Sociology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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MAKING THE CHOICE TO USE HERBS: PATHWAYS TO THE PRACTICE OF HERBALISM
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)This study examines how herbal medicine users chose to begin using herbal medicine: How do people learn about, become interested in, and begin using herbal medicine? How do social, cultural, personal, and situational factors ... -
Determining Diabetes: The Role of Educational Attainment and Race/Ethnicity in the Link between Health Behaviors and Diabetes
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Drawing on a theoretical framework that integrates the social determinants of health perspective with health lifestyles theory (Cockerham 2005) and social psychological theories of person control (Mirowsky and Ross 2003), ... -
Landowners and the Marcellus Shale: Money, Perceptions of Community Life, and the Natural Gas Industry
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This paper explores the recent natural gas development in the northeastern Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania through interviews with landowners. Since 2007, the region has experienced both a boom and bust of the ... -
Digital Desire: Commercial, Moral, and Political Economies of Sex Work and the Internet
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)ABSTRACT This dissertation investigates the relationships among changing public attitudes toward sexuality, the rise of the Internet as a site of commercial sex production and consumption, and public opinion toward and ... -
Food Insecurity, Childhood Obesity, and the Role of Assistance Programs
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Childhood obesity has become a major health issue in the United States and is disproportionately prevalent among low-income children. A relationship may exist between food insecurity—uncertain access to adequate food--and ... -
Two Paths to Sustainable Farming: Gender, Care-work, and Finding Common Ground in the Bible Belt
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)According to the 2012 United States Agricultural Census, women are a growing demographic in sustainable agriculture and a shrinking one in conventional agriculture. Relative to the number of female farmers, women are farming ... -
DISEASED BODIES AND RUINED REPUTATIONS: VENEREAL DISEASE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN’S RESPECTABILITY IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY KANSAS
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)In 1917, the state of Kansas passed a state quarantine law, Chapter 205, which allowed authorities to detain people with venereal disease. The law was enforced along lines of gender, race, and class, with poor women being ... -
From Amazon Warriors to Hobbits: Heightism and the Cultural “Staturization” of Identities, Gender, and Sexuality
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)This dissertation examines the social processes of “staturization,” or the cultural aspect of human height, and marginalization that comprise heightism, or discrimination based on height. The symbolic meanings of height ... -
Grassroots Resistance to the Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)While the Keystone XL Pipeline project became a major cultural and political symbol for the greater environmental movement’s effort to curb carbon dioxide emissions and begin shifting to a renewable energy economy, a ... -
READING BETWEEN THE LINES: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND EROTIC CAPITAL IN AMERICAN AND IRISH WOMEN’S BOOK CLUBS
(University of Kansas, 2015-01-01)This dissertation examines the role of reading and book club attendance in the lives of Irish and American women’s fiction readers who actively participate in women’s book clubs. This research used mixed methodology, ... -
When the Wells Ran Dry: A Treadmill Analysis of Political Capitalism and Environmental Degradation in the Minqin Oasis
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)My dissertation is a case study examining how changes in land tenure and taxation policies created underdevelopment in the region worst affected by desertification in China: the Minqin oasis in the Gansu province. I argue ... -
A preliminary study of social interaction in the classroom
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“Infertile Myrtles”: Stigma Power, Invisible Stigma, and Social Interactions between Infertile and Pregnant Women
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Infertility is a condition that affects nearly 30 percent of women aged 25-44 in the United States. Because of the intrusive nature of infertility treatments, women often rely on strong social support to navigate the ... -
Journey to Parenthood: How New Fathers and Mothers Make Sense of Perinatal Emotional Distress
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation study drew on in-depth interviews with a class diverse sample of 30 mothers and 17 fathers who experienced emotional distress as a new parent. The definitional boundaries of perinatal mental health ... -
Stepping Out: Narratives of Former Fundamentalist Christians
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Fundamentalist churches are unlike most mainstream forms of Christianity because of the elevated level of encapsulation these groups attempt to instill in their members. Encapsulation leads individuals to develop closely ... -
The who, how, and why, of the hobo
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A study of the influence of labor in the presidential election of 1928. Emphasis on labor journals
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A comparison of the psychiatric and the sociological approach to the study of problem children
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Social factors in dementia praecox
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A study of student moral opinions
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