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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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(1954-06)During the last thirty-five years there has been noticeable in the literature of the social sciences a ride and decline in emphasis upon regionalism, particularly "the new regionalism". The term "the new regionalism" will ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007-12)In both Sweden and the United States immigration has increased, and public concern over immigration, integration, and social citizenship has become heightened. Across affluent Western countries, immigration and integration ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)The midwifery model and the medical model constitute the two main bodies of knowledge and practice that characterize the way pregnancy and birth are viewed in the United States. The midwifery model emphasizes the normalcy ...
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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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