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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"sociology of sociology"”.
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Sociological Silhouettes: the Archaeology and Demography of Knowledge
… dissertation extends prior work on the evolution of the social sciences from two unconventional angles. First, I dig up significant “deaths” of cited works in sociology's history, and use citation context analysis and expert interviews to conduct rudimentary autopsies, to understand the mechanisms …
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Making Power Visible: Racialized Epistemologies, Knowledge (Re) Production and American Sociology
… approach in order to explore American Sociology's contemporary process of institutionalized knowledge reproduction, as well as how race structures that process. American Sociology is institutionalized knowledge that is structured into academic departments or an …
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"Experiencing ""Upward Bound"": An interrogation of cultural landscapes"
"This thesis addresses one of the most significant public issues facing higher education today: the recruitment and successful matriculation of low-income and minority students. These students are variously described in the literature and popular language as ""non-traditional,"" ""marginal,"" …
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Remaining and becoming: Cultural crosscurrents in an Hispano school
… within the historical and sociocultural context of their community? The choices, contingencies, and options open to students are contextualized by how their life histories intersect with the history of their school and community.
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"College mathematics instruction in transition: A study of reform in a college algebra course for ""at-risk"" students"
… rates in college mathematics. These students often place into courses considered remedial at the college level. The current national reform movement includes initiatives designed to address the failure of mathematics education to meet the needs of underrepresented populations. This research …
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Asian American perspectives on college student experience: An interpretive narrative
… details psychological and social dimensions of shared Asian American experiences with insights into individual interpretive perspective frameworks shaped by community cultures. This study describes a distinctive Asian American identity that conjoins ethnicity with racial self-identity. …
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College Involvement and Leadership Development in Higher Education: The Role of Race/ethnicity, Sex, and Mentoring Relationships
The objective of this study was to investigate effects of college experiences (activities and mentoring relationships) on leadership development according to the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (SCM). Specifically, comparisons across race/ethnicity and gender assessed how different …
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Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net: Net-widening, net-deepening, and the cultural politics of school discipline
… safety problem has been framed as an issue of school crime, violence, and student misbehavior that is best mitigated by zero tolerance policies. This stance has emerged as an agenda that has proven disproportionately detrimental to poor urban students of color who have experienced unforeseen …