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Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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The Influence of Perceived Track Level or Academic Standing on High School Students' Attitude Toward School, LaRae Barnes

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The Effects of Income on Attitudes Towards Education, Rachael Baur
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Effects of Athletic Participaton on Academic Performance and Self-Esteem Levels of High School Students, Brett S. Beech
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Dynamics of Gender and Culture: A Close Look into the Experiences of South Asian Men and Women at the College of Wooster, Elora Chowdhury
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Talking Without Speaking and Hearing Without Listening: Gender Differences in Nonverbal Communication, Sandra L. Clark
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Ritual in the American College Classroom, Susan M. Gearhiser
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Shelters For Battered Women, Lydia L. Geddes
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Senior Independent Study Thesis in Ethnicity, Hannah C. Guggenheim
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Cultural Basis of Attitudes Toward Birth Control in Japan, Jean L. Harris
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Ideas of Family and La Leche League: Gender Domains Reflected, Ariann Harvey
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Loose Coupling of Classroom Activity to Integration Legislation: a Micro Perspective, Joanna Hise
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Image of Law and the Justice System in Films 1950-1990, Katherine E. Hoffman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Analysis of the Relationship Between the Media's Portrayal of Serial Killers and Its Effect on College Students' Attitudes Toward Serial Killers, Delia A. Hoye
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Attitudes of Adults Toward Sex Education in the Public Schools: Predictors of Support and Opposition, Jamice L. Huston
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Gender, Sex Role Attitudes and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness: A Test of the "What Is Beautiful Is Good" Physical Attractiveness Stereotype, Stephen E. Ifeduba
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Adolescent Pregnancy and Early Parenthood Rites of Passage in the Innter Cities, Courtney Jones
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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A Study of the Media's Influence Through Film on Attitudes Towards Transvestism, Eleanor F. Kalejs
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Imperialism through Mass Media: A Case Study of Vanidades, Gina Kouba

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Senior Independent Study Thesis in Sociology, Elizabeth A. Kurtz
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Folklore and Oral Traditions: a Collection of Folklore in Wayne and Holmes County, Ohio, Emily S. Moorefield
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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College Students' Attitudes About Premarital Sex, Knowledge of Aids Risk Behaviors, and Perceptions of Aids: an Integrated Study, Marianne D. Moore
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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A Study of the Contributing Factors to Assimilation Patterns in Contemporary American Jewry, Amy S. Morros
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Support for Gun Control: What Influences Public Opinion?, Ryan M. Morse

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The Dynamics of Relationships: Exploring Dating and Marriage From the Perspective of College of Wooster Students and Alumni, Shannon M. O'Neill
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Health, Healing and Illness in Christian Science, Sarah L. Prince
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Effect of Outward Bound on Attitudes Toward the Environment, Susan B. Roberts
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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An Exploration of College Women's Aspirations and Orientations in Career and Family, A. M. Rorer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Crimes of Fashion: an Exmanination of Stereotypes Created by Particular Clothing Styles at the College of Wooster, Ellen P. Russell
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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How Learning Disabled College Students Respond to Being Labeled, Heidi A. Schulz
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Relationship Between Types of Music and Selected Attitudes of College Students, James L. Shepard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Senior Independent Study Thesis in Sociology, Kristen Strain
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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College Student Attitudes Toward the Censorship of Music: the Significance of Religion, Race, Income, and Exposure, Charles C. Voorhis IV
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Partnerships in Education: Business/School Alliances for the Future, Megan Wereley
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Tuberculosis as a Symptom of Poverty in Ecuadorian Society, Melisa J. Whigham
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Gated Communities: Havens in a Heartless World, Robin A. Woodall
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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The Dismantling of a Monolith: Conceptualizations of Womanhood Among Elite Mexican Women, Abigail Rae Adams

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The Female Athlete: Analysis of the Socialization Process and Various Affecting Factors, Tammy Berger

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Children of Divorce: An Analysis of Academic Achievement and Behavior in the Classroom, Susan D. Boggs

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Back to the Beat: An Investigation of Community Policing and its Contribution to Improving Police, Community Relations, Maximillian Marshall Busselle

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Officer Blue: An Organizational Assesment of Job Satisfaction in a Small Urban Police Department, Edgar W. Carr III

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Exploratory Study of the Self-Esteem and Identity Choices of Mixed Heritage Children, Jennifer Ann Clement

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An Exploratory Study and Evaluation Proposal of Boys' Village Residential Treatment Center; Smithville, Ohio, Stephen M. Collins

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Manga: An Anthropological Study, Robert A. Craig
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Senior Independent Study Thesis in Sociology, Alden Faulkner
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Police and Community Relations: A Social Indicators Approach to Formal Community Complaints and Demographic Correlates, James A. Foster III
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Effects of Marital Separation and Divorce on Children, Christine Gueulette
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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The Impact of AIDS on the Sexual Behavior of College Women, Juliann W. Hench
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Divorce and the Disruption of the Family: A Study of the Relationship Between Family Status and the Self-Esteem of College Students, Scott E. Hendon
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks, or Can You? Examining Cultural Assumptions Through American Media Portrayals of Russian Privatization, Jennifer L. Kalbaugh
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Attempted Annexation of the Dominican Republic in 1870 in the Context of North American Expansionism, Paal-Andre Lund
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology

