Sociology ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
“MEXICO HAS SPILT AMERICAN BLOOD UPON AMERICAN SOIL!” THE ROLE OF THE MEXICO-U.S. BORDER IN THE PROMOTION OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM, 1821-1920, Jon M. Williams PhD
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
WHITE IDENTITY AND AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Sofia A. Locklear
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Association of Psychological Distress and Mental Health with English Language Acquisition of Recently Resettled Refugees in the United States, Charlisa C. Christian
Good and Bad Deaths: How Coalitions Transformed Framing Processes in the Movement for Physician Assisted Suicide, Keith D. Wilkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Multi-Level Study of Clearance: The Role of Gender, Jenna Dole
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
THE RACIALIZED AND GENDERED REPRESENTATIONS OF MULTICULTURALISM FROM AN ELITE FIRM APPROACH, Ryeora Choe
Race, Socioeconomics, Intelligence, and Criminal Offending: Accounting for Variation in Criminal Justice Outcomes, Elise Marie Ferguson
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEGREE AND JOB MATCH OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND WHITES, Sofia A. Locklear
Racial Socioeconomic Inequality, Structural Disadvantage, and Neighborhood Crime: Testing the Relative and Absolute Deprivation Perspectives, Samuel A. Torres
Mobilization and Repression in the Occupy Movement, Eric Turner
A Sociological Analysis of the Cultural Competence Construct: Essays on the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Implementation of Cultural Competence in the U.S. Medical Profession, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Social network characteristics as they relate to the mental health of refugees, Richard Greene
Relationally Constructing Sexual Identity: The Effect of Friendship Networks on Same-Sex Sexuality Development, Alena Kuhlemeier
Do Online Gaming Experiences Affect Civic Engagement? The Relationship between Gaming Experiences, Parental Involvement, and Real World Civic Engagement, James Letterhos
On the Widening Transfer Aspiration-Achievement Gap: Contextualizing the Transfer Intentions of Community College Students in New Mexico, Thomas M. Maestas
Cultivating Community: Political Identity and Civic Agriculture among Small-Scale Organic Farmers in North Central New Mexico, Rose Elizabeth Rohrer
Human trafficking victims are everywhere and nowhere: A qualitative content analysis of the United States anti-human trafficking campaign, 2000-2012., Billy James Ulibarri
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Public Frames and Message Outcomes in a Policy Oriented Social Movement, Danielle Albright
"Fat for an Asian": The Embodiment of Asian Stereotypes in an Online Community, Mallory Fallin
Revealing a Spectrum of Racialized Sexuality: Representations of Video Game Characters Over Time, 1981-2012, Kelly Kathleen McCarthy
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
SHI'ITE REFORMISM VERSUS SHI'ITE FUNDAMENTALISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SHI'ITE DISCURSIVE PRACTICES IN 20TH CENTURY IRAN: THE CASES OF KHOMEINI AND HAKAMIZADEH, Mozafar Banihashemi
Gender, Jobs and Labor: Understanding The Gendered Division of Household Labor in Dual Earner, Middle Class Families Based on Job Dynamics, Jessica Carlisle
Harold Camping and May 21, 2011: Rationalizations, Leader Responses, and Gender Differences Following a Failed Prophecy, Christin L. Moreland
Stigmatization and the Re-Articulation of Eugenic Ideology: A Study of Coded Racism in Family Planning Policy from the 1920s to the 1990s, Michael Muhammad
United States v. Booker and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: General, Extra-Legal, and Contextual Policy Effects, Jeffrey Nowacki
The State-Level Risk and Protective Factors of Suicide for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Carmela Roybal
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Social Transformation of Health Inequities: Understanding the Discourse on Health Disparities in the United States, Sonia Bettez
Attention to Sport in a Globalizing World: A Cross-National Analysis, Andrew Breidenbach
Repurposing American Labor Law: Immigrant Workers, Workers' Centers and the National Labor Relations Act, Jessica R. Garrick
Developing Degrees: An Exploratory Analysis of Laureate International Universities' 21st Century Entry into Mexico and Ecuador, Beau Thomas Hunsaker
Indigenous Knowledge, Land, History, and Health: The Construction of Diabetes on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, Tennille Marley
BETWEEN ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE UMMAH: HOW SPANISH MOROCCANS ARE NEGOTIATING THEIR IDENTITIES IN POST 3-11 MADRID, Anwar Ouassini
Whither the World Polity? A Contribution to the Study of International Organizations Through Survival Analysis of OECD Accession Rates, Kathryn Overton
Disruption of Ritual: Doctor/Patient Interactions in the Era of Internet, Amanda Seeman
The Political Economy of Remittance-led Development in Guanajuato, Mexico, Benjamin Waddell
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
¡NO SE PUEDE!: THE DECLINE OF IMMIGRANT UNIONIZATION THROUGH THE GREAT RECESSION OF 2008, Peter Catron
How We Fight: Strategies at Emergence among Animal Rights and LGBTQ Rights Organizations, Ryan J. Goodman
Censorship and Holocaust Film in the Hollywood Studio System, Nancy Copeland Halbgewachs
How Common Citizens Transform Politics: the Cases of Mexico and Bolivia, Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar
THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN'S STATUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A POOLED TIME SERIES CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF 126 COUNTRIES, 1980-2005, Lynzie Rowland
