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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation examines the relationship between same-sex sexual behavior and Age, Period, and Birth Cohort through an analysis of the General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS has undertaken 14 rounds of data collection ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Tent cities date back to the 1930s; however, the past decade has seen a rise in formalized camps, many attempting to function as democratic communities. Here, democratic communities refer to temporary spaces in which ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This dissertation examines the intersections of the body, senses, and labor within a Post-Fordist, consumption based economy. Data was collected via ethnographic research of specialty coffee baristas. The concepts of “sense ...
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(University of Oregon, 1921-04)During the last ten years the reorganization of state government has been one of the liveliest subjects in political science. A great deal has been written about it, but little has been done to remedy the defects pointed ...
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health under Marketization and Community Context: Evidence from China (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation examines China’s market reforms over the last few decades, and their implications for (re)shaping socioeconomic inequalities in health. Specifically, I study the effect of marketization and related ...
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(University of Oregon, 1965-06)
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(Univeristy of Oregon, 1940-06)The state of Oregon has long been interested in the problems of the blind. In 1872 a school for the blind was established in Salem; in 1921 the Oregon Employment Institution for the Blind (now the Oregon Blind Trades School) ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The primary purpose of this ethnographic study is to contextualize Mexican American surfers experiences with sport as a lens into race, gender and class relations. Specifically, it seeks to understand how a history of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation research examines the work arrangements of software workers in high-technology industries in order to raise questions, dispel myths, and develop a labor process theory of knowledge-based work in the 21st ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)This dissertation research examines how precarity was experienced and resisted by migrant food processing workers in the Pacific Northwest, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenging the exceptionalizing narratives ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Farm labor contractors are third-party employers and critical components ofinternational labor chains that prevail worldwide through the recruitment and management of temporary workers. While the public often focuses on ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The purpose of this study is to gauge the influence of local/regional labor market conditions on educational outcomes, using human capital and dual labor markets as guiding theories. To gain an understanding of how growth ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In this dissertation, I establish a theoretical and empirical critique of modern forms of environmentally sustainable technology. Theoretically, I critique the application of environmentally sustainable technologies in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation is an empirically grounded study of the love and sex doll community. Conducted over 14 months of digital ethnographic research, this dissertation draws from participant observation, in-depth interviews, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)I begin by discussing structural alienation in the United States and its relationship to the pursuit of romantic love. I argue that romantic love is idealized due the lack of community inherent in a competitive, individualistic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)A vast majority of tourism development in Guanacaste has occurred in the northern coastal region along the Pacific coast (Honey, Vargas and Durham 2010). However, recent development is beginning to move south as developers ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The following study is concerned with the problems posed by contemporary unemployment--especially the U.S. but also globally to some extent. The most immediate problem is the dominance of neoclassical models, which routinely ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation uses mixed methods to examine the role of the coal industry in the reproduction of Central Appalachia as an internal periphery within the United States and the economic, ecological, and human inequalities ...
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(University of Oregon, 1967-12)
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Racial identity formation has been extensively studied but lacks an adequate accounting of one of the dominant forms of modern communication: social media interactions. Existing literature acknowledges an implicit and ...
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