This study examines how emotions such as fear, hope, and anger influenced the decision of farmworkers' to engage in collective action and participate in an organizing campaign despite being confronted with company scare-tactics. Ten in-depth interview . . .

The longevity revolution has lead to more years of shared lives between older parents and adult children. However, having these extra years together can be offset by the stressful life transitions of widowhood, health declines, and increased level of . . .

In the last three decades, tattooing in the United States has grown in popularity due to its integration into mainstream culture through mass media. Once considered a deviant practice, tattooing is now viewed by many as an acceptable form of art and e . . .

The focus of this study provides expository, qualitative analysis of the aesthetic practices exercised by music creators who utilize samples as the basis for their creative endeavors. The purpose of engaging the practitioners of this field illuminates . . .

The data set for this analysis is from the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS), a nationally representative survey based on full-probability sample design. In this study, all analyses were performed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPS . . .

ABSTRACT Bystander’s Reactions to Dating Violence By Nancy Baclini Dating violence affects one in three adolescents in the United States. Research has found that violence occurs one third of the time in the presence of bystanders. My research aim is t . . .

Reasons for low job satisfaction often include inadequate pay and poor working conditions--employment issues historically addressed by unions. Although union membership has been on the decline, unions still exist in some industries. The logistics indu . . .

As the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the country continues to grow, there is a need to explore the experiences of students enrolled in HSIs in more nuanced ways. This study highlights the experiences of Black and Latino men with ca . . .

This research examine why people participate in the informal economy and the potential of developing informal economic systems capable of supporting economic development and creating autonomous -community-based economies in the absence of gainful empl . . .

This is a critical autoethnography where I reflect on community-based healing through circulos, oral history in response to state violence, contemporary structures of inequality, and historical legacies of colonialism. The personal is political, and t . . .

While depression has been documented among the homeless population, the examination of a prior incarceration period, which is not unusual among the homeless has not been extensively researched. Using data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authori . . .

Digital music piracy remains a difficult phenomenon to study due to the lack of consistency among researchers in defining what piracy is. This largely stems from the fact that the macro-social structures involved, corporations, the legal system, and c . . .

From 2007-2011 Major League Baseball (MLB) managers were exceedingly ejected more often than head coaches of the three other major American sports combined. By and large, managerial ejections exist as rational choices wholly dependent on the manager's . . .

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults make up a marginalized group of individuals whose sexual orientation disrupts expectations of a heteronormative society. The literature on family relationships suggests that adult children who do not make normative li . . .

The focus for this study is how technological development affects the financial and labor outcomes for workers within service industries. Further development of computer technology and robotics has made it possible to replicate jobs tasks performed by . . .

The current exploratory research examines how middle adult Latinas perceive getting older and aging in general from a social psychology standpoint. Symbolic interactionism is the main theoretical framework used to understand how Latinas construct new . . .

In United States, having a tattoo has often been negatively viewed, mostly because people connect tattoos with mischievous conduct. In addition, people often mistake those with tattoos as gang related individuals with no jobs or futures. Despite the n . . .

Adult children of alcoholics or (ACOA’s) have a higher likelihood of negative well-being. Research has shown that ACOA’s report higher rates of psychological issues, relational problems, attachment issues, health issues, higher instances of drug and a . . .

Existing studies of masculinity lack thorough and sociological examinations of how adult Latino gang members construct alternative masculine and sexual identities within hyper-masculine gang subculture. To address this topic, the study at hand examine . . .

The focus of this study explores the narratives of African-American students in college classroom settings. I am focusing specifically on African American women students because the United States has an extensive history of learning/classroom discrimi . . .

The social behavior and stigma of epilepsy in Korean nationals and Korean Americans throughout California are studied. This study seeks to explore the cultural differences in the social behavior of participants, their thoughts about epilepsy, their fa . . .

The author conducted a content analysis on newspaper article coverage for the war on terror from The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune within the framework of Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model. The war on terror is a glob . . .

The aim of my study is threefold: a) to test the mediation role of attachment between parental / spousal relationships and acceptance toward female aggressiveness, and b) to test the mediation role of modalities of coping and acceptance toward female . . .

Although there is considerable research on the interaction between informal and formal rules in bureaucratic institutions, as well as ample studies on various factors that impact the performance of information technology data warehouses, the two have . . .

Activism consists of efforts to change the social, economic, political, and/or environmental status quo. It is comprised of a social movement or several social movements that include persistent and organized efforts on the part of a relatively large n . . .

The goal of this research is to examine whether rationalizing crime affects opinion of capital punishment. The results show that rationalizing crime as an internally, self-motive action encourages support for capital punishment; whereas rationalizing . . .

California’s prison policies have been one of the harshest in the United States for many decades. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, many individuals were sentenced to life in prison for serious crimes such as murder. Many of these individuals were youthfu . . .

Over the past decade children in the United States have been diagnosed and treated for bipolar illness NOS (not otherwise specified) at an alarming rate. Few studies have been performed to date that support the accuracy of this diagnosis. The diagnosi . . .

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how greetings affect the feeling of interpersonal connection by different social contexts of gender and race. This study utilized a field experiment conducted at California State University, Los Angeles fro . . .

Women's health is a modern social movement focusing on the specific needs of women's health care. Despite the success of this movement there remains a need to educate policy makers and reform legislation that has traditionally excluded large numbers o . . .