2024-03-29T07:24:16Zhttps://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/oai/requestoai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/183602020-06-24T18:09:36Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Starrett, Ellis L.
2015-08-19T21:03:16Z
2015-08-19T21:03:16Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18360
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A survey of national voluntary social welfare organizations in the United States
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/266882018-08-24T08:01:42Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
McCluggage, Marston Martel
2018-08-23T13:34:20Z
2018-08-23T13:34:20Z
1941
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26688
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Motivating forces in the development of collectivized forms of leisure-time activity
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/104502018-01-31T20:08:05Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Irwin, Melissa D.
2012-11-26T21:55:06Z
2012-11-26T21:55:06Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12002
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10450
This study examines the burgeoning phenomenon of Facebook memorial pages and how this research about dynamic, online social networking environments can contribute to the existing literature related to Klass et al's (1996) continuing bonds thesis. Contrary to Klass and Walter's (2001) findings that in contemporary Western culture, individuals lack the cultural framework in which to incorporate the paranormal co-presence of the deceased into their lives, the Facebook users in my sample chose to express publically their ongoing paranormal experiences with the deceased, regardless of a possible lack of cultural framework or performative script for doing so. My project demonstrates that, increasingly, individuals supplement traditional bereavement rituals, such as funerals, which often signaled the termination of bonds, with new, technologically-situated ritualized spaces (such as Facebook) for continuing bonds with the deceased. I argue that memorial pages constitute a new ritualized and public space for maintaining these continued bonds and that individuals exhibit several types of bonding interactions with the deceased. I conducted a content analysis on a purposively selected sample of 12 public Facebook "pages" where I coded 1,270 individual Wall postings. Analyses demonstrated that many individuals routinely used these Walls to continue their relationships with the deceased. This research highlights how individuals have transcended the limitations of time and physical space in relation to traditional bereavement behavior and rituals and how data found on public websites, such as Facebook, can be used to further theorize bereavement and to demonstrate continue bonds between the living and the dead.
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Sociology
Social research
Web studies
Continuing bonds
Death
Facebook
Grief
Memorial
Qualitative research
Mourning 2.0: Continuing Bonds between the Living and the Dead on Facebook
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/87002020-09-02T14:54:42Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Roth, Oliver N.
2012-01-30T18:08:36Z
2012-01-30T18:08:36Z
1911-05
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8700
en_US
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The Relation of Amusements to Social Life
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/218792018-01-31T20:07:47Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Naderi, Pooya Shawn Darius
2016-11-10T23:01:24Z
2016-11-10T23:01:24Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14505
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21879
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, and how young Muslims in America manage the stigma placed on them as a result of jihadists’ beliefs and actions. I asked how jihadists frame acts of martyrdom and mass violence, and how young Muslims in America handle the associated and ensuing stigma in daily life? To address these questions, I analyzed statements from militant jihadists and conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-six young and devout Muslims living in the Midwestern United States. Using grounded methods, I found that martyrdom acts, which include suicide attacks, were framed as self-defense, restorative rituals, and honor displays. These frames indicate that such violence—directed at others and the self—enables aggrieved men to resist foreign domination, elicit deference from others, and claim gender-based rewards. Integrating Symbolic Interactionist and pure sociological perspectives, I argue that martyrdom is a form of masculine self-help: a gender-signifying act that expresses a grievance through self-sacrificial and embodied aggression. In addition, I found that young Muslim men and women cope with collective stigmatization by defining and doing gender in culturally normative ways, especially when interacting with non-Muslim publics. Drawing on dramaturgical and identity theories, I conceptualize these stigma management strategies as allaying embodiment, benign accommodation, claiming normality, embracing stigma, communicating commitment, and claiming exceptionality. These strategies suggest that gender displays are integral to the stigma process and may be strategically deployed to protect the self in mixed-contact situations. This research also indicates that the stigma process can lead to greater commitment to religious role-identities and increased self-esteem based on the subjective interpretation and social context of traumatic events.
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Sociology
gender
identity
martyrdom
masculinity
Muslim
stigma
Gender, Martyrdom, and the Management of Stigmatized Identities among Devout Muslims in the U.S.
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82282020-08-24T14:59:29Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Barcus, George L.
2011-10-18T16:51:04Z
2011-10-18T16:51:04Z
1902
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8228
en_US
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The People's Party
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/235322017-12-08T21:43:43Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
McClelland, Frank
2017-03-31T19:32:54Z
2017-03-31T19:32:54Z
1932
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23532
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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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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184622020-06-24T20:01:15Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Hall, Royal Glen
2015-09-21T18:30:19Z
2015-09-21T18:30:19Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18462
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The religious implications of democracy
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225212018-02-12T20:36:51Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Lipsman, Jacob E.
2017-01-08T18:54:46Z
2017-01-08T18:54:46Z
2014-01-01
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13385
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22521
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, 2011. The study examined mainstream media broadcast transcripts and publications, advocacy organization press releases, and government statements to analyze the framing of the drone program in the aftermath of the incident as compared to an earlier strike on a non-US citizen, Baitullah Mehsud. The study found that the killing of al-Awlaki generated a "legality" frame that differs qualitatively from prior discourse that focused on strategic implications of the program. Whereas prior drone strikes produced debate over the strategic utility of drones, the killing of al-Awlaki caused a shift in focus to the legality of drones within the post-9/11 political context. These findings suggest that the killing of a US citizen by the US government created a breach in which previously parallel ideological goals of execution of the war on terror and protection of civil liberties came into contradiction with one another. The introduction of a new frame suggests a shift in the narrative pertaining to the relationship between liberty and security in the context of the war on terror, while also raising questions about contemporary citizenship in a globalizing world.
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Sociology
Social research
Rhetoric
al-Awlaki
discourse
Drone
Framing
post-9/11
UAV
Predator Drones and Public Discourse: A Framing Analysis of the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/197312017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Banks, Ida Grace
2016-01-06T17:16:39Z
2016-01-06T17:16:39Z
1913
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19731
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The effects of geographic influences upon the life of the people in Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188012017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Klise, Effie Storm
2015-11-03T14:49:00Z
2015-11-03T14:49:00Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18801
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The juvenile court of Yakima, Washington
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185902017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Westerfield, Marie B.
2015-10-06T18:33:35Z
2015-10-06T18:33:35Z
1919
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18590
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A study of the repeater in the elementary schools of Kansas City, Missouri
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/248402018-01-31T20:07:48Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Wendel-Hummell, Carrie L.
