RSS 1.0Sociology electronic theses and dissertations (MU)
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Liminal lives : presentation of self among Muslim immigrants in a small Midwestern city
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Strange and familiar : narratives of embodiment and objects after breast cancer
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Distilling whiteness : prohibition of alcohol and Americanization of German-Americans in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In the field of sociology, Joseph Gusfield (1963) is considered the leading authority on the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in 1919. Gusfield's (1963) status politics paradigm presents alcohol prohibition as ... -
Feeding others' children : a comparative ethnography of school food service employees and how they make meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Utilizing 18 months of participant observation, 25 in-depth interviews and numerous textual sources, this research is an ethnography at an elementary, middle, and high school looking at how school food service employees ... -
Selling wellness : the cultural politics of holistic health in the U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Currently, holistic health and lifestyle medicine are growing sectors of the U.S. health care market (Fadlon 2005). The term "holistic" entered the U.S. medical discourse in the 1970s and refers to the treatment of the ... -
Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Climate change is disrupting and will continue to disrupt peoples' lives and communities all over the world. Nevertheless, a vast majority of research has focused on the environmental and/oreconomic consequences of the ... -
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 ... -
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)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)
(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
(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
(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
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Aging well: The effect of community and social resources on subjective wellbeing among older South Africans
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Classlessness as Doxa: Late Modernity and Changing Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland
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Punishment and social structure: reactionary Bourbonism and the social origins of Progressive Era death penalty reinstatment
(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
([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
([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
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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 ...