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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 ...
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT, 2003-2009
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Professionalization is pointed out as one of the most salient trends that contemporary advocacy groups have experienced. The previous literature has focused largely on descriptive characteristics of professionalization of ...
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, ...
Muslim Americans and Symbolic Boundaries: A Trend Study
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)
The Muslim American community is a unique social group that has had some research conducted on it, but not much has been done to assist this group with combatting discrimination and Islamophobia. The Pew Research Center ...
International Students in US Colleges and Universities : Eating Habits, Cultural Identity, and Dietary Acculturation
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The aim of this study is to assess international students' dietary acculturation issues with a focus on students of African origins in the United States. Responses of 142 participants from a survey that was sent out in ...
The Role of Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement in Educational Achievement and Implications for Public Policy
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Using the theory of social and cultural reproduction originally posited by Pierre Bourdieu, I test the idea that social status and individual culture affect academic achievement. The data used for this analysis was from ...