Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A Formative Process Evaluation of Social Care Programming in a Health Care System Serving a Predominantly Rural State, Samuel Bethel
Using Latent Class Analysis to Conceptualize Heterogeneity Among Non-Resident Parents with Current Child Support Orders and Arrears: Identifying Windows of Opportunity, Victoria Adkins Charles
The Gendered Patterns of International Migration Systems: the Role of Need for Care, Chang-Yi Lin
What’s Mine Is Yours: Managing Student Loans Within Different Gender Couples, Samantha Leigh Moser
An Emic Conceptualization of Veteran, “You're Either One of Two Things; You're Captain America or You're Broken”, Steven Wahle
Humanizing Healthcare: Supporting LGBTQ+ Healthcare Professionals and Trainees, Atticus Wolfe
The Social Influence Network Model of Performance Expectations, Jingwen Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Better Days: A Minority Student’s Pathway Toward Upward Social Mobility, Brandi Nichole Anderson
Experimentally Examining Status and Initial Trust, Valerie Kristen Barron
“Oh My God, Everyone Was Staring at Us”: The Experiences of Transracial Fostering From the Perspective of White Foster Parents Raising Black Youth, Christian Holmes Gorchow
Complex Stereotypes: Stereotypes Across the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Class, Nicholas Heiserman
The Parental Well-Being Gap Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Morgan Renee Koziol
From the City to the Countryside – Gentrification Across the US: Conceptualizing Displacement Pressure, Constructing Novel Measurement Methodology, and Exploring Connections to Health, Parthenia Louise Luke
Racial Equity Analysis: Access to Permanent Housing and The Vulnerability Index – Service Prioritization Decision Assessment Tool (VI-SPDAT), Mary Ann Priester
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Racism-Related State Policies and the Psychological and Physiological Wellbeing of Black and White Adults, Calley Elizabeth Fisk
Healthy Aging Beyond Sex and Gender Binaries, Nicole M. Lampe
Perceived Sexual Intent: Power, Relationship Status, and Gender, Joseph Eric Padgett
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
“Before the World Gets Them”: The Impact of Racialized Parenting on Black Mothers, Mia Brantley
Assessing the Power of Policy: Deconstructing Declines in Child Marriage Around the World, Zackery Butler
Interpersonal Discrimination and Older Latinx Adults in the United States, Adrianne Dues
Patterned Adolescent Socially Deviant Behavior, Raymond B. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Morals ‘Trump’ Party: Make America Cooperate Again, Jered Abernathy
How Self-Sentiments and Personal Networks Impact Political Polarization, Matthew Facciani
Factors that Influence Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Implementation in Non-Medical Settings, Andrew Joseph Flaherty
Thou Shalt Lie: Anticipatory Deflection Management, Victoria L. Money
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Terror Pandemic: The International Diffusion of Terrorism, Stephen Michael Chicoine
Possession of Status Value: An Extension of Status Value Theory, Nicolas L. Harder
Vietnamese Family Caregivers’ Adjustment Process to Their Caregiving Roles for Family Members with Dementia, Trang Nguyen
Mental Health and the Relationship Between Parental Divorce and Children’s Higher Degree Acquisition, Brittany V. Pittelli
Appropriation of the ‘Witch’ Stigma as White Women's Self-Empowerment, Anna S. Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Reevaluating The Parenting Wellbeing Gap: Evidence From The Wellbeing Module Of The American Time Use Survey, Daniela Veronica Negraia
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Framing Perceptions of Justice in a Public Goods Dilemma, Hatice Atilgan
Early Economic Hardship, Maternal Support, and Depressive Symptoms among Black Young Adults, Mia Brantley
Context Matters: Evaluating Social Judgments of Acquaintance Rape Myths, Michelle E. Deming
The Effects of Power on the Processing of Identity Threat, Matthew Facciani
The Dynamics of Prosocial Leadership: Power and Influence in Collective Action Groups, Ashley Harrell
Governing Terrorism through Preemption: A Comparative Analysis of Radicalization in Three Western Liberal Democracies, Derek M.D. Silva