2017-08-13T22:41:13Z
2017-08-13T22:41:13Z
2015-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14025
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24840
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 conditions, such as postpartum depression, are debated and these diagnoses have been criticized for individualizing social problems. Nonetheless, the postpartum depression diagnosis is being extended to fathers and additional conditions are coming to be recognized as perinatal mental health disorders (e.g., anxiety, PTSD). In light of the contested nature of these conditions, I drew on social constructionist theories on health and illness to examine how lay parents made sense of and acted on their perinatal mental health symptoms. I found that distressed new parents provided nuanced, complex accounts of perinatal mental health and largely did not individualize their troubles. Further, parents exercised a great deal of agency in addressing their mental health conditions, whether in seeking professional help or implementing non-medical solutions. Their illness narratives were shaped, but not determined, by medicalized discourse. I also drew on feminist theories to explore the social and cultural factors that contributed to their perinatal mental health symptoms, in light of changing gender roles. I found that mothers and fathers largely spoke to the same stressors and concerns as they adjusted to parenthood, including the overwhelming demands of caring for an infant, the difficult-family work balance, and changes to the marital relationship. This speaks to the convergence of gender roles in modern families, as well as growing super-parent pressures. However, nuanced gender differences were also found. Mothers were disappointed by the high expectations of motherhood, whereas fathers were frustrated by the ambiguous nature of modern fatherhood. There was a tendency to fall back on traditional gender roles when parents felt overwhelmed or in the face of structural barriers. Class-based differences were starker than gender differences, with low-income parents citing everyday hardships and problematic relationships over idealized expectations of parenthood. This difference is best understood within the larger contexts of low-income and middle class lives, in which the former may not have expected as much control over parenthood and further that parenthood was relatively more rewarding than their other social roles. The difficulty balancing the demands placed on new mothers and fathers calls for improved family supports and policies.
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Sociology
Class
Families
Gender
Medical Sociology
Mental Health
Journey to Parenthood: How New Fathers and Mothers Make Sense of Perinatal Emotional Distress
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/77702020-07-28T12:17:51Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_9295com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14093col_1808_14224
Mizumura, Ayako
2011-07-04T23:05:03Z
2011-07-04T23:05:03Z
2009-05-16
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10424
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7770
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 twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to examine, reflect on, and challenge the Orientalist gaze, which I define as Eurocentric with male-centered perceptions, interpretations, and representations of Asian women. In the context of U.S. global militarization, I argue that U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan, Korea and other Asian nations participate in reproducing and perpetuating Orientalist stereotypes of Asian women, while women's voices often are not heard. I use a feminist strategy and reverse the positions of those who gaze and those who are objects of the gaze to make Japanese women's viewpoints and personal experiences central to my analysis. Reversing the subject-object orientations enables Japanese women to express their subjective views of U.S. men under their gaze and to represent themselves in their own voices. Methods for this research include in-depth-interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and archival research in the U.S. and Japan, which I conducted between 2002 and 2005. My study shows that Japanese women have agency as critical analysts of U.S. men and reveals that their perceptions of American GIs become more diverse and complicated as their gendered, racialized, and sexualized experiences interact with their GI partners' race, class, and militarized masculinity. This study also demonstrates that shifts in economic power dynamics between the U.S. and Japan and globalization of hip-hop culture contributed to reshaping women's perceptions of U.S. GIs in contemporary Okinawa, while these younger generations of women still share specific images of U.S. men with war brides.
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Sociology
Ethnic and racial studies
Asia--History
Australian history
Oceania--History
Women's studies
Gender
Intermarriage
Japanese war brides
Okinawan military wives
U.s. gis
Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188342020-06-25T18:57:45Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Calvert, Frederick William
2015-11-03T14:49:29Z
2015-11-03T14:49:29Z
1922
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18834
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A critical study of the treatment of criminals at the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/191042017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Kirkpatrick, Ellis Lore
2015-12-04T15:09:53Z
2015-12-04T15:09:53Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19104
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A study of the social life of the Brethren, as depicted by the English River Congregation near South English, Keokuk County, Iowa
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/235452017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Wilson, Robert Samuel
2017-03-31T19:33:08Z
2017-03-31T19:33:08Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23545
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The auto-transient family
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/222262020-06-23T19:43:32Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Bellman, Earl Spencer
2016-12-13T18:54:11Z
2016-12-13T18:54:11Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22226
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Attitudes of college men toward careers for wives
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/102752020-06-25T19:33:50Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Schloemer, Russell
2012-10-28T15:41:26Z
2012-10-28T15:41:26Z
2012-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12161
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10275
Despite a modern agricultural surplus relative to humanity's food needs and established means of transport, famine remains a threat for several states around the world. It would seem obvious that famine would be a strong destabilizing force, but this has not always been the case. This study compares several prominent famines in Ethiopia (1970-74, 1980-85), India (1966-67, 1971-1973) and Bangladesh (1974) in order to determine what factors resulting from famine actually cause political instability by analyzing historical events through the stability criteria of the World Bank. This research will demonstrate that while famine is economically destructive and often results in political instability, the primary driver of stability or instability after a famine is the relative degree of government intervention for positive or negative effect. This adds to our understanding of government's role in influencing the effects of food shortage upon society and overall stability of the state.
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Sociology
Political science
Economics
Famine
Scarcity
Stability
A Foundation of Dust: Analyzing the Relationship between Famine and Political Stability in Developing States
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185672017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Granstedt, Andrew
2015-10-06T18:06:34Z
2015-10-06T18:06:34Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18567
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The Scandinavian people and the Americanization of a Scandinavian community
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/106832018-01-31T20:08:05Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Zhao, Yang
2013-01-20T17:31:12Z
2013-01-20T17:31:12Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11992
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10683
Asian Americans have become a focus of racial studies for the last four decades. Regarding the outcome in the labor market, prior research often addresses the performance of Asian American men. Asian American women are less frequently studied. I use the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates to investigate earnings differentials between white and Asian American women. I disaggregate Asian American women by their generational status, educational level, college type and field of study. The results show that none of Asian American women groups show earnings advantage compared to Whites. Field of study, college type, and region of residence on top of usual earnings determinants such as education and age fully explain the earnings difference between Asian American women and Whites. The earnings differences between Asian American women and Whites vary across generational status.
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Sociology
Asian American women
College type
Earnings
Field of study
Generational status
Region of residence
Asian American Women's Earnings Advantage and Myth
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257902018-01-31T23:37:20Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Addington, Aislinn R.
2018-01-29T19:23:35Z
2018-01-29T19:23:35Z
2015-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14365
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25790
Christians and atheists have clashed publicly over ideological tensions throughout the history of the United States. Active atheists and evangelical Christians have, and continue to, vie for legitimacy and access to power, often at the expense of those with whom they disagree. This research investigates identity, boundary work, and the relationship to the “other” between and within these two oppositional ideologies. Findings demonstrate how, in a variety of situations and settings, these two groups not only “other” each other, but use their “other” to bolster their own ideological community. The presence of a group with an oppositional worldview allows each community to further define itself, and individuals within each group to define and refine their own identity within the group. The data for this research is made up of 45 interviews and multiple sessions of participant observation. After analyzing the data, four substantive areas emerged as prominent fields for boundary work within and between both groups: Boundaries and Solidarity, Boundaries and Morality, Boundaries and Gender, and Boundaries and Technology. This dissertation contributes to the sociology of boundaries and identity as those concepts are stretched and manipulated to explore the inner workings and “othering” mechanisms of active atheists and evangelical Christians. This research shows how boundaries and identity work together for members of rigid ideological groups, regardless of their specific worldview. While data on both groups offers novel observation and insight, this dissertation also provides desperately needed qualitative data on the distressingly understudied atheist population.
