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Browsing by Subject "identity"
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Aurora
(2020)Aurora Lake is a small town nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains whose very existence depends on summer tourism to the lake the town surrounds, and winter tourism to the nearby ski resorts just over the pass. Aurora Lake ... -
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Camouflaged Collectives: Managing Stigma and Identity at Gun Events
(Studies in Social Justice, 2017)Gun violence persists in the United States, claiming lives and escalating healthcare costs. This article seeks to contribute to social justice work on the "gun problem" by studying gun collectives. To understand gun culture ... -
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Effect of a Hands-on Biomedical Engineering Outreach Project on Middle School Students’ Interest and Identity in Engineering: A Quantitative Study
(2019)It is imperative to increase the number of students entering the engineering pipeline. Students are losing interest in subjects that lead to the development of engineering identity, which is a contributing factor to pursuing ... -
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Ethnicity and Contemporary American Culture: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Horizontal–Vertical Individualism–Collectivism
(2013)The United States is one of the most culturally diverse societies. Research has documented numerous differences in cultural orientations across U.S. ethnic/racial groups. But with continual intergroup interactions and ... -
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Interracial Partnerships and Racial Centrality: An Application of Social Identity and Intergroup Contact Theories
(2021)Few studies on relationships have considered how racial centrality operates within interracial relationships. Considering the steady increase in the number of interracial relationships in the U.S., it is important to ... -
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Sport, Nation, Gender: Basque Soccer Madness
(2013)A centenarian Basque soccer club, Athletic Club (Bilbao) is the ethnographic locus of this dissertation. From a center of the Industrial Revolution, a major European port of capitalism and the birthplace of Basque nationalism ... -
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The Changeable Nature of Political Ideology: The Role of Leaders, Message Framing, and Need for Closure
(2021)Focusing on the liberalism-conservatism distinction in the U.S., we asked whether it is possible to change the extent to which political issues define ideological identities from a follower’s perspective. We predicted that ... -
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Valued Identities and Aging Experiences in a Diverse Sample of Middle-Aged Women
(2013)Aging has been consistently found to carry negative meanings in Western societies, particularly for women. The goal of this study was to investigate aging experiences in a diverse sample of middle-aged women, as well as ...