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Dynamic Parenting: Ethnic Identity Construction In The Second-Generation Indian American Family, Cynthia B. Sinha
Dynamic Parenting: Ethnic Identity Construction In The Second-Generation Indian American Family, Cynthia B. Sinha
Sociology Dissertations
This study explores Indian culture in second-generation Indian American families. For the most part, this generation was not socialized to Indian culture in India, which raises the question, how do parents maintain and teach culture to their third-generation children? To answer this question, I interviewed 18 second-generation Indian American couples who had at least one child. Rather than focus on how assimilated or Americanized the families were, I examine the maintenance of Indian culture. Instead of envisioning culture as a binary between “Indian” and “American,” second-generation parents often experience “Indianness” and “Americanness” as interwoven in ways that were not always …
Culture, Cognition, And Parenthood In Japanese And American Homes, Saori Yasumoto
Culture, Cognition, And Parenthood In Japanese And American Homes, Saori Yasumoto
Sociology Dissertations
Previous family researchers have found that parents who share different demographic backgrounds construct unique parenting styles and beliefs. Although such studies contribute to understanding how parenthood is socially constructed, the information about how parents internalize cultural information and everyday experiences to raise children is missing in the extant literature. To fully comprehend the social construction of parenthood, the linkage between the mind and the behavior of parents within specific social structures needed to be studied. I thus conducted conjoint interviews with 24 Japanese couples and 24 American couples who were raising four-to-six year old daughters and sons to examine how …
Scrapworthy Lives: A Cognitive Sociological Analysis Of A Modern Narrative Form, Stephanie R. Medley-Rath
Scrapworthy Lives: A Cognitive Sociological Analysis Of A Modern Narrative Form, Stephanie R. Medley-Rath
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Over the past 20 years, scrapbooking has become immensely popular in America. This dissertation is the study of scrapworthy lives, that is, how lives become structured by scrapbooking and how people show others that their own life and the lives of their loves ones are value—or scrapworthy. I conducted in-depth interviews with 38 scrapbookers, 11 scrapbook industry workers, and 10 family and friends of scrapbookers. I also used photo-elicitation interviewing techniques with both the scrapbookers and the family members and friends of 10 scrapbookers to examine a selection of scrapbook pages the respondents had completed. I used grounded theory methods …
The Ties That Bind: The Role Of Place In Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, And Discord In Two Historic, Black Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods, Barbara Harris Combs
The Ties That Bind: The Role Of Place In Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, And Discord In Two Historic, Black Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods, Barbara Harris Combs
Sociology Dissertations
Recent research has uncovered a new phenomenon in some distressed areas, black gentrification. Black gentrification follows the same pattern as mainstream gentrification with one notable exception: In black gentrifying neighborhoods both the poor and working class residents who resided in the neighborhood prior to its “gentrification” and the new residents of greater economic means are black. An additional hallmark of black gentrification that distinguishes it from traditional gentrification is that black gentrifiers in black gentrifying neighborhoods often feel a responsibility or obligation to their lower income black neighbors. Prior to the economic downturn in the United States, some in-town Atlanta …
Mass Media's Relationship With Adolescents' Values And Behaviors: A Theory Of Mediated Valueflection, Melanie Burleson Richards
Mass Media's Relationship With Adolescents' Values And Behaviors: A Theory Of Mediated Valueflection, Melanie Burleson Richards
Sociology Dissertations
Mass media has long been thought to have a detrimental effect on an adolescent’s values and behaviors. Many social ills including violence, misogyny and negative health behaviors, as well as egoistic cultural values have been attributed to mass media’s influence. Yet the media is not all powerful, nor are its powers unable to be combated. In this manuscript, I analyze the Educational Longitudinal Study data from 2002 to 2006 to determine the real effects mass media has on adolescents in comparison to other influences. I find that not all media is equal in influence. Television and video games have different …