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Title: White like (or not like) me : creating a white racial identity scale and examining how it differs by socio-demographic indicators
Creator: Miller, Paula K.
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "The goal of this disseration is to create a White Racial Identity Scale (WRIS) and to examine how this scale differes by socio-demographic factors such as gender, class, educaiton and urbanicity. In particular, [the author] will investigate white racial identities through American, cross racial, ethnic, racial and institutional attitudes, behaviors and preferences. It is important to study white racial identities,as they are integral to the maintenance of racism."--from introduction.

Title: White myopia in education : white urban teachers understanding their whiteness and its impact on their role as educators
Creator: Baker, Carol R.
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: White undergraduate social justice advocates : experiences that influence continued participation in racially and ethnically diverse campus settings
Creator: Watson, Jesse S.
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study explored how the experiences of four white, undergraduate, self-identified social justice advocates influenced their on campus participation in racially and ethnically diverse settings. Acknowledging the existence and persistence of white privilege, ontological expansiveness, and epistemological ignorance, the research was grounded in critical white studies and influenced by the tenets of critical race theory. Their experiences as sustained participants in racially and ethnically...
Show moreThis study explored how the experiences of four white, undergraduate, self-identified social justice advocates influenced their on campus participation in racially and ethnically diverse settings. Acknowledging the existence and persistence of white privilege, ontological expansiveness, and epistemological ignorance, the research was grounded in critical white studies and influenced by the tenets of critical race theory. Their experiences as sustained participants in racially and ethnically diverse settings such as the Black Student Alliance, the Multicultural Hall, and other campus based gathering locations of racial/ethnic minority students at a small liberal arts college were collected through in depth interviews. The data were analyzed using portraiture and constant comparative methods. Key findings included the impact of social tourism; the difference between advertised and experienced institutional climate, culture and liberalism; the role of multicultural residence halls; and the importance of developing diverse networks.
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Title: Whitefly (T. vaporarium, West.) preference on three bean genera of the family leguminosae
Creator: Alonzo-Padilla, Freddy R.
Date: 1980
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Who am I now? : Experiences with formal grief care among Michigan Baby Boomers after spousal loss
Creator: Hilliker, Laurel Elizabeth
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This qualitative study used a symbolic interactionist approach to identify, define and explore the experiences of formal bereavement care among 38 Baby Boomers (ages 46-64 at the time of interview) who have suffered spousal loss This research investigated conceptions of shared culture, language, and meaning among survivors who have taken part in formalized grief care. An emphasis on the experienced reality of bereavement care coupled with the self as an agent of reflective action, are the...
Show moreThis qualitative study used a symbolic interactionist approach to identify, define and explore the experiences of formal bereavement care among 38 Baby Boomers (ages 46-64 at the time of interview) who have suffered spousal loss This research investigated conceptions of shared culture, language, and meaning among survivors who have taken part in formalized grief care. An emphasis on the experienced reality of bereavement care coupled with the self as an agent of reflective action, are the focus for discussion. As well, there is an exploration of negotiation strategies to address a disrupted narrative and the subsequent reconstruction of individual and social selves following the death of a spouse. Interviews with these individuals investigated meanings surrounding terminal illness; death, bereavement, and support, along with how these meanings are constructed, institutionalized, legitimated and actualized. The research explored why some mourners attrition out of formal grief care earlier than others and explained how these support services aid us in the understanding of bereavement. Findings revealed one overarching key theme among these participant experiences after losing a spouse, namely, compromised individual and social selves as evident in an on-going effort to re-construct the past, present and future self. Four other themes emerged and include: 1) the importance of a support group as a safe haven to do `grief work' and re-construct one's wounded self and life narrative; 2) the value of a shared experience of spousal loss with other widowed group members; 3) the significance of a community where one's loss is explored; and lastly, 4) unmet needs surrounding both pre-loss and post-loss concerns. There was also a noticeable gap with regard to appropriate and effective grief care. This gap was evident between what the current literature recommends and what these five agencies offered in the groups. It was also noted through the participant stories which revealed an ineffective structure of support group care for the widowed, namely, inattention to readjustment stress related to tasks associated with practical needs. This finding, along with other emergent themes, offer insight into vital areas in need of attention by practitioners, the medical community, and the death and grief care industry who provide end of life and bereavement care. This research exposed particular needs for this group of Boomer spouses, such as a desire for improved pre-loss needs (e.g., coordination of care when there is an illness), and post-loss needs (e.g., advice for practical matters, such as financial concerns for themselves). A new model of grief work is put forth (Figure 5.1, Hilliker) that observes the temporal aspects of a disrupted narrative as the bereaved spouses look at who they are now, while re-constructing the past and contemplating the future. They examine the present struggles as well as a future without their spouse as they recreate the now fragmented and compromised self to adopt a new role as a widowed person. Recommendations are given for implementing a more holistic and hope based structure for support groups and include addressing both emotional and readjustment stress by moving away from an emphasis on a `grief process' in the groups and through extending support group sessions which include topics of interest to the members as opposed to a pre-set agenda. Further research is warranted to determine the most critical concerns of mid-life widowed people in order to provide recommendations for those who offer programs for this type of care, in particular in the support group format.
