Diabetic, stroke and hip fracture patients of a home care agency are studied relative to their family support and their home health care success. Gender, age, diagnosis, ethnicity and the primary caregiver are evaluated. The research is augmented by t . . .

In order to further the study of gender roles as an interacting set, the gender role expectations of 82 married CSUN students and their spouses were examined in terms of the interaction of husband-wife expectations at three hypothesized levels of defi . . .

Bullying/harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students is a major crisis. Using the photovoice methodology, seven junior high and high school students were recruited for a combination of visual sociology (photographs) an . . .

This is a case study of Parent Revolution, a Los Angeles-based, astroturf, education reform organization that the anti-union, pro-charter school Walton, Broad, and Gates Foundations primarily fund. Astroturf organizations manufacture public support fo . . .

The meanings associated with food and eating serve as ever-present systems through which we communicate to ourselves and others where we come from, which groups we claim membership to, and the type of person we are. The boundaries between food choices . . .

A survey was conducted on 2,293 World of Warcraft players found on the official World of Warcraft forums and reddit.com via non probability sampling. No relationship was found between increases in participants' informal job hierarchy position and decr . . .

Proposition 47 is legislation recently passed in California that has sparked some controversy concerning its operations and efficacy. Although Proposition 47 was developed and launched with intended consequences, opponents claim that it is causing uni . . .

This project attempts to explore and depict a deeper understanding of the contemporary social justice landscape from my personal autoethnographical experiences as an activist in the ostensibly dualistic worlds of 501(c)(3) nonprofit immigrant rights o . . .

This study set out to understand, by way of examining the theoretical frameworks of identity theory and impression management, the ways in which people do self-presentation online. Specifically, I looked to see whether offline self-presentation affect . . .

In order to further the study of gender roles as an interacting set, the gender role expectations of 82 married CSUN students and their spouses were examined in terms of the interaction of husband-wife expectations at three hypothesized levels of defi . . .