Sociology
Recent Submissions
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Beyond Cravings: Gender and Class Desires in Chocolate Marketing
(2010-01-01)Of the many comfort foods available, chocolate is identified as being the most craved, tellingly expressed by the coinage of such terms as chocolate addiction or chocoholic. It has become a fetishized commodity in the ... -
Exploring Web 2.0: The Impact of Digital Communications Technologies on Youth Relationships and Sociability
(2010-01-01)The recent and rapid increase of Internet culture and new communications technologies is one important facet of changes in contemporary social life. Understanding the multiple and complex nature of these changes is an ... -
Exploring the Power of Imaginative Play: A Comprehensive Study on Performances of Exclusion
(2010-01-01)This article draws from field research performed in a Los Angeles preschool to explore the ways boys negotiate power, constructing identities that facilitate exclusion during imaginative play. Previous sociological research ... -
Gender-biased Diagnosing, the Consequences of Psychosomatic Misdiagnosis and 'Doing Credibility'
(2011-04-01)This research was aimed at exploring patient perspectives on the gender-politics of doctor-patient relationship , finding the number of men and women who had experienced psychosomatic diagnosis or misdiagnosis, and assessing ... -
School as Spatial Text: Power and Social Reproduction in Educational Space.
(2001-01-01)'It is always the body that is at issue' the body and its forces, their utility and their docility, their distribution and their submission? Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. ?We must be ... -
Empowering Women: Effective HIV/AIDS Education in the Volta Region of Ghana
(2008-01-01)Through a combination of educational training, clinical work within New Seed International?s (NSI) facilities, and face-to-face interviews with women, this study investigates effective methods of instruction on the prevention ... -
Ethnic Solidarity and Ethnic Conflict in Monterey Park: The Global Enclave Theory
(1999-01-01)Monterey Park, a 7.7 mile city 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles is the suburban setting of a large Chinese ethnic enclave. Monterey Park?s demographic shift from a predominantly white community to a majority Asian city ... -
The Effects of Gendered Self-Concepts and Academic Performance: An Investigation
(2010-01-01)There has been a vast amount of scholarly work investigating the many factors that influence an individual?s academic performance: socio-economic status, race, sex, family size and type of school, to name a few. This ... -
Asian American Panethnicity
(1999-01-01)The Asian American Movement grew out of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This movement is organized based on a model called Asian American panethnicity. Asian American panethnicity describes a concept that places ... -
CityWalk as Hyperspace
(1998-01-01)On May of 1993, only a year after the Los Angeles riots, Universal CityWalk opened to the public as a shopping and entertainment complex simulating the city of Los Angeles. Its physical structure is a pedestrian corridor ... -
?We Need Spashley?: The Impact of South of Nowhere on LGBT Youth
(2009-01-01)In November of 2005, cable television network The N introduced a series called South of Nowhere into its lineup. On paper its premise looked entertaining if unremarkable: after her family moves from Ohio to Los Angeles, ... -
Understanding its Impact: Universal Primary Education in sub-Saharan Africa
(2008-01-01)In 2000, the United Nations adopted eight Millennium Development Goals, which outline a universal framework to achieve sustainable development on a global level by the year 2015. My research focuses on the second goal, ... -
Affirmative Action and Strategies of Conservative Discourse
(2002-01-01)My research this summer focused on examining the shifts in affirmative action discourse since the policy was enacted in the mid 1960s. By analyzing the discourse of positions for and against affirmative action, I was able ... -
Gender in Recipes: A Look at the Food Network's Top Chefs
(2012-07-01)Food preparation has long been a gendered activity, where women prepare daily meals for their families and men consider cooking optional or even a fun hobby. Food too has gendered connotations that men and women carry out. ... -
Student's Choice of Majors and the Determining Factors
(2002-01-01)A student's major is one of the fundamental outcomes of a college education. It is often determined by some demographic and academic variables. Students at Occidental College show some consistent patterns with respect to ... -
Social Movements Mural Project
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Poverty & Segregation: An Examination of Factors Affecting Chicano/Latino Achievement in Los Angeles High Schools (formerly: "Institutional factors Achievement")
(2002-01-01)As a societal institution, high school represents a critical 'sorting' mechanism in determining future life chances for students. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second largest in the country, and ... -
Hong Kong Women: Professional Feminists?
(1999-01-01)In 1998 five of the eleven top government officials of Hong Kong were women. The idea that women can be board of directors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, or professors is not foreign to the people of Hong Kong. The image of ... -
Hong Kong Women: Professional Feminists?
(1998-01-01)In 1998 five of the eleven top government officials of Hong Kong were women. The idea that women can be board of directors, entrepreneurs, lawyers, or professors is not foreign to the people of Hong Kong. The image of ...
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