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Title: Who controls the administrative state? : Congress and the President adopt the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946
Creator: Brazier, James Edward
Date: 1993
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Who dropped the ball : examining the relationship between race, memorable messages about academic and athletic achievement, and graduation rates for football student-athletes
Creator: Colón, Nathaniel J.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study explored memorable messages that former football student-athletes recalled regarding academics and athletics. Respondents were asked via interviews and a survey questionnaire to recall memorable messages and to describe the source, context, and importance of the message. Student-athletes were asked what memorable messages were evoked when making decisions with respect to academics and athletics while they were participating in intercollegiate athletics. Sociological theories were...
Show moreThis study explored memorable messages that former football student-athletes recalled regarding academics and athletics. Respondents were asked via interviews and a survey questionnaire to recall memorable messages and to describe the source, context, and importance of the message. Student-athletes were asked what memorable messages were evoked when making decisions with respect to academics and athletics while they were participating in intercollegiate athletics. Sociological theories were used to analyze the graduation gap difference between Black and White football student-athletes. These theoretical perspectives were used to explore the messages student-athletes received during socialization from parents, coaches, teachers, friends, teammates and others. The socialization agents of student-athletes, and the memorable messages they sent, were analyzed to comprehend why Black football student-athletes graduate at a significantly lower rate than their White counterparts. The findings examined positive and negative memorable messages and how they contributed to academic and athletic achievement. The research explored the association of memorable messages to the time commitment and significance of academics and athletics and the connection to graduation rates for Black and White football student-athletes.
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Title: Who killed Walter French? : a new cultural history of charter school governance, community and ownership in Michigan, 1996-2004
Creator: Meier, Jeanne Marquardt
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Walter French Academy (WFA), a charter school in Lansing, Michigan, opened its doors in 1996. After eight difficult years of operation, its chartering agency, Central Michigan University (CMU), chose not to reauthorize its charter, and WFA was forced to close in 2004. As a case study history employing an historiographical approach related to the new cultural history, Walter French Academy's establishment and trajectory can be seen as an emergence related to events taking place at a particular...
Show moreWalter French Academy (WFA), a charter school in Lansing, Michigan, opened its doors in 1996. After eight difficult years of operation, its chartering agency, Central Michigan University (CMU), chose not to reauthorize its charter, and WFA was forced to close in 2004. As a case study history employing an historiographical approach related to the new cultural history, Walter French Academy's establishment and trajectory can be seen as an emergence related to events taking place at a particular point in time. In this project I explore the intersection of and relationship among these diverse and often chance events, in order to theorize the complexity of choice and charter schooling as examples of current movements in education reform. I also examine competing claims for control and ownership of the school with its overlapping structures of both public and privatized governance. For the new cultural historian, language is not neutral, and is always ideological. Throughout the work I therefore analyze particular language related to community and consensus, to ownership and control that was deployed by various stakeholders who impacted the school's history in order to understand the ways that power circulated among them, making possible certain actions and foreclosing others. The question, "Whose school is this?" provides a thread that runs throughout this project. To answer this question, I include the voices of many of the adults who were connected with the school along with my own. I argue that the emergence of competing claims and claimants as well as their departure affected the trajectory of WFA in critical ways and impacted its failure and closure in 2004. It is a cautionary tale.
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Title: Who really wants "The tired, the poor, and the huddled masses" anyway? : a study of the socio-cultural factors that influence and constrain the academic success of Somali Bantu male high school students
Creator: Roxas, Kevin C.
