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- THE ETHNIC WEB Socio-Spatial Characteristics of South Florida’s Brazilian Community.
- Creator
- Rebegel, Adrian C., Koppelman, Carter, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This thesis examines South Florida’s Brazilian community’ spatial organization in the region and its socio-cultural features in order to understand the nature of this immigrant community and the characteristics of its spatial structure. To do so, this study uses qualitative interviews with members of Brazilian community with the purpose of understanding how they make decisions of where to live, how they are connected to the broader community, how the community affects their individual...
Show moreThis thesis examines South Florida’s Brazilian community’ spatial organization in the region and its socio-cultural features in order to understand the nature of this immigrant community and the characteristics of its spatial structure. To do so, this study uses qualitative interviews with members of Brazilian community with the purpose of understanding how they make decisions of where to live, how they are connected to the broader community, how the community affects their individual experiences of living in the region and plan for the future. In addition, using secondary literature, it will compare the transformation of Brazilians ethnic community with that of the Cuban, Haitian and Russian communities located in South Florida. Situating this case within ongoing theoretical debates about immigrant incorporation in US cities, I will make the case that classical ethnic enclave or the spatial assimilation concept does not fit the spatial and social structure of Brazilian community. The conclusion of this paper is that the US new immigrant ethnic groups may transform their shapes into a new multicultural ethnic web, as a result of the actual economic and social phenomena. The new ethnic web does not discard the disappearance of classical ethnic enclave, or the spatial assimilation processes, but given the actual international and local socio-economic processes, the three types of processes could overlap or be complementary.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013705
- Subject Headings
- Brazilian Americans--Florida--Social life and customs, Brazilians--Florida, Immigrants
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- Document (PDF)
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- OUT OF STYLE: HEGEMONIC CONSTRAINTS ON FAT MAN’S SELFPRESENTATION THROUGH FASHION.
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- Marques, Cassio, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Fashion has functioned to produce and maintain hegemonic discourses of beauty and size by privileging thin, white, upper-classed and heteronormative standards. While fatness opposes these expectations, past research has yet to fully account for fat men who take an active role in using fashion. Neither their purpose nor their reasoning for using fashion has been extensively detailed. I ask three questions: (1) Are fat men able to manage fat stigma through their engagement with fashion? (2) How...
Show moreFashion has functioned to produce and maintain hegemonic discourses of beauty and size by privileging thin, white, upper-classed and heteronormative standards. While fatness opposes these expectations, past research has yet to fully account for fat men who take an active role in using fashion. Neither their purpose nor their reasoning for using fashion has been extensively detailed. I ask three questions: (1) Are fat men able to manage fat stigma through their engagement with fashion? (2) How do fat men use fashion as part of their presentation of self? (3) What role does intersectionality play as these men use fashion in their presentation of self and possibly in managing stigma? Using a content analysis of four hundred Instagram posts and twenty-two semi-structured interviews, I found that given fatness’s stigmatized position in fashion, men rely on their abilities to adhere to masculine standards in downplaying their fat identity. Furthermore, Black gay men’s hyper-marginalized position makes it more difficult for them to adhere to the same masculine standards. These findings show that the fashion industry actively prevents fat men from fully participating due to their size. Yet the way they use fashion is dictated by their ability to adhere to hegemonic masculine standards. Black gay men are most affected negatively as they have a hyper-marginalized status due to the intersection of their identities. As a result, popular accounts for “plus size” male fashion contribute to reproducing and reinforcing hegemonic standards of masculinity, and Black gay men who push boundaries in both gender and body presentation are left invisible.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013832
- Subject Headings
- Hegemony, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in fashion, Overweight men
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- Document (PDF)
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- KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK ACHIEVERS AND THE MOBILITY ATTITUDES, ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF BLACK YOUTHS.
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- BOLLING, ERIC R., Florida Atlantic University, Tittle, Charles, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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The literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized...
Show moreThe literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized relationships are at best weak. However, the fact that the strong relationships generally cited as existing between parents' education and occupation and their children's mobility attitudes were also not found indicates a need for further research regarding the variables that could possibly influence black mobility aspirations and expectations.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13604
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
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- Rethinking the approach to urban growth views.
