Conventional wisdom says that when you know better, you do better. Various theories of racism generally conform to this popular understanding, motivating colleges and bus[...]

The research reported here examines if one’s immigration status has an impact on what highest educational degree a student expects to receive. This study uses data from t[...]

Does personal satisfaction with oneself impact one’s ability to put the happiness of others before their own? I hypothesize that individuals who have higher levels of sel[...]

The research reported here used measures of educational attainment and happiness of marriage to assess how happy college educated women are in their marriages relative to[...]

Historically Black people have experienced extreme experiences of medical mistreatment, one of the most prominent and longest running being the Tuskegee Experiment. Racis[...]

Formerly incarcerated individuals face stigmatization at work because of their conviction history. Previous research focuses on the difficulty of finding a job once reint[...]

As mass shootings events continue to occur with alarming frequency in the United States, scholars search for explanations, turning frequently to a dynamic referred to as [...]

With time continuing, American education has progressively improved. Though there still remains much-needed improvement and some of that stands in the way of equality wit[...]

This study explores the impact of race and employment status on the degree of women’s emotion management. Drawing on Hochschild’s theory of emotional labor and feeling ru[...]

In Western media, drugs, alcohol, and casual sex are widely regarded as essential facets of the college experience. It is not only accepted but expected that students wil[...]

Religion and sexuality have long been conflicting in the lives of LGB Persons. If someone were to identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual, a conflicting understanding of rel[...]

How do teachers contribute to the growing racial disparities in school discipline? Previous research indicates that teachers influence students’ academic and social outco[...]

Is trust in the institution of medicine dependent on race? Are there racial differences in change of trust over time? The central hypotheses of this study are that a) whi[...]

This study aims to explore whether the historical institution of slavery in the United States is manifested in contemporary white racial resentment towards African Americ[...]

Evaluating medical professionals implicit racial and gender biases compared to other professions provides a window into medical professionals’ covertly biased behaviors. [...]

Asians are often viewed as the “model minority” group for assumptions about their high income and education level. Does this necessarily translate to higher self-esteem, [...]

Art has been crucial in fostering individual and community identities, but does arts participation increase levels of civic engagement? I propose that individuals who att[...]

Social Identity theory states that societies create in-groups and out-groups due to social processes consistent of social categorization, social comparison and social ide[...]

How does treatment of consensual sexual behavior affect willingness to report assault on college campuses? This study proposes that higher levels of policy-based inhibiti[...]

What are the effects of the English proficiency of immigrant parents on the educational attainment of their 1.5 or 2.0 generation children? In this paper, I propose three[...]

Political participation is an ever-important facet of United States democracy, but do patterns of participation differ from the local to the national level? Do citizens p[...]

Immigration to the United States has been a prominent concern throughout U.S. history, but foreign culture’s influence on immigration attitudes has largely been ignored i[...]

Why do some people claim to “listen to all music” while others prefer one genre? Existing research on musical tastes suggests there is a lot more than mere taste that inf[...]

Is support for Donald Trump correlated with hate? This state-analysis examines the relationship between Donald Trump’s White supremacist rhetoric and rates of racially-mo[...]

This study analyzes the impacts of higher education on religiosity among young adults. Much of the literature on this topic points to a secularizing effect among college-[...]

This study examines whether Mexicans who reside in the U.S. earn a higher income if they reside in a large population size area, such as an urban city. I propose that Mex[...]

How might an Asian immigrant who earned a college degree abroad experience different returns to their degree than an Asian American with an American degree? Human capital[...]

Does exposure to natural environments improve mental health? Past research shows benefits from spending time in green spaces, including improved well-being, as well as be[...]

It is no secret that battling a chronic illness can impact an individual’s mental health, all while simultaneously harming their physical health. Although many say that t[...]

Gender roles are socially constructed norms prescribed for men and women in society to follow. Specifically, men and women have been assigned to traditional roles that ar[...]

Is community size tied to attitude towards environmental spending? Previous research has shown that whether one lives in an urban, suburban, or rural setting affects one’[...]

