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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies"”.
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Marijuana Users in Their Own Words: Explaining the Continuation and Cessation of Habitual Marijuana Use
This study is a qualitative examination of twenty current and former users of marijuana, using in-depth interviews as the units of analysis. The relationship between the participants’ perceived costs and rewards, type and amount of linguistic accounts used, as well as frequency of use are explored …
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Modeling Social Participation as Predictive of Life Satisfaction and Social Support: Scale or Index?
… as volunteering with charities, playing sports, and joining clubs can increase life satisfaction, directly by providing enjoyable engagement and indirectly by increasing a person's sense of social connectedness. When reported levels of different types of activities are used to measure social …
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Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York
… with ever-rising rates of income inequality and widening social disparity. Structural transformations associated with global capitalism have led to divergent experiences for male and female youth coming of age in the 21st century. Girls are experiencing greater social integration and social …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become more stingy and punitive, particularly since the passage of …
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The Future is Female: An Examination of Officer-Offender Relationships Using a Sample of Justice-Involved Women
… assessment of women in correctional institutions and while reentering society, the mismanagement of female offenders’ needs, and the lack of equity and care by the justice system to accommodate this growing population. This research intends to use prior research of female offenders, the recent …
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The Conceptualization of Genocide in the International Media: A Case Study of Darfur
… genocide, which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 defines “as any of a number of acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Despite this legal definition, countries, organizations, …
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A Survey of Patient-centered Health Teaching Programs in a Selected Group of Medical Institutions
… of the General Conference of the church and representatives of various private enterprises. Objectives of medical institutions belonging to this organization include care of the sick, and the improvement of patents' health through education of the patient.</p> <p>A descriptive survey …
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Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence
… through an investigation of prevalence, trends, and likely place-based dynamics that explain the spatial patterning of gun violence in Kansas City, MO over a 5-year period (2015-2019). Specifically, this dissertation assesses 1) the degree to which separate shooting typologies (fatal and …
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Peter L. Berger's Early Conception of Agency: Exposition and Evaluation.
… his earliest writings (c.1954-1960) is logically and empirically inadequate. At the root of this inadequacy is an idealism that prevents him from providing a compelling account of actual empirical agency. Chapter 1 asserts that Berger's earlier works warrant analysis. Chapter 2 discusses Berger's …
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Item Order Effects on Attitude Measures
… attitude measures for both computerized adaptive and conventional survey formats. Based on items modified from a dissertation/thesis completion survey (Green & Kluever, 1997) with three scales, three survey versions were generated with items ordered by difficulty as hard-to-easy (H-E), …
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National Child Maltreatment Response and Foster Care Entries: 2005-2010
… in two major federal child maltreatment and foster care data systems, the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System for 2005 to 2010. The study examines the data related to screening in and determination of maltreatment …
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Developing a Valid Screening Tool for Assessing Nutritional Adequacy and Osteoporosis Risk Among Vegans in the United States
… it has become necessary to assess the pros and cons of vegetarian diet patterns, particularly with respect to nutrition adequacy and chronic disease concerns.</p> <p>The vegan diet engenders more concern than other common vegetarian lifestyles because it seeks to replace all nutrient-rich …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… study of differential depictions of men and women in top country music from 1944 through 2012. The study attempts to understand the gender system as theorized by Ridgeway using the analytic heuristics of cognitive sociologists and the methods of ethnographic content analysts. Findings …
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From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
… the U.S. are sexually victimized at high rates and are socialized to believe they are unable to defend themselves. While there is ample evidence that women can successfully fight off assailants using physical force (Clay-Warner, 2002; Ullman, 2007), women’s self-defense training initiatives are …
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Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States
… from the state. Their precarity invites sympathy and hostility from the international community. By contrast, citizenship is the condition of inclusion. Members of nation states are protected from violence by the states to which they belong. In this dissertation, I investigate statelessness as a …
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Predicting Veteran Entrepreneurial Success with Effectuation
… programs in higher education, government, and nonprofit organizations. Unfortunately, fewer post-9/11 veterans are choosing the entrepreneurship pathway and there is a gap between the advocacy of these support programs and empirical research on veteran entrepreneurial success. Therefore, it …
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Traumatic Family Narratives in a Cosmopolitan World: Identity in American Third Generation Holocaust Survivors
… Considers transmission processes of memory and history. Specifically focuses on identity of adult (age 18-40) grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in America juxtaposed with identity of adult Jewish Americans whose families were not directly impacted by the Holocaust. Original research in …
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Nonprofit Continuum: Brazilian-centered Organizations in the Bay Area of San Francisco
… such as immigration status, education, health, and socio-economic issues. To address these issues and ease immigrants’ stay in the host country, nonprofit organizations and community groups are created. This thesis project examines, identifies, categorizes, and contextualizes the …
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