Browsing Sociology URC Student Scholarship by Title
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"Community Interested" Individuals
(2003-01-01)I have been working with the Youth Leadership Council of Highland Park since February of 2003, a community service organization composed of 13 teens. They have joined this organization without any individual incentive, ... -
Eagle Rock: Place Memory and Community Cohesion
(1999-01-01)"Place memory" as studied by sociologists, is a concept in which sites may be used to stimulate social memory. To members of a community, a select number of sites serve as "storage spaces" of experiences of the larger urban ... -
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 ... -
Ethnic Solidarity and Ethnic Conflict: A Test of the Global Enclave Model
(2000-01-01)I will be studying ethnic solidarity and ethnic conflict among the Chinese restaurant community in London's Chinatown in order to test the applicability of my global enclave model, which was developed from my 1999 study ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Middle Class Social Workersand their Perceptions of Class Barriers
(2003-01-01)The profession of social work prides itself on being value neutral and non-judgmental. However, social workers might impose their values upon their clients if they are not aware of their own biases. Ideologies and values ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Selling Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Twenty Years of Toy Commercials
(2007-01-01)Society separates femininity and masculinity into a binary to maintain society?s power structure, preserving masculinity as dominant and femininity as subordinate. Attributes are assigned to each gender in the form of ... -
Social Movements Mural Project
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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 ... -
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 ... -
"The New White Flight": Investigating White Flight from Asian Communities in California Cities
(2007-01-01)Coined by the Wall Street Journal in a 2005 article, ?The New White Flight? refers to the exceptional case of White migration from middle to upper class suburbs that have a pronounced Asian population. This research used ... -
Tiger Finder/Community Business Link Victor Farfan & Laura Kawano
(2000-01-01)Our mission was to provide a valuable and informative service to the members of Occidental College by compiling and featuring the strengths of the local businesses of Eagle Rock. We believe that the businesses of Eagle ... -
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, ... -
?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, ... -
Who is Chinese? Identifying the origins of Chinese identity, and examining the issue of government designation vs. personal identification
(2006-01-01)In discussion of the question ?Who is Chinese?? is complicated by the dual use of the term ?Chinese? as both a political and cultural adjective. This complication exists due to intentional design. The term ?Zhongguo ren,? ...