Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Gubrium, Jaber"

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  • Gold star motherhood: spectacle, emotion, and identity construction 

    Presson, Brittany (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    This dissertation analyzes experiences of gold star mothers, spectacles of grief, grief politics, organizational embeddedness, and the use of discourses in sense making and social identity mapping of valor revolving around ...

  • Living and dying Lakota : an ethnography of a tribal nursing home 

    Schulhoff, Anastacia (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This ethnographic research looks at people who reside, visit, and work at a Native American tribal nursing home. Using grounded theory to sort through ...

  • The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh 

    Schoen, Roslyn Fraser (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, ...

  • Social organization of authenticity in Mexican restaurants 

    Christ, Stephen R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    This dissertation analyzes the social worlds of the Mexican restaurant industry. First, the topic of organizational constructions and presentations of authenticity is investigated. In examining the relation between discourses ...

  • Suspicion, competence, and coping in preschool teachers' identity work 

    Pruit, John C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    The purpose of this research is to explore and analyze the everyday complexities of being a preschool teacher. I spent two years doing ethnographic research in a Montessori preschool and collected twenty-three interviews ...