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Sociology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Challenges of Health Care Devolution: Problems of Legitimacy, Consumer Knowledge, and Work Transfer in Kansas Medicaid
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The current study is an exploration of Medicaid reform in Kansas, entitled ‘KanCare,’ It address three research questions. (1) What is KanCare and how was it enacted despite the contentious politics around it? (2) How has ... -
A comparative study of the welfare departments in eleven states
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A study of the administration of mothers' aid in Kansas
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The auto-transient family
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An institutional survey of the Kansas State Boys' Industrial School, including case-studies of twenty of the youngest boys
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The use of social relationships in family case work
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Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life
(Cambridge University Press, 2011-07-22)Techniques of possession research among older people tend to accentuate their prizing of things and their use of special dispositions to achieve the protection or ‘safe passage’ of things as they transfer to a new owner. ... -
Subjective and metrical depth of the suborbital fossa
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POLITICS OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND ETHNIC REBELLION: THE ESCALATION OF ETHNIC TENSIONS FROM 1946 TO 2005
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)Qualitative theories of ethnic violence and rebellion have traditionally argued the importance of broad long-term processes that escalate ethnic tensions. Alternatively, quantitative scholarship has focused more narrowly ... -
Redefining the State Plurinationalism and Indigenous Resistance in Ecuador
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Since the 1990s, the Ecuadorian Indigenous movement has transformed the nation's political landscape. CONAIE, a nationwide pan-Indigenous organization, and its demands for plurinationalism have been at the forefront of ... -
"A Force to be Reckoned With": Senior Women Medical and Basic Science Faculty Negotiating Self and Environment to Manage Success
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Women in the medical and basic science fields are still entering a male dominated space when they enter into the academy. Two main questions guide this research: 1) what are the experiences of female academic medical and ... -
Voices of Empowerment: The Role of Kansas City Based NGOs in Immigrant Women's Experiences of Empowerment
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)In this dissertation, I examine how non-governmental organizations (NGOs), situated in the global North, contribute to immigrant women's experiences of empowerment. Oftentimes NGOs are hampered by neoliberal cutbacks in ... -
Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Adult Attachment, and Threat
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Despite the vast amount of research conducted on Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), there is still not consensus on what causes an individual to be more or less authoritarian. However, researchers have consistently found ... -
Predator Drones and Public Discourse: A Framing Analysis of the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
(University of Kansas, 2014-01-01)This study analyzed the dynamic framing processes that occurred within the public discourse in the United States surrounding the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, by a CIA drone in Yemen on September 30, ... -
Some aspects of family desertion
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Attitudes of college men toward careers for wives
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The relation of mobility and segregation to social maladjustment in the urban community, Kansas City, Missouri
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Gender, Martyrdom, and the Management of Stigmatized Identities among Devout Muslims in the U.S.
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation explores the role of gender in contemporary Islam and the daily lives of Muslim minorities. Specifically, I examine how social constructions of masculinity and femininity are manifest in militant jihad, ... -
A preliminary study of the juvenile courts of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1924)