This community contains the theses and dissertations of the Department of Sociology and Rural Studies.
Due to copyright restrictions, the collection contains both open access and university access theses and dissertations. University access items are only available to SDSU users, and on-campus visitors. Non-SDSU users wishing to access restricted materials may request items through their institution’s interlibrary loan services.
ETDS from 1999
The Interaction of Relationship Duration and Behavioral Strategies in Acquaintance Rape Situational Definitions, Barry L. Spriggs
ETDS from 1998
Ethnicity, Education and Empowerment: Identity Construction Among Minority Students in Southwestern China, Maryjo Benton Lee
Girl Scout Volunteer Leader Retention: An Issue of Self-Role Merger, Linda Ann Brandt
Determinants of Members' Willingness to Participate in a Local Environmental Organization, Tonya R. Haigh
Freshmen Values and Educational Expectations: A Test of an Extension of Kohn's Model, Marcey A. Moss
ETDS from 1997
Higher Education in Rural America : A Study of Northern Plains American Indian and Non-Indian Attitudes, Aspirations, Expectations, and Perceived Barriers, Marta Albertus Brosz Mohr
Parental Involvement of African-American Fathers in Dual-Earner Families, Mark Alan Edwards
The Agenda-Setting Process of a Daily Newspaper: A Case Study, Elizabeth Evenson Williams
ETDS from 1996
An Assessment of the Impact of Student Pre-College Characteristics and First-Year Experiences on College Freshman Persistence, Joann E. Abbott
Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors Relating to Fertility: A Ghanaian Level Test of the Contextual Theory of Fertility, Roger W.Y. Klomegah
American Widowers with School-age Children : An Exploratory Study of Role Change and Role Conflict, Douglas Edward O'Neill
Explaining County Suicide Rates in Minnesota and Iowa, Beth Tracton
An Application of Melvin Kohn's Social Class-parental Values Model in a Rural Context, Sue T. Wika
An Assessment of the Relationship Between Income and Power in American Marriages, Bill J. Wright
ETDS from 1995
Prosecutorial Perceptions of "Battered Woman Syndrome": An Analysis of the Sociology of Law, Glenda Faye Jurke
ETDS from 1994
Determinants of Receptivity to Innovative Change: "Focus on Educational Improvement", Carol J. Cumber
An Evaluation of Social Control Theory as a Means of Explaining Participation in Project DARE, Joann H. Jorgensen
A Community's Assessment of the "Year of Reconciliation" Indian and Non-Indian Views, Donna M. Osment-Epp
ETDS from 1993
An Assessment of Factors Related to the Continued Criminal Behavior of Female Felons, Thomas Allen
Why 22% for Ross Perot? A Political Sociological Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Election, Mary Anne Bennett
An Examination of the Relationship Between Commitment Patterns of Dual-Earner Couples to Work and Family Role-Sets and Role Strain, Melodie Lynne Lichty
Fertility Behavior of Married Couples in Peninsular Malaysia, Sundramoorthy Pathmanathan
Alaskan Native Suicide, Karl T. Pfeiffer
Life Satisfaction of Nursing Home Elderly, Harriet Scott
Male Sexual Aggression, Roger Dean Wendt
ETDS from 1991
Gender Role Socialization and the Choice of an Agriculture Curriculum, Brenda Donelan
American Indian Entrepreneurs: A Case Study, Kenneth Provost
An Empirical Study of Job Satisfaction Among Graduates of South Dakota State University's College of Pharmacy, Jean A. Vandenberg
ETDS from 1989
A Systems Analysis of Senior Center Structures, Environments, and Impacts, Donald E. Arwood
Social Indicators and Infant Mortality: A Regional Study of South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana, 1980, Dana C. De Witt
Role Conflict Between Work and Family : The Scarcity Approach Versus the Expansion Approach, Melodie Lynne Lichty
Education for the Handicapped and the Social Construction of Reality in Two Rural School Districts, Rachel Froiland Quenemoen
