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American Born Imams: Negotiating Clerical Responsibilities and Expectations
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
This inductive, exploratory study seeks to understand in detail the personal perspectives and career paths that American born Imams experience as they become religious leaders. In doing so, this study will examine their ...
College Spillover Effects; Reassessing Whites' Racial Beliefs and Policy Attitudes
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)
College educated people hold distinct racial beliefs and policy attitudes from people who did not attend college. The current study examines "College Spillover Effects." Specifically, does the effect of a college education ...
Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe
(Gdansk, Poland: Civic Education Project, 2000)
These papers consitute the Conference Proceedings from Cultural Transformations and Civil Society: Reflecting on a Decade of Change, May 13-16, 1999 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. True to the conference ...
Policy Reforms Targeting Care for Older Adults in Lithuania
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This thesis project investigates policy reforms surrounding the care of older people in post-socialist Lithuania. It is argued that institutional arrangements inherited from the socialist era were shaped by indigenous ...
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN AMERICAN FILMS (1927-2018)
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)
This study explored the social construction of childhood in American films from 1927-2018. A content analysis of 30 films was conducted. The sample consisted of films that were near the top of the list of the highest ...
A Sociological Analysis of the Relationship Status of Mothers Following a Nonmarital Birth
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
The purpose of this work was to understand relationship transitions that unmarried parents experience after a nonmarital birth. This thesis uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal ...
THE IMPACT OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL CONTROLS ON RECIDIVISM IN NORWAY AND THE UNITED STATES: THE CASE OF NORTH DAKOTA PRISON EXPERIMENT
The goal of this research is to investigate to what degree the differences in recidivism rates can be accounted by differences in the dynamics of interaction between informal and formal aspects of prison organizations and ...
Multiple Partner Fertility and Access to Social Support
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)
Social support helps individuals manage problems and make ends meet. However, access to social support varies across groups and by sociodemographic characteristics. Past studies have found that multiple partner fertility ...
Cross-National Variation in Aggregate Levels of Life Satisfaction of Gay Men
(East Carolina University, 2021-01-07)
This project examined the cross-national variation in aggregate levels of life satisfaction of gay men. Using data from the Gay Happiness Index, the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, the International Lesbian, ...