Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Sociology (MU)"
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Inconsiderate consideration: claims making and the high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Adding to the literature regarding environmental racism and environmental decision-making procedures, I perform textual analysis on documented claims made by American Indians during the siting process for the high-level ... -
Informing in order to form : the Roman Catholic Church and media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)A dominate discourse in understanding the relationship between religion and media has been one of competition. This discourse of competition posits that the relationship between religion and media is inherently competitive. ... -
Interest group activity and the political process : examining the origins of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The goal of this research was to identify whose interests were served in the creation of the Drug Price Competition and Term Patent Restoration Act ... -
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 ... -
An investigation of the country church in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)The Country Church has recently become a subject of new interest and of great importance. It is attracting the attention not only of the ministry but also of the laity and must be considered anew. There is a vague feeling, ... -
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. ... -
It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)A number of authors and supporters of hip hop culture have suggested that rap music has the potential to serve as a vehicle for the next stage of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which rap music has addressed ... -
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 ... -
The methods of missionaries in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples viewed from the standpoint of sociology and pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)This thesis assumes that missionaries are a civilizing force. Their work is frequently initial and fundamental in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples. But what is meant by civilization? The significance usually attached ... -
Negro criminality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)It is not the purpose of this study to solve the "Negro Problem" or to offer a program of amelioration, but rather to seek and make clear the causes and predisposing conditions of Negro criminality. -
The Negro migrant in St. Louis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)Text from page 2: "The purpose of this investigation is to ascertain the conditions of negro migrants in this city, and to learn what additional opportunities they need. Migration to the city will not be seriously diminished ... -
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 ... -
Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)In the following pages the results of a somewhat isolated study of outdoor relief are presented. The general value of the study probably lies in the novel view it affords of a public relief system in the earlier stages of ... -
Politics of homelessness: hidden motivations for the criminalization of homelessness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Discussion of group power is illustrated through a case study of a community in the process of adopting anti-panhandling ordinances. Media analysis and ... -
Poverty and relief among Negroes of St. Louis, Missouri as indicated by the work of the philanthropic agencies of the city
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)Text from page 2: "This monograph is an attempt to present the poverty situation as found among negroes of St. Louis by the philanthropic agencies of the city; to give an idea of the work done by these agencies to relieve ... -
Practicing the faith: conversion and the construction of a Muslim religious identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While the secularization thesis has long posited that religious selves would increasingly fade into obscurity in the modern social landscape, recent ... -
Prison system of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)Missouri has no prison system in any strict use of the term. The state has a number of relatively unrelated institutions dealing with certain phases of the problem of crime. These institutions the present paper undertakes ... -
Punishment and social structure: reactionary Bourbonism and the social origins of Progressive Era death penalty reinstatment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis is an attempt to extend a former investigation that sought to identify those social factors which influenced many, at least, if not all, ... -
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, ... -
Recent Jewish immigration to the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)The attempt was made to present the results of an investigation of the problem of Jewish immigration to this country. Since an original study of this problem was not possible, it devolved upon the writer to take all that ...