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Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This current study examined how Black undergraduate women experience gendered racism at a historically, predominately white university in the South. ...
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 ...
"Learning the ropes : coaching and performing race, style, and identity in professional boxing"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is an urban ethnography that utilizes a critical race theory (CRT) approach into analyzing the culture and identity, race and/or ...
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 ...
Assessing prisoner identity and redefining victimless crimes: an analysis of prisoners at Boonville Corrections Center
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This paper addresses the task of assessing prisoner identity and redefining "victimless crimes" in the sociological literature. This paper will report on the results of 8, 1.5 hour interviews conducted at Boonville Corrections ...
Competitive development: economic development and the inquiry into power relations in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Economic development policy is an important topic for legislatures across the country. The contemporary trend of economic development policy has spread throughout the country in response to the political and economic changes ...
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 ...
Social organization of authenticity in Mexican restaurants
(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 ...
A case study of organizational culture change in a hospital
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation presents a case study that describes and analyzes the organizational culture change that occurred at a hospital over a period of time ...
Suspicion, competence, and coping in preschool teachers' identity work
(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 ...
Aging well : the effect of community and social resources on subjective wellbeing among older South Africans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation research uses a mixture of secondary data and aims to add to a small but growing literature on the factors that influence subjective ...
Combating nuclear power : discourses of justice, the anti-nuclear power struggle for energy justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In the present study, I critically analyze the anti-nuclear power movement (or the movement for a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future) in the U.S. using an environmental justice framework. I aim to explore how ...
Women without place : a home for now: mothering within temporary shelter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project draws on nine months of ethnographic research in a domestic violence shelter, New Beginnings, to explore the experience of mothering within ...
The theory of social unity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
The origin and nature of society: The evoluationary origin of man doubtless lies somewhere in the middle or late miocene. (1). It is commonly held, and is doubtless true, that this remote mutant type of the human stook ...
Organizational identity of sorority women: the interplay of belonging, appearance, representation and institutional meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In this project, I explore the connections sorority women on a large college campus create between their appearance, sorority membership, sense of belonging, and identity. By interviewing twenty members of ten of the ...
Churches addressing domestic violence : the spaces between discourse & identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Religious communities have historically treated domestic violence as a non-issue, or as a private matter best kept within families. However, research shows that rates of domestic violence within religious groups are reported ...
Culture, capital and community : gentrification and redevelopment in a St Louis neighborhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Gentrification is described loosely as the return of the middle class to poor and working-class urban neighborhoods, resulting in social and cultural changes to the surrounding community. The process of gentrification is ...
Producing the American zombie film: a sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This dissertation integrates three literatures in the sociological epistemology of culture to historiographically document the evolution of zombie cinema from its cinematic genesis in White Zombie (1932) to its pyrrhic ...
The criminalization of tattooing in Oklahoma : an application of Clegg's circuits of power
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research addresses the dynamics involved in the processes of criminalization and decriminalization giving particular attention to issues of power. ...
It was all black and white and there was nothing in between: Latin@ identity negotiation in the Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The general purpose of this research is to shed light on the presence of Latino/a's who are middle-class, and are living in the Midwestern United States. ...