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A Study of the Social Correlates of Rape Myth Acceptance, John Marcinek
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Textual Representations of the Cultural Other and the Interdisciplinary: A Changing Conception For the Study of Native Americans, Stephen D. McMillan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Summertime Blues: The Effects of Tourism on Small Host Communities, Peter W. Mortensen
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Economic Deprivation, Culture and the So Called "Subculture of Violence", Larry O'Neal Jr
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Socio-Physchological Effects of Music Videos on the Youth Culture, Shawn M. Perry
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Divorce and Its Effects on Attitudes and Behavior: A Study of American Adults, 1988-1990, Brent Ponstingle
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Drinking Patterns Among College of Wooster Students: The Role of Gender, Age, Race and Greek Membership, Elizabeth Richards
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Eating Disorders in College-Aged Women and Men, Hilary Sayer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Nostalgia, Otherness and Reinvention: A Critical Reading of Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa As a Postmodern Text, Rachel B. Sweeney
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Inequality in the Work Force: the Competition Between Men and Women For Positions of Authority and Between Different Types of Women in a Traditionally Male Occupation, Karen B. Taylor
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Factors That Affect the Self-Esteem of Sexually Abused Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Females, Annamma U. Thomas
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Dance As a Social Construct: Sex-Role Socialization in the Ballet Classroom, Madelon E. Tieman
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Theatre and Dance

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Perpetutating Gender Stereotypes: Care-Giver/Child Interaction During Story Time, Dorothy A. Tinker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Institutions of Decontextualization: A Field Study at Museums in Bali, Indonesia, Murray G. Walsh
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Institutions of Decontextualization: A Field Study of Museums in Bali, Indonesia, Murray G. Welsh
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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Senior Independent Study Thesis in Sociology/Anthropology, Kathryn Wood
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

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From Chattel to Partner to Equal? How Women's Roles and Images Have Changed Over Time a Content Analysis of Three Women's Magazines, Allison J. Zweig
Department: Sociology and Anthropology

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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The Influence of the Jewish Religion on College Age Jewish Women's Decisions on the Abortion Issue, Jacqueline Boulanger

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Recipes for Life: Ritual and Gender in an American Christian Community, Margaret E. Bryant

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High School Athletes and Coaches: the Influence of Motivation, Goals and Sex on Desired Coaching Methods, Ellen Paige Curfman Conrad

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Conflicting Visions: Reflections of the American Dream in a Substance Abuse Center, Lisa Defendiefer

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A Prescription for the Workplace: The Effects of On-Site Child Care on Job Satisfaction and Productivity, Heather Eppley

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Selling the American Dream: Images Present in Mail Order Fashion Catalogues, Peter Falcone

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The Effect of Athletic Participation on Academic Performance, David A. George

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The Effects of Participation in a Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program on Recidivism Rates for a Sample of Felony Offenders from Indiana and Ohio, Jennie Dunham Johnson

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Exploratory Study of Transracial Adoptions and the Process of Adjustment Beginning with the Time of Placement in the Homes, Coretta D. Jones

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Life History as a Window on Culture Change and its Impact on Gender in an Immigrant Sikh Family, Raveena Khehar

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Habitat For Humanity-Building For God's Children In Need-Does That Include The Homeless?, Elizabeth R. Kirkpatrick

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Social Change In Country Music, Lori L. McNeely

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Making Choices: Working Mothers-Working Daughters, Kathleen N. Millican

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The Adjustment of Black College Students at a Predominantly White Institution, Travis Moyer

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The Effects of Family Structure on Adolescent Gender Role Attitudes, Jennifer E. Pildner

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Examination of High School Students Track Levels as it Relates to Self-Esteem and Attitudes Toward School, Helen Marie Shepard

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Someone Told Me I am Retarded: Coping Strageties of Members of a Special Olympics Basketball Team, Melissa C. Smith

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The Effects of Television Advertising on Children's Gender Role Perceptions, Emily J. Stoltzfus

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Costumed Gender: The Celebration of Halloween, Samantha B. Tweedy

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The Great American Debate: The Abortion Controversy in the United States, Kimberly Wachter

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Relative Effects of Peer Socialization on Adolescent Sport Participation, Jeff Woller

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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An Exploratory Study of the Effectiveness of the American Welfare Systems, Barbara Francine Beenhakker

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Divorce: The Affects of the Confidence Levels and Identity Development of Adolescents, Page Benham

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Tracking: An Archaic System in a Progressive Society, Lisa Blumenthal

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Reactions to Foreign Investment in the United States, Robert Anton Brees

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Language and Culture: an Experience in Bilingual Education, Robin Rae Cordell

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A Homeless Shelter: A Product of American Society, Anne Goins Daugherty

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From the Coneheads to the Czechoslovakian Brothers: a Study of Race and Gender on Saturday Night Live, Elizabeth Marie Deffenbaugh

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The Relationship between Increasing Religiousness and Academic Performance, Catherine A. Docherty

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Comparison of Recidivism Rates in Drunk Driving, Christopher Charles Dumont

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Attitudes Towards Fair Play in Men's Collegiate Lacrosse, Andrew S. Fox

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The Babyboomers to the Babybusters: a New Perspective on Generations and Student Social and Political Activism, Jennifer L. Giesecke

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An Analysis of the Underlying Factors Related to Juvenile Delinquency, Michelle Annette Green