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Intercultural Communication Between African American Managers And Hispanic Workers With Esl, Reva Ann Stanton

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

By 2050, individuals of Hispanic descent will represent nearly 30% of the total American population with English as a second language (ESL). The problem addressed the lack of strategies being used by African American Managers on communicating with Hispanic workers with ESL. The purpose of the study was to explore what communication strategies African American managers can use when managing Hispanic workers with ESL in a government agency in Illinois. The importance of this study is exemplified in the findings; the results provided a new way of thinking about the social world that is interwoven in an intercultural environment. The …

Acculturative Experiences Of African American Military Wives In An Arctic Environment, Demetria Roshan White

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

United States military wives typically relocate every few years with their active-duty husbands. But little is known about the acculturative stress and stressors associated with relocating and reestablishing a military home in an Arctic environment. This qualitative research focused on African American women who were also military wives and the acculturative stress they encountered in relocating to an Arctic environment. Face to face interviews provided a platform for 10 military wives to share their personal experiences. The acculturative stress that African American military wives’ acculturative stress and stressors encountered in relocating from a non-Arctic to an Arctic environment are not …

Risk Perception Of Terrorism And Individual Preparedness In Thailand, Pinida Neenlapathna

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since 2001, terrorist incidents in Thailand have caused more than 6,600 deaths and nearly 13,000 people have been injured. The Thai government has employed various counterterrorism measures, but there is little attention paid to terrorism awareness and preparedness. Following the tenets of social cognitive theory, the purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the predictive relationship between the risk perception of terrorism (i.e., perceived probability, perceived seriousness, perceived impact, perceived coping efficacy, perceived government preparedness, and perceived frontline responder preparedness) and individual preparedness among Thai people. The study was conducted with a convenience sample of 327 Thai adults who …

Sanctuary: Understanding Immigrant Victimization Reporting, Jonathan Joseph Niksarian

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In the criminal justice system, the victim possesses the power to determine if crime goes unreported. The problem addressed by this study is if sanctuary type policies have an effect on victimization reporting by immigrants. The theoretical framework was based on Appleton-Dyer and Field’s interpretation of social exclusion theory. The key research question was focused on the perception of legal aid providers’ perception of immigrants’ victimization reporting determination. This qualitative phenomenological study included interviews with 4 legal aid providers who worked for an organization designed to serve victimized immigrants seeking relief. The data were coded and analyzed manually. Findings revealed …

Adult Attachment For African American Women Who Have Mothers With Borderline Personality Disorder, Elizabeth Uchechi Onyeali

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The effects that borderline personality disorder (BPD) can have on the loved ones of those who suffer from the mental illness is significant and can be deleterious and enduring. Maternal BPD can adversely impact mother-daughter relationships by fostering abnormal connections and insecure attachment bonds. This is particularly the case for African American mothers, of whom research suggests that the early attachment bond between them and their daughters significantly shapes how their daughters behave, perceive themselves, and relate to others. The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to explore how the experiences of being raised by a mother diagnosed …

Reducing Payment-Card Fraud, Chares R. Ross

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Critical public data in the United States are vulnerable to theft, creating severe financial and legal implications for payment-card acceptors. When security analysts and managers who work for payment card processing organizations implement strategies to reduce or eliminate payment-card fraud, they protect their organizations, consumers, and the local and national economy. Grounded in Cressey’s fraud theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies business owners and card processors use to reduce or eliminate payment-card fraud. The participants were 3 data security analysts and 1 manager working for an international payment card processing organization with 10 …

Foster Parents’ Perceptions Of Services Needed To Help Manage Foster Children’S Emotional And Behavioral Issues, Timothy A. Lance

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Children entering the foster care system in the United States have higher rates of behavioral and emotional issues than children in the general population. Research has revealed that foster parents need to be trained in how to manage the emotional and behavioral problems of children placed in their care. However, there is a gap in knowledge regarding foster care providers’ perceptions of services they may need to assist them in managing their foster children’s behavioral and emotional problems. A generic qualitative approach was used to address the question: What are foster parents’ perceptions of services they need to effectively manage …

