Browsing by Subject "culture"
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(2022-11-16)Department: SociologyScholars have recently examined the cost of activism for activists, paying particular attention to burnout experiences in social justice spaces, yet we still know very little about the role of White supremacy to burnout ...
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(2014-04-08)Department: Religion“Call the Question” critically examines the gap between women’s divine inward call to preach and the institutional outward endorsement of the call to preach. This project is concerned with women’s call to preach and how ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...
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(2020-08)This study uses a pilgrimage experience in Israel as one example to inform the process through which identification with Judaism and Israel is formed. Participants expressed their identification in response to events and ...
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(2013-01-14)Department: SociologyAdherence to professional norms, values and beliefs structures is an important qualification for artists seeking employment in creative industries. However, few accounts have examined how these qualifications are signaled ...
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(University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
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(2015-03-17)Department: SociologyWhat happens when established social classifications are challenged? In this dissertation, I investigate the classification of “Deafness” as it has been disrupted by advancements in medical technologies and corresponding ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: HistoryIn the midcentury United States, the study of culture was a peculiar vocation. It employed anthropologists at once to explain food consumption habits of native people in the Southwestern borderlands, national values and ...
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Representations of Gender in Photographs from People’s Daily: How has China’s Rise Affected Women? (2015-03-18)Department: SociologyThirty-five years ago, no one could have foreseen the dramatic changes that would transform China and shift the balance of global power. What started as a series of economic reforms in the late 1970s has redefined a nation ...
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(California Law Review, 1999)For all that has been written about rape, its multiple causes remain insufficiently understood for law to deter it effectively. This follows, in part, from inadequately interdisciplinary study of rape causation. This Article ...
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(2014-06-09)Department: HistoryThis dissertation studies the Northeastern region of Brazil by contemplating its interactions with the world around it. It sets out from the assumption that Northeastern regional identity is in constant transformation due ...
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(2011-04-13)Department: ReligionThis dissertation examines the issue of Lukan economy (oikonomia) which creates tensions and ambivalence under the reality of the Empire. The economy (oikonomia) in the Gospel of Luke emerges from the oikos (e.g., Luke ...
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(2018-08-14)Department: SociologyEvidence suggests that we live in a stalking culture; that is, a culture in which stalking is normalized, minimized, and romanticized through various cultural institutions. This study examines potential pathways in which ...