Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Gendering Gardasil: Framing Gender and Sexuality in Media Representations of the HPV Vaccine, Maura Kathleen Pisciotta
Understanding Sand Mining on the Maha Oya: The Conflict Between Economic and Environmental Survival, Meredith Corea Talbert
Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army, Jesse Harold Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Working in an Artist Collective in Portland Oregon: The artistic benefits of cooperation and place in an underground art world, Elizabeth Furlong Borders
"An I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation": The Effects of Family Type and Patriarchy in the Home on Female Adolescent Delinquency and Mental Health, Stephanie-Kaye Guenther
Toward a Richer Shade of Blue: The Impact on Oregon Police Officer Perceptions of Racial Minorities After Anti-Racial Profiling Training, David Andrew Kline
Gendering the Body: Exploring the Construction of the Sexually Dimorphic Body, Sarah Kaye Lewis
Race, Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Unions in the United States, Claudia Plesa
Erosion and Adjustment: A Bourdieuian-Inspired Analysis of Imprisonment and Release, Joshua David Seim
Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. The Effect of Education over the Life-Course, Elizabeth Melissa Withers
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Globalization; But Under What conditions? -- The Case of the E.U., Michaelangelo Anastasiou
Do Parents Matter? Parental Attachment and Its Effect on Becoming Independent in Emerging Adulthood, Cara Joy Copeland
The Pulpit at the End of the Rainbow: How Queer Clergy Enter Into and Maintain Religious Occupations, Brian Gregory Gerow
Beyond the "Stalled Revolution": Stay-at-Home Fathers, Gender Identity and the Division of Household Labor, Aundrea Janae Snitker
War, Peace, and Principled Action: A Study of Veterans and the Peace Movement, Laura Kay Wegener
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Students Who Are Moms: How Do They Do It?, Rhianna Marie Derscheid
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
"Do I Really Belong Here?" The Effects of Difference in Paths through Higher Education on Graduate Student Perception on Legitimacy, Tina Dawn Lillian Burdsall
Las Pioneras : New Immigrant Destinations and the Gendered Experiences of Latina Immigrants, Angie Pamela Mejia
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Revisiting Invasion-Succession: Social Relations in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Lynda Franks
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Effects of Subsidized Childcare on Student Parents' Access to Higher Education at Portland State University, Elizabeth Dawn Creach
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Literacy Proficiencies of Oregon Tanf Recipients : A Human Capital Approach, Amy Katherine Arnett
Black Women's Health: a Content Analysis of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Public Health, and the New England Journal of Medicine (1989-1998), Tonia Marie Burkett
The Presentation of Gender-Based Sexuality Scripts in Sex Education Films, Patricia Anne Drew
Understanding volunteerism: an exploratory study of the theory of The commons, Richard L. Fey
Lesbian Gender Identities: An Expansion of Bern's Sex-Role Inventory, Sheilagh Van Belthowing
Just for Money? : An Exploratory Study Into the Motivations of Nude Dancers, Elaine Vance
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
A Comprehensive Analysis of Teachers' Attributional Tendencies and Gender Bias Towards Failing Students with Learning Disabilities, Polly Chalette
Portland’s Prostitution-Free Zone Ordinance : The Social Construction of Prostitution as a Social Problem, Kristin Aman Christophersen
The Stigma of Obesity : Beliefs About and Attitudes Toward Fat/Obese Persons, Sally Jean Clute
The Effects of Cohabitation on Subsequent Marital Satisfaction, Brenda Fague
Returning Women’s Workshop and Retention of Returning Women Students, Kimberly E. Lamb
Gender Socialization of Preschoolers : The Influence of Parental Orientation and Preschool Environment, Alice Blackwell Passannante
Illegal Drug Use During Pregnancy : The Effects of Defendant Race and Type of Defense on Juror Judgments of Guilt, Anita Rotondo
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Declining Total Fertility Rates in Bangladesh and Indonesia From 1970 to 1996 : Causes, Implications, and Analysis, William Bruce Aronson
Urban Sprawl, Media Monopoly, and Citizen Participation : A Longitudinal Case Study of Daily Newspapers in Portland, Oregon, Andrew David Butz
Abstract Art and Controversy: A Case Study of Louis Bunce’s Airport Mural and Other Portland Art Controversies, Michael P. Craven
Wealth for Everybody - Semantics and Structure of the Capitalist Metanarrative, Sylvia Hendel
Ethnic Conflict in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Jennifer Jane O'Donnell
Evaluating Modernization and Dependency Explanations of the Unequal Distribution of Income in Developing Countries, Paul Timothy Shattuck
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Where the Extreme Right Took Root: A Comparison of Midwestern Counties in the 1980s, Joseph B. Allen
What in God's Name: The Ordination of Women and the Inclusive Language Liturgy Movement, Marylee L. Prince
Undergraduate Student Satisfaction with the Sociology Program at Portland State University, Katherine Sullivan
The Demographics, Motivations, and Role Conceptions of Student Nurses, Steven C. Von Flue
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Economic Development and Income Inequality: The Taiwan Case, Ju-kuang Chang
Institutionalized Discrimination: Three Cases in the United States Military, Sarah H. Frost
Sex-role Stereotypes: How Far Have We Come?, Erica D. Monte
School Attendance and Achievement in a Population of Ecuadorian Underage Street Workers, Rossana Viteri