Perceptions Of The Reentry Process Among African American Male Ex-Offenders With Multiple Incarcerations, Chanae Latrice Lumpkin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Within 3 years of their release from the criminal justice system, almost 7 out of 10 released African American males go back to. There is limited social science research into how these ex-offenders perceive their lived experiences after release. The research questions that guided this inquiry related to understanding the post-prison experiences of African American males with a history of multiple incarcerations. The conceptual framework was guided by Tajfel’s social identity theory and Becker’s social reaction theory. Interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 6 African American males with a history of multiple incarcerations who had been released from …

Completing The Portrait: Concluding Thoughts About Charles Reich, Rodger D. Citron

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

High Tech, High Risk: Tech Ethics Lessons For The Covid-19 Pandemic Response, Emanuel Moss, Jacob Metcalf

Publications and Research

The COVID-19 pandemic has, in a matter of a few short months, drastically reshaped society around the world. Because of the growing perception of machine learning as a technology capable of addressing large problems at scale, machine learning applications have been seen as desirable interventions in mitigating the risks of the pandemic disease. However, machine learning, like many tools of technocratic governance, is deeply implicated in the social production and distribution of risk and the role of machine learning in the production of risk must be considered as engineers and other technologists develop tools for the current crisis. This paper …

Analyzing Voter Participation In El Paso County, Texas, Samantha Romero

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This Thesis seeks to analyze and understand voting patterns in El Paso County, Texas, based on a study of voter turnout in the November 2015 Uniform Election and three key research objectives. The first objective is to provide a systematic statistical evaluation of a local endeavor, the Student Voter Initiative (SVI), to increase voter turnout among youth, specifically 18-year-olds, in the November 2015 Uniform Election. The second objective is to estimate voter turnout by age group (generation) and investigate whether younger voters were underrepresented in the November 2015 Uniform Election compared to older generations, based on generational categories defined by …

Constructing Community At The Border: Perspectives From Korean-Origin Residents In El Paso, Texas, Josue E. Lopez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Studies of communities at the U.S.-Mexico border have usually contrasted their views on living at the border with wider U.S. perspectives which understand the border mainly in terms of security concerns. This Thesis aims to extend such studies through focusing on the Korean-origin community in El Paso, Texas, in order to examine how border perspectives are shaped through global comparisons. The study is organized around two central questions: (1) How do Korean residents experience and construct community in El Paso? (2) How do notions of the Korean border shape or remain separate from notions of the U.S.-Mexico border? Through interviews …

Understanding The Association Between Routine Activities, Social Bonds, Violent Victimization, And Violent Offending, Caleigh D. Lynch

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Planty For The People: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach To Healthy, Plant-Based Food Access In The Border Region, Marina Villegas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Access to food is an issue for many across the U.S., especially in low-income and high minority areas (Gallinar, et al., 2017). The border region of El Paso, Texas has several designated areas without access to supermarkets where residents may purchase food within a walking or short driving distance (HFAC, 2010). Researchers have linked food insecurity to nutritionally inadequate diets, which are shown to lead to obesity or other disorders like heart disease, diabetes, etc. (Marks, 2015; Craig and Mangels, 2009; Bartolotto, 2013). Food insecurity leads to an array of issues down the line that negatively affects not only health …

Spiritual Coping As A Mediator Of Distress And Posttraumatic Growth Among Adult Female Survivors Of Sexual Abuse By Religious Leaders, Angela R. St. Hillaire

Dissertations

Problem

Posttraumatic growth has been defined as the positive psychological and behavioral changes that come about in the aftermath of a struggle with traumatic life events. The literature notes the existence of posttraumatic growth among survivors of intimate partner violence, childhood and/or adult sexual abuse, bereavement, terrorism, and other events. This study explored posttraumatic growth in a sample of female survivors of sexual abuse by religious leaders by examining how distress, spiritual coping, and posttraumatic growth were related in this population. This study examined the mediatory role of spiritual coping between distress and posttraumatic growth.

