Browsing Department of Sociology (MU) by Thesis Semester "2013 Spring"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
"You gotta man up and take care of it": masculinity, responsibility, and teen fatherhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Drawing on in-depth interviews, I analyze how teen fathers talk about their experiences of teen fatherhood, how they actively construct their identities as “good dads” but also as “good men”. Specifically, I explore the ...