Mémoire (M.Adm.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1994. / Résumé disponible sur Internet. Ce mémoire a été réalisé à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en gestion des petites et moyennes organisation de l'UQAC extensionné à l'UQAT. CaQCU CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1934.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1934.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1934.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1934.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Robert A. Hummer. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

In two empirical articles, this dissertation investigates how a college organization of black men used the concept of brotherhood to foster personal social mobility among members. Both chapters take advantage of two years of fieldwork and interviews with group members. The first article (chapter 2) explores the process whereby a group of black men on a college campus used the concept of brotherhood to create their own emotion culture. In order to support their emotional and social needs without jeopardizing their manhood status, group leaders promoted brotherhood among their new recruits to encourage emotional expressiveness, vulnerability, and trust. By providing one another with support under the ideology of brotherhood, group members were able to construct an emotion culture to help group members cope with the discrimination they faced as socially mobile black men in predominantly white institutions. In the second article (chapter 3) I analyze how a group of collegiate black men came together as a brotherhood to adopt and present professional behaviors and styles in order to navigate professional settings. These behaviors were designed to evoke in potential employers, campus administrators, faculty, and other students images of positive black men that have been celebrated culturally. As a group of young black men with professional aspirations, group members sought to develop professional self-presentation strategies, and present these presentations to the broader community. Overall, this research shows how group members fostered personal social mobility by providing one another with support and teaching professional behaviors that benefited them during their time in college. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2013. / June 11, 2013. / Black Men, College, Emotions, Gender, Race, Social Mobility / Includes bibliographical references. / Douglas Schrock, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patrick L. Mason, University Representative; Irene Padavic, Committee Member; John Reynolds, Committee Member.

This study used social engagement theory to examine the relationship between attending worship services and the trajectories of physical decline among Mexican American elders. Data for this study came from eight waves of the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE), a representative panel study of Hispanic elders across five states conducted from 1992-2006. First, linear growth curve models were used to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between attending worship services and physical limitations. Findings from this study highlighted the independent affect of attending worship services at baseline for reducing the onset and development of physical disability among Mexican American elders. Second, this dissertation explored if gender moderated the association between attending worship services and physical disability at baseline and over time. Findings from this dissertation suggest that the health benefit of attending worship services varies across gender. At baseline, attending worship services protected against health limitations among women but not for men. Over time, baseline attendance at worship services tended to benefit men more than women. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Fall Semester, 2013. / May 31, 2013. / Heatlh, Race, Religion / Includes bibliographical references. / Jill Quadagno, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patrick Mason, University Representative; Amy Burdette, Committee Member; Koji Ueno, Committee Member.