gender Diverse Foster Youth
There is an increasing amount of sociological scholarship regarding gender diverse people’s interaction with institutions. An understudied institution is the foster care system. This paper seeks to understand affective ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Team Processes in Mental Health Care
(2013-02-25)The "managed care" model of health care refers to organizational techniques intended to reduce health care provision costs while improving quality of care. One technique this model necessitates is "team care" as opposed ... -
The Adolescent Empathy Paradox and Juvenile Offending
I propose the persistent gender gap in juvenile offending is linked to adolescent orientation to a gendered generalized other and empathic development. Empathic ability is inversely associated with juvenile offending and ... -
The Consequences of Mixed-Sex Peer Groups in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter I finds adolescents with violently delinquent peers are more likely to report mixed-sex peer groups, but adolescents who are themselves delinquent are less likely ... -
To Use or Not to Use? Substance Abuse and Post-9/11 Veterans: The Impact of Military Service on the Life Course
The study of the military is often entangled with the study of war. While both subjects overlap substantially, the discipline of military sociology focuses on those serving in the military and the institution itself, rather ...