Does social and cultural capital have beneficial outcomes that extend to the mental well-being of First Generation College graduates? Obtaining higher levels of education[...]

This study examines the relationship between the stigma of hooking up and reported sexual assault. Guided by Goffman’s (1963) social stigma theory and Gagnon and Simon’s [...]

Using three generational cohorts, this paper compares the effects of generational status on earnings among seven Asian ethnic groups: Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnames[...]

Abstract Individualism operates as a dominant ideology in American society, so how does individualism pervade both people’s larger views on society as well as their dyadi[...]

Does social class affect political party affiliation in the African-American community? Drawing on two contrasting theories: the theory of group interests and class-based[...]

Description: Dichotomous discourse surrounding sexual behavior frames sexual experiences as either consensual or non-consensual. This rhetoric suggests that all consensua[...]

There are many debates about the relationship between athletics and academic performance in the American liberal arts system. This study proposes that there is a negative[...]

What demographic backgrounds are associated with a person’s attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policies? Applying group threat theory and contact theory, I propo[...]

Existing research suggests that patterns of both men and women serial killers are hyper-gendered. In American society, however, gender norms for women have dramatically c[...]

Who is able to overcome adversity and experience upward mobility? Using cumulative inequality theory, which posits that the disadvantage or advantage associated with one’[...]

America has a culturally accepted norm of what makes someone beautiful. A standard that is hard to meet. Being light-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed is the benchmark of bea[...]

Does gender influence racial attitudes? I propose that the differences in men and women’s emotional processing as a result of gendered socialization have an effect on the[...]

How are the performing arts and happiness sociologically connected? I propose that people who have attended a music performance in the last 12 months will report an incre[...]

Does religiosity act as a buffer to all negative life circumstances? To explore this question, I study the relationship between income and happiness and I analyze the eff[...]

In recent years there has been an increase of immigrants in the United States and upward mobility has become extremely challenging through secondary education. Higher edu[...]

Does the number of social media platforms that an adolescent uses have an effect on the quality of their social relationships? As social media continues to grow and evolv[...]

What is the effect of one’s religious attitudes and behaviors on the frequency of different emotions? I propose that a stronger religious affiliation and a higher frequen[...]

Why does the birthrate in China continuously decline? Why are Chinese people unwilling to have children now even after the One-Child Policy has been abandoned? I propose [...]

Women’s growing numerical representation in gender atypical careers, including the professoriate, has not necessarily meant that they are being accepted, included and int[...]

Do first-generation college students sleep less than their peers? College students whose parents did not earn a bachelor’s degree have less support from family members an[...]

Immigrant replenishment may affect assimilation patterns of US-born descendants by maintaining the use and relevance of the language of origin. This study asks, how does [...]

Social media is ubiquitous and holds a significant place in modern society. Social media feeds are inundated with political content and are used by politicians and citize[...]

How has the recent surge in social media network usage affected in-person social interaction? As the Internet continues to become more integrated in everyday forms of com[...]

With the foundation of past research on the relationship between indicators of racial prejudice, police use of force and attitudes towards it, I use the General Social Su[...]

How does context influence health? County racial composition and racial residential segregation shape health outcomes by creating different contexts that influence access[...]

Is racial residential segregation or integration a stronger predictor of educational attainment? Does the racialized direction of this relationship matter? Drawing from W[...]

Building on research conducted by sociologists on the predictors of abortion attitudes, through a secondary analysis of 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) data, with a tota[...]

Why are people engaging in dangerous behaviors, putting themselves and society at risk, despite the detrimental consequences? I propose that with more years of education [...]

Does increased consumption of media affect how the public views the institutions of government and media? This study analyzes the relationships between time spent consumi[...]

Why do people switch religions? Under the theoretical framework of interactionism theory of conversion, which posits that the interplay between active, negotiated, and so[...]

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid growth of social media. Much of the problem lies with the new potential for constant social comparisons. Social media also ad[...]

Researchers and policy makers have looked at many factors that result in high teen birth rates, most notably sex education in public schools. Most often sex education pol[...]