A Portrait of a Blue Collar, Female, Rural Manufacturing Labor Force Facing Unemployment, Jennifer Lynn Reinbrecht
ETDS from 1988
The Relationship Between Selected Social and Environmental Factors and Cancer Mortality by Planning District in South Dakota, 1960-1980, Mansour Haghighatian
An Empirical Test of Two Conceptual Models Concerning American Students' Social Distance from International Students, Ahmad Heydari
Structural Differentiation, Technology, and Employee Fringe Benefits : A Model of Formal Organization, Paul Eric Krueger
Images of Kuwaiti Women : A Content Analysis of Representative Selections from the Literature with Accompanying Annotated Bibliography, Texas Sabine Swanjord
ETDS from 1987
Talcott Parsons' Economic Sub-systems Model and County-to-County Net Migration Patterns in South Dakota 1975-1980, Richard E. Barnes
The Effects of Nonmetropolitan Net Migration Rate on Selected Demographic and Employment Characteristics in the Agricultural Western Plains Division of the West North Central Region, 1970-1980, Abidemi Olumide Oyinlade
ETDS from 1986
Role-taking and Power in Health Care, Dana Charles De Witt
ETDS from 1985
An Analysis of the Exchange Relationships in a Voluntary Organization Network Undergoing Structural Change, Gary A. Goreham
The Social Role of the Church : Alienation or Mediation?, John O. Umoh
ETDS from 1984
Sociocultural Factors Associated with Grassland Plowout in South Dakota Counties, Peter Froelich
ETDS from 1983
A Comparative Analysis of Regional Councils in a Five State Area, Sui Shan Au Yeung
Selected Factors Associated with Age-specific Net Migration for South Dakota, 1970-1980, Sidney G. Goss
The Adjustment of Foreign Students at SDSU, Mansour Haghighatian
ETDS from 1982
Educational, Occupational, and Residential Plans of Youth in South Dakota, Donald E. Arwood
ETDS from 1981
An Investigation of Factors Associated with Recidivism Among Juvenile Offenders, Michael Gene Breci
Social and Structural Factors Associated with Career Mobility Among South Dakota Registered Nurses, Mercedes Iverson
Alienation of Rural Youth in South Dakota, Mohammad S. Zakikhani
Of Another World: The Jehovah's Witnesses, William Wesley Zellner
ETDS from 1980
A Comparative Perspective on the Status Attainment Process of White and Native American Youth, Leonard R. Decker
A Study of the Elderly's Anticipated Participation in Educational Activities, Roger Reed
The Effect of Source-Message-Variants on Racial Attitude Change Among College Freshmen, Winfrey M. Ruffin, Jr.
An Analysis of Changes in the Divorce Rate in South Dakota from 1950-1960, 1960-1970 and 1950-1970, Jody J. Shaskey
ETDS from 1979
Selected Socio-demographic Factors Associated with Fertility Change in South Dakota, 1960-1970, John M. Butterbrodt
Demographic and Social Consequences of a Shift from a Growth to a Stationary Population Model for South Dakota Counties : 1960-1970, Sharon Kunkel
ETDS from 1978
Factors Affecting South Dakota Guidance Counselors' Perceptions of the Career Opportunities of Native American Students, Janet A. Gullickson
A Study of Female Participation in the Labor Force in South Dakota from 1950-1970, Mary K. Wagner
ETDS from 1977
A Study of Selected Factors Associated with Formal Normative Inmate Behavior at the Maryland State Correctional Institution, Virgil J. Brown
A Study of Factors Associated with Community Satisfaction Among Residents of a South Dakota Community, Javan E. Dargan
Project Remand : Estimating Probability of Failure to Appear, Glen Arthur Just
ETDS from 1976
Factors Associated With the Acceptance by Nursing Students of Role Functions as Characteristic of an Expanded Role for Nurses, Sharon Leech Hofland
An Ecological Analysis of Migration Patterns in North Dakota and South Dakota, Hadley Gerald Klug
Social-Structural Effects on the Adoption of the Snowmobile as a Recreational Innovation, Sandra H. Ramynke
