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- Creator:
- Seawood, Flora
- Description:
- This research study examines the historical events, Black family, community, Black women's sexuality, and religiosity. A Black critical race feminist theory gives a deeper meaning and understanding as to how Black women objectify their sexuality. The controlling images of hopelessness and sexual repression. Black women's sexuality is often described in metaphors of speechlessness, or empty space that is simultaneously ever-visible, because Black women's bodies are already seen as being colonized (Hammonds 1997:171). Black females in Black churches service roles distinctively represents invisibility, because they are not recognized for their contributions in the church. For Southern Black women to rectify social inequities they participate in social service program within the Black community. Many Black female Blues artist use music as a language that express their feelings, emotions, disappointment, oppressive and repressive conditions. Music is sexual freedom to tell how they think and feel without feeling guilty. They tell composite stories about Black women's sexuality. A multi-methodological method (qualitative and quantitative) including semi-autobiographical account of Black women's stories and struggles. The data analyzed was the respondents' answer which is n=3393 samples used to test the hypothesis questions: Do Black women feel guilty thinking about sex and how often they have masturbated in the past year. My key findings is that the church represents a place of retribution for Black women and others, also sexual repressive because the impact of this research is about how Southern rural Black women's sexuality is constructed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Chase, Matthew
- Description:
- The emergence of social justice hashtags like #YesAllWomen and #BlackLivesMatter have raised the question: How do digital spaces shape social justice discourse? I explored how virtual liminality and digital violence have played roles in complicating and challenging these online discourses. Applying borderlands theory and framing theory, I analyzed the dominant and counter-frames of Twitter-based discourses #YesAllWomen and #BlackLivesMatter with a purposive sample of 100 tweets from each hashtag. Digital users organized a mass sharing and contesting of narratives reflecting their oppressions, their struggles, and their movements for social change. Yet digital violence and silencing frames (e.g., #NotAllMen and #BlackLivesMatter) aimed to dismantle these narratives, reproducing supremacist fictions. The findings revealed the problematic roles of digital violence and conflicting frames in shaping social justice discourse in the digital borderlands. They also informed my recommendations for future research and social justice practices: (1) employ mindful response strategies to digital violence, (2) explore the emergence of hashtag hate campaigns, and (3) directly examine digital users in their participation in these social justice discourses.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Espinoza, Jeanette
- Description:
- This study examines the sexual experiences of Latinas and how they learned about sex and sexual health, how schooling changed their views, and their sexual practices. I conducted 10 in-depth open-ended interviews with college educated Latinas in Southern California. Participants reported that parents’ information about sex was minimal, they received some health education in high school, and in college they became more liberated and explored their sexuality. College courses also provided them with concepts to sharply critique media stereotypes, patriarchy, and sexism. While they found sexual liberation in college, they were still unable to speak to their parents about sexual relationships or activities. Furthermore, the participants still preferred a submissive role in their sexual encounters. I conclude that while the Latina participants resisted traditional expectations, they did not fully realize or embody traditional gender roles, indicating the powerful effects of culture and family.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Rice, Tamara Leigh
- Description:
- This thesis investigated the process of relinquishing a pet to the Department of Animal Control with the likely outcome of euthanasia for many of the animals left there by their owners. As euthanasia is no longer seen as an acceptable way to solve the pet over population problem those concerned about the welfare of animals have begun to create programs to prevent animals from meeting this dire outcome. While animal welfare agencies have worked to decrease the amount of animals available through intensive spay/neuter programs, this research considers the large population of dogs and cats who at one time had homes and are relinquished at our nation's shelters adding considerably to the pet overpopulation issue and further increasing the number of animals euthanized annually. People's perceptions of their pets leading up to, as well as at the time of relinquishment have shown patterns in the ways in which they make sense of the act of relinquishment. The results of the present study indicate that those people who relinquished their animals to the shelter and agreed to participate in the study had not created a role as the animal's caretaker. Creating the caretaker role and identity is suggested to have a positive influence in preventing an animal from being left at a shelter.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Rose, Paul
- Description:
- The Burden of Caring study examines the importance of race, social class and gender in predicting the burden experienced by caregivers. The study begins by demonstrating the importance of care giving in an aging society, using the lenses of Symbolic Interactionist and Standpoint perspectives. The study especially addresses the need for research on the intersection of race and social class and gender using representative samples of caregivers. The need for research on race differences in formal service use is also discussed. This study draws on the Data of the Informal Caregivers Survey, a portion of the 1999 National Long Term Care survey. This study utilizes a sample of524 primary caregivers. The study was performed using a series of multiple regression equations including race, social class and gender as independent variables along with elements of caregiving demands and formal service use to predict caregiving burden, and a separate model predicting formal service use from the other independent variables The study identified several important differences between low SES and African American caregivers and white and higher SES caregivers. While African American caregivers experienced more physical strain, they had a significantly lower level of burden which was revealed in interaction with low SES. African Americans were found to use fewer formal services than white caregivers, and gender was also found to significantly influence the level of burden experienced by caregivers. Keywords: Caregiving, Burden, Formal Services, Ageing