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Sociology
atheism
boundary work
comparative
evangelical Christian
identity
Drawing Lines and Taking Sides: An Examination of Boundary Work among Oppositional Worldviews
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/213112017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Dent, Carl Everett
2016-08-11T15:05:55Z
2016-08-11T15:05:55Z
1928
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21311
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Attitudes toward crime as displayed in newspapers
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84382020-08-26T14:29:55Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Ray, Robert Jackson
2011-11-22T17:03:20Z
2011-11-22T17:03:20Z
1909
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8438
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The Cooperative Grangers of Johnson County, Kansas: A Study and Investigation of the Practice and Workings of Cooperation Among Farmers
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257412018-06-01T15:50:13Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Smith, Sarah
2018-01-28T22:10:13Z
2018-01-28T22:10:13Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14602
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25741
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 childhood obesity, but empirical findings have been inconclusive. This study uses National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2003-2012 (n = 7,430) to reassess the relationship between food insecurity and weight status among low-income (PIR ≤ 1.85) children and adolescents using objective body measures, multiple measures of food insecurity, the most recent available data, and analytic methods to differentiate between overweight and obesity. In addition, this study explores the impact of the three largest food assistance programs (WIC, SNAP, and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)) on the relationship between food insecurity and child weight status. Results suggest that both household and child-referenced food insecurity are significantly and persistently associated with obesity, but not overweight, among low-income children. Household participation in WIC, SNAP, and the NSLP does not mediate the relationship between child food insecurity and weight status, but results suggest that NSLP participation may be associated with increased risk for obesity among low-income children. Although this study was unable to account for selection factors in assistance program participation, results suggest the need to adjust assistance measures to better meet the needs of low-income food-insecure families in order to improve the health of children both during childhood and over the life course.
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Sociology
food insecurity
obesity
Food Insecurity, Childhood Obesity, and the Role of Assistance Programs
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/248412018-01-31T20:07:52Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Jansen, Natalie
2017-08-13T22:43:16Z
2017-08-13T22:43:16Z
2015-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13957
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24841
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 extensive medical procedures and social/psychological challenges. However, one specific interaction - the interaction between infertile and pregnant women - reveals both the visible and invisible stigmas faced by infertile women. Though past research has addressed the stigmatization of infertility, few have done so in the context of stigma management between fertile and infertile women. This can be assessed by using forum analysis; women who are infertile can post threads to access online support when they feel most vulnerable. In order to better understand the stigma faced by infertile women, I analyzed the initial threads on an infertility forum on Fertile Thoughts, the most highly-trafficked infertility community available online. Using these posts, I showed that infertile women are stigmatized for their infertility and for their childlessness, that infertile women cope using a variety of mechanisms both positive and negative, that stigma power is evident in relationships infertile women have with their fertile peers, and that all three of the above findings reinforce understandings of motherhood and good parenting in the United States.
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Sociology
Women's studies
Social research
infertility
invisible stigma
stigma
stigma power
“Infertile Myrtles”: Stigma Power, Invisible Stigma, and Social Interactions between Infertile and Pregnant Women
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188062020-06-25T18:54:31Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Matthews, Harold Jackson
2015-11-03T14:49:04Z
2015-11-03T14:49:04Z
1922
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18806
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A critical examination of certain phases of social survey procedure
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257882021-03-05T19:15:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Ternes, Brock
2018-01-29T19:06:06Z
2018-01-29T19:06:06Z
2016-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15011
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25788
Extreme demands for crop irrigation and droughts have stressed water supplies in Kansas, making the state increasingly reliant on its underground reserves of freshwater. As precipitation and the availability of surface water become less reliable, aquifers (reservoirs of groundwater) remain one of the only sources of water in the High Plains. Growing demands for water are tapping aquifers beyond their natural rates of replenishment, which has profound implications for sustaining communities in a region prone to drought. This dissertation investigates the water conservation efforts, environmental priorities, and water supply awareness of Kansas well owners, a key social group whose actual and potential water usage is pivotal to understanding and safeguarding groundwater formations. My main research goal is to learn how the reliance on different water supply infrastructures influences water usage. The central research question is: Does owning and using a well change the propensity to conserve water? This is a relevant question because previous research investigating the reproduction of conservation behaviors has not adequately explored how systems of water provision contribute to resource management decisions. To address this omission, I constructed one of the only datasets of well owners used in social scientific research by surveying well owners and non-well owners throughout Kansas (n = 864). Well owners are a key social group whose actual and potential water usage is pivotal to safeguarding groundwater formations, and researching well owners’ conservation efforts will be key to aquifer preservation and wider water management policies. Previous research has outlined how some demographic predictors like political views, age, and sex are tentatively correlated with pro-environmental behaviors; however, my work finds that a household’s water supply moderates several relationships associated with water conservation. This finding suggests that infrastructure contextualizes the adoption of conservation habits, and Kansans’ notions of environmentalism are recalibrated by their systems of water provision. The project provides quantitative and qualitative evidence that well owners embody a form of “groundwater citizenship,” an ethic of conserving and staying mindful of aquifers. Through this research, I seek to identify how infrastructure influences the decision to adopt environmentally-conscious watering practices, which will assist the development of more effective groundwater management policies, and, in turn, improve drought adaptation measures.
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Sociology
Water resources management
Environmental studies
Citizenship
Infrastructure
Natural Resources
Sociology of Water
Well Owners
Sustainable Practices in the High Plains: A Study of Water Conservation Efforts and Well Ownership
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/244392017-12-08T21:42:11Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Evans, Annabel Taylor
2017-06-08T17:54:22Z
2017-06-08T17:54:22Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24439
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Social factors in dementia praecox
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188022020-06-25T19:55:25Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Lacy, Lester D.
2015-11-03T14:49:01Z
2015-11-03T14:49:01Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18802
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A history of the social phases of the temperance movement in Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/147632017-12-08T21:46:54Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Taylor, C. C.
2014-07-14T14:44:55Z
2014-07-14T14:44:55Z
1913-01-01
Taylor, C. C. "The Shift of Population From Country to Town" University of Kansas. 1913.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14763
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The Shift of Population From Country to Town
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/138332020-10-26T13:34:47Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Overlander, Jacob Alphaeus
2014-06-03T19:00:18Z
2014-06-03T19:00:18Z
1900-01-01
Overlander, J. A. "Native Indian" University of Kansas. 1900.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13833
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Native Indian
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/214882021-08-26T22:04:40Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Nitcher, Elizabeth Stone
2016-09-12T14:11:45Z
2016-09-12T14:11:45Z
1924
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21488
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A preliminary study of the juvenile courts of Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149512017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Janzen, Cornelius Cicero
2014-08-26T18:10:25Z
2014-08-26T18:10:25Z
1914-06-01
Janzen, Cornelius Cicero. "Americanization of the German-Russian Mennonites in Central Kansas." University of Kansas. June 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14951
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Americanization of the German-Russian Mennonites in Central Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/294292019-08-03T08:00:36Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Dickens, David Rudolph
2019-08-03T01:28:07Z
2019-08-03T01:28:07Z
1984-05-31
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29429
Retirement communities are a rapidly growing phenomenon in the United States. These settings provide a variety of services and recreational activities to retired persons in an attempt to create an age-segregated community.
This study comprises an analysis of the community formation process in a nascent retirement community located in a midwestern state. The first three chapters describe the nature and types of retirement communities (Chapter 1), methods used to analyze community structure (Chapter 2), and previous studies (Chapter 3). The next four chapters describe the setting (Chapter 4), social structure (Chapter 5), services and supports (Chapter 6), and everyday life (Chapter 7) at the retirement community being studied. The concluding chapter (Chapter 8) provides an assessment of the community formation in light of the data described in earlier chapters.