Correlates of Leadership Attractedness Among Instrumental and Expressive Voluntary Service Organizations in Fall River and Meade Counties of South Dakota, William Wakefield
ETDS from 1975
An Analysis of the Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Changing Numbers of Farm Units in South Dakota, Keith A. Carter
A Study of Factors Associated With Outdoor Recreational Participation in South Dakota, James W. DeLong
ETDS from 1974
Factors Associated with Population Changes in Rural South Dakota Communities, Sidney G. Goss
A Study of Selected Demographic Factors Associated with the Number and Characteristics of Marriages Solemnized in South Dakota: 1960-1972, Jon Gregory Lundeen
A Study of Disadvantagement and Migration for Counties in South Dakota: 1960-1970, Marco Montoya
Population Change in West Africa : 1954-1972, Ndidi Odashionu Okwumaba
A Study of Attitudes of South Dakota Residents Toward Selected Aspects of Hunting, Hunters, and Game Officials, Jerome R. Rosonke
A Multi-Variate Analysis of Selected Socio-Demographic Factors Associated With the Attitudes of Big Stone Lake Area Residents Toward Community Services, Oscar J. Schinkel
ETDS from 1973
Selected Social Stratification Factors and the Self Concept as Contingencies in College Persistence and Persistence in College Program Choice, Arnold J. Menning
ETDS from 1972
A Study of Selected Demographic Factors Associated with Changes in the Aged Population of South Dakota, 1960-1970, Bruce Gordon Breamer
Manpower Training Programs in South Dakota : Socio-economic Attributes of Participants Associated with Training Outcomes, James W. DeLong
Attitudes of Registered Nurses in Designated South Dakota Hospitals Toward Aspects of Terminal Patient Care and Euthanasia, Sharon Ann Hofland
A Study of Selected Factors Associated With Environmental Attitudes of Big Stone Lake Area Residents, Bradford George Perry
Urban Insurrections: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Toward an Integrated Typology, James Russell Stewart
A Study of Selected Demographic Factors Associated With Changes in Age Structure in the Population of South Dakota From 1960-1970, Robert Todd Wagner
ETDS from 1971
Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of Seminary Students, William Mastin Cross
Population Changes Associated with Net Out-migration from South Dakota Counties, 1950-1960, Gerald F. Heil
Adjustment of Rural and Urban Residents in Five Retirement Homes in Northeastern Wisconsin, Grace E. Kiefert
A Conceptual Analysis of Alienation in Current Theory and Research, Lanny Aron Neider
ETDS from 1970
A Study of Selected Factors Associated with Participation in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Employment Assistance Program on a Dakota Indian Reservation in the Northern Great Plains, Daniel Gregory Faas
Attitudes of Farm Operators in Four South Dakota Counties Toward the Conservation of a Natural Resource, Charles Thomas Fortney
American Indian Attitudes Toward Education in Select Areas of South Dakota, Glen Arthur Just
Characteristics of Low Income Families in Eastern South Dakota : An Examination of the Culture of Poverty Concept, James Lee Satterlee
Characteristics of Low-Income Families in the Head Start Program in Three Eastern South Dakota Counties, Christopher Lee Smith
A Comparative Analysis of Selected Characteristics of Male and Female Felony Offenders in Washington State Adult Correctional Institutions, 1964-1969, Vincent A. Van Der Hyde Jr.
ETDS from 1969
South Dakota Farm Boys Planning Farm and Nonfarm Occupations: A Comparative Analysis, Alan L. Loya
Protestant Church Members' Attitudes Toward Community in Seven South Dakota Counties, Don Martin
Selected Social and Personal Factors Associated with the Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Rural South Dakota Youth, Jean D. Pederson
Attitudinal Differences Among Youth Related to Community Structure and Growth Status, Wendell Duane Wessman