Prior research affirms that social determinants, particularly socioeconomic status (SES) play a vital role in determining the health of individuals. While many studies show that lower SES relates to lower levels of health, few discuss the role of slee . . .

Sport has traditionally offered limited access to female athletes and has been dominated by the male experience. Academic research has long documented the challenges of female athletes to manage their incongruent identities of female and athlete and t . . .

This study investigates the processes that individuals go through to form online relationships that develop into an online community. I look at bloggers and the experiences that led to the creation of an online community called the “Blogger Family.” I . . .

This thesis attempts to expand the explanatory framework beyond just gender and classical theory to include community level variables. Therefore, the theoretical frameworks guiding this study are the concepts of concentrated disadvantage and collectiv . . .

Over 100,000 Korean adoptees have migrated to the United States since 1958, making them one of the largest adoption populations in the country. Using the concept of racialized ethnicity, I explored 1) what kinds of ethnic experiences influenced Korean . . .

The present study investigated the relationship between risk-taking, neighborhood social capital and life satisfaction among adolescent girls. Survey data were used from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) research project and The Unite . . .

Hunger in the U.S. has historically been a problem with many root causes and complicated solutions. There have been many studies on hunger in general, but few speak to the unique characteristics of Californians who are hungry. The December 2010 Food S . . .

Using participant observation at Tea Party rallies held in Northern California in 2010 and 2011, this research analyzes how the movement performs diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing tasks and explores how the movement operates within alle . . .

The author examined the prevalence of hegemonic masculinity in the male-centered television program “MANswers”. The author conducted content analysis to analyze the questions posed in the episodes of “MANswers”. Ten categories relating to hegemonic ma . . .

The data for this study was collected during the course of 99 interviews with sworn officers from seven Northern California police departments. Thirty-nine of the 99 officers interviewed made comments which related to this study and a total of 65 stat . . .