Method

Surveys that measured spiritual …

Consumer Bankruptcy Should Be Increasingly Irrelevant--Why Isn't It?, Pamela Foohey

Scholarly Works

This symposium piece is a response to Professor Nathalie Martin's Bringing Relevance Back to Consumer Bankruptcy. This response overviews the place consumer bankruptcy presently occupies in the United States. In doing so, it details why consumer bankruptcy remains relevant in the face of a socio-economic structure and of laws that suggest that bankruptcy may not be a particularly useful place for struggling Americans to turn to for help. The response ends by calling for a bolder vision for consumer bankruptcy in light of the shifting place of the bankruptcy system in America’s increasingly thread-bare social safety net.

An Exploration Of Factors Influencing First-Generation College Students' Ability To Graduate College: A Delphi Study, Ashley C. Gray Benson

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation serves as a counter-narrative to the standard deficiency model in published research that characterizes most first-generation college students as feeble and unequipped when it comes to thriving in, persisting in, and graduating from college. This is one of the few studies that examines the success of first-generation college students from the students’ perspective. First-generation college students who graduated from college participated in a Delphi study that addressed this question: What factors influence first-generation college students' ability to graduate college? Three rounds of data collection resulted in ten themes, roughly in order of importance based on feedback from study …

The Role Of Geospatial Information And Effective Partnerships In The Implementation Of The International Agenda For Sustainable Development, Etta Delores Jackson

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (2014), repeated the core promise in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, in which the General Assembly called for an approach guaranteeing meaningful participation of everyone in development and the fair distribution of the benefits of that development. To this end, partnerships are central and can lead to the dignity of the citizens involved as they participate in the development of their own communities. This dissertation research conducted in Manyatta A and B in the Port City of Kisumu, Kenya sought to do just that. The purpose of this study …

El Impacto Del Covid 19 En La Industria Maquiladora Y La Nueva Normalidad, Daniela Salas Molina

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Given the current pandemic facing the entire world in 2020, this study focuses on how workers in the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juárez were affected by this virus. This work seeks to respond to what was the impact of COVID 19 in the maquiladora industry and how workers and their families were affected? And what role did workers play in requesting protection and what measures did companies implement to protect their employees? The interest of Chihuahua and Mexico is that the maquiladora industry returns to normal as soon as possible and its production levels increase, the United States puts pressure …

Border Crossing On Sacred Grounds: An Indigenized Decolonized Educational Research Paradigm For Use In Contemporary Globalized Schooling Systems, Estella Valles

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Presented in this work is an adapted quantitative research paradigm for use in the field of education, specifically designed for work with Indigenous/marginalized populations coined "Diachronic Research Methodology" (DRM). The model is grounded in a post-positivist, decolonization-model, that is embedded in feminist and critical race theory. DRM is presented as a counter-approach to the traditional empiricist, research methods; a process which, historically, has allowed for a limited and biased understanding of Indigenous/marginalized populations. DRM challenges Western epistemologies and worldviews which have promoted the idea of one-grand-narrative for all humans, a view argued as beyond problematic and unethical, particularly for Indigenous …

Seed Conflicts In Colombia: Ethnorace, Territory, And Violence, Nathalia Hernandez Vidal

Dissertations

This dissertation follows the theoretical approach of the food regime scholarship (Friedmann and McMichael, 1989) to understand the process of privatization of seeds and the social and material processes associated with it, known as the Corporate Seed Regime (CSR). the CSR is a transnational regime of governance over the bios (life) born in the post- World-War II period, imagined and enforced by and through the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Bank (McMichael, 2013). in this work, I explain how a corporate seed regime (CSR) has taken form in Colombia. Extant sociological studies on the formation of CSRs explain …

