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Deference in work organizations.
(2007)
In this paper, I will look at the effects of race and the amount of deference subordinates give to their supervisors, which to my knowledge this is the first study of its type on deference in workplace organizations. If ...
The Daily Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: An Examination of the Relationships Among Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Intention to Turnover
(2009)
Although the relationships among organizational justice, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment have been studied frequently in recent decades, researchers continue to produce inconsistent findings. Questions ...
Anomie, institutions, and crime: The role of social institutions in the relationship between socioeconomic change and crime in Russia.
(2003)
This dissertation examines social change, social institutions, and crime in Post-Soviet Russia. Russia has experienced rapid social and economic change following the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating anomic conditions ...
Buscando trabajo: Social networking among Latin American immigrants to Oklahoma.
(2003)
Previous research on immigration has taken for granted the existence of immigrant networks. This is a significant oversight given their importance in conveying social capital and in immigrant networks' contribution to the ...
Legal and extra-legal variables in sentencing outcomes: The effect of race and gender.
(2002)
A long debate has existed in criminal justice literature about the effects of legal variables and extra-legal variables on sentencing. The debate centers on the importance of each type of variable and the effects produced ...
Patterns of interaction of victims of domestic assault.
(2002)
This research study addresses the interaction patterns of victims of domestic violence in the setting in which the domestic violence occurred as compared to their family of origin, work/school, social, and current family ...
Assessing minority entrepreneurship: An analysis of Black-owned businesses in 274 metropolitan statistical areas.
(2001)
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the state of Black-owned businesses in the U.S. Specifically, the goal of this project is to describe and explain variation in business success in Blackowned firms located in ...
Determinants of individual drug market patterns: Ecological predictors of where individual drug users buy their drugs.
(2006)
The following research examines why drug users are less likely to purchase their drugs from closed-air drug markets. This research uses a key principle from routine activities theory to further examine closed-air drug ...
Careers of their own: Role-identity negotiation among Air Force officers' wives.
(2006)
The purpose of this study is to explore how a military officer's wife, one foot on each meandering path, might navigate simultaneously her careerist and traditional wife roles. Specifically, this study asks the following: ...
The Brownsville Revival: An analysis of personal and interpersonal transformation of the core congregation.
(2001)
This study seeks to capture the essence of the Brownsville Revival through the eyes and lives of the Brownsville Assembly of God core congregation members. Psychologist William James, who conducted the classic study at the ...