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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 ... -
Hispanic assimilation: are we there yet?
(2008-06-10)Hispanics made up 15% of the population in 2005 and the Census predicts that 25% of this country’s population will be Hispanic by 2050 (Sullivan, 2007). 70% of the nation’s growth during the last decade has been immigrants, ... -
The importance of economic surroundings on religious adherence.
(2006-07-30)Sociological explanations of religious adherence tend to focus on characteristics of the individual. One exception is the largely discarded concept of relative deprivation. By its nature, relative deprivation is dependent ... -
In the shadow of death : insecurity and miracles in Latin America.
(2018-06-22)The difference between a miracle and luck relies on the interpretation of events. Existential threat theories would predict religious experiences are not necessarily related to individual education or income, but rather ... -
Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.
(2011-05-12)Individualism and its effect on American society has received a great amount of scholarly research. Researchers have established that individualism plays a large role in all areas of society. Using the dual process model ... -
Individualized religious styles : a latent class analysis of religion and its implications for political attitudes and family formation outcomes.
(2019-10-02)This dissertation proposes a new way to measure and analyze religiosity. It focuses on capturing the unique ways individuals express and encounter religion. In the American religious context, religious pluralism and declining ... -
Internal Revenue Service and the regulation of religion.
(2011-01-05)This study seeks to determine how the Internal Revenue Service influences religion in the United States. Using the theoretical frameworks of organizational ecology and new institutionalism this study examines the assumption ...