The dissertation is based primarily on ethnographic data gathered over a sixteen month observation period. Other primary source materials include interviews with residents and management staff, as well as newspapers and journals, and contemporary published works.
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Community Formation in a Nascent Retirement Village
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/227322019-04-12T14:19:36Zcom_1808_82col_1808_14224
Ekerdt, David J.
2017-02-10T20:53:05Z
2017-02-10T20:53:05Z
2011-07-22
Ekerdt, David J., Mark Luborsky, and Catherine Lysack. "Safe Passage of Goods and Self during Residential Relocation in Later Life." Ageing and Society 32.05 (2011): 833-50.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22732
10.1017/S0144686X11000705
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. Such efforts on behalf of possessions may also be undertaken to perpetuate the self. To study the care of things and self in a wider context, we examined older people’s repertoire of disposition strategies during episodes of household relocation and downsizing. We analysed the narratives of persons in 75 households in the Midwestern United States of America. People indeed told stories about the safe passage of cherished possessions – their initiative to place things, appreciation by new owners, and attempts to project the values or memory of the giver. Such accounts of special placements, however, dotted rather than dominated recollections of the move. More commonly, large quantities of items were passed via non-specific offers of possessions to others who may volunteer to take them. This allowed people to nonetheless express satisfaction that their possessions had found appreciative owners. Even though our interviews did not disclose extensive attempts at self-transmission, whole-house downsizing may affirm the self in another way: as conscientious about the care of things. Such affirmation of the present self as accomplished and responsible can be seen as a positive adaptation to the narrowing life world.
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Gifts
Legacy
Later life
Possessions
Residential relocation
Self
Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life
Article
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/79042020-08-07T14:34:15Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Zirkle, Brian L.
2011-08-03T00:29:34Z
2011-08-03T00:29:34Z
2011-04-25
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11459
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7904
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 fragmented work experiences and often sporadic employment. In such conditions, traditional sources of meaning are often unavailable as the jobs held have little intrinsic value and temps are often socially isolated in the workplace. Yet the participants in this study did find their experiences as temps meaningful by symbolically connecting their work with experiences, roles, and relationships they had in their broader lives outside of work. Through what I refer to as life course narratives, participants created stories that explained how their temp work aided certain transitions they were experiencing in their lives. For some, temp work was part of the college experience and part of the process of finding their career jobs. For retirees, particular those who retired early, it was a way of transitioning into that new stage in their lives. For others, it was a means of recovering from some sort of personal or family tragedy and moving back into the normative trajectory of the life course. Minority participants in particular perceived temp work as a way of escaping lives in crisis. It was a viewed as a chance of escaping economic marginality born out of institutionalized forms of discrimination, the stigmatization of the black urban poor, and bad personal decisions. Others viewed temp work itself as a source of crisis that had derailed their lives in devastating ways.
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Sociology
Life course
Meaning
Narrative
Temporary employment
Work
WORKING TEMP: HOW TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FIND MEANING THROUGH LIFE COURSE NARRATIVES
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82922020-08-26T13:12:38Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Smith, Lizzie Williams
2011-10-27T19:17:20Z
2011-10-27T19:17:20Z
1906
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8292
en_US
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Marriage and Divorce
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/183542020-06-24T19:54:51Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Timmins, Vaughn Earl
2015-08-19T21:03:10Z
2015-08-19T21:03:10Z
1921
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18354
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The personal element in journalism
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188152017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Pearson, Warren Prescott
2015-11-03T14:49:09Z
2015-11-03T14:49:09Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18815
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The leisure time problem
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/212972017-12-08T21:38:01Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Parham, Maude Peak
2016-08-11T15:05:40Z
2016-08-11T15:05:40Z
1926
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21297
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What are the outstanding types of social maladjustments among young children in a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants?
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/302172021-10-28T19:37:33Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Jansen, Natalie Anne
2020-03-29T16:51:12Z
2020-03-29T16:51:12Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16347
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30217
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is the leading cause of death worldwide and is a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Approximately three quarters of individuals living with hypertension reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Indonesia – one of the largest LMICs – women’s hypertension rates exceed men’s despite less engagement in risky health behaviors such as tobacco and alcohol consumption. In this dissertation, I explore the relationship between women’s social factors and hypertension because women’s social determinants of health are often overlooked in hypertension research. Specifically, I examine women’s religious involvement, feelings of trust, safety, and reciprocity, and involvement in community groups as potential social factors associated with hypertension. Using data from Wave 5 of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), I found religious differences in the likelihood of hypertension. Muslim women – and particularly Muslim women who pray daily but do not engage in salat prayer – had the highest likelihood of hypertension overall, while Hindu women – and particularly women who either participate in daily yoga/meditation or refrain from red meat consumption – had the lowest likelihood of hypertension. I also found that women needing to be alert in the community was associated with lower likelihoods of hypertension compared to women who did not report a need to be alert. Measures of both individual- and community-level thick and thin trust were associated uniquely with likelihoods of hypertension. Finally, I found that women largely did not vary in likelihoods of hypertension by participation in community programs, and there were no significant differences in the relationship between participation and hypertension for mothers and non-mothers.
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Sociology
Demography
Social research
Hypertension
Indonesia
Religion
Social capital
Women's health
Women’s Hypertension in Indonesia: The Role of Religion, Trust, and Community Involvement
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/197372017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Havighurst, Freeman Carroll
2016-01-06T17:16:48Z
2016-01-06T17:16:48Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19737
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The social development of Enterprise, Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/183592020-06-24T19:07:37Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Holmes, Mary Ise
2015-08-19T21:03:14Z
2015-08-19T21:03:14Z
1918
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18359
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Social engineering in small cities. A plan for cities of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/246042017-12-08T21:42:12Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Moren, Vera E.
2017-06-26T20:55:51Z
2017-06-26T20:55:51Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24604
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A comparison of the psychiatric and the sociological approach to the study of problem children
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/177952020-06-24T20:21:24Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Cruzan, Albert
2015-05-18T21:56:14Z
2015-05-18T21:56:14Z
1917.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17795
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Vocational education a socializing factor
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/295542021-03-05T19:09:26Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Kern, Anna
2019-09-06T19:55:33Z
2019-09-06T19:55:33Z
2018-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16146
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29554
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6737-3317
The Green Economy is supposed to be sustainable but is it? Being sustainable would entail being equitable. Feminist scholarship shows that the mainstream economy is thoroughly organized by gender, is inequitable, and facilitated by the marginalization of reproductive labor or care work. Ecofeminist theory broadens feminist analysis by situating human social relations in the broader context of our relationship with the environment. In this dissertation I begin from the standpoint of women to explore the degree to which gender inequality is organizing the green economy in the U.S. I argue that a key mechanism reproducing gender inequality is the privileging of green jobs in industries dominated by men and the marginalization and devaluation of environmental care work. I do this by analyzing the organization of the green labor market in the US and through observing the organization and implementation of a program to foster green economic development in an urban area in the Midwest. Understanding the gendered nature of the green economy is important for advancing knowledge about gender segregation and integration of labor markets, gender equality in employment, and gendered opportunities in growing green sector of the economy. This research contributes to scholarship on gender and work, the green economy, ecofeminism, and care work.