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- Herrero, Teresa Romagosa., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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Views on general urban, commercial, and light industrial growth are analyzed to determine the effect of substantive differences. While consistency across issues is often assumed, public opinion theory and recent findings on environmental concern suggest otherwise. Also, "utility-maximizing" actors (Coleman, 1986) may be influenced by the tax and employment benefits of economic growth. As suggested, growth views varied across issues and intercorrelations were only moderate. Strongest support...
Show moreViews on general urban, commercial, and light industrial growth are analyzed to determine the effect of substantive differences. While consistency across issues is often assumed, public opinion theory and recent findings on environmental concern suggest otherwise. Also, "utility-maximizing" actors (Coleman, 1986) may be influenced by the tax and employment benefits of economic growth. As suggested, growth views varied across issues and intercorrelations were only moderate. Strongest support was for attracting light industry. Bivariate and regression analyses of the effects of sociodemographic and community evaluation variables indicated that while no predictor was significantly related to all three growth issues, the strongest were city's performance controlling growth, age, and homeownership. Best predicted were views toward general growth, while views on attracting industry were least explained. An index of growth views resulted in generally weaker relationships although one variable, sex, became significant.
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- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14432
- Subject Headings
- City planning
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- Document (PDF)
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- SEX-ROLE TRANSCENDENCE AND ADJUSTMENT TO SINGLE PARENTHOOD.
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- SUTTON, LYNDA LANE., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, Kristine L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
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A study of 112 single parents drawn from two populations (one urban, one rural) was conducted to determine if flexibility across situations, or androgyny, facilitates adjustment to single parenthood. Life satisfaction and coping responses were used as measures of adjustment to single parenthood. Chi square, correlation, and analysis of variance testing of the results revealed that adjustment to single parenthood is greatest among those who receive scores of "androgynous" or "masculine" using...
Show moreA study of 112 single parents drawn from two populations (one urban, one rural) was conducted to determine if flexibility across situations, or androgyny, facilitates adjustment to single parenthood. Life satisfaction and coping responses were used as measures of adjustment to single parenthood. Chi square, correlation, and analysis of variance testing of the results revealed that adjustment to single parenthood is greatest among those who receive scores of "androgynous" or "masculine" using the Bern Sex Role Inventory. Length of employment also had a positive effect on adjustment to single parenthood. Other covariates (e.g., "cause" of single parenting, length of single parenting, length of "househusbanding") did not significantly affect adjustment to single parenthood.
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- 1982
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14110
- Subject Headings
- Single parents, Sex role
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- Document (PDF)
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- “EVERY HUMAN IS PSYCHEDELIC” AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE AND SUBCULTURE.
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- Taylor, H. J., Lewin, Philip, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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The 21st Century is seeing an unprecedented wave of psychedelic drug research after decades of stagnancy. Despite this revival, there has been little research or interest in the current revival of psychedelic subculture or the attitudes of psychedelic users today—from here referred to as “psychedelia.” This qualitative study of 19 self-described psychedelic users/psychedelia members probes their intimate experiences with psychedelic drugs, their involvement in the broader subculture, and...
Show moreThe 21st Century is seeing an unprecedented wave of psychedelic drug research after decades of stagnancy. Despite this revival, there has been little research or interest in the current revival of psychedelic subculture or the attitudes of psychedelic users today—from here referred to as “psychedelia.” This qualitative study of 19 self-described psychedelic users/psychedelia members probes their intimate experiences with psychedelic drugs, their involvement in the broader subculture, and their political and social beliefs. By analyzing the subculture through post-subcultural theory, this study examines the state of psychedelic subculture today, its participants, and members beliefs in relation to drugs, politics, and society. Findings show psychedelia exists as a loose subculture, yet has several parallels to the hippies demographically and politically. Second, psychedelia members share several values such as openness, compassion, and caring for others. Third, despite their pessimism towards America’s future, interviewees engage in everyday activism to help disenfranchised groups.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014105
- Subject Headings
- Psychedelic drugs, Hallucinogenic drugs, Subculture
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- Document (PDF)
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- “Pretty, Pills, and Perspective: The Not-so Charmed Medicalization of Women’s Mental Health”.
