Sociology ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
"Everyone Got to Eat My Tears": Racialized Emotions, Mentoring Practices, and the Political and Ethical Commitments of Women of Color Graduate Students in STEM, Machienvee V. Lammey
Welfare As We Know it Now: Examination of State-Level Effects of Welfare Expenditure and Policy Restrictiveness on Crime and Group-Specific Arrests Over Twenty-Four Years Following Reform, Elizabeth Ann Sabbath
Unequal Neighbors in Diverse Neighborhoods: Accounting for Variation in the Impact of Relative Inequality on Neighborhood Crime, Samuel A. Torres
“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 2023
The “Afro in Afrolatinidad”: Examining Afrolatinx Experiences of Blackness Through and Afrolatin Critical Theory of Race, Celine Maria Ayala Ph.D
Disrupting Whiteness in Education Organizations: Community Testimonios of Strategy, Resistance, and Perseverance in Educational Justice Organizing, Florence E. Castillo
Mental Health in Transnational Contexts: Reconsidering Conceptualizations, Coping Strategies, and Racism through the Narratives of Refugees Resettled in the United States, Ryeora Choe and Ryeora Choe
The Relationship Between Social Mobilization, Crime, and Crime Control: A Longitudinal Analysis of 900 Cities in the U.S. Between 1964-1995, Erin R. Coleman
BOUNDARIES OF CITIZENSHIP: GENDERED AND RACIALIZED REPRODUCTION AND MOTHERHOOD IN CONTEMPORAY JAPAN, Yuka K. Doherty
The (Im)mobility of Being: The Anti-Black and Colonial Roots of Contemporary Policing, Korey Tillman
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Three Essays on Responsibility and the Transition to Adulthood in Comparative Perspective, Andrew Lee Breidenbach
WHITE IDENTITY AND AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Sofia A. Locklear
A QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF OVARIAN CANCER DISPARITIES, Jimmy Valdes
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 1978
Sex Differences In Political Efficacy, 1974, Carol E. Higgins
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Deprivation Theory And Occult Belief, Bruce Hall
Social Composition, Interaction And The Success Of High School Football Teams, Jill Kendrick Schneider
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Substantive and Ideological Aspects of Science: An Analysis of the Velikovsky Controversy, Robert E. McAulay
An Exploration of Alternative Causal Models for a Set of Temporally Ambiguous Social Variables, Charles Edward McQuade
Faculty Receptivity to Radical Academic Ideology: An Empirical Test of a Causal Model, Suzanne Vaughan
El Estado De Abandono De Los Menores Venezolanos: Un Estado Predilectual En El Presente, Dora R. Zerpa Bravo
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
Tutoring In Albuquerque:A Study In Goal Transformation, Janet Frank
The Labeling Perspective and Commitment Procedures: A Case Study of Bernalillo District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Edeltraut Hannemann
Emile Durkheim And The Categories Of The Understanding, Barbara Patricia Hostetler
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Freedom High School:An Evaluation Of An Alternative Educational Program For Potential Dropouts., Joanne Lee Fields
Late Industrialization and Political Change: The Case of Germany, Judith C. Peloquin
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Relationships Between Commitment, Dissatisfaction And Attrition Among Roman Catholic Priests In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Romeo Raymond Di Benedetto
Graduate Teaching Assistants:A Study Of Exploitation And Conflict In Higher Education, Lynda Hundertmark
The Influence of Population Growth on Economic Development in Low Income Countries; India: An Example of a Low Income Area, Japan: An Example of a High Income Area, Joshua Makau Maingi
Alienation and Variations in Orientation to Counter Culture Values: An Empirical Study, Dennis C. McBride
Egypt and Indonesia: A Structural Analysis, Lawrence D. Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
High School Dropouts And The Theory Of Economic Incentive., Janie M. Burchart
Concentrated Employment Program Dropouts:The Conflict Of Personal Expectations And Institutionalized Values., Margaret Haar Norris
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Home Missions And Tension-Management In The Christian Reformed Church, Brtel Nicholas Huizenga
Involvement in the Air Force ROTC, Harold L. Trott
The Power Structure Of An Urban Barrio: South Barelas, New Mexico, Maxine Baca Zinn