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Sociology
Gender studies
Environmental studies
Care Work
Ecofeminism
Environmental Care Work
Gender
Green Economy
Gender and the Green Economy
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/277902019-08-27T18:09:08Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Ice, Erin
2019-05-07T15:23:54Z
2019-05-07T15:23:54Z
2017-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15156
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27790
Preventative screenings hold the promise of detecting disease before it becomes fatal. However, they often have the unintended consequence of creating socioeconomic disparities because individuals with social and economic resources are the heaviest users. This research investigates education- and insurance-based disparities in colorectal cancer screening participation and how these associations change over time. I use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to analyze trends in colorectal cancer screening participation for adults over 50 from 1992 to 2013 (n=51,385). Controlling for key sociodemographic factors, results suggest that education and access to insurance have become increasingly important predictors of screening participation over time. Specifically, the findings appear to primarily apply to endoscopy use, a more invasive and expensive type of colorectal cancer screening. By showing that education and insurance are more relevant for predicting endoscopy use, this study contributes to fundamental cause research on the uptake of medical innovations; the study shows that the use of complicated technologies is more heavily influenced by socioeconomic factors. I conclude by considering how policy changes can reduce socioeconomic disparities in cancer screenings.
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Sociology
Colorectal Cancer Screenings
Endoscopy
Fecal occult blood test
Fundamental Cause Theory
Health inequality
Socioeconomic status
Disparities in the Uptake of Colorectal Cancer Screenings: The Role of Education, Insurance, and Screening Type
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/196112020-09-30T14:20:56Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Gomez Cervantes, Andrea
2016-01-04T03:05:59Z
2016-01-04T03:05:59Z
2013-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12743
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19611
The research question guiding this project is: What are the differences and similarities between the motherhood identities of student transnational mothers and domestic worker transnational mothers? While previous literature has focused on domestic worker transnational mothers' experiences, I investigated how motherhood identities vary according to class and educational background. I conducted ten semi-structured interviews with student transnational mothers and compared their discourses to those of domestic worker transnational mothers explored in previous literature. I found that while transnational mothers employed as domestic workers center their motherhood identities on economic and emotional family necessities, student transnational mothers focus theirs on self-development, professional growth, and being good role models. These findings suggest that transnational mothers shape their identities according to the available resources. I conclude that although transnational mothers seem to have a common set of experiences and motherhood identities, these differ according to their social characteristics such as socioeconomic status and education.
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Sociology
Class
Education
Globalization
Motherhood
Transnational
Social Class, Education, and Motherhood in a Globalized Context: Identity Construction for Student Transnational Mothers
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/89532020-09-03T15:01:13Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Thompson, Henry Walter
2012-04-13T17:53:51Z
2012-04-13T17:53:51Z
1913
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8953
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Social development of a representative Kansas town
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/59852020-07-29T12:12:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Wiebold, Loralie L.
2010-03-18T04:48:00Z
2010-03-18T04:48:00Z
2009-12-15
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10650
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5985
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 of jobs and the outward migration of their young, educated population--at the same time dealing with an increasingly aged population in need of health care? This mixed method study included spending data from county budgets coupled with interviews with county commissioners; together providing insight into the ongoing process of funding health care and assistance to capital. The answer is these seemingly contradictory state functions do not conflict with one another at the county level in Iowa for the years under study. Gaming revenue emerged as an important (or sought after) revenue stream. Commissioners articulated ways they were impacted by larger social/economic forces as well as their local attempts to secure community in a globalized world.
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Sociology
Public policy
Economic development
Globalization
Health care
Local government
State
Safeguarding the Heartland: County Government and Community Survival in the Era of Globalization
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/253712018-01-31T20:07:48Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Mao, KuoRay
2017-11-16T03:32:48Z
2017-11-16T03:32:48Z
2015-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14262
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25371
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 that the tragedy of the commons occurred due to the significant decline in institutional credibility of land tenure in the oasis, driven by central-local tensions embedded in a tax farming system. My dissertation discusses the concepts of political capitalism and its application to the changing roles of the communist state on resource management during the collective and tax reform eras in China. I first examined the environmental history of the oasis, showing the intricate yet repetitive pattern of interactions between the state extraction policy and the ecology of the oasis from the 14th century to the communist collective era. I then used Weber’s analysis of center-periphery relations to dissect the treadmill of production in a politically-oriented capitalist regime. I show that the institutional disarray in the 1980s created a fiscal crisis that pushed the central government to decentralize public goods provisions. Under constant pressure to increase tax revenues, the unitary bureaucracy intensified the collection of unregulated fees and levies from farmers. They also encouraged cash-cropping in massive land reclamation projects by contracting the rights for use of wastelands and the groundwater underneath. Local state agents prohibited the traditional customs of water-sharing among villagers and operated higher tax rates in mutually cultivated areas as compared to privately reclaimed areas. The disruption of productive relations reduced the institutional credibility of land rights among the peasantry and, together with the ever-increasing need to accumulate capital for industrialized farming, created the homo economicus and corporatist state in the ecological catastrophe. In conclusion, I discuss how the case study of Minqin adds to the vibrant literature about the treadmill of accumulation theory in environmental sociology, and the impact of institutional transformation in post-socialist societies on nature is also discussed. The data came from an 18 month-long ethnography, 157 oral history interviews conducted with three generations of peasants living in the Minqin oasis, and 7,237 policy documents gathered from provincial and county record offices in northwestern China. Data gathering was completed in 2013.
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Sociology
China
Common Pool Resources
Environmental Sociology
Fiscal Sociology
Sustainability
When the Wells Ran Dry: A Treadmill Analysis of Political Capitalism and Environmental Degradation in the Minqin Oasis
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/45122020-07-23T12:38:22Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Perry, Nicole Kristin
2009-04-28T04:04:32Z
2009-04-28T04:04:32Z
2008-01-01
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10140
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4512
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 of class reproduction by addressing the differing value placed on men's and women's contributions to their families' class status and by following the way that women's social life, consumption, and childrearing adjusted to the changing political climate of the 1930s. Shifts in boundary work did occur before the great depression: Kansas City elites became slightly more accepting of the noveaux riche, increased the role of arts-based volunteer organizations in their social lives, and re-framed their consumption in response to a critical public.
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Sociology
United States--History
BETTY ANN TITTLE TATTLE REPRODUCES THE UPPER CLASS: GENDER AND BOUNDARY WORK IN KANSAS CITY, 1924-1934
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184552020-06-24T19:38:12Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Wilson, Elizabeth K.