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- Wilson, Jennifer R., McConnell, William, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study finds variation in perspective of mental health in 1) how it is framed on social media platforms by mental health treatment advertisements and 2) how woman perceive their own mental health struggles, how they sought and maintain treatment, and how the culture of social media influences this perspective. To investigate this topic, this study is separated into two phases: Phase One is a content analysis of 25 mental health treatment...
Show moreUsing content analysis and in-depth interviews, this study finds variation in perspective of mental health in 1) how it is framed on social media platforms by mental health treatment advertisements and 2) how woman perceive their own mental health struggles, how they sought and maintain treatment, and how the culture of social media influences this perspective. To investigate this topic, this study is separated into two phases: Phase One is a content analysis of 25 mental health treatment advertisements for depression and/or anxiety on Facebook and Instagram with three questions in mind: 1. How do advertisements on social media frame depression and anxiety? 2. What are the solutions proposed? And 3. How are women represented in these advertisements? Phase Two consists of 14 in-depth interviews with three questions in mind: 1. How do women understand their mental health problems? 2. How do social media advertisements affect women seeking mental health treatment? And 3. How does social media affect current course of mental health treatment? Social media advertisements do medicalize women’s perspective of mental health and can best be understood in three terms: communication, convenience, and confidence, through an interplay of medicalization and gender framing. Women give meaning to their mental health through their experience in past and current life circumstances and the culture of social media has shifted understanding and engagement with this dynamic.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014163
- Subject Headings
- Women—Mental health, Medicalization
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- Document (PDF)
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- “IN THE WAITING ROOM”: EXPERIENCES AND STRATEGIES OF BRAZILIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS LIMITED LEGALITY.
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- Lopes, Andreia Ferreira, Koppelman, Carter, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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This study explores the strategies utilized by migrants under the visa regime of international student and their experiences throughout their time as non-immigrant temporary visitors. The concept of “visa regime” forwarded by Banerjee (2022), illustrates the mechanism of state power that controls immigrants and their families through limited legality (Banerjee 2022). Through the qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and ethnographic work, this study compares the experiences of 20...
Show moreThis study explores the strategies utilized by migrants under the visa regime of international student and their experiences throughout their time as non-immigrant temporary visitors. The concept of “visa regime” forwarded by Banerjee (2022), illustrates the mechanism of state power that controls immigrants and their families through limited legality (Banerjee 2022). Through the qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and ethnographic work, this study compares the experiences of 20 Brazilian international students in a geographical area known for its ethnic communities. South Florida is home to one of the two largest Brazilian communities in the United States, offering an array of opportunities and community support for Brazilian migrants. As demonstrated in this study the experiences of participants demonstrate how the status of international student becomes a waiting room for those hopelessly waiting for an opportunity to acquire permanent residency. With limited pathways to acquire a green card, the waiting room may seem endless for some with limited resources. Leaving both migrants and the educational institutions enabling this waiting room in a vulnerable position.
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- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014361
- Subject Headings
- Students, Foreign--Brazil, Students, Foreign--Legal status, laws, etc.
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- Document (PDF)
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- CHICKS IN BOWLS: Roller Skaters’ Gender Maneuvering in the Skatepark.
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- Thompson, Alessandra, Seeley, J. Lotus, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Gender is a primary frame used in social interaction. Using this primary frame guides our relations with another person or a group of people because it is a basic cultural tool that allows for the basic framing of who one is. Our gender ideologies, or our notions of gender, are shaped by varying other aspects of our identities and material realities. Gender strategies draw upon this to solve a specific problem (Hochschild 1989, Wade and Ferree 2019). The skatepark is a masculinist space,...
