The department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology (SSWA) was split into two new departments July 1, 2021. Please click on the links to see graduate works for the new departments: Social Work (SW) and Sociology and Anthropology (SOCA).
Theses
Energy Development and Differential Migration Intentions of High School Seniors in Rural Utah in 1975, Carole L. Seyfrit
Ethnic Disparities in Prenatal Care Utilization in Vietnam, Ha Ngoc Trinh
Exploration of Possible Types of Alienation and Adjustment Existing for 1964 Male Intermountain School Graduates, Maree Ruth Kjar
Factors Associated with Deviant Behavior at Intermountain School, Sonya Nesch Minock
Factors Related to Success and Participants’ Psychological Ownership in Collaborative Wildlife Management: A Survey of Sage-Grouse Local Working Groups, Lorien R. Belton
Factors Related to the Migration Preferences of Utah's 1980 High School Seniors, A. John LaCognata
Family Problems in Brigham City, Utah, Dean M. McDonald
Fear of Crime Within the Boomtown Setting, Jerry Bartlett
Fertility and Family Planning Among Navajo Indian Recipients of Public Welfare Assistance in Southeastern Utah, Gary Morris Shaffer
Finding the Time: Age-Depth Models in Rockshelters and Their Paleoenvironmental Implications, Caleb E. Ferbrache
For Love or Money: Has Neoliberalism Impacted Fertility? A Historical Comparison, Elizabeth Anne Kiester
Framing Climate Change in Local Context: Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change In Three Mountain Towns in the Intermountain West Compared to National Coverage, Tyler J. Spradlin
Framing Fracking: Media Coverage of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in South Texas, Jebadiha E. Potterf
Gender and Social Acceptance of Immigrants in a New Destination Site, Emma Meade Earl
Health Care Provider Recruitment and Retention in Millard County, Utah, Ronald T. Draper
Historical Study of Net Migration for Utah, 1870-1960, Rulon J. Huntsman
Household Projections for Utah: 1970-2000, Stephen Hauwah Kan
Ideal Size of Family Among Unmarried Females in Northern Utah, Ronald B. Johnson
Interpreting Risk: Variations and Explanations of Resident Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts, Adrian B. Uzunian
Inter-Religious Marriage and Migration, Maggie Y. Bohm
Late Prehistoric Technology, Quartzite Procurement, and Land Use in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: View from Site 5GN1.2, Jonathan Mitchell Peart
Late Taino Occupation of Jamaica: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Faunal Materials from the Bluefields Bay Site, Diana M. Azevedo
Long-Term Residents' Perception of the Effect Newcomers are Having on Nonmetropolitan Utah Communities, Michael Carl Lindholm
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: 2014 Farm Bill Insect and Disease Restoration Provision -- True Gift or False Hope?, Jamilee E. Holmstead
Male Out-Migration and the Women Left Behind: A Case Study of a Small Farming Community in Southeastern Mexico, Jamie P. McEvoy
Married Students on the U.S.A.C. Campus, Donald L. Taylor
Maternal Depression in the United States: A Geographic Comparison Between Geographic Regions and Rurality, Samantha J. Patterson
Newspaper Representations of Homelessness: A Temporal Comparative Analysis, Sarah Werman
Nonstandard Employment and the Risk of Divorce in South Korea, Donghyun Kim
Obsidian Toolstone Conveyance: Southern Idaho Forager Mobility, Benjamin L. Fowler
Occupational Aspirations and Migration: A Comparison of Rural Youth with High, Medium, and Low Occupational Aspirations and Their Chances for Migration, W. Trevor Brooks
Optimal Foraging and Population Dynamics: An Archaeological Investigation at the Birch Creek Rockshelters, Idaho, Samuel H. M. Yeates
Participation and Leadership in Voluntary Agencies at Plain City, Utah, 1947, Wade H. Andrews
Predictors of Physical Activity Among Persons With Multiple Sclerosis, Emily Jean Bennett
Private or Public Insurance? The Institutional History of Health Care in the United States and the United Kingdom, Karin M. Abel
Projections for School Population and Teacher Demand in the State of Utah for the Period 1970-200, Michael V. Macfarlane
Prophets and Preference: Constructing and Maintaining a Homosexual Identity in the Mormon Church, Richard D. Phillips
Public Recreation in Logan, Utah, 1946: An Appraisal, Beatrice J. Carroll
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Rural and Urban Migration, Lisa L. Knapp
Refugee and Employer Perceptions of the Effects of Capital on Refugee Employability in Utah, Christian L. Fritz
