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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)This dissertation explores the lived experiences of mothers of disabled children. Through qualitative methods, including 39 in-depth interviews and two years of participant observation, this project examines Latinx and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This dissertation is a study of the tensions between the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) political party, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and indigenous social movement struggles for territorial autonomy. This study ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The main purpose of this study is to understand the historicity of the dynamics of socio-economic changes and the characteristics of social and political mobilization in the case of progressive activists' ongoing search ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)In this dissertation, I conceptualize femininities not as a static category of gender performance, but as a set of shifting configurations of dress, cosmetics, bodily comportment, and behaviors inflected by race, class, ...
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(University of Oregon, 1978-06)Few have perceived that Durkheim entertained two distinct schemas of anomie and egoisme in his classic Suicide. I shall demonstrate that Durkheim shifted on his analytical axes from the notion that the absence of moral ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Despite the complexities and decentralization that characterize global supply chains in today’s world economy, imperialist relations of exchange continue to prevail, due to the fact that the differences between wages of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)In this dissertation, I make an argument for strong sustainability, which emphasizes environmental and social justice concerns, by distinguishing it from weak sustainability. I critique the global neoliberal sustainable ...
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Bound by Blackness: African Migration, Black Identity, and Linked Fate in Post-Civil Rights America (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation explores the identity formation of Ethiopian and Nigerian immigrants, their second generation children, and native born African Americans who reside in the Seattle metropolitan area. Using boundary formation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-03)Infant feeding has received insufficient attention in the social sciences. Breastfeeding is an important public health concern because it provides many benefits for infants, mothers, and the community. Breastfeeding rates ...
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Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This project is based on an ethnography of Trifecta Tech (pseudonym) a major high-tech firm on the West coast of the U.S. Although a growing group of organizational theorists started investigating high-tech firms’ ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)I interviewed 60 rural, white, straight-identified men who have sex with men (MSM). I did so to answer three main research questions: How do rural, white, straight MSM understand their gender and sexual identity? How do ...
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(University of Oregon, 1941-06)
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)In this project I explore the commitment to "social sustainability" within sustainable agriculture. Using participant observations at a Northwest farmers' market, interviews with market consumers, and interviews as well ...
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(University of Oregon, 1962-06)From the wealth of data which might be gathered on any particular subject, every social investigation must specify what material will be used and for what purpose it will be used. Any subject can be approached from a variety ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Does regulating hate promote racial equality? This dissertation proposes a method for beginning an empirical examination into the benefits and burdens of anti-hate laws. Since prohibiting hate speech necessarily invokes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)The media is a social factor influencing suicide clusters. As a result, the AFSP and the CDC established guidelines for journalists in order to prevent suicide contagion and imitation. Compliance has been inconsistent. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Theoretical studies of imperialism, dependency, unequal exchange, and world-systems have commonly overlooked the ecological foundation of cross-national trade and relations. More generally, in the social sciences the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation proposes an approach to energy that transcends the focus on energy as a mere technical economic or engineering problem, is connected to sociological theory as a whole, and takes issues of equality and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This dissertation explores the practice of prepping, in which individuals and families prepare to respond to emergencies, disasters, or the collapse of society, without relying on social institutions such as the state or ...
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(1923-06)Two things at present need to be done to increase the effectiveness of sociological thought. First, in order that sociological concepts may be of the greatest service as socializing and directing factors, there is need of ...
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