Shannon McOmber Background and Significance: An estimated 4 million children in the United States have a disability (Disability Statistic Center). How families adapt to the situation of raising a CWD may be related to a number of factors including the parents’ level and type of social support. Clearly, social support serves as an important resource […]
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Returns on Time Investment: The Impact of Family Social Capital on a Child’s Labor Market Outcomes
Elizabeth Warnick and Dr. John Hoffmann, Sociology The troubling trend of increasing economic inequality in the United States can be partially attributed to one’s background; every person in the United States is born with a degree of advantage or disadvantage. However, the extent to which this initial inequality affects labor market outcomes, such as income, […]
From Symbolic to Social Boundaries: The Utah Minuteman Project
Keaton Robertson and Dr. Charlie Morgan, Sociology Social movements, such as the Utah Minuteman Project (UMP) play an important role in shaping public opinion on critical immigration issues. Utah, regarded as a sanctuary state by antiillegal immigrant movements, is one of ten states that grant in-state tuition to anyone who graduates from a Utah high […]
IMAGES OF SELF: CONSTANCY AMIDST SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA
Erika Gilroy, Department of Anthropology Introduction Social changes currently taking place in India are primarily a result of the Indian government’s efforts to promote technological industries, introduce family planning programs, and provide greater educational opportunities to a larger number of its people. The major effects of these reforms are the movement of an increasing number […]
What Is Socially Responsible Business?
Kevin Pestinger, Department of Management It is becoming increasingly apparent in the world of business that companies have to address the issue of social responsibility. Consumers have begun to demand, with both their purchases and their investment dollars, that companies start to account for their impacts on numerous social issues such as poverty, unemployment, the […]
Social Changes and Women’s Issues of Coimbatore India
Dana Diane Bowen, Social/ Cultural Anthropology I demonstrated in my application for The Research and Creative Work Scholarship last Fall semester that specific patterns of transition in women’s roles and statuses occur in evolving societies. Examples of this evolution were illustrated in the American, !Kung San, and Chinese societies. I further hypothesized that these same […]
Participatory Organizational Development and Social Change: Microfinance Replication in Western China
Marcie Holloman and Dr. Warner Woodworth, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Microfinance (or microcredit) is increasingly being recognized as an effective tool for promoting the socio-economic development of impoverished communities. The crisis of poverty is so great in every corner of the world that it is tempting to jump on the bandwagon of the “microcredit solution” […]
French Utopian Socialists Coming to America: The Transformation of Etienne Cabet’s Icarian Colony in Nauvoo
John McCorquindale and Dr. Daryl Lee, French and Italian While many of the definitively American utopian groups have received a good deal of curious attention in the past century, the Icarian colonies are relatively unknown. Maybe it is because of their less accessible French background, or because their iconoclastic leader Etienne Cabet (who once garnered […]
Psychosocial Factors Related to Mexican Immigration and Subsequent Identity Formation
Mark Mills and Professor Lynn England, Sociology In my research proposal, I indicated that my research had three primary objectives: 1) discover the underlying psychosocial reasons for Mexican immigration and evaluate the push/pull theory of immigration (i.e. what factors, either psychological, economic, or social, push immigrants away from their native land, and what factors pull […]
Investigating Attitudes of Seniors Towards the Role of the Gospel in their Classes: A Student-Initiated Feedback Study Across the College of Family, Home & Social Sciences at BYU
Dan Williams, Jacob Hess, Trevor Davis, and Drs. Robert Hunt with Scott Richards, Counseling Psychology and Special Education Introduction & Objectives The purpose of our study was to investigate the perspectives of fellow students towards current efforts at addressing the gospel of Jesus Christ in their departmental classes. The idea of a “BYU education,” while […]
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