Recently, basic education has been considered as one of the most important fundamentals to adjust the inequality problem and further, to alleviate poverty in developing countries such as Bangladesh. On the background of this expectation for basic education, there have been some …
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The Civil Rights Movement is arguably one of America’s most defining periods. It was the true start of the establishment not just of legal equality, but moral equality between the African American and Caucasian communities. Many scholars start their works with famous civil right…
Previous studies on the Black Church have focused on its history as an institutional hub, its ability to generate social capital, the decline in its membership, as well as the connection between attendance and associational life. However, it is unknown how the Black Church is us…
This thesis followed the journey of a small sample of women from one netball club located in the East of England to provide an insightful analysis into their childhood experiences of sport, exploring the extent to which this may have shaped their adult participation and the comp…
In recent years, educators have looked to study abroad programming as one avenue for increasing global citizenship in tertiary level students. Many studies have examined the effects of study abroad programs on student outcomes such as global perspectives, but few have specifical…
This dissertation focuses on the psycho-cultural perceptions and social interactions among a sample of 58 Chinese immigrant women in the Maricopa County, the Phoenix metro area of Arizona, and the manner in which they are able to negotiate multiple identity markers that in part …
As the global refugee phenomenon continues to grow unabated, South Africa still receives increasing numbers of refugee applications. This is a result of South Africa's non-encampment policy that allows refugees to self-settle. One of the largest refugee groups in South Africa ar…
Trust is an essential element of individuals' willingness to engage in economic activity such as investment. Because cultural institutions influence individuals' trust, I examine whether shocks to trust in a prominent cultural institution have crossover effects on households’ in…
In the early American republic, local historical actors sought to create ideal “American” communities following the success of the American Revolution and the ratification of the United States Constitution. Through this process, the people of the new United States determined the…
This dissertation attempts to fill the gap in the sociological literature at the intersection of religion and community by examining how local, urban Catholic churches shape and nurture multiple models of community commitment based on differing public-private dimensions of ritua…
This present study examined the influences of family dynamics, family belief systems, and parental education pertaining to their effect on African American children and families under the confines of indigence and frequent exposure to stress.
Using data from the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2017 waves of the National income Dynamics Study (NIDS), this dissertation investigates the link between occupation (skilled, medium skilled and low skilled) and subjective well-being (SWB) in South Africa. Although some studies (su…
Students from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds often have extenuating circumstances that impede their academic achievement. While many of the factors affecting these students have been concentrated in urban cities, in recent decades, the nation's suburbs have become home to m…
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Intra-School Social Capital, or ISC (e.g., Parent-School Involvement, Parent-Teacher Interactions, Teacher-Student Support, Student-Peer Relations), and External-School Social Capital, or ESC (e.g., Parent-Home Invol…
This research evaluates how people face uncertainty in their lives when they cannot purchase insurance in formal markets. It is concerned with how rural households in less developed countries (LDC) face risk by creating social capital via exchange relationships and how these exc…
Youth unemployment and persistent economic inequality represent two of the most pressing issues in the developing world today. In India, many tout the burgeoning Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry as creating a new and relatively straightforward path to employment and m…
The problem of secrecy, it would seem, has long been a central object of obsession, preoccupation and frustration for historians of religions. Yet perhaps rather fittingly, it also remain among the most theoretically confused, ambiguous and "mystified" topics in the academic stu…
Much of the social capital literature focuses on unambiguous social situations where actors share generalized trust or interpersonal trust. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in northwest Azerbaijan, this thesis focuses instead on distrust and the negotiation of conflicting interpret…
This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…