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Shaping a true German identity : narratives in Hermann, Missouri, 1837-1857
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
was the result of a complex intersection of narratives that helped the immigrants locate themselves within their new homeland. This position is a direct challenge to conceptions that there are some innate and immutable characteristics that come to shape identity...
Turning money into speech: campaign finance, political advertising, and the civic sphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
behind the construction of the marketplace of ideas. I then examine how the relationship between money and speech impacts the production of political advertisements to evaluate the strength of speech within presidential elections from 1976 to 2016. My...
Martial citizenship : firearms, identity, and masculinity in a public militia group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
the contentious changes in social hierarchies and political power in the United States over the last several decades has produced a distinctly paramilitary gun culture from which the militia draws its members and the resources they use in their everyday identity...
The origins and implementation of the national health insurance programs in Korea, 1961-1979
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
of 1963 and 1977 were initiated by a strong state government with limited participation from interest groups of business and medical professions and labor. This study has four key findings. 1) The administrative capacity of the state based a centralized...
The methods of missionaries in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples viewed from the standpoint of sociology and pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
This thesis assumes that missionaries are a civilizing force. Their work is frequently initial and fundamental in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples. But what is meant by civilization? The significance usually attached ...
It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
, though in past years popular rap music addressed these themes with slightly greater frequency. Suggestions are given for why this decrease occurred and for why there exists such a dearth of political rap music in all of the years from which songs were...
Bringing up context : reconciling inmates' narratives and institutional rhetoric in prison policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
cognitive self-change class in which the inmates participated and documents from the state Department of Corrections. This research seeks to assess and evaluate the nature and extent of the relationship between the stated goals, policies and programs...
A child sentenced to serve life without a mother : the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program and incarcerated women's mothering strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
alleviate such burdens. We will study familial relationships within the confines of a prison system while exploring the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program, which aims to strengthen the relationship between incarcerated mothers and their daughters. It is through...
When they see us: racial criminalization, racial stigma, and identity in a Midwest college town
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
understandings of these issues can change across space and over the course of one's life. This was rooted in a continual process of awakenings, reflection, and interactions with participants gaining more complex appreciation of their racial identities...
"You say diversity, we say adversity" : white nationalism, student protest, and administrative diversity discourses in the neoliberal university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
analyze multiple types of data to investigate the diversity discourses of student protestors, white nationalists, and administration from the shake-up and wake-up of Concerned Student 1950 movement and the following six and a half years, from fall 2015...
"Rape is a part of life where I live" the normalization of girl-child sexual abuse in Jamaica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Caribbean Intersectional Feminist (CIF) lens, data were collected and examined from six child sexual abuse survivors, seven mother/daughter pairs (14) impacted by sexual abuse, four key experts, and a focus group of 12 persons from five select communities...
Killing them with kindness: a meso-dialectical study of the conceptual formation of humane and inhumane in the no-kill animal shelter movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
allows me to question linkages and contradictions among organizations within social movement fields. I use the meta-power perspective to look at the structure of power and how relational control of the available conditions for action is accomplished...
Intersubjective understanding of violence: the lifeworld of Tajik immigrant workers in post-Soviet Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of violence in the context of labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia. It examines the legal framework for migration policy and asks how sociology can understand the experience of violence and how social...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study highlights the theoretical usefulness of viewing domestic violence shelters through the conceptual framework of border-crossing and borders. Utilizing...
Emerging faith boundaries : bridge-building, inclusion, and the emerging church movement in America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
they manage perplexing interactions, and evaluate their efforts to build relational bridges in order to socially spiral outwards. Drawing theoretical resources from the sociology of religion, the sociology of culture, social cognition and boundaries theories...
Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
interviewed 25 Black undergraduate women who attended a state-flagship university in the Mid-Southern region of the US. I also conducted ethnographic fieldwork by shadowing 5-8 different participants from June of 2015 to January 2017 on campus and off campus...
It doesn't make any sense : self and strategies among college students with learning disabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Even though there has been increasing awareness of and accommodations for college students with learning disabilities, many of them still face various forms of stigmatization from instructors and peers. In this research project, I exam the ways...
Resistance to the dominant economic discourses : making sense of the economy from a working-class neighborhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study explores the way that working-class people contest dominant economic discourses and how they develop alternative explanations for their economic situation. Based on qualitative interviews, participant observation, ...