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The (in)visibility of race, class, and gender : workers' standpoints on the transformation of Missouri's child welfare policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation is an institutional ethnography of changes in Missouri's child welfare system after House Bill 1453. I demonstrate how child welfare policy is gendered, raced, and classed by examining practices, texts, ...
A social and cultural history of the federal prohibition of psilocybin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation focuses on the events leading to the 1968 federal prohibition of psilocybin. The goal is to show how the primary active compound in an ostensibly harmless fungus (the psilocybin mushroom) became controversial ...
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 ...
Views and perceptions of what causes crime : the case of black women offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Although there have been some research studies focused on offenders' perceptions of crime, the majority have involved male inmates and used quantitative ...
Authenticity, style, and gender: explorations in rockabilly
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to build on previous work on music based subcultures to provide an overview of the rockabilly subculture as it plays out ...
Finding pseudo families in women's prisons: fact and fantasy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper examines prison literature concerning women's facilities, focusing on the years 1960-1979. Sixteen specific pieces of literature are examined focusing on three claims in respect to sexuality among the incarcerated ...
Theorizing American girl
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Pleasant T. Rowland designed The American Girls Collection with the goal of providing a line of toys and books to "enrich the lives of American girls by fostering pride in traditions of growing up female in America and ...
Living acts of semiosis: John Dewey's model of esthetic experience as key to a temporal theory of signs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper examines and compares the semiotic theories of the American pragmatist philosophers Charles S. Peirce, George H. Mead, and John Dewey in order to arrive at a pragmatist theory of signs that can serve as an ...
Branding faith: object and consumerism in religious identity construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In this thesis I theorize about the potentially negative affects of competition among Evangelical groups in their attempts to attain members on a college campus. I hypothesize that in order to draw the attention of potential ...
The other within: prismatic identities and authentic selves within the marginalized
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This article's aims are three-fold: First, it attempts to problematize the current essentialist positions of identity formation, particularly that of the Other, within the social sciences. It attempts to explore how the ...
Scare tactics, ordinary consequences, and parental advice: the individualization of social problems in television anti-drug commercials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Much research examines how drugs are socially constructed at the broad macro level, such as how certain drugs are associated with stigmatized minority ...
Reaching union families: collective identity, union advantages and the American ethos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The present study examines the beliefs of union family members. Through analysis of qualitative interviews with union members and their wives and adult children, I investigate three main themes: 1) the benefits of unions, ...
Academic and white working class perceptions of the economic aspects of white privilege
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
One job of social scientists is to parse out partial knowledge from every relevant social location in order to present a structural interpretation of social phenomena. A textual and content analysis was performed on both ...
Crooked coverage: a study of (de)racialized texts in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
On top of the intense history of racism in America, recent research has shown the increasing importance of color-blind racism and its impact on our society. While many studies have shown that racism exists in the media, ...
Fear in the media: a comparative analysis of U. S. and British news media coverage of a terrorist threat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Terrorism has become a significant media event. Research has shown the consumption of media focused on terrorism leads to higher levels of fear. This comparative content analysis of three U.S. papers (The New York Times, ...
Degendering and regendering : recomposing masculinities through anti-sexist masculinity projects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This is an interview study of anti-sexist men who are engaged in dissident masculinity politics in their everyday lives. I discuss the importance of adopting a cultural analysis that looks at practices and discourse and ...
Desperately seeking mentors: the impact of department-level and gender related characteristics on mentoring in graduate department of sociology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
There has been much research on gender inequality in higher education and the benefits of mentoring. However, since mentoring has been a predominantly male experience, most research with female students focuses on advising ...
The rhetoric of the uninsured : claimsmaking in public policy research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Public policy research is often seen as another arena applicable to the objective lens of science, as policy makers "the best evidence," or scientific facts, about a social problem to determine which solutions are most ...
The sacred and the urban : the case for social-justice gentrifiers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Building on research of both social movements and urban sociology, this study extends three core proposals: 1) that groups of "social-justice gentrifiers" have in recent decades purposely and collectively settled in urban ...
Internal colonialism and social control in the Age of Terror : the FBI's war on Islamic charities following the September 11th Attacks of 2001
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Shortly after the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States Government launched an effort to fight terrorism at home and abroad. In their domestic efforts they depended heavily upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...