Evangelizing the State: Mennonite Brethren Technocrats in Paraguayan State Reform, 2003-2008, Warren Thompson
Jail Incarceration and Violent Crime Rates: A cross-sectional exploratory analysis in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Saundra Trujillo
Conceptualizing Mental Health: A Qualitative Study on Mexican Immigrant Mothers' Definition of Their Children's Mental Health in New Mexico, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman
Situational and Individual Predictors of Violent Intentions: A Factorial Survey Approach, Dale Willits
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Constructing the "At-Risk" Student in Education: A Sociopolitical Analysis from 1960-2009, Rebecca Beals
Male offenders' work experiences pre-prison, in-prison, and upon reentry: Interactions between work and crime, Kerry L. Edwards
Motherhood and Desistance: The Influence of Children in Women's Offending, Erin Kleymann
LATINA IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: LIKELIHOOD OF REPORTING TO MID-SOUTH POLICE, Kimberly Mathis Pitts
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Exposing Sexual Harassment and Bullying in Secondary Schools: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis., Rebecca Erickson
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES: BANGLADESH IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Nafisa Halim
Hispanos in the valley of death: street-level trauma, cultural-post traumatic stress disorder, overdoses, and suicides in north central New Mexico, W. Azul La Luz Baez
Liberal and Devout: The Sources of Enthusiasm and Organizational Commitment Within the Liberal Religious Niche, Kevin LaPoint
They'll expect more bad things from us.: Latino/a Youth Constructing Identities in a Racialized High School in New Mexico', Chalane E. Lechuga
Policy, Racial Threat, and Economic Conditions: A Look at Police Use of Deadly Force, Jeffrey S. Nowacki
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Participatory Development and Its Emergence in the Fields of Community and International Development, Yossef Ben-Meir
THE IMPACT OF INDIAN GAMING ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, POVERTY AMONG NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, Aaron Diaz
Comparing the Effectiveness of Hantavirus Outreach in Northwestern New Mexico, Panama, and Chile, Marjorie McConnell
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Eastern Mysticism And The Sociology Of Knowledge: An Application Of Empirical Methodologies Of Mind To The Problem Of Ideology, Jeremy M. Brown
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Smelser's Value-Added Approach To The Study Of Collective Behavior: The Karate Craze As A Case In Point, Stephen Earl Doeren
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Relationships Between Commitment, Dissatisfaction And Attrition Among Roman Catholic Priests In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Romeo Raymond Di Benedetto
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
High School Dropouts And The Theory Of Economic Incentive., Janie M. Burchart
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Process of Professionalization: A Comparative Analysis of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, William E. Arens
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Social Factors Affecting the Aspirations of High School Senior Girls, Mary J. Yager
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Cultural and Social Problems of an Indian Pueblo, Thomas P. Lief
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
Family Organization in the Amazon Valley, Saul Benchimol
Acculturation Among Mescalero Apache High School Students, Richard B. Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
Cultural Change Among Spanish-American Aid-to-Dependent-Children Clients, Virginia C. Cassel
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
Occupational Mobility Among Used Automobile Salesmen in San Diego, California in 1954, Stuart David Johnson
The Influence of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim on Current American Sociology, Medard Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
The Stereotype of the Indian in the New Mexico Press, Robert L. Brizee
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
An Investigation of Race or Ethnic Prejudice as a Factor Affecting the Administration of Justice on the Police Court Level, Dudley E. De Groot
A Social Study of a Trade Union, Richard A. Flynn
Sociological Analysis of the Big Brother Movement, Margaret Ann Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
Group therapy in the treatment of criminal offenders in state and federal correctional institutions for adult males., Edgar N. Sampson
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
The Study of the Stereotype of the American Indian, George A. Agogino
The School in Sociological Community Research Studies, Jack H. Curtis
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
A Description of Some of the Adjustment Problems of Tuberculous Indians to Sanatorium Life, Mary Van Franklin
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
The Use of the Personal Interview to Study the Subjective Impact of Culture Contacts, Aristides B. Chavez
A Study of Certain Changes in the Spanish-American Family in Bernalillo County, 1915-1946, Irma Yarbrough Johnson
Persistence of a Culture's Patterns in Prisons of War, Anne Hoffman Senter
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
San Jose, 1946: A Study in Urbanization, Frank C. Moore
Culture Change as Revealed by a Study of Relief Clients of a Suburban New Mexico Community, Gideon Sjoberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
Manzano: A Study of Community Disorganization, Wesley Robert Hurt
San José a Study in Urbanization, Laura Waggoner
Theses/Dissertations from 1936
The Relation Between Scholastic Achievement and Economic Status as Shown by Parental Occupation, Fred Barela
