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  • Prepare Before You Say "I Do " : The Rhetorical Construction of Marriage in Premarital Counseling Programs

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    Young, Jun
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    The increasing prevalence of marital breakdown in the United States has been met by the proliferation of premarital counseling programs in professional counseling centers and churches. As increasing masses of couples turn to premarital counseling to prevent future interpersonal problems, and as communities and churches across the United States deem...
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    of marriage in premarital counseling programs AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jun Young for the

  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

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    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    APPENDIX C: Marriage Equality & Other Relationship Recognition Laws ......143 APPENDIX D: Hospital

  • Insights into Chinese Youth Culture : A Comparison of Personal Values of Chinese and American College Students

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    Su, Wan
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    Schwartz and Bilsky (1987, 1990) constructed a universal psychological structure for cross-cultural studies of motivational dynamics. To test this structure, Simmons (1991) adapted data from a twenty year broad-based value survey of student cohorts at an American university. The availability of reliable, long-term data on American students permitted a comparison...
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    Chinese and American College Students Redacted for Privacy Dale D. Simmons Abstract approved: Schwartz

  • Family Sustainable Survival and the Advocacy Response Scale based on Rural Perspectives of Additives and Chemical Exposures

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    Winterbourne, Amber H. S.
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    Learning is lifelong, life-wide and life-deep, meaning it happens anywhere, at any time (Banks, et al., 2007). The implications of learning with intent, is where “free choice learning” began (Falk and Dierking, 2002; 2010). Families play a vital role in developing an integrated curriculum including: rural anthropology (epigenetics, tribalism), Geosciences...
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    ...................................................................................................................................................... 124 Appendix D- Family Sustainable Survival School Lesson Plan I

  • Title VII and Employment Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ Communities of Texas and Oregon

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    Melancon, Trystan D.
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    The primary goal of this study is to illuminate the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Oregon and Texas who were victims of workplace discrimination due to their LGBTQ+ status in order to highlight the necessity of LGBTQ+ inclusive employment discrimination legislation. This study used qualitative research methods to gather data...
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    the same way that race is. The 2015 landmark decision concerning same-sex marriage, Obergefell v

  • Chasing the Limelight : An Exploratory, Grounded Theory Multivariate Analysis of Academic Prestige in Sociology

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    Farris, Tucker D.
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    The purpose of this study was to provide exploratory understanding of the nature of academic prestige in the field of sociology, and to provide insights into the history of the discipline. The primary research question was: does academic prestige act as a factor in controlling academic knowledge production in the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tucker D. Farris for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • An Examination of the Equilibrium Theory of Intimacy in Dyadic Interactions

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    Almuaybid, Ameer J.
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    Videotapes of 90 dyadic interactions from Sommer and Bernieri (2015) were examined to assess verbal and nonverbal intimacy. Verbal intimacy (self-disclosing statements) and nonverbal intimacy behaviors (face gaze, distance, body orientation, and forward lean) were coded in every interaction. It was hypothesized that verbal intimacy (self-disclosure) would increase over time...
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    Appendix D: Experimenter Instruction Script ………………………………………… 83 Appendix E: Behavior Coding Training

  • Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a Culture of Patriarchy

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    George, Julie A. (Julie Ann)
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    The aim of this study is to explore how women who identify as both active, believing Mormons and as feminists negotiate the contradictions between an ideology that values equality (feminism) and a religion that values patriarchy (Mormonism). Data were gathered through recorded and transcribed interviews with women who identify as...
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    Mormon feminists, and d) Mormonism contains empowering elements that are attractive to Mormon

  • The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

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    Biddle, Jeanette M.
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    This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
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    , marriage, and entry into midwifery were also mentioned in the study as occasions for a Blessingway ritual

  • 'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

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    Hisey, Aimee
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    Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
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    greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of