Browsing Sociology by Subject "Sociology"
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Admission Categories and Differences in Annual Earnings and Job Quality of New Permanent Resident Immigrants
This study uses longitudinal data from The New Immigrant Survey to examine the role of immigration admission categories in stratifying new immigrants in the U.S. labor market. More specifically, I explore differences in ... -
After the Wedding Night: The Confluence of Masculinity and Purity in Married Life
(2012-09-13)Purity is congruent with cultural understandings of femininity, but incongruent with normative definitions of masculinity. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this study analyzes interviews with men who have taken pledges ... -
Aging-as-Leveler for Mental Health?: Stressful Life Transitions and CES-D Trajectories in Late-Life
Due to declining mortality rates and other demographic transformations, individuals aged 65 and above make up a larger share of the population within the United States than ever before, yet vast inequality remains in the ... -
Alcohol Use and Misuse among American Indians: Applying a Modified Historical Trauma Model
(2014-02-24)Although Native Americans are commonly associated with alcohol misuse, little is known about stressors or coping mechanisms that may influence alcohol use patterns. Using Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey of ... -
All Mixed Up: Social Interaction and Social Ties in a Mixed-Income Public Housing Community
(2013-02-25)What is the nature of residents' social interactions and social ties in a mixed-income public housing community and what are the processes producing these outcomes? This study examines the nature of social interaction and ... -
Are Media ‘Watchdogs’ of Illegal State Practices in Post-Cold War Liberal Democracies?: A Case-Study of the Coke Extradition
Since the end of the Cold War, post-colonial states have progressively enacted a series of liberal-democratic reforms aimed at addressing forms of state illegality. Despite being good disciples of reform, political ... -
Being without Belonging: Seattle's Ahıska Turks and the Limitations of Transnationalism for Stateless Diaspora Groups
(2013-04-17)Within transnational and diaspora populations, there are subsets of groups that are stateless and have been displaced multiple times and have complex origins and migration histories. Existing frameworks of transnationalism ... -
Benefits of the Balancing Act: Motherhood, Employment and Mental Health
Variant findings on the benefits and strains of combining employment and family roles encourage investigation into the mechanisms and conditions under which employment improves the well-being of individuals who perform the ... -
Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter?
(2014-02-24)University of Washington Abstract Black-White Wealth Accumulation: Does Veteran Status Matter? Judy Ann Loveless-Morris Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Barbara F. Reskin Sociology Previous research has ... -
Brokers Beyond Borders: Moldova's Countertraffickers
(2013-07-25)Why do development organizations behave the way they do? What factors determine the key constraints and incentive structures within which they pursue their goals? In this paper, I make the case that development organizations ... -
Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
(2012-09-13)Education has been the primary means of advancement for immigrants and native-born Americans throughout the 20th century. Despite the overall expansion of the educational system in the United States, not all immigrant ... -
Collective Identification, High Risk Protest, and Social Media Use in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
(2014-02-24)Existing literature suggests that online spaces may be less effective than face-to-face communication at promoting a sense of collective identification among social movement participants. These studies, however, do not ... -
Colonialism and Displays of Third World Dependency Among Thai Sex Workers
Expanding upon Hoang’s (2015) theory that Vietnam’s history of colonialism or imperialism is a precondition for displays of dependency to exist among sex workers today, this paper tests the same theoretical framework in ... -
Coming Together? Trends in Black-White Occupational Segregation, 1980 to 2009
Occupational segregation, the differential distribution of groups of workers across occupations, provides one of the most important mechanisms for creating, maintaining and legitimating social inequality. In this study I ... -
Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America
Despite significant advances in macro and micro level theories, explanation and prediction of urban unrest remains challenging. This dissertation contributes to ongoing efforts to improve understanding of urban unrest ... -
Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women’s Employment
Social scientists have amassed considerable evidence that incarceration has detrimental consequences for employment. Incarceration pushes inmates out of jobs, reduces employment prospects upon release, and confines former ... -
Developing Computational Approaches to Investigate Health Inequalities
Computational approaches to health, especially approaches harnessing "big data'' offer researchers emerging methods and novel data to understand social inequalities. Through data sources such as social media and smart city ... -
Disability, Identity, and the Law: A Phenomenological Study of Living with Acquired, Invisible Impairment
This study examines the social construction of disability, identity management, and everyday understandings of the law among individuals who have acquired non-apparent impairments, sometimes referred to as “invisible ... -
Disorder in the Neighborhood: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on Disorder, Norm Violation, and Pro-Social Behavior
A highly-visible paper, published in Science, using field experiments in a Groningen neighborhood found strong support for the broken windows hypothesis: disorder increases norm violations (Keizer et al. 2008). The study ... -
Does it pay to attend a for-profit college? Horizontal stratification in higher education
(2013-04-17)Mostly absent from the research investigating the economic returns to postsecondary education are examinations of the economic value of attending a for-profit institution, despite this sector's rapid growth over the past ...