Relationship of the Self-Concept to Selected Measures of Performance Among Male Navajo Students at Intermountain School, Melvern Eugene Graham
Resource Competition Among the Uinta Basin Fremont, Elizabeth A. Hora-Cook
Risk and Climate at High Elevation: A Z-score Model Case Study for Prehistoric Human Occupation of Wyoming's Wind River Range, Ashley K. Losey
Schools That Serve Military Children: A Comparison of the Standardized Test Scores in the DoDEA School System Versus the Civilian School System, Mary Eleanor Fugate
Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Disparities Between U.S. Non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanics, 2000-2009, Andrew E. Burger
Self-Rated Health and Community/Social Relations, Rachel Kingsford
Shoshoni Conceptualizations of Plant Relationships, Bryan Ray Spykerman
Site-Based and Nonsite Archaeological Survey: A Comparison of Two Survey Methods in the City of Rocks, Idaho, Patrick Reed McDonald
Sociodemographic Correlates of Public Land Use and Management Preferences Among Utah Residents, Ashley R. Styczynski
Socio-Economic Factors Influencing the Intent of Rural Youths to Migrate from Emery, San Juan, Kane, and Piute Counties of Utah, Abdul Ghani Joseph Habbab
Spatial Patterns of Rural and Exurban Residential Settlement and Agricultural Trends in the Intermountain West, Saleh Ahmed
Status and Slaughter: The Psycho-Social Factors that Influence Public Mass Murder, Stephen G. Van Geem
Subsistence Strategy Tradeoffs in Long-Term Population Stability Over the Past 6,000 Years, Darcy A. Bird
Symbolic Versus Sustainable: Tracking the Apparel Industry’s Response to Crisis Over Time, Sadell R. Crabb
The Agricultural Economics of Fremont Irrigation: A Case Study From South-Central Utah, Chimalis R. Kuehn
The Attitudes of Caseworkers and Supervisors Employed by County Welfare Departments in Box Elder, Cache, and Weber Counties Toward Public Assistance, Mardell Lorene Fayer
The Baker Cave Bison Remains: Bison Diminution and Late Holocene Subsistence on the Snake River Plain, Southern Idaho, Ryan P. Breslawski
The Cache County Snowmobiler: An Empirical Study, Michael William Dierker
The Effects of the Political Landscape on Social Movement Organization Tactical Choices, Jennifer Marie Swalboski
The Effects of the Psycho-Social Need for Security on Irrigation Farmers' Behavior and Cognition Related to Water Resources, Dennis Call Geertsen
The Ideal Educator: Investigating Teaching Culture and Teaching Styles through Teacher Self-Efficacy and Social Acceptance, Jared R. Glenn
The Inevitable Fusion: A Mixed-Methods Sociological Approach to Comprehensive Kodiak Bear Viewing Management, Jacqueline M. Keating
The Influence of Ethnic Background, Religion, Education, and Income upon Family Planning Behavior and Attitudes of Certain Married Couples at Utah State University, Gustavo Loza-Montenegro
The Process of Tracking in Mathematics in Box Elder School District, Megan Haramoto Bushnell
The Question Concerning the Cooptation of the Sundance Film Festival: An Analysis of the Commodification of Independent Cinema, Matt Dee Cottrell
The Relation Between Group Participation and Personality Adjustment of High School Students in Piute and Kane Counties, Utah, John R. Christiansen
The Relation Between Health Ratings of Seventh and Eighth Grade School Children and their Family Social and Economic Backgrounds, Brigham City, Utah, 1935-36, Ralph Jenson Jr.
The Role of Educational Attainment in Migration Probability and Destination Selection for the Metropolitan Rust Belt, 1980-2000, Paul D. Jacobs
The Skull Valley Goshute and Nuclear Waste: Rhetorical Analysis of Claims-Making of Opponents and Proponents, Jesse T. Weiss
The Study of Intended Distance Based on the Migration Intention of Utah High School Senior Students, Pyoung Kim
This Was the Place: Apostasy from the LDS Church, Traci K. Burnett
Toward a Measurement of the Adequacy of Health Services in Rural Utah, Michael K. Miller
Understanding Westerners' Relationship with Public Lands and Federal Land Managers Through Attachment to Public Lands, Chris Sisneros
Under What Conditions Do Community Demographics Influence Aggregate Recycling?, Edward Kotter
Upper-Class Adolescent Delinquency: Theory and Observation, Nick Marsing
Uses of Local and Outside Agencies by People Living in the Open Country Community of Benson, Utah, Ezra Woolley Geddes
Who Wins and Who Loses? A Community Approach to Understanding the Well-Being of Boomtown Residents, Douglas Alan Malloy