2015-09-21T18:30:05Z
2015-09-21T18:30:05Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18455
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The development and value of psychopathic clinics in the courts of the United States
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/206902020-06-30T00:59:00Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Griest, Louise Adams
2016-04-22T14:41:08Z
2016-04-22T14:41:08Z
1926
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20690
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A study in segregation and mobility in an urban area
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/256302018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Ordner, James Patrick
2017-12-11T22:36:10Z
2017-12-11T22:36:10Z
2015-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14433
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25630
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 vigorous and sustained grassroots movement, led by the social movement organization Bold Nebraska, emerged in rural Nebraska to fight the pipeline at the local level. Using the politics of contention perspective and framing analysis, this dissertation analyzes the Keystone XL debate in rural Nebraska at the structural, cultural and agency levels of analysis. At the structural and cultural levels, I use county demographic data to examine the sociopolitical factors shaping mobilization outcomes in Nebraskan communities. The main body of the analysis focuses on the narratives and discourses used by the various interests involved in the debate in Nebraska. Through the use of in-depth interviews and testimony from four public comment hearings held in Nebraska (N=528), I identify the major framing strategies employed by both pipeline supporters and pipeline opponents. Findings indicate that pipeline supporter frames were employed to maximize benefits of the pipeline and minimize potential risks, while pipeline opponents’ frames were designed to minimize benefits and maximize risks associated with the project. More specifically, pipeline supporter frames closely mirror the economic, national security, and safety frames used by political leaders and oil and gas industry advocates to promote the pipeline, while rural landowners and activists framed the pipeline debate in terms of protecting the Sandhills, the Ogallala Aquifer, and private property rights.
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Sociology
Environmental studies
Climate change
climate change
collective action
energy projects
Keystone XL Pipeline
rural mobilization
social movement framing
Grassroots Resistance to the Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/54332020-07-24T13:20:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Koch, Shelley L.
2009-08-28T04:30:36Z
2009-08-28T04:30:36Z
2009-04-21
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10305
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5433
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 by interviewing the primary household shopper and then situating her work in the institutional social order. The work of shopping involves many tasks both inside and outside the store, and this work is shaped by discourses that are created and disseminated by various institutional actors, including food marketers and retailers, government agencies, dietitians and nutritionists, mass media, and consumer economists. These discourses, which I identify as the efficiency discourse, the nutrition discourse, and the food industry discourse, increase the demands of the work of shopping and are often in contradiction with one another. This research suggests that a narrow conception of the economic makes significant individual and institutional work invisible and I argue that a gendered revisioning of the economy is necessary.
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Sociology
Discourse
Economy
Food shopping
Gender
Institutional ethnography
Shopping is Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Grocery Shopping
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185802017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Singh, Pardaman
2015-10-06T18:33:11Z
2015-10-06T18:33:11Z
1919
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18580
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Sikh brotherhood
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/222112020-06-23T21:16:09Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Loosley, Robert Owen
2016-12-13T18:54:04Z
2016-12-13T18:54:04Z
1926
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22211
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The relation of mobility and segregation to social maladjustment in the urban community, Kansas City, Missouri
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/305842023-07-20T21:17:07Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Lacy, Michael G.
2020-07-21T18:42:53Z
2020-07-21T18:42:53Z
1978-12-31
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30584
The concept of cooptation is at the same time very popular and quite neglected. One frequently reads or hears the phrase mentioned in passing, as though there were agreement as to what it meant, but there is a dearth of work on the subject. In one of the few works focusing directly on the subject, Karl Loewenstein (1973:21) decries the 11 complete lack of systematic research on cooptation11 and notes that the standard references in sociology and political science either mention it not at all or contain only a few sentences on the subject. There exist only two books, to the current author's knowledge, in which cooptation is a major concept: Loewenstein's work in German, which is an attempt to develop a model of cooptation, and one work in English, Selznick's TVA and the Grass Roots (1949), a case study of the TVA using cooptation as a basic concept.
The neglect of the concept, coupled with the varieties of its use, as will be documented below, would be enough to justify the current investigation. Additional justification rests on two bases: 1) insofar as power is a basic process in all societies, organizations, and groups, and since cooptation is a part of the power process, it has import; and 2) hopefully, the reader will agree that cooptation is a ubiquitous phenomenon, occurring just as ordinarily as other recognized social processes, such as assimilation, accommodation, or revolution.
The intent of this investigation is to clarify the concept of cooptation and show its use as an analytic and explanatory device, and to formulate some notions about typical patterns and outcomes of the cooptation process. To begin, my working definition of a threat model of cooptation will be presented along with a model of a power system which, as will be seen, is the locus for the occurrence of cooptation. Then, several other models of cooptation will be examined with critiques indicating the need for the new conceptualization represented by the threat model.
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Cooptation: Analysis of a neglected social process
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/86992020-09-02T14:46:43Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Smith, Frederick M.
2012-01-30T18:07:05Z
2012-01-30T18:07:05Z
1911
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8699
It is well in this attempt to examine the criminal procedure
and penal systems of Missouri in the light of the modern
science of criminology to take at least a cursory glance at
the development of the science of criminology itself, for it
along with all other sciences has undergone an evolution at
times rapid, always yielding, though slowly at times, to dominant
thought and philosophy or rather to methods of thought.
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The Individualization of Punishment in Missouri Criminal and Penal Procedures
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/300862021-03-05T16:54:48Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Erickson, Matthew
2020-03-20T15:29:45Z
2020-03-20T15:29:45Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16482
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30086
Past research has found that when a dual-career heterosexual married couple migrates to a new labor market, the woman is more likely to be the “tied mover”: the partner whose career suffers as a result of the move. This study investigates possible changes in gendered decision-making related to internal migration among married couples in the United States between the 1990s and the 2010s. Using data from the 1989-98 and 2009-18 Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the Current Population Survey, we examine whether income equality between spouses has become a bigger barrier to migration among married individuals, and we investigate year-to-year changes in income among married migrants compared with their unmarried counterparts. Our findings show a general U-shaped association between wives' share of a married couple's income and that couple's likelihood of moving across state or county lines; in both time periods, couples are least likely to move when their incomes are roughly equal. Among young, well-educated married couples, though, we detect a notable change: Spousal income equality was not a barrier to moving in the 1990s, but it had become one by the 2010s. Among these same couples, however, we find some evidence that a gendered tied-mover effect still remains. If women in dual-career couples are less likely to be tied movers today than they once were, it may be because dual-career couples have become less likely to move for a job opportunity at all, even relative to the broader decline in internal migration across the population.
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Sociology
Family
Gender
Migration
Tied mover
Tied stayer
Work
From Tied Movers to Tied Stayers: Changes in Family Migration Decision-Making, 1989-98 to 2009-18
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/77272020-08-06T15:56:37Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Clark, Evelyn Adair
2011-07-04T18:26:34Z
2011-07-04T18:26:34Z
2010-11-23
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11179
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7727
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 development, and how various women in the labor force and political and community organizations perceive and live within the Chilean economy, I show the dynamic relationship between national and international policies and gender inequality and women's empowerment. I discuss how women have gained or lost in neoliberal Chile through wage labor and how that has impacted their relationships within the home and within their communities. I also focus on changing cultural constructions within Chilean society and on major social inequalities that negatively impacted women's power both inside and outside the home. Although working full time, most of my respondents also were committed to full-time activism to promote equality and provide a backlash against neoliberal economic policies. Their NGOs and grassroots groups were highly divided by the class of their members, although all seemed committed to anti-neoliberal agendas. While the various activities gave members a strong sense of self esteem and community, most groups were underfunded, and participants were limited in their ability to connect with the Chilean government to promote social change.
