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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Myth Of Meritocracy: Factors Explaining Belief In Meritocracy Within The United States, Kaley Burg
The Myth Of Meritocracy: Factors Explaining Belief In Meritocracy Within The United States, Kaley Burg
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This study examined data from the 2021 General Social Survey (GSS) to determine what factors influence participants’ view of meritocracy within the United States. Based on existing literature that examines relative power and perception, this study sought to understand the connection between power and belief that America exists as a meritocracy, with the assumption that those belonging to groups deemed as wielding power in society should hold stronger beliefs in meritocracy. Results partially support this hypothesis. Using a multivariate linear regression analysis, those who are older or white assert stronger belief in meritocracy, while those with a greater social justice …
Gender Through Time And Culture, Kate Wick
Gender Through Time And Culture, Kate Wick
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Gender has been viewed as fluid through time. Different identities existed in communities across the globe. How gender is viewed in a western mindset can affect our perceptions of the past. The gender binary that’s been applied so strongly today is an outdated European concept. This binary brings gender roles, which have their own assumptions tied to them. This paper will define many known terms surrounding gender, as well as contemporary gender identities. This will be a look into alternate identities in Native American communities, Native Hawaiians, the Philippines as well as in India, both pre-colonial and post-colonial. Other locations …
Gender Separate Effects Of Human Capital On Economic Growth, Jordan King
Gender Separate Effects Of Human Capital On Economic Growth, Jordan King
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This paper examines the gender-separate effects of human capital on economic growth using a regression framework, treating human capital as dually influenced by both health and education. Upon controlling for fertility, we find that there is no statistically significant difference between the effects that the male and female human capital dimensions have on economic growth: accumulation of both is equally important. Furthermore, our results also shed light on the different effects that human capital’s components, health and education, have on countries at different levels of development. We find that health effects, regardless of gender, are more prominent for growth in …
Barriers And Coping Strategies Among Women In A Food Desert, Renee Holt
Barriers And Coping Strategies Among Women In A Food Desert, Renee Holt
WWU Graduate School Collection
This qualitative research focused on how women living in a neighborhood identified as a “food desert” experience food insecurity, and to learn what coping strategies are used in response. The closure of the full-size Albertsons grocery store centrally located in the Birchwood neighborhood on Northwest Avenue led to the identification of the area as a food desert by the USDA in 2016. Food deserts, neighborhoods with limited options for buying fresh food, are created through socio-economic and spatial inequalities that impact food access. In food deserts, fresh food access may be severely limited, which leads communities to organize in order …
Gender Discrepancy In Asexual Identity:The Effect Of Hegemonic Gender Norms On Asexual Identification, Tori Bianchi
Gender Discrepancy In Asexual Identity:The Effect Of Hegemonic Gender Norms On Asexual Identification, Tori Bianchi
Scholars Week
How do gender roles and expectations affect individuals identifying as asexual? Why do more women and genderqueer people identify as asexual? What about masculine stereotypes dissuades individuals from identifying as asexual? In this study I investigate how the cultural and societal expectations of different genders, both assigned and actualized, affect the perception and performance of an individual’s sexual identity. In particular I examine ideals of prescribed and hegemonic masculinity and femininity and how those ideals are upheld or broken by an asexual identity, and how those holding diverse gender identities feel their gender identity interacts with their asexual orientation.
