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Browsing by Department "Sociology"
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Adolescent Friendship Stability
(2023)Adolescence is a key point in the life course, and friendships during this time are strong predictors of health and behavioral outcomes. This dissertation seeks to understand the causes and consequences of friendship stability, ... -
Anatomies of Kinship: Diversity in the Formal Structures of American Families
(2014)American family relations are formally defined through marriage and descent but these formal distinctions are inadequate to capture the diversity of contemporary family life. Recent demographic trends have led to ... -
Animating Globalization and Development: The South Korean Animation Industry in Historical-Comparative Perspective
(2011)Over the last decades, the global flow of cultural goods and services has significantly grown as a result of liberalized international trade and investment and technological advance. Global cultural production is now flexibly ... -
Betting on Black and White: Race and the Making of Problem Gambling
(2015)Problem gambling, a fairly recent addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is estimated to affect between two and five percent of the US adult population (Volberg 2001). While present in all ... -
Branded: How Mental Disorder Labels Alter Task Performance in Perception and Reality
(2013)Extensive evidence demonstrates how mental illness symptomatology can inhibit perceptions of and actual performance on important tasks. However, receiving treatment from the medical establishment for such symptomatology ... -
Bridging and Bonding: How Diverse Networks Influence Organizational Outcomes
(2015)Although many organizations aspire to be diverse, both in their internal composition and external collaborations, diversity's consequences for organizational outcomes remain unclear. This project uses three separate studies ... -
Brown Sugar and Spice: Exploring Black Girlhood at Elite, White Schools
(2019)Black girls who attend elite, predominantly white schools face a host of unique challenges and tasks in achieving a positive, resolved gendered-racial identity; they must learn to reconcile external and potentially negative ... -
Capitalizing on Cities: The Diffusion of Neoliberal Urban Policies in China
(2012)The global diffusion of neoliberal economic policies is one of the most significant events in modern history. This research applies current knowledge on policy diffusion to the analysis of the diffusion of two major neoliberal ... -
Career Dynamics in the U.S. Civil Service
(2019)This dissertation examines how knowledge is developed and deployed among employees inside one of the largest internal labor markets in the United States: the federal civil service. Each chapter lays out the theoretical background ... -
Causes and Impacts of Institutional and Structural Variation: Globalization in the Tobacco and Pork Industries
(2010)Among the most significant changes to the agricultural sector in the twentieth century include a sharp decline in employment and the numbers of farms, a decline in the proportion of total value that accrues to agricultural ... -
Childhood Adversities and Adult Mental Health: Conceptualizing and Measuring Heterogeneity in Adversity Experience
(2022)The life course perspective has long theorized that childhood is a sensitive period for mental, physical, and emotional development, meaning that negative experiences during childhood can have long-lasting impacts on health ... -
Cohort Succession, Intergenerational Transmission, and the Decline of Religion in the United States
(2019)Scholars over the past several decades have noted the resilience of religion in the United States (Chaves 2011; Gorski and Altınordu 2008; Hadden 1987:601–2; Presser and Chaves 2007), but many recognize that the youngest ... -
Collateral Damage: Race, Gender, and the Post-Combat Transition
(2014)Research on the military has historically focused on the potentially de-stratifying effects of service, including reductions of racial inequality and social mobility. Taking a life course approach, this prior research tends ... -
Consequences and Corrections of Misperceptions in Intergroup Relations
(2019)In an age witnessing the coinciding of increasing connectedness facilitated by the advent of the internet and social media and growing mobility due to technological efficiency gains and rising economic prosperity, optimistic ... -
`Crack Babies' and `Illegals': Neo-liberalism, and Moral Boundary Maintenance of Race and Class
(2013)Examination of the moralized risk discourse that occurs during moral panics can help us better understand how discourse supports neoliberal modes of governance. Using the moral panics about crack babies in the 1980's and ... -
Crime, Policing, and Social Status: Identifying Elusive Mechanisms Using New Statistical Approaches
(2017)Social class is often discussed in crime and social control research but the influence of class in these contexts is not well understood. Stratification studies have identified effects of socioeconomic status on a diverse ... -
Criminal Injustice: Race, Representative Bureaucracy, and New York City’s Criminal Justice System
(2017)Recently, research concerning the United States Criminal Justice System has been dominated by discussions of mass incarceration and deadly acts of police violence. Although there is conflicting evidence regarding the impact ... -
Cultural Cognition and Bias in Information Transmission
(2017)Cultural transmission processes are not well understood within the field of sociology. Popular models both in cultural and network sociology tend to conceptualize transmission as simple replication, with limited research ... -
Cultural Meaning, Stigma, and Polarization
(2022)This dissertation aims to investigate the ways in which culture shape how people perceive, remember, and transmit information to one another and how that information can be shaped by culture. I specifically study: (1) how ... -
Dealing with Racism: Black Middle-Class Health in the 21st Century
(2018)There is widespread evidence that health disparities between whites and blacks in the U.S. cannot be fully explained by inter-group socioeconomic differences. Further, research shows that racism plays a significant role ...
