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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Drug Use Among Military Men and Women: A Longitudinal Fixed Effects Approach
Very little research has been conducted on the effects of military service on drug use. Of the studies that do exist, few conduct analyses to include comparisons of active duty enlistees, veterans, and civilians. In addition, ... -
Educational and Racial Variation in Women's Transitions into and out of Single Motherhood
(2013-07-25)Families continue to be the primary institution for raising children, and family structure plays an important role in children's life experiences. Research suggests that marriage confers benefits to women and children, ... -
Effects of Prolonged and Timing-Specific Exposure to Neighborhood Disadvantage during Childhood and Adolescence on Health and Health Inequalities in Early Adulthood
Mounting evidence that purely individual-based explanations fail to fully explain persistent disparities in morbidity and mortality has contributed to a surge in research investigating how residential contexts further shape ... -
Employment Relations in Transition: An Examination of Workers' Self-Assessments of Job Quality, 1970 - 2006
My dissertation uses data from three sources from 1970 to 2006 to explore trends in American workers’ self-assessed perceptions of job quality over time. I find evidence that contemporary workers tend to assess their jobs ... -
An Estimate of Male Subfecundity in the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia
(2012-09-13)Primary and secondary sterility have been demonstrated to be elevated in sub-Saharan Africa in comparison to expectations for rates of sterility based on natural fertility populations. Despite being a condition of the ... -
Evaluating the Sex Ratio Hypothesis: County-level Sex Ratios and Nonmarital Fertility for African Americans
This research examines the association between county-level sex ratios for African Americans and births to unmarried African American women. Utilizing Census Bureau intercensal population estimates and CDC natality data ...