What We See Depends On Where We Stand: Distorted Perception Of Social Income Inequality, Jingwen Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Linking Discrimination To Health: Does Coping Matter For The Mental Health Of Black Men And Women?, Calley Fisk
The Effect of Economic Inequality on Perceptions of Merit, Nicholas Heiserman
Organizational Strategy Under Institutional Pluralism: A Latent Variable Analysis Of Institutional Effects On Organizational Behavior In The United States Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Christopher Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Interplay Between Personality And Structure: How Do Actors With Differing Social Values Behave In Economic Exchange?, Patricia Danielle Lewis
The Social Determinants of Success: The Effect of Status, Framing, and Group Membership on Test Scores, Jennifer L. McLeer
Women in Hypermasculine Environments: An Analysis of Gender Dynamics in the Heavy Metal Subculture, Anna Sheree Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Contribution of Status Lineages in the Rise of the State: A New Theory of State Formation, Yamilette Chacon
Perceptions of Control in Midwifery Assisted Childbirth: A Qualitative Examination of the Midwifery Assisted Experience of Childbearing, Sarah Jordan Keels
A Theory of Reward Stability, Justice Evaluations and Group Cooperation, Hyomin Park
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Body As Wartime Terrain: Social Control and Female Sexuality Under Military Occupation, Frances Choe
The Shadow of Consumption - How the Anticipation of Active Use Serves As A Solution to the Public Good Dilemma, Michael Hahn
Inequality and Opportunity At theMsa-Level: Investigating Place As A Structure of Inequality Shaping Mobility and Earnings, Colby R. King
The Parasitic Oligarchy? The Elites in Trinidad and Tobago, Alison Mc Letchie
The Parasitic Oligarchy? The Elites in Trinidad and Tobago, Alison Mc Letchie
Drawing the Line: Student Reassignment Policies In South Carolina, Naomi Rachel Simmons
Parental Involvement During College Preparation: Differences between First and Non-First Generation College Students, Deronta Renard Spencer
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Determinants of Commercial Energy Demand: An Empirical Study of Medical Facilities in NY State, David Bergmann
Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas, Nick Berigan
Formalizing and Modularizing Identity Theory, Jacob Taylor Frederick
Age Identity among College Students within the Transition to Adulthood, Josephine McKelvy
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Subcultures of Bullets, Bombs, and Deeds: Subcultural Theory and the Sociology of Terrorism, Stephen Michael Chicoine
Power Relations In the Search For Affordable Housing In Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina: Perspectives of Front-Line Recovery Workers, Tara Johanna Dunnavant
Social Diversity, Influence and the Efficacy of Majority Rule: A Theoretical, Experimental and Field Investigation, Tucker S. McGrimmon
Homeland Security: Institution Building and Agency Cooperation, Darwin-Tamar Ramsey
Coresidence At the Crash: The Effect of Employment, Marital Status, and Disability On Living With Your Parents, Michael Steketee
The Influnence of Empathy Priming and Social Value Orientations On the Motivation For Prosocial Behavior, Leia DeeAnn Velasquez
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Internet as a Participatory Medium: An Analysis of the Eksi Sozluk Website as a Public Sphere, Hatice Akca
Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies, Lisa Michelle Dilks
Religion, Rewards, and Prosocial Behavior, Lauren Ashley Harrell
Moral Panics and the Criminalization of Immigration: America'S Response to Post-9/11 Federal Regulations and the USA PATRIOT Act, Samantha Michael Hauptman
Mergers and the Structure of Organizational Populations: Revisiting the Thrift Industry via Peter Blau, Josie Rush McLeod
Connected by Underground Wires, Joseph Jaehyun Park
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Older Relatives Raising Adolescents: the Relationship Between Age of Caregiver and Youth Delinquent Acts, Lynn Marie Frederick
Norm Conformity and Social Identity In Collective Action Groups, Kyle Irwin
Network Exchange Theory: Exploring the Combination of Inclusion and Ordering, Patricia Danielle Lewis