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Someone like me: Exploring race mentoring and it's impact on retention and campus climate among college students
(2020-05-04)Institutions of higher learning have seen increased pressure to improve retention and graduation rates. Funding, institutional prestige, and recruitment are often tied to retention and graduation rates, motivating institutions ... -
The global path of human rights: A quantitative analysis of trajectories, democracy, and development
(2020-01-27)Despite common international acceptance of human rights law, countries and regions vary in their understandings and practices of human rights. This nation-level study sought, first, to develop empirical definitions of human ... -
The halo effect? An ecological analysis of the religion-crime nexus
(2020-04-09)This dissertation endeavors to examine the influence that the sacred plays in society by determining if religion’s institutional position as displayed through the presence of the moral communities is pivotal to society’s ... -
The basis of racial classification: Ancestry-informative marker versus social context
(2019-09-27)Racial classification is very important in American life as it has a significant impact on many social issues. There have been different approaches to the basis of racial classification. In the latter part of the 19th ... -
Invisible chronic illness in female college students
(2019-09-18)The purpose of this thesis was to examine how female students negotiate the experience of college while living with an invisible chronic illness. Quantitative data, through the use of online surveys, were collected from ... -
Racist perceptions on a college campus: Intersectionality of gender, race, and Greek affiliation
(2019-08-12)This paper analyzes whether and how gender, race, and Greek affiliation, along with symbolic and traditional racial attitudes, are associated with racist perceptions on a college campus located in the deep south of the ... -
Cranes in the sky: Exploring the relationship between the strong black woman archetype and mental health help-seeking behaviors of black women
(2019-07-03)The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the Strong Black Woman archetype and the self-image of Black women as well as their mental health help-seeking behaviors. Specifically, I am exploring if a ... -
Pulling back the curtain: The experiences and perceptions of employment discrimination among African American women in the human resource profession
(2019-05-20)Research on organizations, occupations, and work seldom examines the experiences and perceptions of employment discrimination among African American women in the human resource profession. Furthermore, the bulk of research ... -
Sana sana colita de rana: Mexican folk healing beliefs and practices among second-generation Mexican American millennials
(2019-05-16)Curanderismo, or traditional Mexican folk healing beliefs and practices have gained attention in academic scholarship over the past 60 years. However, there is no systematic study of the folk healing beliefs and practices ... -
The sociology of teaching and learning undergraduate social statistics in higher education: Access, assessment and arts-based research methods
(2019-04-01)This dissertation follows a three-article format. The unifying theme for all three articles are the ways in which instructors face the challenges of facilitating access to course knowledge for undergraduate students enrolled ... -
A study of family units formed in female correctional facilities in the state of Texas
(2001-08)This study examined how pseudofamily groups function within the female prison population and how membership could affect the inmate's image within the prison system. The main emphasis was on the family-like structure of ... -
A caravan of hope-gay Christian service: Exploring social vulnerability and capacity-building of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identified individuals and organizational advocacy in two post Katrina disaster environments
(2014-05)This dissertation is a case study focused on exploring social vulnerability and capacity building among sexual minorities in New Orleans and Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina. Using social vulnerability as a framework, ... -
Socio-demographic factors impacting persistence among college students attending public four-year institutions in the U. S. from 2003 to 2005: A critical look at reproduction of social inequality in academe
(2010-05)This study endeavored to ascertain whether socio-demographic factors impact first-to-second year persistence among undergraduates beginning postsecondary education during 2003-04 at public four-year institutions. Factors ... -
The sociology of aging: A gay male perspective
(2001-08)This study was exploratory in nature and collected data from 125 men who identified as gay/homosexual or bisexual and were aged 55 and older. Respondents were from Texas cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio. ... -
Mindscapes: A metatheoretical exploration in polycultural communication
(2010-05)Rooted in phenomenological sociology, in which reality is understood to be constituted by individuals' underlying assumptions about it, this study examines conceptualizations of reality and the cultures which arise from ... -
Social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minorities
(2009-08)This thesis examines social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minority groups by investigating how whites feel toward African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Three questions guide the ...
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