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Description:: Much of our understanding of human becoming and the process by which possible futures are developed has been based on narrow samples of human experience, which are usually more privileged and provide a narrow view of variability in human life and development. The developmental and educational pathways of minoritized young...
Keyword:: Identity Development, Latinx women, Possible Futures, Intersectionality, STEM Learning, and Sociopolitical Development
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Education, and Social research
Creator:: Castillo-Lavergne, Claudia M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_982633 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16501

Description:: This dissertation explores the experience of violence and precarity among Central American youth as they travel through Mexico to the United States. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted across Mexico from 2015 to 2019, I illustrate how the journey of these youth migrants is, in its basic expression, an...
Keyword:: Migration, Central America, Violence, Youth, Latin America, and Children
Subject:: Sociology, Social research, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Escamilla Garcia, Angel Alfonso
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15999 and etdadmin_upload_896810

Description:: In recent years, the social sciences have been ensnared in a crisis in which many research findings cannot be replicated (Ioannidis, 2005; Open Science Collaboration, 2015; Camerer et al., 2016; Makel & Plucker, 2014). This crisis has been attributed to a variety of problems including lack of transparency about research...
Keyword:: education, treatment effect heterogeneity, response surface, and experimental design
Subject:: Statistics, Education, and Social research
Creator:: Peko-Spicer, Sarah
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_853504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15806

Description:: The experiences and environments of working-class children vary dramatically from their more affluent peers. I update Bronfenbrenner’s (1986) ecological systems theory to account for the technology children interact with and child social class, using Lareau’s (2003) frameworks that establish class differences in parenting practices. I position child technology devices at...
Keyword:: technology, occupation, working class, aspirations, home, and children
Subject:: Social research and Communication
Creator:: Hightower, Brianna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_759910 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15212

Description:: This dissertation asks how researchers can create more equitable algorithmic systems. Ultimately, this thesis explores methods and implications of representing subjects of analysis in the design and evaluation of algorithmic systems. I also unpack how algorithmic tools measure and quantify human behavior, giving heed to the potential impacts of these...
Keyword:: algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction, social discrimination, age discrimination, and algorithmic fairness
Subject:: Information science, Social research, and Computer science
Creator:: Díaz, Mark
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_762101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15226

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