• Suspicion, competence, and coping in preschool teachers’ identity work 

  Pruit, John C. (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 ...

• Social Organization of Authenticity in Mexican Restaurants 

  Christ, Stephen R. (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 

  Vale, Whitley Walker (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This dissertation presents a case study that describes and analyzes the organizational culture change that occurred at a hospital over a period of time (i.e., about 12 years, from 1993 through 2004). Qualitative data from ...

• The Women's Cultural and Social Society (WCSS) : Its role in shaping women's political participation in Kuwait (1963-2010) 

  Alazmi, Marzouqah Q. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  Feminism and women's rights movements are often seen as concepts and activities that originated within the West. As it is important to examine sociological concepts where they occur, this study reviews these concepts within ...

• The Social Complexity of Woman and Child Valuation in Rural Bangladesh 

  Schoen, Roslyn Fraser (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, often referred to as economic development, occurs at the intersection ...

• Landscapes of Belonging: Cuban Ethnicity, Class, and Community 

  Olsberg, Joshua E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)

  This dissertation compares the life stories of Cubans in Miami, Florida and Baracoa, Cuba to explore how Cubans in different cultural spaces define their communities and sense of belonging. The study finds that collective ...

• Discursive Resources in the Everyday Construction of Engineering Knowledge 

  Cousineau, Matthew J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Aging well: The effect of community and social resources on subjective wellbeing among older South Africans 

  Ralston, Margaret Louise (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Classlessness as Doxa: Late Modernity and Changing Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland 

  Oddsson, Gudmundur Aevar (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Punishment and social structure: reactionary Bourbonism and the social origins of Progressive Era death penalty reinstatment 

  Youngblood, Samuel Mark (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  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, of the ten U.S. States which abolished capital punishment during the ...

• Combating nuclear power : discourses of justice, the anti-nuclear power struggle for energy justice 

  Van Gerven, Jesse P., 1980- ([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 ...

• Development of protected areas : agriculture, conservation, and political decentralization in the La Amistad Pacific Conservation Area of Costa Rica 

  Thomas, Justin ([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)

  This study explores the possibilities for sustainable development at the interface of natural resource management, conservation, and agriculture in the La Amistad Pacific Conservation Area (ACLAP) in Costa Rica. I use ...

• The theory of social unity 

  Clayton, C. F. (Claud Franklin), 1890-1968 (University of Missouri, 1916)

• Churches addressing domestic violence : the spaces between discourse & identity 

  Yoder, Kendra Lynn (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 

  Suchland, Colin E. (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 ...

• "You gotta man up and take care of it": masculinity, responsibility, and teen fatherhood 

  Weber, Jennifer Beggs (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 ...

• Producing the American zombie film: a sociological understanding of the genesis and evolution of a genre 

  Platts, Todd (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 ...

• Organizational identity of sorority women: the interplay of belonging, appearance, representation and institutional meaning 

  Krueger, Kathleen (Kathleen Ellen) (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 ...

• Women without place: a home for now: mothering within temporary shelter 

  Hetzler, Olivia (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)

  This project draws on nine months of ethnographic research in a domestic violence shelter, New Beginnings, to explore the experience of mothering within non-permanent shelter. Findings contribute to sociological literature ...

• The work of the Board of public welfare of Kansas City, Missouri 

  Marquis, Eva Malvina (University of Missouri, 1913)

  The Board of Public Welfare idea is a universal one, by which we mean that such an institution is applicable to other communities. Its spirit, aim, and principles have been tested, and found not wanting; they meet the ...

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