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Alternative Sports: A Tool for Modeling Socially Conscious Behavior
(2020-05)This study examines whether participation in alternative sports cultivates athletes’ socially conscious attitudes and behaviors, especially pro-social and pro-environmental values and behaviors. The study is based on 20 ... -
Good Folks and Watershed Values: An Assessment of the Collaborative Approach to Watershed Management in Five Central Texas Watersheds
(2019-05)The value of the collaborative approach to watershed management is widely accepted, yet evaluative techniques to measure the effectiveness of this approach remain underdeveloped. In order to contribute to a standardized ... -
Mothers as Hypervigilants and Fathers as Nurturers: The Maintenance of Gendered Care Within Memoirs by Parents of Children with Cognitive Disabilities
(2021-05)Sociologists have demonstrated that familial caregiving is gendered, particularly in the context of heterosexual parenting. When parenting children with cognitive disabilities, research shows that parents typically ... -
Musical Health: The Effects of Active Music-Making on the Mental Health of College Students
(2021-05)Depression and anxiety have been identified as a common mental health disorders in college students, resulting in reduced quality of life and increased psychological stress. Music interventions have been shown to have ... -
Who Holds the Power: Factors Associated with Shared Decision Making Regarding Psychotropic Medication
(2021-05)Shared decision making between consumers and providers is associated with improved health outcomes. However, we know very little about shared decision making with regard to outpatient mental health treatment, particularly ... -
Suburbanization of Poverty and Spatial Mismatch in the Austin Metro Area from 2000 to 2017
(2021-05)The suburbanization of poverty is a process by which poverty is decentralizing from urban core areas and moving into the urban periphery. Much of the previous research on this topic explores the role that the 2008 financial ... -
The Illusion of Inclusion: How Progressive Theology Books May Perpetuate Inequality
(2021-05)Utilizing a qualitative content analysis on ten theology books advocating for the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ identities in the Christian religion, the current study examines how these books may potentially challenge and/or ... -
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Sustainability and the Emergence of the Texas Wine Industry: An Exploration of the Transitional Moments with a Focus on the Hill Country and High Plains Region
(2020-12)The Texas wine industry dates back to the 17th century when the first grape vines were planted by Spanish missionaries (Crain & Crain, 2013). Although wine has a long history in Texas, the commercial industry was relatively ... -
Jewish American Foodways: The Dietary Construction of Identity
(2020-12)A review of the existing social science literature reveals that food plays a major role in the construction and performance of identity. An individual’s food choices and behaviors can be influenced by social situations. ... -
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An examination of the stability of the academic self-concept of students who were in the top ten percent of their high school class
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Queer production: The political economy of print advertisements
(2005-08)Studies of mass media render the discursive power of advertisements as sites of identity construction reflecting cultural hegemony. Using ethnographic content analysis, this study explores the production of Queer identity ... -
Colonialism and national identity: The special case of visual art in Puerto Rico
(2009-05)The purpose of this study is to show how colonialism affects free expression by analyzing the expression of visual art from the nations of Puerto Rico and Cuba comparatively. Cuba and Puerto Rico are very comparable in ... -
A qualitative analysis of older women's community participation over the life course
(2010-05)The composition of the older adult population in the United States is undergoing extensive changes. Estimates show a doubling of adults over 65 years and tripling of adults over 85 years by mid-century (Bernstein and ...
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Nursing home sexuality: Nursing assistants' training, attitudes and responses to resident sexuality
(2004-05)Thirteen nursing assistants were interviewed to examine the training they receive to address and understand sexuality and the elderly in nursing homes. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted to investigate ... -
An Examination of Successful Caribbean Students in Higher Education
(2011-08)In this thesis, I examined the experiences of successful Caribbean immigrant students and graduates in the collegiate setting at universities in the United States. I conducted in-depth interviews in order to elicit ... -
A Sociological Exploration of Identity Work among Homeless Panhandlers in Downtown Austin, Texas
(2003-08)No abstract prepared. -
Examining Rates of Alcoholism: The Interaction of Race/Ethnicity and Social Class
(2006-12)No abstract prepared.