Show moreGender is a primary frame used in social interaction. Using this primary frame guides our relations with another person or a group of people because it is a basic cultural tool that allows for the basic framing of who one is. Our gender ideologies, or our notions of gender, are shaped by varying other aspects of our identities and material realities. Gender strategies draw upon this to solve a specific problem (Hochschild 1989, Wade and Ferree 2019). The skatepark is a masculinist space, overrun with men and boys who consider themselves the “kings of the park” (Pomerantz et al 2004). In the case of women who roller skate at the skatepark, they are subordinated, harassed both physically and sexually, as well as outright ignored by men inhabiting the park, which poses an additional safety hazard. To understand how women who roller skate solve these problems, I explore the following questions: How do women construct their identities in the skatepark and how does gender structure behavior in this space? What strategies do women employ in order to successfully navigate the masculinist skatepark as a feminized, and thus marginalized, roller skater? Women roller skaters’ gender strategies operate at three levels: individual, interactional, and group. I focus on three themes: First pariah femininity to claim space as women, which contrasts with emphatic sameness of skateboarder women. Second, defensive othering of “Ramp Tramps,” the girlfriends or onlookers whose passivity embodies emphasized femininity and who are rejected by the women roller skaters. Third, the creation of community as an alternative subculture in order to navigate their subordinate status within the park.
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- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013969
- Subject Headings
- Gender, Skateboarding parks, Women skateboarders
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- Document (PDF)
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- INTERGENERATIONAL INTERCHANGEABLE FORMS OF MALTREATMENT WITHIN FAMILIES.
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- Haggar, Katherine, Backstrom, Laura, McConnell, William, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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In 2022, there were about 4,276,000 referrals to Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies within the United States in regard to 7,530,000 children (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). Of these allegations there are 558,899 victims of child maltreatment (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). One risk factor for child maltreatment is having a caregiver who has experienced victimization. Although there are many other risk factors for child maltreatment, this...
Show moreIn 2022, there were about 4,276,000 referrals to Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies within the United States in regard to 7,530,000 children (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). Of these allegations there are 558,899 victims of child maltreatment (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 2024: xii). One risk factor for child maltreatment is having a caregiver who has experienced victimization. Although there are many other risk factors for child maltreatment, this research highlights a caregiver having been maltreated and then the type of maltreatment experienced (either physical abuse or sexual abuse) as main areas of study. Results highlight that both physical and sexual abuse are found to increase the risk for other forms of maltreatment, while physical abuse increases the risk for both physical abuse and other forms of maltreatment. This research also continues by examining the type of maltreatment experienced and a child’s likelihood to engage in specific types of deviant behavior (petty, non-violent, and violent delinquency). Results show that physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional abuse increase the risk for petty and non-violent delinquency (partaking in criminal actions). Neglect, emotional abuse, and drug or alcohol abuse increase the risk of having been arrested by age 18.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014462
- Subject Headings
- Child abuse, Child sexual abuse, Child welfare
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- PANDEMIC PERSPECTIVES: THE INFLUENCE OF DISASTER EXPERIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY USE OVER THE LIFE COURSE ON COVID-19 PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG OLDER ADULTS.
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- Kessel, Jordanne, Backstrom, Laura, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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No group was more physically vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic than older adults. However, differing life histories and structural realities make for widely varying pandemic experiences. Using a life course approach, this study situates the COVID-19 pandemic and use of communication tools into context of older adults’ life experience with disasters and technology. Merging the scholarly fields of disaster sociology and aging studies, the purpose of this research is to find how life course...
Show moreNo group was more physically vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic than older adults. However, differing life histories and structural realities make for widely varying pandemic experiences. Using a life course approach, this study situates the COVID-19 pandemic and use of communication tools into context of older adults’ life experience with disasters and technology. Merging the scholarly fields of disaster sociology and aging studies, the purpose of this research is to find how life course experience and technology use impacted older adults’ perception of, and response to, COVID-19. Accordingly, I ask how does previous disaster experience and technology usage influence older adults’ coping regarding aging and crisis? Using 29 semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with older adults, I find that the political economic context in which a person experiences disaster has reverberations decades later. This can trigger a process of cumulative advantage, and that men and women have different access points to that process dependent on that context. Moreover, older adults make crisis-based decisions anchored in their current circumstances, not consciously in response to prior experience. In addition, early experience with technology, especially through work, helps to establish a solid foundation for resilience both in terms of resources and adaptation. I found the participants in this study to be remarkably resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of either earlier disaster experience, opportunities through work and relationships, and their ability to technologically adapt.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2024
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014465
- Subject Headings
- Aging, Technology, Disasters, Sociology
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- Document (PDF)