Women And Health Care: Exploring The Communication Dynamic Between Women And Their Doctors, Mairin Mccurdy
Women And Health Care: Exploring The Communication Dynamic Between Women And Their Doctors, Mairin Mccurdy
Scholars Week
This is a qualitative study examining the effects of the communication between patient and doctor on the self-concept of female patients. The researchers will use a combination of the Health Belief Model, which studies the individual constructs and beliefs that one feels and how this affects decisions made about health, and the Spiral of Silence, which explores how minority groups stay silent for fear of retaliation. Through the scope of these theories, the researcher will attempt to understand how insufficient communication on the part of the doctor, both in situations of diagnoses and in general practice, impacts how the female …
The Language Of Non-Normative Sexuality And Genders, Emily Bolam, Samantha Jarvis
The Language Of Non-Normative Sexuality And Genders, Emily Bolam, Samantha Jarvis
Scholars Week
This project is about how asexual, intersex and transgender identities challenge normative ideas about what it means to be human. Our research primarily focused on how language used in the medical community influences societal perceptions of non-normative identities. Western culture is pervasively heteronormative, meaning that there is a narrow idea of what constitutes a “normal” human being, which is typically heterosexual and limited to a binary gender system. While society is making strides with accepting non-hetero sexual identities, there persists the notion that humans are inherently sexual beings. Asexuality, an orientation characterized by a lack of sexual attraction, challenges this …
Doing. Myself. Justice., Kaci Darsow
Doing. Myself. Justice., Kaci Darsow
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
The titles for these capstones were due five weeks ago. Five weeks ago I had no idea what this presentation would look like. I still don’t know. I had, and have, so many ideas, so many things I want to share with you. But these three words kept showing up in my journal, over and over. Just like this: Doing. Myself. Justice. When Nick asked for my title, all I could do was write this on the chalkboard. I didn’t know what it meant. I still don’t know what it means. But so far I’ve spent 26 years finding out, …
Body Weight, Marital Status, And Changes In Marital Status, Jay Teachman
Body Weight, Marital Status, And Changes In Marital Status, Jay Teachman
Sociology
In this article, I use 20 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between body weight and both marital status and changes in marital status. I use a latent growth curve model that allows both fixed and random effects. The results show that living without a partner, either being divorced or never married, is associated with lower body weight. Cohabitors and married respondents tend to weigh more. Marital transitions also matter but only for divorce. Gender does not appear to moderate these results.
The Construction Of Gender Through Man Ray's Le Violon D'Ingres, Louise Strandoo
The Construction Of Gender Through Man Ray's Le Violon D'Ingres, Louise Strandoo
Scholars Week
This paper works to deconstruct the performance of gender created in Man Rays’ famous 1924 Photograph, Le Violon d’Ingres. Utilizing theories of performativity and surrealism, I explore how this image rhetorically constitutes ideals of femininity and normalized bodies. I analyze the semiotic codes of violins and amputation to conceptualize how audiences decode the model in the photograph to be female and the image to be surreal. By offering an intersectional reading of this text, I encourage audiences to consider how photographic images hail specific representations of identity. I conclude by emphasizing the importance of the material body and argue that …
The Effect Of Androgynous Clothing On Male Expressions Of Masculine Gender, Cassandra Walsh
The Effect Of Androgynous Clothing On Male Expressions Of Masculine Gender, Cassandra Walsh
Scholars Week
Gender expression is a fluid combination of verbal and non-verbal communication and an essential element of individual identity. Clothing selection and personal style is perhaps the most immediately recognizable form of gender expression. Since the establishment of androgyny as a distinct gender identity and cultural symbol of modernity over the last century, clothing options have become much more homogeneous. This research explores the behaviors and attitudes held by masculine males in response to the use of traditionally masculine clothing items for female gender expression. I interviewed six males between the ages of 8 and 64 living in the Bellingham area …
"Savannah's Jewish Women And The Shaping Of Ethnic And Gender Identity, 1830-1900", Mark I. Greenberg
"Savannah's Jewish Women And The Shaping Of Ethnic And Gender Identity, 1830-1900", Mark I. Greenberg
Mark I. Greenberg
No abstract provided.
"Savannah's Jewish Women And The Shaping Of Ethnic And Gender Identity, 1830-1900", Mark I. Greenberg
"Savannah's Jewish Women And The Shaping Of Ethnic And Gender Identity, 1830-1900", Mark I. Greenberg
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.