Departure and Persistence: Exploring Student Experiences at the Master's Level, Jennifer Lee Zoltanski
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Culture and Consensus: the Use of Mathematical Models to Examine a Culture of Sports in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Phillip M. Crawford
A Cross-national Study of Attitudes and Group Labeling: Multinational Corporation (MNC) Workers in Canada, Brazil, and West Germany, Tobias Albert Ten Eyck
The Particular Nature of Long-term Lesbian Relationships, Karen Marie Freeman
An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon, Sabrina Oesterle
Illness and the Treatment Response: The Patient's View, Nina Patricia van Es
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Women's Interracial Friendships: Nonlocal Determinants of Everyday Experiences, Stephanie A. Limoncelli
Child Care Support and the Reduction of Women's Stress and Role Conflict at the Work-Family Interface, Frances Marx Stehle
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Factors Affecting the Repatriation of the Afghan Refugees, Todd Trowbridge Ames
Battle for the Boulevard, Patricia Luann Antoine
Gender Differences in Conversational Style: An Experiment in Interpersonal Communication, Constance M. Cooper
Hegemony in Two Mainstream Oregon Newspapers: The War on Poverty Era vs. the Post-Reagan Era, Marcia R. Hood-Brown
Effects of Parents' Health Attitudes and Beliefs on Children's Preventive Care Utilization, Weiming Hu
An Examination of Moral Boundaries Associated With Legal and Social Changes in Response to the Aids Epidemic, Lauri Sue Johnson
"Staying" and "straying" : social reproduction and resistance to secularization, Lisa Graham McMinn
Psychological Models and the Stock of Knowledge, David L. Sones
Soviet Pentecostal Refugees' Health and Their Religious Beliefs: An Exploratory Study, Dianne Fae Venable
Urban Native American Educational Attitudes: Impact of Educational Background and Childhood Residency, Paul Adair Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The Effect of Urbanization and Modernization on Family Structure in Oman, Sultan M. Al-Hashmi
The Relationship Between Internal Organizational Conflict, Authority Structure, and the Social Environment, Mary Ann Barham
The spatial patterning of residential differentiation in metropolitan community : the case of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan, 1982, Chih-Jen Chen
One woman, one child : the implications of the one-child-family policy for Chinese women, Tao Shi
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Social support for the frail elderly at two kinds of retirement communities, Qiaoming Liu
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Blockmodeling Network Data From Six Small Towns: an Assessment of Organizational Typologies, Peter J. Collier
Social construction of sexual equality in distilled beverage advertising, Kathleen Dianne LeCoe-Cannucci
The Degree of Assimilation of the Second and Third Generation of Japanese Americans in the Portland Area, Hisako Matsuo
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Occupational patterns of three generations of Taishan Chinese : a reconsideration of middleman minority theory, Wei Wei Lou
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Adult daughters as caregivers to elderly parents : an exploration of the care relationship, Margaret Anne Reynolds
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The mobilization of the gay liberation movement, Ramom de Souza Torrecilha
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The Effects of Income Inequality on Racial Residential Segregation in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Katayoun Aidinezhad
Juvenile delinquency in Saudi Arabia, Yousef Ahmed AlRomaih
The Effect of Women's Labor Force Participation on Marital Instability, Isik Akin Aytac
Social structure, health orientation and health behavior, Khalifa Ali Baej
The use of humor in the social construction of role relationships in a behavioral treatment setting, Daniel D. Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Career Lines in the Area of Mental Retardation, Charlotte Ballard
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
The utility of alternate theoretical conceptualizations of "urban environment" in explaining variation in attitudes and behaviors, John Conrad Allen III
Crime as a Routine Activity: an Investigation, Donna Scott Munroe
Life satisfaction of elderly parents and parent-child relationships in old age, Tehchou Yeh
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Involvement, social class and attrition in higher education : the case of the stop out, Terrence Scott Daugherty
Marital interaction and spousal health and well-being, Ralph Arthur Schmoldt
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Diffusion of a Controversial Innovation in the Alsea, Oregon Area, Steven K. Worden
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
The Degree of Acculturation and Success Patterns in Three Generations of the Japanese Americans in the Portland Area, Toshimasa Fujii
Social resources of the elderly as correlates of life satisfaction, Silvana Rigo Hale
The production of culture on the Oregon Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, Carolyn Howe
Population dynamics of nonmetropolitan cities in five western states, Peter Carlton Munroe
Alienation Under the Rainbow: A Survey of Oregon Graduate Students, Robert Michael Travis
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
The Idea of Progress: Its Rise to Power and Prominence, Robert Ray Schmaling
Self-Concepts of Institutionalized and Community Residing Elderly, Diana L. White
An investigation of the relationship of organizational structure to job satisfaction within social service organizations serving elderly clients, Anne Marguerite Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Toward a model of interorganizational fields : a case study of a social service federation, Ralph Cherry