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Item Family size and religiosity in adolescence and emerging adulthood(2011-05) McClendon, David Michael; Regnerus, Mark; Woodberry, Robert D.Religion’s influence on fertility behavior has long been discussed. This paper examines the consequences of family size for the intergenerational transmission of religiosity. Using the first and third waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion, I find that family size is a positive predictor of religious salience and service attendance, particularly in emerging adulthood. While parents remain strong influences on both family size and their children’s religiosity, family size appears to provide additional support to religious commitments in emerging adulthood by fostering a more conservative orientation towards family formation. This study adds nuance to our understanding of the dynamics of religiosity in emerging adulthood and provides new evidence of the close connection between religion, family, and fertility.Item How family groups experience the Blanton Museum of Art: a case study(2014-05) Piepgrass, Jessica Ann; Mayer, Melinda M.This thesis details a study that I conducted in order to better understand family groups who visit the Blanton Museum of Art. This data is presented using a case study methodology. I interviewed and observed eight families in an attempt to better understand what brought them to the Blanton, and what they wanted to accomplish during their time at the museum. The data collected revealed six themes. Four of these themes were goals the families brought with them to the Blanton Museum of Art. One of the themes pertained to individual motivations for coming to the museum. The final theme related to the participating families use of museum resources other than the art on display. The data was meaningful in that it demonstrated that these families did have specific goals for their time at the Blanton, and the families demonstrated behaviors which served as a means to accomplishing these goals. A goal of this research was to provide me, as an educator, with a more full and rich understanding of family groups that visit museums.Item Interpolating gamma factors in families(2015-05) Moss, Gilbert Samuel; Helm, David, doctor of mathematics; Voloch, José Felipe; Ben-Zvi, David; Ciperiani, Mirela; Schedler, TravisIn this thesis, we extend the results of Jacquet, Piatetski-Shapiro, and Shalika [JPSS83] to construct interpolated local zeta integrals and gamma factors attached to families of admissible generic representations of GL[subscript n](F) where F is a p-adic field. Our families are parametrized by the spectrum of an ℓ-adic coefficient ring where ℓǂp. To show the importance of gamma factors, we prove a converse theorem in families, which says that suitable collections of interpolated gamma factors of pairs uniquely determine a family of representations, up to supercuspidal support. To prove the converse theorem we re-prove a classical vanishing Lemma, originally due to Jacquet and Shalika, in the setting of families. This is done by extending the geometric methods of Bushnell and Henniart to families, via Helm's theory of the integral Bernstein center.Item Networked and disconnected : Latino/Hispanic immigrant youths, digital media, and assimilation into the U.S(2015-08) Lombana Bermudez, Andres Alberto; Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig); Kearney, Mary Celeste; Jenkins, Henry; Straubhaar, Joseph; Kathleen, TynerThis study examines how a group of second- and 1.5-generation Latino/Hispanic immigrant youths (14-18) navigate the uneven process of assimilation into the United States by using digital tools and networks. Understanding Latino/Hispanic immigrant youth as social actors and creative agents, I investigate how their new media practices and skills help them assimilate into multiple dimensions of the host country. For this purpose, I use a transdisciplinary framework that combines sociocultural theories of media practice, critical theories of digital inequality, and sociological theories of assimilation. Through a series of case studies of five immigrant youths with Mexican origins (two girls and three boys, ages 14-18) and working class socioeconomic backgrounds, I analyze the mediated activities they have developed in the contexts of their homes, an after-school program, and social media networked spaces. I draw on qualitative data that I helped collect as a member of the Digital Edge project during a longitudinal ethnography (2011-2012) conducted at Freeway High School, a large, ethnically diverse, low-performing, and economically disadvantaged public school in the Austin Metropolitan Area. By revealing the local conditions and structural forces that shape how these Latino/Hispanic immigrant youths use technology in their everyday life, my analysis provides: new insights into digital divides and participation gaps; a grounded understanding of the role of new media practices and skills in the process of assimilation; and a nuanced description of the diverse media environments accessed by minority youth. My findings suggest that Latino/Hispanic immigrant youth use digital media technology to assimilate into cultural, linguistic, and social dimensions of U.S. society. Particularly, as the five youths developed new media practices and gained new media skills, their process of adaptation to the culture and language of the host country accelerated. However, although they obtained skills that helped them to advance in their process of assimilation, their abilities were not developed to high levels of expertise and their participation in new media cultures often remained peripheral. Evidence reveals that digital inequalities and participation gaps persist and continue to evolve in complex ways.Item Telling family stories : gay and lesbian couples and the performance of family(2006-05) Reczek, Corinne Elizabeth; Umberson, DebraThis project addresses the experiences of 30 gay and lesbian individuals in longterm relationships. Narratives are conceptualized in this study as tools used by individuals for personal and psychological purposes. My analysis reveals that disclosure narratives told by gay and lesbian individuals functionally privilege the intimate couple's resilience. In doing so, individuals perform family in a counter-hegemonic way by subverting the importance of non-supportive family of origin. I also suggest individuals tell post-disclosure life event narratives to conceptualize changes in their relationships. These narratives further illustrate how the performance of family is contextually constructed. Finally, I argue that although such narratives function to transgress hegemonic family forms, the same narrative constructions concurrently and overtly avoid challenging oppressive structures of family by allowing family member's actions to go uncontested. In this way, these narratives reinscribe meanings of family rather than act as transformative agents that could further destabilize constructions of hegemonic family.