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Sociology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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WORKING TEMP: HOW TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FIND MEANING THROUGH LIFE COURSE NARRATIVES
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)Using qualitative interviews, I examine the way that workers contracted with temporary employment agencies make sense of their work lives. Temp work is structured and organized in such a way that leads to unstable and ... -
Department Chairs and High Chairs: The importance of perceived department chair supportiveness on faculty parents' views of departmental and institutional kid-friendliness
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)Prior research shows pervasive inequalities in the ways that women and men faculty experience the competing demands of balancing an academic career with raising a family. Using survey data from parents who recently had or ... -
Responsible Mothers and Well Born Children: Social Authorities and the Discourses of Nineteenth Century Pregnancy
(University of Kansas, 2011-02-04)During the late nineteenth century, issues of pregnancy and reproduction were deeply political. Competing authorities converged and diverged in the ways they presented their messages regarding women's "proper place" and ... -
Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-16)This project explores experiences of two generations of Japanese women, "war brides," who married U.S. GIs and moved to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past ... -
Victims of Time, Warriors for Change: Chilean Women in a Neoliberal Society
(University of Kansas, 2010-11-23)In this dissertation I explore the attitudes of 52 Chileans toward globalization and neoliberalism and their impact on their nation and the lives of Chilean women. By examining national policies, quantitative measures of ... -
Collateral Damage In Iraq and Capital Punishment in the U.S.: How the Public Makes Sense of Extreme Violence and Death
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-28)Collateral Damage in Iraq and Capital Punishment in the U.S.: How the Public Makes Sense of Extreme Violence and Death This dissertation investigates the tendencies, attitudes, beliefs, ideologies, and narratives that ... -
Hierarchies of Risk: The Longitudinal Dynamics of Family, Work, Welfare, and Health Insurance in Low-Income Women's Lives
(University of Kansas, 2010-06-09)Lack of access to health insurance for millions of Americans is an important component of the contemporary health care crisis. Low-income women are at particularly high risk of having no or inadequate insurance. Utilizing ... -
Mothers as Children's "First and Best Teachers:" An Institutional Ethnography
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)This dissertation is an institutional ethnography that examines how women's mothering practices are coordinated and constrained by discourses and expert knowledge that they encounter through "Ready to Learn (RTL)," a ... -
Safeguarding the Heartland: County Government and Community Survival in the Era of Globalization
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-15)This dissertation examines local government spending decisions in the rural Midwest in order to address the central question: How do county governments attempt to deal with the forces of globalization--including the loss ... -
Shopping is Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Grocery Shopping
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-21)Economic sociologists tend to focus on corporations and production, ignoring female-dominated economic activities such as housework and consumption. Using Institutional Ethnography I explore the work of grocery shopping ... -
"Choosing" Parenthood through Fertility Treatments: The Importance of Biological Children and the Difficult Roads in their Pursuit
(University of Kansas, 2009-03-31)This dissertation is a qualitative study based on 28 interviews with both women and men who have used, or are currently in the process of using, any type of fertility treatment. My major research question is what is the ... -
The Structure of Political Ideology, and Its Influence on Voter Turnout: An Analysis of the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)This article uses data from the 2000 and 2004 waves of the American National Election Survey to examine the influence of the ideological dimensions of moraltraditionalism and market-fundamentalism on voter turnout. The ... -
BETTY ANN TITTLE TATTLE REPRODUCES THE UPPER CLASS: GENDER AND BOUNDARY WORK IN KANSAS CITY, 1924-1934
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)This paper examines the role that elite women played in class reproduction in Kansas City between 1924-1934 through an examination of 40 issues of the elite women's magazine, The Independent. It expands on Bourdieu's theory ... -
The 'Graying' of an Epidemic: Sexual Scripts, Public Health Influences, and the Organizational Impact on HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention for Older Adults in the Midwest
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-18)Older adults' sexual health is becoming an increasingly important component of healthy aging in the wake of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and rising infection rates among this age cohort. However, research reveals that this ... -
Bringing Up Baby: The Birth and Early Development of Seventeen Magazine
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-07)ABSTRACT Kelley L. Massoni, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, 2007 University of Kansas Bringing Up "Baby": The Birth and Early Development Of Seventeen Magazine The 1940's saw the development of two important components of ...