Storefront: Local Businesses Acting Locally In Two Chicago Neighborhoods, Steven Tuttle

Dissertations

Local businesses occupy an important role in society and the American imagination. Entrepreneurialism is valorized and €œmain street€ is often used as a populist shorthand in discussions of €œregular Americans.€ While sociologists and the lay public often identify the opening of new, higher-end businesses as an indication of impending gentrification, few sociological studies examine commercial gentrification or call into question relationships between local businesses and urban communities. This is a study of the roles and experiences of local businesses in two gentrifying neighborhoods in Chicago. Drawing upon ethnographic observation and qualitative interviews, I examine the role of local businesses in …

Shaping Beauty, Claiming Authenticity: Gender, Work, And Immigration Experiences Of Low-Wage South Asian Immigrant Women Workers, Soulit Chacko

Dissertations

Based on in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews and participant observations in immigrant women run beauty salon, this dissertation illuminates the lived experiences of low-wage, majority Muslim, immigrant women from Pakistan and India. The study brings attention to the experiences of low-wage work and answers three central questions: (a) How is race, class, and gender reproduced within the ethnic beauty salon?; (b) How do immigrant women working in the ethnic beauty salon self-identify themselves through the work they do?; and finally (c) How does the beliefs, ideas, and practices within the beauty salon space shape how women present themselves as immigrants and …

Educational Debt: Educational Loans And The Family, Keyla Navarrete

Master's Theses

Student debt is a well-documented topic in sociological literature. It is well known that there is a student loan crisis in the United States. However, kinship or familial ties in educational debt is not as studied as individual student loans. The student debt crisis seems to reach a new catastrophic level as years pass. Yet, not much research exists that looks at external sources of financing for students such as parents, grandparents, or other familial ties. This study contributes to the literature of student debt by analyzing debt patterns across those that take out loans for themselves, their spouse, or …

When “Best I Can” Is Not Enough: Welfare Managers’ Appraisal Of Clients’ Mothering Practices, Brianna Turgeon

Research, Publications & Creative Work

The “mommy wars” are a cultural narrative of conflict between mothers that amplifies the scrutiny placed on mothering practices. While mothers at all social locations face criticisms for their choices surrounding parenting, mothers in poverty lack the resources to enact many socially mandated parenting practices and contend with additional scrutiny through participation in programs like welfare-to-work. In this project, I examine the parenting expectations mothers on welfare must navigate. I use 69 semi-structured interviews with welfare-to-work program managers in Ohio from 2010-2011 to examine which mothering ideologies they encourage and discourage clients to adopt. I find that managers are highly …

Young, Dumb, And Broke: How Family Communication Affects Financial Literacy, Brenna Micek

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Thousands of Americans carry debt, whether it be a mortgage, student loans, or auto loans. The average American graduates with at least $35,000 in debt (Kurt, 2019). Many Americans are not confident in their financial capabilities (Godsted & McCormick, 2007). Research has shown that learning from parents leaves a larger impact than learning in the classroom (Lucas & Buzzanell, 2011). The purpose of this study is to explore how family communication – specifically conversation and conformity orientation – and relational closeness within a parent-child relationship affect messages about finances and the emerging adult’s financial literacy. Conversation orientation, conformity orientation, and …

Turnaround Management Of Airport Service Providers Operating During Covid-19 Restrictions, Bassam Buhusayen, Pi-Shen Seet, Alan Coetzer

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Many sectors worldwide have been impacted by government restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, restrictions on travel have resulted in major losses for organizations operating within the aviation sector. This study aims to emphasize the challenges faced by these organizations while they implement turnaround management strategies. The study is based on 30 semi-structured interviews with frontline managers working for airline service providers in three different departments of an airport in Australia. The organization has implemented several turnaround management strategies to survive the crisis caused by COVID-19 restrictions, creating new …