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Who seeks assistance and what do they get out of it? : an impact evaluation of the MSU Product Center
Creator: Lovgren, Adam
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This paper seeks to evaluate the impact that the Michigan State University Product Center Food-Ag-Bio (or Product Center for short) has had on the success and survival of the entrepreneurs who have received assistance from it. To determine this impact, a survey was sent out to over 2200 Michigan food and agricultural entrepreneurs in the fall of 2012 . Over 600 entrepreneurs responded to the survey, both clients and non-clients of the Product Center, and the resulting data was used to conduct...
Show moreThis paper seeks to evaluate the impact that the Michigan State University Product Center Food-Ag-Bio (or Product Center for short) has had on the success and survival of the entrepreneurs who have received assistance from it. To determine this impact, a survey was sent out to over 2200 Michigan food and agricultural entrepreneurs in the fall of 2012 . Over 600 entrepreneurs responded to the survey, both clients and non-clients of the Product Center, and the resulting data was used to conduct this analysis. Considerable effort was taken to overcome the inherent selection bias in entrepreneurial assistance program (EAP) evaluations. This bias is due to the fact that those who seek assistance are more likely to have a higher propensity to seek information and lower overall entrepreneurial ability, and both factors are also likely to influence venture performance. These biases are best thought of as an unobserved variable bias when included a regression analysis. To overcome these biases, therefore, we identified observable factors that predict the decision to seek assistance and included these in the impact evaluation regressions in order to have unbiased estimators. In short, we found that the Product Center had the most incremental impact on small to medium sized ventures, older entrepreneurs with less industry-related business experience, and for those who participated in the development of the business idea prior with the Product Center prior to the launch of their new venture. This impact was seen most notably in increased survival rates, levels of employment and increased perceived legitimacy with external resources holders
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Title: Who speaks for deer? : including nonhumans in deliberative democracy through multispecies communicative democracy and democratic education
Creator: Vrla, Stephen Patrick
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Humans face a wide range of environmental issues, many of which are characterized by scientific uncertainty and values disagreement. One promising approach to solving these issues is deliberative democracy, a model of democratic decision making in which all those affected by a decision share their positions on it with one another and work toward a consensus. However, scholars and practitioners of deliberative democracy have largely overlooked nonhuman animals, ecosystems, and other nonhuman...
Show moreHumans face a wide range of environmental issues, many of which are characterized by scientific uncertainty and values disagreement. One promising approach to solving these issues is deliberative democracy, a model of democratic decision making in which all those affected by a decision share their positions on it with one another and work toward a consensus. However, scholars and practitioners of deliberative democracy have largely overlooked nonhuman animals, ecosystems, and other nonhuman stakeholders affected by environmental issues and decisions about them. This dissertation uses the perspectives of environmental sociology, education, and policy to look closely at how deliberative democracy can include nonhuman stakeholders and what happens when it does. First, it theorizes multispecies communicative democracy (MCD), a theory of deliberative democracy that includes nonhuman stakeholders through direct participation and proxy representation, and applies the theory to the environmental issue of deer-human conflict. Second, it analyzes the social and educational factors influencing US American adults' support for MCD, as well as adults' own explanations of their support. Third, it uses action research to develop, implement, and analyze an MCD curriculum at a nature center. In closing, it highlights the implications of MCD for environmental sociology, policy, and education.
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Title: Who's minding the store? : determining the locus of control in telecommunications policy making in the european community
Creator: Fare, Philip C.
Date: 1992
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Who's to blame? : an exploration of the role of blame perceptions as moderators of relationships between organizational justice perceptions and consequences
Creator: Horvath, Michael
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Who's your people? : cumulative identity among the Salyersville Indian population of Kentucky's Appalachia and the Midwest Muckfields, 1677-2000
Creator: Carlson, Richard Allen
Date: 2003
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Whole-cell physiology and gene expression patterns in the co-metabolism of and tolerance to PCBs by Burkholderia xenovorans LB400
Creator: Parnell, John Jacob
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Whole-plant resource economies and associated morphological and physiological traits : towards a mechanistic understanding of plant responses to resource variation
Creator: Kunkle, Justin Michael
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Wholesale price determination
Creator: Tsai, Tzong-Rong
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Whose I.D.E.A. is it, anyway? : a look at the involvement of high school students with learning disabilities in the individualized educational planning team process
Creator: Schutzki, Norma J.
