This constructionist phenomenological dissertation study explored stories from nine working-class, first-generation college students, specifically how middle-class socialization on a four-year university campus located in the Mountain West region of the United States impacts the…
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There is a dearth of literature on Black Sunni Muslims in the field of psychology. More so, there is no literature specifically analyzing the influences upon Black religiosity. The literature has established that personality has significant influence upon religiosity. The litera…
At the core of this thesis are two pieces of empirical work. The first is a case study of a multicultural day nursery in a deprived area of an inner-city London Borough. The purpose of the case study was to explore perceptions of ethnicity, and prospects for identity enhancement…
Territory remains a focus for identification and territorial identity an enduring topic of scholarly research. This dissertation explores the territorial identity of Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The study does three things; it defines Cornish identit…
This thesis is concerned with developing our understandings and knowledge of children within Early Years Learning (EYL) and the importance of movement and play in processes of social class and cultural (re)production. The ways in which parents from different social classes are i…
This study examines how working women are represented in the news media, and its main aim is to determine to what extent ‘social class’ figures in the representations of women in news content. Using language, visual and narrative analysis, the thesis comprises four case studies …
This study focuses on the issue of social exclusion in British tennis. It commences with a critique of current LTA policy, presenting exclusion as static, ahistorical and underpinned by false dichotomies of age and social class. Aspects of Norbert Elias’s theoretical approach ar…
This dissertation analyzes the industrialization and social class structures of less developed countries during the latest wave of economic globalization. Industrialization and social class have always been among the central topics in sociology. With the latest wave of economic …
Often referred to as the developing world's new burden of disease, obesity constitutes a major and growing health epidemic in Morocco, in particular for women. In this dissertation, I focus on how gender operates to affect obesity risk in the Moroccan context. I suggest that we …
In this research project, I explored how the present processes of globalization affected the class structure in Bangladeshi urban societies. By specific references to Bourdieu's idea of cultural capital, I tried to explore how cultural capital was changing in urban Bangladesh an…
The onset of the Great Depression led to severe work shortages for miners in Harlan County, Kentucky. In turn, low wages exacerbated by shorter hours created starvation conditions for their families. In 1931, organizers from the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) travelled to…
The observed class-based stratification of postsecondary destinations in the U.S. raises questions as to the determinants of college choice, particularly for students from lower-SES backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to explore students’ spatial preferences and behaviors …
As income inequality is at an all-time high in the United States, many researchers write about social class and its role in schools. Most studies are situated in urban schools or high-poverty schools. There is a persistent need to explore and document how social class shapes rur…
Extensive research has been dedicated to documenting the long history of racial tension and discrimination of African Americans within the U.S. educational system. Much less is known about the strategies that have emerged from school districts and the African American families t…
Examining how structural and cultural factors shape postsecondary educational outcomes is at the heart of sociological research in education. However, although there has been a rich history in exploring these sociological concepts in education, many fundamental questions remain …
Large numbers of urban Pakistani women are adopting sartorial and behavioral markers associated with the global Islamic revival and are participating in Islamic revivalist movements. Many Pakistanis find this increase troubling, and feel that it betokens an increase in "extremis…
Educational patterns are greatly affected by numerous factors such as cultural values, gender roles, economics, and religion. This study analyzed socioeconomic factors and the influence of Islamic practices on the educational attainment of Pakistanis in Los Angeles County and La…
In this dissertation, I argue that relations of space and mobility play a critical role in the formation of Lebanese civic culture. By civic culture, I refer to ideas and practices having to do with the roles and actions of citizens, the state, and those inhabiting a particular …