Honors Theses (Sociology)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/46702024-03-28T13:42:23Z2024-03-28T13:42:23ZPublic Assistance, An Analysis as a Social MovementRibbans, Eleanor C.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/283542023-06-01T07:30:27Z1949-06-01T00:00:00ZPublic Assistance, An Analysis as a Social Movement
Ribbans, Eleanor C.
The story of public assistance in the United States reflects the development and growth of American thought in the fields of government, economics, political theory, and related fields, but most especially, the developments in the field of social work. The changes of theory regarding human rights that dominated social work in the various phases of its history can be seen to be based in the culture of the time. At many points social work philosophy was far more advanced than popular notions for the proper treatment of the poor, but by and large, the prevailing ideas were very much the same as the commonly accepted ideas of the functions of the government and individual responsibility. It was only slowly and often painfully that the underlying ideas in government, economics, and human rights changed and allowed the more modern theories, based on scientific investigation and social work, to take hold and become accepted in this country.
145 pages
1949-06-01T00:00:00ZNationalism's Influence on the Creation of the Jewish State and the Political Divide within the Zionist MovementElkan, Vanessahttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/28042007-11-09T22:33:18Z2006-06-07T22:07:08ZNationalism's Influence on the Creation of the Jewish State and the Political Divide within the Zionist Movement
Elkan, Vanessa
This thesis examines the highly controversial Uganda Project presented by the founder of the Zionist Movement, Theodor Herzl in 1903 at the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. It provides a historical and sociological explanation for the turmoil it created within the movement. This thesis explains how both external and internal factors influenced the reaction it received from the delegates of this social movement.
61 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of Sociology and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2006.; A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Storage Elkan 2006
2006-06-07T22:07:08ZColonialism and Development: Reinventing 'Tradition' and Gendered Work in Kumaon, IndiaFracchia, Elena M.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/28012019-01-10T22:53:44Z2006-06-01T00:00:00ZColonialism and Development: Reinventing 'Tradition' and Gendered Work in Kumaon, India
Fracchia, Elena M.
The forests of the Kumaon Himalayas in northern India contain a wide variety of living materials essential to the subsistence production of the people. Women and men alike have a strong sense of history connecting them to the forests and the life it provides. However, during colonial times women took on the bulk of the work associated with gathering and maintaining these forests while their male counterparts were forced out of the villages to earn an income in the cities. Over time, women adjusted to male members of the family being gone by taking on large, burdensome workloads to maintain the household. This reformation of the division of labor became the new “tradition” the villagers lived by. As women did this survival work, they also created a community and network of support for each other while they worked together to gather fuel, fodder, food and even medicine from the forest areas. The women preserved and passed down knowledge through oral traditions, giving them a complete and highly accurate understanding of how to maintain the forestland. However, social structures of a male-dominated society have kept women, and particularly their knowledge, out of the public realm. Though women could be helpful to policy formation, their participation and presence is rendered invisible through a series of cultural barriers (i.e. time constraints, gender-segregated society, male dominated families, etc). This research considers the effects of current development projects in Kumaoni culture, particularly as they affect women. Development discourse is addressed in relation to projects and the allocation of resources relating to both developing areas and women. By examining women’s work, knowledge and participation in community activities, I examine issues regarding the outcomes of British colonial rule, the breadth of wisdom which is unused and dismissed by cultural norms, and the extent to which women’s “traditional” work is hampered by public policies.
vi, 45 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of Sociology and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, June 2006.; A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Storage Fracchia 2006
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