Sociology Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Socioeconomic Associations with Women's Partnership Formation and Dissolution in Russia, Germany, and the United States
(2021)This dissertation consists of three studies that evaluate how women form partnerships, leave partnerships, and the economic outcomes of those partnerships. These demographic transitions and outcomes are evaluated in three ... -
Collective Racial Emotion and Whites' Reactions to Demands for Racial Equity
(2021)Research has shown that white people in the United States support the principle of racial equity, but oppose most practical efforts to advance it. Less is known about how whites respond to social actors who push for these ... -
A Sociological Analysis of the Impact of Online Education on Community College Completion: A Case Study of Montgomery College in Maryland
(2021)Community college completion is a top priority throughout the U.S. and particularly in the State of Maryland where the College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act (CCRCCA) was passed in 2013. To increase college ... -
Understanding Values in Organizational Contexts: The Case of Species Conservation
(2021)Biodiversity loss poses an existential threat to human life, and human activities both intentionally and unintentionally affect other species. Values provide an important tool for explaining such human behavior. While we ... -
Sex Cam Modeling: Labor, Intimacy, and Prosumer Porn
(2021)This dissertation begins with the assumption that the porn industry has radically changed in ways we are yet to fully understand. Drawing on interviews and auto-ethnography, it attempts to offer three distinct theoretical ...