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Whose Message Is More Powerful? Comparing the Effect of Virtual Influencers and Human Celebrities on Social Media Persuasion Depending on Perceived Source Characteristics and Nutrition of Instagram Food Messages
Creator: Lee, Ju Young
Date: 2022
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study explores how endorser type affects attitudes and behavioral outcomes of social media users based on the Source Models, the dual processing model, and celebrity endorsement. The findings introduce a new type of social media endorser and propose a mechanism of virtual influencer endorsement compared with human celebrity endorsement. In detail, my research initially found that perceived source features mediate the association between endorser type (virtual influencer vs. human...
Show moreThis study explores how endorser type affects attitudes and behavioral outcomes of social media users based on the Source Models, the dual processing model, and celebrity endorsement. The findings introduce a new type of social media endorser and propose a mechanism of virtual influencer endorsement compared with human celebrity endorsement. In detail, my research initially found that perceived source features mediate the association between endorser type (virtual influencer vs. human celebrity) and message persuasion (attitude toward the post, viral behavioral intention, and intention to consume the food in the post). For mediation models, the effects of human celebrities are more powerful with stronger perceptions of source attributions (trustworthiness, attractiveness, likeability, similarity, and parasocial interaction, but not expertise) than those of virtual influencers. Next, this research revealed a moderated mediation model showing that virtual influencer-endorsed Instagram posts generate a more favorable attitude toward the post depending on food type (energy-dense nutrient-poor foods vs. preferred foods) through likeability, but only for Instagram posts featuring energy-dense nutrient-poor foods (EDNP foods). Overall, the findings show that additional factors besides endorser type influence message elaboration and are the key elements to explain how virtual influencers form positive attitudes from target audiences with perceived source features in the dual processing model. This study provides theoretical contributions and practical implications by applying classical literature to a new media context.
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Title: Whose city? Intersections of gender, class, and (il)legitimate belonging in Delhi's Jhuggi Jhopris
Creator: Glegziabher, Meskerem Zikru
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "In the constantly transforming space of India's capital, belonging and rights to the city are continually contested at intersections of class and gender. Following India's economic 'liberalization' in the early 1990s, there has been a growing push among the country's business and elite classes to transform big cities such as Delhi and Mumbai into 'global cities,' complete with high-rise buildings, multiplexes, and massive highways. This trend has reinvigorated already embedded popular...
Show more"In the constantly transforming space of India's capital, belonging and rights to the city are continually contested at intersections of class and gender. Following India's economic 'liberalization' in the early 1990s, there has been a growing push among the country's business and elite classes to transform big cities such as Delhi and Mumbai into 'global cities,' complete with high-rise buildings, multiplexes, and massive highways. This trend has reinvigorated already embedded popular discourses and government policies that characterize the makeshift and unauthorized housing structures of the urban poor as problems to be solved, primarily through their demolition and the removal of their residents to peripheries of the city. This is in stark contrast to many lavish elite neighborhoods, also built illegally and utilizing public resources, which do not face similar concerns of demolition and removal. Instead, spatial precariousness remains largely a dilemma of the poor. Simultaneously, scholars have noted that the 'outside' or 'public' of Indian cities remain spaces to be consumed and enjoyed by distinctly masculine bodies (Hansen 2001; Lukose 2009). In contrast, women in urban public spaces must often move in primarily circumscribed ways. What's more, Delhi has had a growing reputation as a city that is particularly unsafe for women and is popularly referred to as India's 'rape capital.' Indeed, following a widely publicized gang rape in 2012, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on women's safety, and more generally on 'women's empowerment,' by city residents, social activists, and politicians alike. Yet, public discourses of women's empowerment tend to rely heavily on narratives and experiences of middleclass women, failing to address the experiences and ongoing struggles of poor women living in slums. Meanwhile, slum resident women must constantly negotiate their rights to both public and private spaces of the city as they balance movement between the instability of their 'illegal' homes and the 'masculine' public spaces. This dissertation aims to examine the intersectional marginalization (Crenshaw 1991) of poor women in Delhi as they navigate an urban space that is hostile to both female and impoverished persons but seldom provides modes of organized resistance that holistically or effectively incorporate both of these identities."--Pages ii-iii.
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