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Sociology

Selected Works

2011

Identity

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Adolescence, Identity And Spirituality, Kenneth Doka May 2011

Adolescence, Identity And Spirituality, Kenneth Doka

Kenneth J. Doka

As adolescents develop, they will need to confront their own spirituality and incorporate it into their sense of identity.

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The Influence Of College Student Identity And Beliefs About Alcohol And The College Experience On Students’ Drinking Behavior, Katherine Novak Feb 2011

The Influence Of College Student Identity And Beliefs About Alcohol And The College Experience On Students’ Drinking Behavior, Katherine Novak

Katherine B. Novak

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO, March 24-27, 2011.

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Finding A Jewel: Identity And Gendered Space In Islamic Finance, Karen Ahmed Dec 2010

Finding A Jewel: Identity And Gendered Space In Islamic Finance, Karen Ahmed

Karen Hunt Ahmed

In this article, I explore how globalization discourses practices work together to form the identities of female Islamic bankers working in the first stand-alone women’s Islamic bank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An Islamic bank interacts with the individual by providing a discursive and physical space in which the subject can shape and respond to her desire to identify and engage with the debates in the global Muslim community about morality, practice and the role of Islam in every day life. Global financial systems and local gender practices are embodied in these buildings in a kind of financial purdah: building …

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