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How communication impacts network structure and access to community social capital
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation utilizes an interactional community perspective that focuses upon the networks of common experience within a place (Colclough and Sitaraman 2005). Little empirical research exists about how information ...
Investigations from the ribcage : the (dis)embodied order of safety, children, and the problematics of public school policy practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation endeavors to explore the ways in which policies of safety in the public school order the everyday lives of student-children. Using varying feminist methodologies, I explore the experiences that children have with the safety...
A case study of a bio-science network : the Kansas City animal health and nutrition corridor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
the economic interactions within a network of public, private and civic organizations engaged in commercializing animal health and nutrition products. The analysis shows that the patterns of relations follow a functional logic. That is, weak ties are more...
Survival of the preppers : an exploration into the culture of prepping
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
concerns and are averse to relying on public entities or institutions to meet their needs....
Preparing for rural ministry : a qualitative analysis of curriculum used in theological education to prepare clergy for ministry in a rural context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This qualitative content analysis of course descriptions, goals and objectives and an analysis of the content covered in twenty syllabi, reading materials and films was conducted to provide current and sociologically informed knowledge...
Examining forms of capital : the satisfaction with the education and the higher education opportunities of the children of Latino families in three rural communities in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study aimed to investigate how forms of capital relate to satisfaction with the education and the higher education opportunities of the children of Latino families in three rural communities in Missouri. The specific ...
Rural emergency management : an inter-organizational case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation are the essential disaster management functions that characterize emergency management. Emergency management is a multi-organizational activity. The connections between these ...
Leading in the Mississippi Delta : an exploratory study of race, class and gender
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While there is much work on the Mississippi Delta, it is varied. There is a large literature base focusing on the Civil Rights Movement. There is also a large literature base focusing on the social and economic issues such ...
Land dykes in the Ozarks : lesbian feminists living menopause and beyond
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This dissertation explores the experience and meaning of menopause and aging within a community of lesbian women residing in the Ozarks. Using multiple methods of in-depth interviews and participant observation, this ...
Factors effecting Black natural resources professionals' decisions to relocate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
/fairness, living in a remote or rural area and gender. The methodology includes preliminary interviews, analysis of public records and an on-line quantitative survey of BNRPs. The data for this dissertation were drawn from the United States Department of Interior...
Gendered waters : the participation of women on the program 'One million cisterns' in the Brazilian semi-arid region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation presents a qualitative case study of women participation in the Program 'OneMillion Cisterns' in the Brazilian Semi-Arid region, in three locations: Afogados da Ingazeira, Mossoro and Fortaleza, using ...
Spatial cluster analysis of female breast cancer diagnosis in Missouri : using GIS and spatial analyst functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The stage at cancer diagnosis has a tremendous impact on type of treatment, recovery and survivor. In most cases the earlier the cancer is detected and treated the higher the survival rate for the patient. Various studies ...
Exploring the impact of the Millennium Village Promise on community networks : the case of Sauri Millennium Village in western Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
For several decades, international development experts have been involved in attempts to help rural communities in Africa attain the economic development. The Millennium Village Promise is the recent strategy which is ...
The relationship between satisfaction with life as a whole and three other factors (domain satisfaction, social network ties, and perceptions of service delivery): Rural Russian village panel study 1995-2003
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
-dimensionality of LS and examined LS from three different angles. Using rural Russian village panel data 1995-2003, the dissertation conducted three different analyses. Scholars say that LS and happiness studies are important for social, economic, and public policy...
The role of social capital and acculturation in healthcare access : the case of Hispanics in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Hispanics are today the largest group with the lowest access to health care in the U.S. as measured by several studies that quantify rates of uninsured and percentages who lack a primary care physician (R. Andersen, Lewis, ...
Social networks and access to soybean value chains in rural Mozambique
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Mozambique is one of the poorest, malnourished and foreign aid dependent countries in Africa. About half of its 27 million people live below poverty in the rural areas and depend on agriculture. Over the last ten years, ...
Understanding rural poverty clusters : the intersection of agriculture, economic structure and locality under postindustrialism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Analysis seeks to understand rural poverty within the context of agricultural and postindustrial economic structure. Detailed socioeconomic data are analyzed for 4,610 non-metropolitan census tracts in the north central ...
Spatial analysis of poverty and prosperity in the U.S. counties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, lower percent of people working in low paying service sectors, and more jobs in manufacturing sectors. A major contribution of this study to sociology is that spatial effect should be taken into consideration while dealing with spatially correlated data....
Economic and social foundations of collective action : an inter-disciplinary institutional approach to Mexican dairy farmers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This research uses an interdisciplinarian neo-institutional approach to examine formal and informal institutional factors that influence dairy farmers' ideas about participation in collective action in the "Altos Sur" ...
Encounter on a home-delivered raw milk route
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Local food practices are an increasingly visible as acts of resistance to the mainstream food system. Some characterize these initiatives as a quiet ...