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Sociology
Gender
Globalization
Social inequalities
Victims of Time, Warriors for Change: Chilean Women in a Neoliberal Society
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188302017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Wheeler, Mabel Ranney
2015-11-03T14:49:25Z
2015-11-03T14:49:25Z
1920
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18830
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The Germanic element in the settlement and development of Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/247792017-12-08T21:42:12Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Ramey, Roy Lee
2017-08-11T18:53:41Z
2017-08-11T18:53:41Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24779
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The who, how, and why, of the hobo
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225282018-01-31T20:07:52Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Feldmann, Tony Allen
2017-01-08T19:10:42Z
2017-01-08T19:10:42Z
2014-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13403
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22528
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 RWA to be strongly related to perceptions of threat. In the field of developmental psychology the concept of attachment style is thought to account for the differences between individuals in how they respond to perceived threats. The current study investigated whether or not adult attachment styles can account for why individuals are more or less authoritarian. This study assessed how attachment primes impacted scores on a measure of RWA, and whether or not RWA is related to attachment idealization. Results indicated that the attachment primes did not affect scores on RWA, but RWA was found to be positively related to attachment idealization. Possible models of the origins of RWA are discussed.
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Sociology
Psychology
Political Science
Attachment
Attitudes
Authoritarianism
Beliefs
Political
Threat
Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Adult Attachment, and Threat
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/104492018-01-31T20:08:05Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Bailey, Chelsea
2012-11-26T21:53:29Z
2012-11-26T21:53:29Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12005
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10449
In recent years, the alternative food movement has flourished as a response to injustices produced by the industrial food system in the United States. As such, many people have lauded the movement for its capability to address social inequality among urban, low-income minorities negatively affected by the dominant food system. In order to do so, the alternative food movement must garner participation from the urban poor. However, a number of scholars have shown that the movement tends to bring in the participation of white, middle-class people almost exclusively. Many argue that this disparity is due to discourse and practices that lead to implicit exclusion. Using semi-structured interviews and participant observation with urban farmers, the present study extends this literature by showing that participants of the food movement in Kansas City employ democratic language and ideals meant to create broadly inclusive environments but that in fact unintentionally build symbolic boundaries along the lines of race and class. This paper refines this literature by uncovering the mechanisms that make up a universalizing and thereby exclusion-producing habitus, through which unintentional boundary-making occurs.
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Sociology
Alternative food movement
Neoliberalism
Omnivorousness
Symbolic boundaries
Universalism
Urban farming
Democratic Ideals, Distinctive Tendencies: Social Inequality and Implicit Boundary-Making in the Urban Farming Movement
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84262020-08-26T14:10:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Primm, Clarence J,
2011-11-18T20:47:24Z
2011-11-18T20:47:24Z
1908-05
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8426
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Has Control by the Central Government Unduly Increased?
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257632018-09-20T19:44:16Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Chapman, Kyle Alan
2018-01-28T23:03:39Z
2018-01-28T23:03:39Z
2016-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14863
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25763
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), this dissertation examines the degree to which the relationship between health behaviors, such as physical activity and diet, and diabetes status is dependent on educational attainment and race/ethnicity. Educational attainment and race/ethnicity are powerful social factors that are associated with the prevalence of diabetes as well as the behaviors such as diet and physical activity that are known to cause many cases of diabetes. Current health policies seek to reduce or eliminate social disparities in diabetes by encouraging disadvantaged groups to increase their physical activity, eat healthier diets, and lose weight. However, some literature suggests that social factors, particularly education and race/ethnicity, may not only structure available resources and behaviors, but may influence individual’s ability to benefit from healthy behaviors. Using data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a series of multinomial logistic regression models were estimated to determine how association between health behaviors and diabetes varied by education and race/ethnicity. The difference in the probability of having diabetes for those who were active compared to inactive was higher among those with a high school or college education and lowest for those with less than high school and some college. Only for those with a college education did being active result in a lower likelihood of having prediabetes. Similarly, it was only for non-Hispanic whites that the risk of prediabetes was lower for those who were active compared to those who inactive. The findings related to diet indicate that the likelihood of having diabetes was actually higher at better scores for those with less than a college education and non-Hispanic blacks. Overall, these findings suggest that it should not be assumed that the relationship between health behaviors and diabetes status is consistent across social groups. Current efforts to foster health equity may be undermined by social stressors, as a result of social inequality, that negate the benefit of otherwise healthy behaviors.
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Sociology
Public health
Demography
Diabetes
Education
Health Behaviors
Medical Sociology
Race Ethnicity
Social determinants
Determining Diabetes: The Role of Educational Attainment and Race/Ethnicity in the Link between Health Behaviors and Diabetes
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/104472018-01-31T20:08:05Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Coulter, Maureen
2012-11-26T21:50:47Z
2012-11-26T21:50:47Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12041
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10447
This paper analyzes how members of the Black Panther Party represented themselves as men and women in their newspaper--The Black Panther. I analyze a sample of issues from 1967-1971 to understand gender dynamics within the Party and ask how the newspaper framed gender and sexuality on both individual and societal levels. I employ the concept of controlling images to understand better how these representations are both constructed and contested by members of the Party. I examine assumptions in previous scholarship that present the Panthers' framing of gender and sexuality in dichotomous terms and argue for a more nuanced understanding of gender and sexuality in the Black Panther Party. I find that the Panthers both embraced and contested hegemonic notions of sexuality, gender roles, and gender relations.
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Sociology
African American studies
Gender studies
What's Sex Got to do with it Anyway? Race, Sex, and Gender in the Black Panther Party
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/301082021-03-05T16:54:48Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Zhang, Yurong
2020-03-21T18:59:03Z
2020-03-21T18:59:03Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16515
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30108
Asian Americans have long been portrayed as a “model minority” for their relatively high socioeconomic standings in contemporary America. However, this characterization oversimplifies the economic circumstances of Asian Americans, as they also show the highest within-group inequality among all racial and ethnic groups. Asian Americans’ high within-group inequality highlights the convergence of class inequality, racial disparity, as well as the diversity of their immigration status. Focusing on the reasons that account for Asian American within-group inequality, this thesis utilizes both ordinary least square (OLS) regression and conditional quantile regression to uncover the difference in within-group inequalities between non-Hispanic white families and Asian American families. The results show that Asian American families indeed have a 24% higher income inequality (as measured by the gap between the ninetieth percentile and the tenth percentile) than whites. However, the higher income inequality is reduced to as low as 6.2% after controlling for demographic characteristics, human capital variables, immigration status, and family composition variables. As Asian American demographic characteristics and family composition have a counteracting effect on their income inequality, human capital combined with immigration status thus explains over 75% of their higher income inequality.
