Paradigm Shift in African American Funeral Customs: Looking through the Lens of Oral History and Consumer Culture

The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees than women. In addition, men are not enrolling in college at the same rates as women. This study uses the NELS Database to analyze the factors that contribute to the degree attainment of men. The research used a logit model to determine the probability for the significant factors.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2008

Author dc:creator

• Williams, Carol Thomas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Saundra Murray Nettles
• Ming Fang He
• Ronald Bailey

• ETD
• African American funeral customs
• Consumer culture
• Funeral rituals and practices
• Funerals and religion
• Cultural studies
• Homogenization
• Electronic dissertations
• Georgia Southern University
• Dissertations
• African Americans

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/500

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1500