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Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.
(2010-06-23)Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class ... -
Changing patterns in marijuana use among high school seniors : latent modeling of time-series cross-sections (1976 – 2013).
(2016-04-19)Public support for the legalization of marijuana is on the rise. As states are increasingly passing legislation decriminalizing marijuana possession and consumption, a great deal of research is needed to inform policy-makers ... -
The characteristics of parent-child relationships and their effects on God images.
(2011-05-12)It has been proposed that an individual's attitudes and beliefs strongly reflect their concepts of what God is and what God represents. However, where do these attitudes and beliefs originate? I theorize that they come ... -
Community satisfaction : the solution for rural communities.
(, 2013-09-24)Why do people like where they live? Why do people decide to stay at their current residence? Are residents satisfied with their community? All of these questions and more have been explored and investigated for decades ... -
Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.
(2010-06-23)Despite stories of secularization in America, congregations still possess power as one of America's most prolific social organizations. Their power can be seen by the fact that congregations receive the highest proportion ... -
Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
(2017-07-26)Socioeconomic discrepancies and their associations with health have been a persistent issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) ... -
Educational attainment in second generation immigrants : creating context for predicting college graduation.
(, 2013-09-16)Educational attainment is a commonly used variable when looking at outcomes of immigration in the United States. This paper contributes to educational and immigrant research in three ways. First, this paper will account ... -
Educational outcomes during the Great Recession : effects of community, homeownership, and race.
(2020-04-08)The 2007 Great Recession had a considerable impact on the economic status of many Americans. However, this crisis did not affect all households equally, with members of disadvantaged populations often experiencing the most ... -
The effects of negative peer and media influences on adolescent religiosity.
(2011-05-12)Many researchers have demonstrated how peer influences can lead to increases in adolescent religiosity, but none have endeavored to examine the effects of media and peer influences that might lead to decreases in adolescent ... -
Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.
(, 2012-08-08)This project is an effort to test and extend Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and ... -
Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.
(2008-06-09)Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970’s. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present ... -
Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.
(2006-07-24)From the perspective of a refined religious economy theory, the present paper is the first to empirically study the interplay between exclusive and nonexclusive religious bodies. Through reconstructing the historical facts ... -
Family values : the empirical impact of internet use.
(, 2011-09-14)Family values are a set of ethical viewpoints pertaining to family matters that have the potential to have divisive effects for the private and public spheres. The formation of family values can be broken down into a ... -
Federal employment concentration and regional process in nonmetropolitan America.
(2008-10-15)Nonmetropolitan America has undergone significant changes over the past quarter of a century. From the population turnaround in the 1970s, to population decline in the 1980s, to population rebound in the 1990s, nonmetro ... -
Feminism and hostile sexism among the religiously affiliated.
(2019-04-02)This research examines the relationship between religious identification and feminist identification. Additionally, it investigates the extent of hostile sexist attitudes among those who identify as religious feminists. ... -
Filled with purpose : the effects of deviant religious experiences on sense of purpose.
(, 2012-08-08)The discourse on religious compensators argues that people will pursue different religious experiences and activities based on the social class in which they belong because the rewards of religion are contingent upon one’s ... -
Gender and status in the religious congregation.
(2016-01-25)Ever since Max Weber distinguished differences in “social esteem” between categories of people, status has been a fundamental concept in the sociological analysis of inequality. Gender is a status system that creates a ... -
The Gods must be making us crazy : the effect of a judgmental God concept on mental health.
(, 2011-09-14)Using Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey, this research examines the relationship between mental health and religion in a unique way. Many studies have examined church attendance as the most significant way that religion ... -
Graduation rates, success and high school quality.
(, 2013-09-24)The efficacy of high school grades in retention modeling has been criticized as ineffective, owing to the diversity in both grading standards in high schools and competitiveness of high school curriculums. Informed by ... -
Health disparities in India : the role of gender, family, and culture.
(, 2013-09-16)This dissertation examines how cultural contexts play a role in gender differences in health in India. After an introductory chapter, chapter two asks whether the extent of dowry practice perception in local communities ...