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How Does A Believer Become Evangelical?: Using Habitus To Track The Transfer Of Religious Meaning Across Social Contexts, Ethan W. Johnson
How Does A Believer Become Evangelical?: Using Habitus To Track The Transfer Of Religious Meaning Across Social Contexts, Ethan W. Johnson
Sociology Honors Projects
Recent research on religion’s influence on civic life in the United States has focused predominantly on either studying the civic consequences of the rise of Evangelical Protestantism or focused on religion’s ability to promote civic engagement and social capital generally. These two lines of study run the risk of assuming the salience of particular theological beliefs across social contexts while also neglecting an attempt to understand how religious communities and belief can promote explicitly religious civic orientations. I build on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to propose a theoretical remedy for these shortcomings in the research. Using original survey data collected …
Transnational Narratives: Interpretation And Appropriation Of Black Identity By West African Immigrants, Mbemba Camara
Transnational Narratives: Interpretation And Appropriation Of Black Identity By West African Immigrants, Mbemba Camara
Sociology Honors Projects
African immigrants confront existing racial divisions, and their family's place within those divisions, during their transition into American society. Interviews with three Guinean and three Liberian immigrants reveal that when constructing their identity, Guinean parents reject Black American identity to reinforce African heritage in their children (partial adoption of the racialized lens) while Liberian parents align their families with Black American identity and African identity (complete adoption of the racialized lens). The findings demonstrate that while these West African parents align with the racial ideology that will lead to their American dream, some Liberian parents look beyond racial stigma to …
Mexican Identity Beyond Labels, Beyond Borders, Jessica Muñoz
Mexican Identity Beyond Labels, Beyond Borders, Jessica Muñoz
Sociology Honors Projects
According to the U.S. census, "Mexican" is labeled as an ethnic or national identity, not a racial identity. To understand more about the meaning and experience behind Mexican identity, I conducted 13 interviews with people who self-identify as Mexican. I found a disconnect between how people self-identify and how they situate themselves within categories that differ from their understandings of race. People described what it means to be Mexican through culture and shared peoplehood regardless of country of origin. They shared experiences being racialized in the U.S., but did not have a similar pattern in defining what race or ethnicity …
"I'M More Than The Sum Of My Parts": Multiracial Identities And The Creation Of Racial Meaning, Hannah D. Johnson
"I'M More Than The Sum Of My Parts": Multiracial Identities And The Creation Of Racial Meaning, Hannah D. Johnson
Sociology Honors Projects
This paper examines the ways that multiracial individuals understand and give meaning to their identities. Specifically, how do we—as a culture and as individuals—conceptualize and construct multiracial identities? What is the relationship between the way people identify themselves and the way they are identified by others? What do people mean when they say they are mixed race? Through a series of in-depth interviews with 11 individuals who self-identify as multiracial or mixed race, I find that racial identities are fundamentally multifaceted; they can be asserted by an individual, ascribed by an outsider, deeply rooted in culture and heritage, employed as …
The Mary Poppins Problem: Enforcing Protective Legislation For Domestic Workers In America, Anna Pickrell
The Mary Poppins Problem: Enforcing Protective Legislation For Domestic Workers In America, Anna Pickrell
Sociology Honors Projects
State-level legislation to advance employment rights for domestic workers is on the rise in the United States, but implementation is largely ineffective due to a lack of representation on behalf of employees. This study analyzes the roles of two specific types of organizations — public policy networks pushing legislation for domestic workers and employment agencies placing workers into jobs — to better understand how enforcement of existing laws in this field can be improved through the services that protective organizations provide. Can domestic workers rely on these groups to secure their rights when individual employers may not, or do they …