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Sanchez, Geneva M
- Description:
- This thesis investigates how an observational research project lead to a further investigation of racial climate and how the subtle instances of racism, scholars refer to as racial microaggressions, impact students of color at a predominately white university. It uncovers the ways in which racism is more subtle and covert, but continues to affect the lives of students of color in dramatic ways. Data was collected through a combined methodology of observations and focus groups. Beginning with students of color and centering their experiences, this research extends the small portion of sociological work that focuses on gender and racial microaggressions. This research is compelling because this information provides an insider look into how students are challenging racialized interactions, coping with their positions as students of color in a predominately white university, and responding to a college environment that is racially structured. Through the utilization of Critical Race Theory, by centering student stories, experiences, which counter hegemony, this research empowers students of color by attempting to dismantle the racial projects which exist at Statewide University. Keywords: racial microaggressions, impact of racism, students of color, predominately white university, critical race theory, counter-narrative
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
36937. Transforming deviant identities: the co-construction of domestic violence perpetrator identities
- Creator:
- Shur, Jennifer L
- Description:
- This research explores the process of transformation that men involved in 52 week domestic violence intervention programs go through. The reconstituted identities are co-constructed by both the men and the staff in the programs. There has been little sociological research thus far on the topic of men's transformations in these programs. Yet, this research is important in order to assess the contributions these 52 week programs can make to society. This research examines how the men involved in these programs felt they were transforming from "batterers" to "rehabilitated" men and how the staff found indicators of the same. This research adds to the body of literature on people processing and domestic vioience intervention programs. It also provides recommendations for these programs and how they may be able to benefit other populations as well as to be used to alleviate domestic violence earlier.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Thompson, Tami
- Description:
- Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Tilden, Mary L
- Description:
- This paper presents and analyzes the results of a qualitative research project that investigated how gay men and lesbians in the military negotiate the hostile environment of the military's closed bureaucracy. The literature review revealed four themes: national ideology, the cult of masculinity, culture wars, and family secrets. Three theories were used to analyze the literature and the data derived from the research. Max Weber's theories of bureaucracy and the "iron cage" were used at the policy level. Erving Gottman's concept of the "presentation of self' was used at the individual level, and Patricia Hill Collins' concepts of intersectionality and the "outsider within" were used at the group level. Results indicated that there was a pervasive awareness among gay men and lesbians that they could be discharged for their sexual behavior confirming the concept of the "iron cage." However, many openly homosexual servicemembers were not discharged because the military's need for skilled personnel overrode its mandate to discharge homosexuals, and gays and lesbians used the "presentation of self" to pass as heterosexual indicating the "iron cage" could be breeched. The severity of surveillance and harassment varied among commands. Where it was less severe shadow communities of military gays and lesbians emerged; where it was most severe weak, or no military gay and lesbian communities formed. This partially confirmed the concept of intersectionality and the "outsider within."
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Walker, Michelle
- Description:
- This research explores the ongoing negotiation of identity in the post divorce process. In America, more than half of all marriages today end in divorce. While this is a subject that has been studied by many different academic disciplines and through varying approaches, this thesis adds considerably to the body of knowledge through its methodological use of autoethnography. This research examines the experience of one woman in the process of divorce and takes a sociological gaze into the social structures that influence and impact single mothers' lived experiences. The social construction of gender, mothering, and women's oppression are explored. Issues such as patriarchy, gender inequality, and mothering ideology are examined. The study reveals that single mothers must maneuver their way around male dominance while simultaneously managing the continual process of transforming "self." This research closely looks at how one woman makes sense of her experiences in traveling from married, stay-at-home mother and wife to divorced, single mother. This study reveals that divorce is a process, with no beginning or end. Rather, it is shown to be a continuous development whereby the single mother shifts and modifies her identity through her everyday interactions with others as well as through her internal dialogue with "self."
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice