Recent Master Theses -- From 2002

Sociology Program

Year	Title	Author
2016	Sustainability and Food Waste: A Sociological Exploration of Student Attitudes, Knowledge, Awareness, and RSO Activity at the University of Wyoming	Filatova, Sofiia
2016	Employment Factors and the Education-Health Gradient in the United States	VanOrsdale, Josey
2016	White Ethnic Diversity and Community Attachment in Rural Iowa	Flagg, Chloe
2016	Consumer Choice and the Alternative Banking Industry	Patterson, Heather
2016	Towards a Universal Model of Retribution: The Case for Irreducible Features of Retribution across Human Cultures	Degenhart, John
2015	Relationship Dissolution and Intended Pregnancy among Women in Abusive Relationships	Moller, Sydney
2015	White Habitus and Video Games: A Two-Stage Content Analysis	Stout, Chris
2014	Dual Status: The Evolution of Legislative Exemptions for Deviant Behavior	Callahan, Linus
2014	Socioeconomic Status and Confidence in the Executive Branch	Koenig, Scott
2014	Strategic Frame Transformation via the Use of Rhetorical Tactics: The Case of Intelligent Design	Heusser, Phil
2014	Food Insecurity among Immigrants and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the United States: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey	McCormick, Ana
2014	The Military Effect on Fertility and Family Size	Simpson, Janelle
2013	A Legacy of Inequality: Muslims and Contemporary Income Inequality in the United Kingdom	Varju, Melinda
2013	Are The Kids All Right? A Qualitative Study of Adults with Gay and Lesbian Parents	Sasnett, Sherri
2013	Effects of Learning Disabilities on Social Reactions to Prison Inmates	Williamson, Bethany
2012	Internet Use and Trust: Predicting Internet Use and its Effect on a User's General Social Trust	Hinman, Alyson
2011	Revocation Rates and the Discretionary Power of Community Sanctions Officers	Weaver, Jeremy
2011	Kids and Guns: The Impact of Children and Parenthood on Adult Support for Gun Control	Thompson, Matthew
2011	Assessing and Extending the Value-Belief-Norm Theory to Predict Environmentally Significant Behavior	Moloney, Claire Fairley
2011	The Metabolic Rifts of Livestock Agribusiness	Gunderson, Ryan
2011	The Choice to Stay in Prison: Understanding Wyoming Inmates' Decision to Forgo Parole	Best, Brianna
2011	Don't Blame it on the Alcohol: College Binge Drinking Predictors Related to Student Life & Campus Involvement	Atwood, Elizabeth Bennett
2010	Determinants of Online Health Information-Seeking: Extending Andersen's Healthcare Model to Examine Choices Made about Health Information	Panas, Lawrence J.
2010	The Movement for Community Inclusion of Persons with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities: Albany County, Wyoming 1950-1975	Obermiller, Donna
2010	Effects of Individual and Community Characteristics on Sentencing: A Test of the Threat Hypothesis	McCord, Kristyn
2010	The Rural-Urban Suicide Differential in a Rapidly Growing Area: The Case of Colorado and Utah	Kato, Muneyuki "Shinze"
2009	Mississippi Mud: Social Vulnerability and Risk in Hurricane Katrina's Wake	Pribanic, Kelly
2009	Caretaking and Conflict: The Quality of Nursing Home Care for the Fragile Elderly in a Changing Society	Prehn, Nancy
2009	The "Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution": The Political Elite's Perception and the Violent Breakdown of Yugoslavia	Pleic, Mate
2008	Open and Closed-Ended Questions About Economic Motivations in a National Telephone Survey: Analysis Using the SPSS Text Analysis Software	Dorssom, Michael
2008	How to Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Discrimination: Lessons from Survivor.	Dilks, Lisa M.
2008	Subsidence, Making Sense of a Chronic Technological Disaster: How Residents Construct Divergent Understanding of the Same "Problems" in Rock Springs, Wyoming	Coburn, Michael
2007	Creating and Recreating Christianity: The Growth of the Christian Right within the Spectacular Society of Postmodernity	Utz, Scotty
2007	Wyoming Ice: Social Disorganization and Methamphetamine Use in a Rural State	Roussell, Aaron
2007	Visitor Perceptions of Yellowstone National Park	Loubsky, Todd
2007	The Demography of Nike, Helena, and Melpomene: A Feminist Sociolegal Analysis of Athletic Gender Equity via Sports Law	Brown, Katrina
2006	Wyoming Drug Court Teams' Effectiveness at Performing Interdisciplinary Teamwork	Powell, Shannon C.
2006	Drug Courts: A Social Capital Perspective	May, Candace
2005	Competitive Advantage and Economic Development	Li, Xuemei
2005	A Geography of Secondary Homes in Wyoming	Jacquet, Jeffrey
2005	Economic Globalization and Health in Low and Middle Income Countries	Dommaraju, Premchand
2004	The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996-Federal Guidelines and Local Realities	Tezli, Annette
2004	College Tuition: Its Relationship to Affordability and Revenue Enhancement	Butler, Steve
2003	Protest Against Patenting of Life Forms: A Social Movement Analysis	Smith, Karla
2003	The Fair Play Committee: The Mobilization of Draft Resisters from the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Camp During World War II	Root-Elledge, Sandra
2003	Examining Sources of Bias in a Household Health Insurance Study: Implications for Survey Design	Leighty, Martha
2002	Effects of the Activities of Daily Living Limitations and Chronic Health Conditions on Depression in the Elderly	Rexroat, Nanna
2002	Cross-National Variation in Sex Trafficking Legal Activity: Prohibitive Legislation, Regulations, & Bureaucratic Actions	Kasper, Janelle
2002	Moral Reasoning in a Life-Death Social Dilemma: The Case of Survival Cannibalism	Armstrong, Cynthia

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