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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Social scientists and food studies scholars have shown an enduring interest in how food is produced in our largely industrialized food system. However, there has been little research about the organization of labor ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Political opportunity theory suggests that social movement organizations will increase political action efforts during times of opportunity, such as economic crises. On the other hand, business cycle theory predicts that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Beginning in the 1970s, states adopted sentencing reforms as a response to a growing number of concerns in the criminal justice system. These reforms included sentencing guidelines, statutory presumptive sentencing, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Treating food as a commodity is a dominant mode of valuing food in the United States, and around the world, in which people exchange money for food. But in a world that can feed over 10-billion people why is poverty ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)This dissertation explores how three social movements deployed an anti-neoliberal master frame during the course of a multi-movement protest wave. Using ethnographic content analysis. I examine the Global Justice (GJM), ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue classical quantitative environmental justice research has three limitations: 1) overemphasizes the role of corporate actors and market forces in forming environmental hazards; 2) assumes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This dissertation is a sociological study of the Sicilian bluefin tuna fishery. It will examine the social and ecological transformation of this fishery during the modern era. This will be analyzed utilizing a sociological ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This dissertation uses data from the World Bank and hierarchical linear modeling approaches in order to further develop our understanding of the relationships between ecological rationality, international inequality, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation addresses features of the displacement paradox in the context of electricity generation, both at the cross-national level and within one region of the United States. The displacement paradox is the empirical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)This dissertation delves into the complex socio-environmental issues that lay at the intersection of natural resource governance, environmental injustice, and environmental discourse in Russia—a nation with an economy ...
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(1960-06)The focus of this particular study is on collective bargaining, or more generally, industrial sociology. Fringe benefits, the particular aspect of collective bargaining in question, were chose not so much for their present ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Representing a distinct contribution to the tradition of comparative international research in the environment, this dissertation studies the effects of national economic restructuring programs, implemented under the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)This dissertation examines the relationship between democracy and international economic ties. The effects of economic processes on domestic politics have long been a subject for debate in the literature: some authors argue ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)This dissertation uses social network analysis to integrate the relationality of nation-states more fully into quantitative macro-environmental sociology. Specifically, I am interested in the following questions: How can ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Cities in the United States are increasingly challenged with sharpening inequalities, social exclusion and the effects of a swelling environmental footprint. In response, city officials, political interest groups and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This project is about the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideology as it influences the conception and delivery of services in the field of re-entry. Re-entry refers to the release from prison as it is experienced by convicted ...
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(University of Oregon, 1977-03)This study is an attempt to increase our understanding of the class structure and political economy of the United States, through a detailed examination of one extended family of great wealth. Focusing on a single case, ...
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(University of Oregon, 1970-09)What can be called the conventional view concerning the operation of family, kinship and other ascriptive ties during social change in non-Western countries is subjected to an extensive critique. The conventional view ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Prioritizing mothers' observations of their disabled children's lived experiences in special education offers us a crucial point of contact to check the pulse of a system upon which vulnerable children rely. Through my ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Football is one of America's favorite sporting pastimes, with its top professional organization, the National Football League (NFL), raking in some of the highest revenues of any sports league in the nation. There has been ...
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