Browsing by Subject "Sociology"
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A New Take on Gamification: Playing the Culture Shock Experience in a Digital Card Game
(2020)In 2018-2019, over 1 million international students from all over the world come to the United States to seek higher education. Along with their hope for quality education, they bring their own cultures. The clash of the ... -
A Structural Event Approach to the Analysis of Group Composition
(Social Networks, 2002)Since Simmel's early work on forms of association, the processes guiding group composition have commanded considerable attention in structural sociology, but have not led to a general methodology for examining compositional ... -
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, ... -
Agents with Principles: The Control of Labor in the Dutch East India Company, 1700-1796
(American Sociological Review, 2017)Principal-agent problems plagued early modern corporations. The existing literature emphasizes the potential benefits provided by private trade in aligning the interests of company agents to those of their principals. We ... -
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 ... -
Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757
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Binding the Strong Man and the Outpost of Grace: A theological investigation of fear in young adults
(2021)This work unfolds in three moves to explore the rise in fear and anxiety in young adults and to provide a theological response from a chapel office on a college campus. The first move involves an exegetical reading of the ... -
Binding the Strong Man and the Outpost of Grace: A theological investigation of fear in young adults
(2021)This work unfolds in three moves to explore the rise in fear and anxiety in young adults and to provide a theological response from a chapel office on a college campus. The first move involves an exegetical reading of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Chinese Cloud Players: How Proxy Play Develops From the Game Live Streaming
(2022)The term “Cloud Player” (云玩家) has been widely used as a put-down of the alleged pseudo-players who actively engage in online game discussion but seldomly play games themselves, and game live streaming is considered as the ... -
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 ...
