• The Economic Foundations of Democratization: The Case of Taiwan and Implications for Mainland China 

  Zhu, Wei (William) (2019)

  Why did democratization occur in Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s? What can Taiwan’s democratization experience tell us about Mainland China’s prospect of democratization? This paper introduces an original version of modernization ...
• Instagram vs. Reality: Conceptions of Authenticity Among Instagrams Micro-Influencers 

  Connors, Noah E. (2019)

  Social media micro-influencer marketing is a booming, multi-billion-dollar industry, and Instagram is, far and away, the platform of choice for marketers. Central to narratives advanced in popular media and advertising ...
• The New War on Drugs : How Biomedicine and Science Have Disguised the Value Conflict Over Harm Reduction 

  Halperin-Goldstein, Gabriel (2019)

  While other countries such as Canada and Portugal have embraced safe injection facilities (SIFs), establishments that permit people to inject drugs under the supervision of medical personnel in order to prevent drug ...
• Restorative Justice Education and Masculinity: Three Interactional Resources Gained in a Prison Context 

  Grolig, Amanda (2019)

  This paper identifies three interactional resources that supported and continue to support four men in enacting non-violent masculinities both during and after a period of incarceration. These include discursive resources, ...
• Americanized Buddhism and the Rise of the Individual-Experiential Religious Consciousness 

  Kaplow, Benjamin J. (2018)

  Drawing upon fieldwork conducted at two Buddhist centers in the Philadelphia area, I characterize the nature of religious commitment within Americanized Buddhism as part of a distinctly American transformation in religious ...
• The French Disconnection: Tracing the Expression of French Jewish Identity from Emancipation to Vichy 

  Sax, Daniel Louis (2018)

  In this paper I argue that the militant expression of Jewish identity among youth1 in Vichy France was not dependent on changes internal to the Jewish community, but rather on political and social constraints imposed by ...
• Doctors on Wall Street: A call for corporate responsibility through a sociological reconstruction of corporate law 

  Ferro, Marco (2018)

  “Maximizing short term stock price” has become the watchword of the modern corporation. A law and economic conception of corporate law does not allow for a meaningful characterization of multiple principal – single agent ...
• The Birth of the Clone: The Emergence of Gay Masculinity in the United States, 1900-1980 

  Chalfoun, Andrew J. (2018)

  At the beginning of the twentieth century, the dominant paradigm of gay identity in the United States was the fairy, whose primary distinguishing feature was the adoption of culturally feminine characteristics and mannerisms. ...
• Limits of Freedom: Exploring the Interplay between Agency and Stigma in Prostitution in India 

  Varma, Saumya (2018)

  Discourse on sex work and prostitution debate the question of choice and agency available to women while engaging in the sex industry. These debates inform laws and policies in countries on regulating and criminalizing the ...
• How to Be Both: Negotiating Professionalism and Activism in the Nonprofit Sector 

  Friedman, Amanda (2018)

  In this paper, I identify a conflict between professionalism and activism in the contemporary U.S. nonprofit sector (NPS). These two dimensions of the sector conflict in that they value and prioritize different facets of ...
• The Morals of the Market: Implementing Fiduciary Standards in Financial Advising 

  Niesobecki, Stephen Paul (2018)

  In this essay I provide a sociological characterization of the changes that the Department of Labor’s “Fiduciary Rule” proposes for the financial advising industry. The “Fiduciary Rule” would hold financial advisors to ...
• Collective Realities: A Durkheimian Analysis of Evolution, Climate Change, and Southern Identity 

  Dwyer, Sarah (2017)

  In this paper, I argue that the positioning of science and religion as necessarily oppositional institutions obscures their historical relationship, as well as the social and political mechanisms that have caused them to ...
• Graduation Rates, A Measure of Student Achievement 

  White, David (2017)

  From the 20th into the 21st century there has been extensive research into student achievement and the factors that bring forth such an accomplishment. Much the literature revolves around student test scores as a measure ...
• Asian American Educational Experiences and the Malleable Persistence of Orientalism 

  Owyang, Kelsey (2016)

  In this thesis, I examine contemporary stereotyping of Asian American students through the lens of the persistent and malleable legacy of Orientalism (Said 1978). I argue that Orientalism has evolved from a discourse of ...
• Beyond Flesh and Blood: Gay and Lesbian Kinship Structures in Mid-Century America 

  Thorp, Makenzie (2015)

  From the 1950s to the early 1970s, homosexual individuals experienced unprecedentedly widespread discrimination. This was largely due to the particular importance placed on the nuclear family at the time and the perception ...
• Pictures of Madness: Art therapy and Outsider Art's struggle for cultural authority 

  Poling, Jessica (2015)

  Art therapy and Outsider Art share similar beginnings as both were founded on similar psychological, philosophical, and artistic trends that highlighted the connection between madness and creativity. Despite this, contemporary ...
• Toward Equity: The Rationalization of Inequality under the Utilitarian Logic of Protestantism and the Alternative Sociological Logic of Confucianism 

  Vejr, Jakob (2014)

  This paper compares the cultural logics of contemporary USA and China through analysis of their respective religious foundations: Protestantism and Confucianism. The logics are analyzed with respect to their facilitation ...
• The Carceral State and the Welfare State: Traditional Racism and New Racism in the Context of Mass Incarceration 

  Thorn, Joshua (2014)

  In my thesis I attempted to synthesize two distinct ways of looking at racism in American society. Michelle Alexander calls our criminal justice system explicitly discriminatory and racist, specifically indicting mass ...
• Crisis and Resolution in the Development of Judaism 

  Stadler, Christopher (2014)

  In 587 B.C. the kingdom of Judah was invaded by the Babylonian empire, the Davidic king was dethroned, his heirs slaughtered, and Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon were razed. These events motivated the construction of ...
• Cultural Codes and Emotional Expression: The New Racism in Psychiatric Interviews 

  Howe, Nora (2014)

  The tools used to make psychiatric diagnoses are unable to evaluate effectively the emotional expression of African American patients. The different histories and social positions of Caucasians and African Americans mean ...

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