16 research outputs found
Views about Biden's Support for Racial Justice Protestors
No full textI examine how reactions to Biden's views about racial justice protestors change depending on the message used by the protestors
White Democrats' Response to Material Racial Identity Threats
No full textThis project examines how White Democrats respond to politicians, especially Democratic politicians, proposing policies that could be perceived as a material threat to their racial group
Partisan-Colored Glasses? How Polarization has Affected the Formation and Impact of Party Competence Evaluations
No full textThe potential effects of mass polarization has become a major subject of study in political science. Multiple studies have shown that polarization at the mass level has caused political attitudes and opinions to be increasingly driven by party identification over the past few decades. Even responses to questions as nonpartisan as “Has the economy gotten better or worse over the past year?” show a partisan bias (Bartels 2002). In this paper, I look at whether party identification is having an increasing impact on party competence evaluations, as would be expected if polarization has happened at the mass level. I first study whether the effect of party identification on vote choice in House and Senate elections from 1986 through 2012 has increased, or whether the growing power of party identification is being filtered through party competence evaluations, causing the effect of these evaluations on vote choice to increase. I then look at the direct effect of party identification on party competence evaluations to see if the effect of party identification on competence evaluations has grown between 1986 and 2012, and if the effect of retrospective economic evaluations on competence evaluations has decreased at the same time. Results show that there is no clear trend in the effect of party competence evaluations and party identification on vote choice over time. However, the effect of party identification on competence evaluations has clearly risen between 1986 and 2012.GovernmentBachelors of Arts (BA
White Democrats' Response to Policies that Materially Threaten their Racial In-group
No full textThis study examines how White Democrats react to the government offering material benefits to specific groups in their community. More specifically, respondents read a short vignette about a “nearby” city council which is considering providing monthly stimulus payments to community members, and I vary which community members are eligible for the payments
Views about Racial Justice Protestors
No full textI examine how White Democrats react to messaging from racial justice protestors which may implicate White Americans in ongoing racial inequality in America to varying degrees
Toward a better understanding of role exit : a qualitative study of former Mormon women
No full textAccess to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community onlyStudies show that more people are switching or leaving religions within their lifetime (Suh & Russell, 2015, Cooper, Cox, Lienesch, & Jones, 2016). This study applies Ebaugh’s (1988) role exit theory to the lived experiences of former Mormon women. To investigate this issue, I conducted qualitative interviews with 26 women who have left the Mormon Church. The experiences of these women generally fit within the four stages of role exit identified by Ebaugh. I examine how first doubts and tipping points lead to the creation of a new role identity, while addressing how Mormon women seek alternatives to their former religious lives. The women in this study have all severed their ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have taken pieces of their previous identities to form a new one outside of the church. Furthermore, although reasons for leaving differ among the women in this study, the role exit process was difficult and often painful as they navigated a future outside a ritualistic religion with a structured plan of salvation.Thesis (M.A.)Department of Sociolog
Scientific boundary work and food regime transitions: the double movement and the science of food safety regulation
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