Communication Strategy For Conservation Of Thai Food Product : A Case Study Of Moo-Naem, Ananporn Sakulraungsri

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study of Communication strategy for conservation of thai food product : a case study of Moo-Naem consisted of three objectives. 1) To add value to Moo-Naem and communicate the value to its customer; 2) To encourage people to perceive the value of Moo-Naem and purchase Moo-Naem; and 3) To use communication strategy as a tool to conserve Moo-Naem as the traditional and cultural cuisine. Two methodologies were utilized: 1) questionnaire surveys in which the population of the study is the people who lived in Bangkok, Thailand. Simple random sampling method was applied and self-administrated written in Thai and English …

ความเป็นแม่เชิงเทคโน : การประกอบสร้างเชิงภววิทยาของความเป็นแม่, ปาณิภา สุขสม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ความก้าวหน้าของเทคโนโลยีสมัยใหม่มีส่วนสำคัญต่อการประกอบสร้างความเป็นแม่ของมนุษย์ให้มีลักษณะซับซ้อนและก้าวข้ามความเป็นมนุษย์ สิ่งเหล่านี้เรียกร้องกรอบแนวคิดใหม่ที่ไม่ใช่แต่เป็นเพียงการประกอบสร้างในเชิงความหมายทางสังคม หากแต่รวมไปถึงภววิทยาของความเป็นแม่ที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นด้วย การศึกษาครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อสำรวจบทบาทของเทคโนโลยีในกระบวนการสร้างความเป็นแม่ และติดตามปฏิบัติการของการทำงานร่วมกันระหว่างมนุษย์กับเทคโนโลยี ที่ส่งผลให้ความเป็นแม่ก้าวข้ามภววิทยาของความเป็นมนุษย์ออกไป ผู้วิจัยนำเสนอเครื่องมือเชิงวิเคราะห์แบบใหม่ผ่านมุมมองแบบหลังมนุษยนิยม และทฤษฎีเครือข่าย-ผู้กระทำ และใช้วิธีวิทยาแบบมาตุพันธุ์วรรณาเชิงเทคโน (techno-maternography) เพื่อทำความเข้าใจความเป็นแม่ที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นโดยมีผู้กระทำที่เป็นมนุษย์และเทคโนโลยีเข้ามาร่วมปฏิบัติการ เทคโนโลยีที่ใช้เป็นกรณีศึกษาได้แก่ เทคโนโลยีเพื่อการเจริญพันธุ์ เทคโนโลยีเชิงวัตถุสำหรับเลี้ยงดูลูก และเครือข่ายเชิงเทคโนที่สร้างการสนับสนุนแม่ งานวิจัยเสนอว่า เทคโนโลยีที่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิถีความเป็นแม่ดำรงอยู่ในหลายรูปแบบ ซึ่งการดำรงอยู่ในแต่รูปแบบสามารถแสดงศักยภาพในฐานะผู้กระทำ โดยช่วยให้มนุษย์ก้าวข้ามข้อจำกัดของตัวเองทั้งด้านกายภาพ เศรษฐกิจ สังคมวัฒนธรรม ปฏิบัติการของเทคโนโลยีมีบทบาทอย่างมากในประกอบสร้างความเป็นแม่ให้กลายมาเป็น "ความเป็นแม่เชิงเทคโน" ซึ่งเป็นภววิทยาแบบหนึ่งที่มีรูปแบบที่ไม่ตายตัว และสามารถปรับเปลี่ยนไปตามองค์ประกอบต่าง ๆ ที่เข้ามาร่วมประกอบสร้าง ภววิทยาของความเป็นแม่เชิงเทคโนสามารถอยู่ในรูปแบบที่เป็นทั้งภววิทยาเชิงพื้นที่ ภววิทยาเชิงวัตถุ และภววิทยาเชิงเครือข่าย การศึกษาปฏิบัติการของเทคโนโลยีที่เข้ามาเกี่ยวข้องกับการประกอบสร้างความเป็นแม่สะท้อนให้เห็นว่า การประกอบสร้างความเป็นแม่ไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ถูกสร้างจากตัวแสดงที่เป็นมนุษย์เท่านั้น หากแต่ตัวแสดงที่ไม่ใช่มนุษย์อย่างเทคโนโลยีก็มีส่วนในการสร้าง กำกับ และเปลี่ยนแปลงความเป็นแม่ได้ ความเป็นแม่ที่เคยมีมนุษย์เป็นศูนย์กลางและเกี่ยวข้องกับความเป็นอัตวิสัย จึงเป็นเรื่องที่มีวัตถุและสิ่งอื่นเข้ามาเกี่ยวข้องหรือมีความเป็นวัตถุวิสัยร่วมอยู่ด้วยเสมอ ความเป็นแม่เป็นสิ่งที่ถูกประกอบสร้างและมีลักษณะความเป็นสัมพัทธ์นิยม อีกทั้งไม่ได้ถูกจำกัดแต่เพียงการสร้างทางสังคมในเชิงความหมายแบบเดิมอีกต่อไป

