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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"National study of youth and religion"”.
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Black Male Emerging Adults: Investigating Inequalities in Adult Transitions, Social Learning, and Criminality
… is a life stage that developed as a result of numerous macro-structural changes in recent decades (Arnett 2015), and which has implications for life course criminality and identity formation (Massoglia & Uggen 2010). Much research has been done in the area of the new life stage known as …
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Failure to Launch? Understanding Variations in Emerging Adult Flight Patterns
… to adulthood look like for emerging adults? This study proposes that popular cultural ideas like "failure to launch" imply an oversimplified dichotomy that does not account for the multiple "flight patterns" into adulthood. Focusing on the narratives of six interview cases selected from the larger …
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Three Papers on Culture, Time, and Attitudes
<p>This dissertation uses the lens of cultural sociology to understand variance in people’s attitude reports over time. Across three studies, I use a variety of panel surveys and statistical approaches to understand how and why people change their attitudes and adjudicate theories of culture. Study …
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The complexity of disadvantage : examining the effects of moral ecology on adolescent educational outcomes.
Popular methods of addressing educational inequality emphasize structural barriers to educational attainment such as access and affordability, or individual barriers that highlight a lack of character traits such as grit and resilience among traditionally disadvantaged students. I argue that these …
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Faith-based instructional interventions: the relationship of the short-term mission trip with the spiritual-formation disciplines of mainline Protestant Christian traditions
This study examined the relationship between the short-term mission trip experience and participation in spiritual-formation disciplines for individuals identifying with mainline protestant Christian traditions. The study was causal comparative and primarily concerned with comparing the independent …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
Are youths who consume pornography more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and …