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Restrictive Covenants & Our Segregated Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006-12-11)
Two winters ago, I took a writing course with Professor George Williams, where
we read an excerpt from Kevin Fox Gotham's book, Race. Real Estate, and Uneven
Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000. Hearing ...
Distinction in death: an analysis of individuality, sociality, and brand consumption in contemporary American funeral practices
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
To date, a growing number of contemporary Americans have come to trust that recognizable
commodity brands and personal consumer preferences now provide the best means of
personalizing funerals and communicating individualized ...
Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
(2015-07-28)
The mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the past 30 years has
beckoned the social sciences to illuminate and address the complex phenomena
underlying actions that impact the environment. While many studies ...
Modernizing the public space: gender identities, multiple modernities, and space politics in Tehran
(2013)
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, surprisingly, the presence of Iranian
women in public spaces dramatically increased. Despite this recent change in women's
presence in public spaces, Iranian women, like in ...
"Defective childhoods": television news and the social construction of the 'child in need'
(2013)
The modern media, particularly television news, produces and airs news reports and
special programs presenting social justice and human rights stories. Some of these news
reports feature children with identified emotional, ...
Aspiration Differences in Female High School Students Based on Parents' Education Level
(2015-05-26)
This study uses data from 61 in-depth interviews with high school junior and
senior girls to examine differences in educational aspirations by parental education level.
By examining how young adults’ aspirations are ...
A Tale of Two Risks: The Framing of HIV Transmission Risk in Health Brochures
(2014)
The framing of a health issue such as HIV transmission risk may directly impact
public opinion, which plays a significant role in the formation of health policies. Brochures
are an important piece of HIV treatment and ...
Governing Corporations: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Expanding Role of Business in Society
(univ, 2018)
This thesis explores the evolving role of business in society and the recent
development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, in order to form a greater
understanding of the changing nature of contemporary ...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Care Work and Paid Work in the United States
(2022)
Informed by disaster literature, the current study offers a quantitative, social structural analysis that reveals the inadequacy of the market to provide care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2021. This thesis focuses ...
Retirement Satisfaction of Married Individuals in the Health and Retirement Study
(2020)
High levels of satisfaction in retirement are as much a guarantee as promising immigrants to the United States happiness in their new American life. The authors of the United States Constitution understood this concept and ...
Adding Insult to Injury: How Neoliberal Ideology Convinces the Disadvantaged to Blame Themselves for Poor Health
(2019)
Health outcomes are strongly tied to social class. Childhood environment, level of education, income, and even neighborhood characteristics are strongly correlated with negative health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, ...