การกำหนดคำอธิบายและการให้ความหมายความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์:กรณีศึกษานิสิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, สุภาพร กมลฉ่ำ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้ เป็นการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพที่มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1. เพื่อศึกษามุมมองของนิสิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัยต่อการให้คำอธิบายและการให้ความหมายความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ 2. เพื่อศึกษาทัศนคติที่มีต่อการแบ่งระดับความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ และ 3. เพื่อวิเคราะห์การให้คำอธิบายและการให้ความหมายความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ว่าเป็นผลมาจากแหล่งอิทธิพลทางสังคมอย่างไร โดยสัมภาษณ์นิสิตจุฬาฯ ที่มีอายุระหว่าง 18-23 ปี จำนวน 21 คน คัดเลือกผู้ให้ข้อมูลหลักทั้งหมด 15 คน และนำข้อมูลมาวิเคราะห์เชิงเนื้อหา ผลการวิจัยพบว่า นิสิตจุฬาฯ ให้คำอธิบายความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ว่าเป็นความรุนแรงที่ปรากฏให้เห็นได้ตามความแตกต่างของแพลตฟอร์มและชุมชนออนไลน์ต่าง ๆ อีกทั้งความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ยังสามารถอธิบายได้ด้วยเงื่อนไขด้านความแตกต่างของเพศ และช่วงวัย โดยความหมายของความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์จะเกี่ยวข้องกับการแสดงออกของคำพูดหรือการกระทำที่ส่งผลต่ออารมณ์และจิตใจของบุคคล การคุกคามและการละเมิดความเป็นส่วนตัว และเนื้อหาที่ถูกเผยแพร่ลงในสื่อออนไลน์ ขณะที่การแบ่งระดับความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ออกเป็นระดับต่าง ๆ ได้ชี้ให้เห็นถึงทัศนคติของนิสิตจุฬาฯ ตามการรับรู้และประสบการณ์ที่หลากหลาย รวมถึงอิทธิพลของวัฒนธรรมไทย โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งอิทธิพลจากครอบครัวที่ส่งผลต่อความคิดเรื่องความรุนแรงของกลุ่มเยาวชนโดยตรง การวิจัยนี้ จึงให้ต้องการชี้ให้เห็นถึงการศึกษาเบื้องต้นที่จะเป็นองค์ความรู้พื้นฐานสำหรับนักวิจัยที่ต้องการศึกษาและสร้างความเข้าใจเกี่ยวกับความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ในเชิงลึก เพื่อนำมาพัฒนาแก้ไขป้องกันปัญหาความรุนแรงในโลกออนไลน์ได้ทันต่อยุคสมัย