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Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt
(2007-05-15)
In a changing economy, rural communities must seek new economic strategies to remain viable. This is especially true in Alabama’s Black Belt, a region of persistent poverty, rural isolation, and racial segregation. This ...
Social Capital, School Desegregation and Education in West Alabama's Black Belt
(2005-12-15)
The 12 counties constituting Alabama's Black Belt region are characterized, generally, by persistent poverty, poorly funded education systems, and racial stratification. Fifty-one years after Brown v. Board of Education, ...
Social Comparison and Help Seeking Attitudes: Evaluation of the Impact of Subjective and Objective Social Comparison Data on Help Seeking Attitudes
(2012-05-03)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Festinger's (1954) theory of social comparison. Specifically, this study focused on the impact of subjective and objective data on help seeking ...
Social Desirability, Formation of the Therapeutic Alliance, and Dyadic Adjustment in Couples Therapy
(2012-04-18)
Social desirability has been shown to have both positive and negative associations in the formation of intimate and professional relationships. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship that social ...
The Social Engineer: Women Engineering Students' Identity Construction as Modern Engineers
(2019-04-18)
Research has shown that students’ identity development is important for students’ retention in engineering (Madsen, & Holmegaard, 2010), but for women the cultural representations of the field can create a disconnect that ...
Social Immunity, Worker Investment, and Fungal Resistance in Ants
(2026-07-24)
This thesis examines ant pathogen defense at two levels. Chapter 1 reviews behavioral, chemical, symbiotic, and internal immune defenses, emphasizing that social immunity and individual immunity function as interacting ...
Social Justice Counseling: Establishing Psychometric Properties for the Advocacy Competencies Self-Assessment Survey©
(2012-10-23)
The current study conducted reliability and validity analyses on the Advocacy Competencies Self-Assessment (ACSA) Survey©. Self-report measures were used to collect data from mental health professionals who were not ...
Social Media and Impacts of Frames on User Engagement in the Fashion Industry
(2018-07-23)
The purpose of this study was to understand how fashion brands use social media to engage social media users. In doing so, this study aimed to address the academic gap in understanding how major fashion brands use social ...
Social Media Information Search Behavior in Consumption Decisions: Consumer Segmentation and Discriminant Factors
(2020-05-14)
Upon recognition of the theoretical and empirical literature gap of research integrating the diverse roles of consumer information search on social media (Choi & Park, 2006), this study proposes the modified consumer ...
Social Network Formation in Translocated Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus)
(2020-07-31)
The gopher tortoise is a fossorial species native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. The species occurs spatially in colonies, or aggregations of individuals on the landscape, which were recently found ...
Social Networking and Culturally Situated Design Teaching Tools: Providing a Socially Interactive Computer Supported Collaborative Network Environment for K-12
(2014-03-20)
Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts: Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and ...
Social Networking Teaching Tools: A Computer Supported Collaborative Interactive Learning Environment for K-12
(2010-06-15)
Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) is a broad area which, is to investigate using technology to facilitate collaboration. This research is to investigate and develop a collaborative educational environment as a ...
Social Networking, its Influence on Social and Psychological Well-being, and Implications for Counseling
(2013-04-29)
Once seen as little more than a hobby, social networking is steadily influencing culture in many ways. Social networking affects how users connect with one another, impacting how they choose to represent themselves online, ...
Social Support and the Quality of Child Care Practices Among Participants in the Family Child Care Partnerships Program
(2006-12-15)
The purpose of the study was to describe the social and professional support networks of family child care providers involved in a program designed to improve child care quality, and to examine whether the extent and quality ...
Social Vulnerability and Earthquake Impact Modeling in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IV (Southeast of the U.S.)
(2018-07-18)
At the forefront of the natural hazard risk assessment sciences is the assessment of earthquake risk. Countries such as the United States have been targets of extensive earthquake risk assessments to communicate potential ...
Socialization of Female and Male Assistant Principals
(2017-04-13)
Assistant principals have one of the hardest jobs in the school, if not the hardest. Their role in a school generally consists of discipline, buses, textbooks, working with angry parents, and many more. Their hours are ...
Socio-Ecological Risk and Protective Factors, Individual Differences, and Adolescent Outcomes: A Developmental Cascade
(2025-07-02)
Adolescent alcohol use remains prevalent, and internalizing symptoms and sleep deficits have worsened for adolescents in recent years. To better understand the development of these outcomes, I tested a developmental cascade ...
The Socio-Economic Impact of Concentration of Timberland Ownership in Alabama
(2017-04-26)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between concentration of timberland ownership at the county level which has more than 50% of its population living in rural areas and quality of life in Alabama. ...
A Socioecological Evaluation of Human – Wildlife Conflict: Globe to Village
(2024-12-05)
Human interactions with wildlife, especially megafauna like large carnivores, are increasing due to growing human populations and shrinking wildlife habitats. These interactions, termed as negative human-wildlife interactions ...
Socioeconomic Disparities, Community Physical Environment, and Childhood Obesity in Alabama's Black Belt Region
(2015-04-30)
Health inequalities have been linked to socioeconomic disparities. These disparities are communal differences which have a profound influence on the physical environment. Scholarship has recently connected socioeconomic ...