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Asian studies
Within-group Income Inequality among Asian American Families
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82942020-08-26T13:15:59Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Barnett, Charles Arthur
2011-10-27T19:23:00Z
2011-10-27T19:23:00Z
1907-05-16
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8294
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The Necessity for Restricting Immigration
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/292982020-07-09T20:33:46Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Slone, Avram Kerker
2019-06-12T02:28:26Z
2019-06-12T02:28:26Z
2018-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16173
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29298
An abundance of research suggests that an immigrant’s English experience is a major determining factor in the success of their socioeconomic assimilation. Most scholars equate English experience with English fluency, or the ability to speak English. However, Social English Use, or the frequency and comfort with which a person uses English in social settings, is a form of English experience that is theoretically unique from English fluency. This research seeks to compare fluency and Social English Use to determine the distinct influence that each has on immigrants’ socioeconomic and linguistic assimilation in the United States. Using the 2003 New Immigrant Survey (n = 2,348) and Ordinary Least Squares regression, I determine the effect that each form of English experience has on immigrant income both within and across occupational industries. I find that although English fluency has a stronger positive linear relationship with socioeconomic status (SES) than Social English Use (β=0.523 vs. 0.224, p ≤ 0.01), this differs across occupational industry. I also find that Social English Use moderates the relationship between immigrants working in professional occupations and SES (β=0.338, p = 0.051). My findings suggest that ensuring opportunities to use English in social settings may help immigrants to the U.S. obtain and succeed in professional occupations.
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Sociology
Social structure
Sociolinguistics
assimilation
English fluency
English use
immigrant
industry
United States
How English Experience and Employment Sector Influence Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Assimilation
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/301022021-03-05T16:54:48Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Sullivan, Darcy
2020-03-21T18:46:26Z
2020-03-21T18:46:26Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16553
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30102
Women with disabilities are classified as “risky” mothers and are encouraged by healthcare providers to not have children. Societal notions about who are appropriate mothers create barriers for women with disability who desire to have children. This study focuses on motherhood and pregnancy as one facet of WWD’s lived experiences. Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, which included a sample size of 11,285 women, I analyze the effect of having a disability on attitudes about motherhood and likelihood of having ever pregnancy, and ever receiving an abortion. In contrast to previous studies (Horner-Johnson et. al. 2016; Shandra et. al. 2014), analyses show that women with disabilities are less likely to agree that having children are necessary to be happy compared to able-bodied women. Women with disabilities had 1.45 times the odds of ever having had an abortion compared to able-bodied women. Having a disability was found to not be a significant predictor of pregnancy or utilization of fertility services.
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Sociology
abortion
disability
motherhood
pregnancy
women's health
Pregnancy, Abortion, and Motherhood: Does Disability Matter?
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/187852017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Allis, Frank Howard
2015-11-03T14:48:46Z
2015-11-03T14:48:46Z
1917
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18785
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Social development of Baldwin City, Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/258032018-01-31T23:29:56Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Duenas, Jennifer
2018-01-30T03:06:27Z
2018-01-30T03:06:27Z
2017-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15374
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25803
While global, interdisciplinary debates continue regarding increased prevalence in autism spectrum disorders, there is no doubt that the visibility of individuals with autism have increased in public schools. Families of children with autism are placed in an unprecedented position as they become educational advocates by default when their children become students in public schools in an age of austerity (Caruso 2010, Itkonen and Ream 2013, Kalaei 2008, Ong-Dean 2009, Tincani 2007). Using Bourdieu’s Cultural Capital theory as a guide, the purpose of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of how parents of children with autism negotiate their child’s education within the constraints of public schools through the interpersonal interactions with IEP teams. What types of parent-professional relationships exist between parents of children with autism and IEP teams? What factors influence parents’ advocacy styles?
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Educational sociology
Individual & family studies
Social structure
advocacy
autism
education
IEP
inequality
parent-educator relationsips
Parents’ Experiences as Educational Advocates for Children with Autism in Public Schools: Parent-Educator Relationships
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/104522018-01-31T20:08:15Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Vogler, Stefan
2012-11-26T22:04:29Z
2012-11-26T22:04:29Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11974
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10452
This paper explores the role of non-hegemonic sexualities in urban renewal through a case study of a Kansas City, Missouri redevelopment project. Using document analysis, interviews, and participant observation, I argue that sexual diversity is co-opted in a raced, classed, and gendered way that advances growth objectives and reinforces heteronormativity and the bourgeois cultural and social values of private property and conspicuous consumption. While economically privileged, white, gay males are courted and attempts are made to co-opt them as drivers of renewal, non-conforming sexual expressions, such as sex work, pornography, and much of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community are excluded. The privatization of once-public spaces effectively reifies bourgeois moral boundaries to protect new consumer spaces from sexual, racial, and class "others," and allows space to become a tool for capital accumulation.
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Sociology
GLBT studies
Gentrification
Kansas City
LGBT
Sexuality
Urban renewal
Power and White: Race, Class, and Sexuality in Kansas City's Urban Renewal
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/264722020-07-09T21:07:46Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Thieroldt, Jorge Ernesto
2018-06-07T20:58:14Z
2018-06-07T20:58:14Z
2017-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15434
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26472
Based on the in-depth analysis of the Tambogrande case, the most well known case of social mobilization in Peru, I argue that the success or failure of transnational activity is closely linked to actions performed on the grassroots level by local organizations before the arrival of outsiders. Between 1999 and 2004, Tambogrande was the site of intense transnational activity. The support given by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) like Oxfam Great Britain and Oxfam America was crucial to stop a Canadian mining company, Manhattan Minerals Corporation (MMC), interested in the extraction of the minerals lying underneath. The existing literature about this case of environmental conflict highlights the contributions of the INGOs neglecting a deeper account of the past trajectories of the local actors. I argue that this successful case of transnational activity was the direct result of a long series of protests that began in 1961 when hundreds of farmers from different regions of Peru arrived to colonize the desert to create what is now the San Lorenzo Valley. The reconstruction of four previous decades of protests shows that the key elements that facilitated the success of the transnational alliances established in the period 1999-2004 were domestically created long before the arrival of INGOs. Specifically, I maintain that these key elements were three. First, a social movement organization (SMO) composed of representatives of pre-existing grassroots organizations such as agricultural, labor, commercial and political guilds. Second, a porous state office (PSO) that remained at the service of social mobilization as a source of democratic and legal legitimacy for more than twenty years. Third, a domestic non-governmental bridging organization (DNGBO) that functioned as a broker between grassroots organizations, social leaders, national NGOs and international NGOs.
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Sociology
Environmental studies
Latin American studies
Environmental Conflicts
Peru
Piura
Social Movements
Tambogrande
Transnational Activity
The Local Dimension of Transnational Activity in Environmental Conflicts: Tambogrande, 1961-2004
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149872017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Schroeder, Clarence W.
2014-08-29T18:54:16Z
2014-08-29T18:54:16Z
1914-06-01
Schroeder, Clarence W. "The Social Development of Winfield." University of Kansas. June 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14987
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The Social Development of Winfield
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/98652020-07-13T13:37:06Zcom_1808_291com_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_14109col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Eidson, Lambert
2012-06-06T16:10:07Z
2012-06-06T16:10:07Z
1911
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9865
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The Causes, Sources, and General Characteristics of the Immigration to Kansas Prior to 1890
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/251682017-12-08T21:42:12Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Bowman, Claude Charleton
2017-10-19T15:07:00Z
2017-10-19T15:07:00Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25168
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A preliminary study of social interaction in the classroom
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225472018-01-31T20:07:47Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Hughes, Robert Paul
2017-01-08T19:49:33Z
2017-01-08T19:49:33Z
2014-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13461
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22547
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 on the question of onset. In this dissertation, I break with this tradition and quantitatively examine the structural factors associated with the escalation of ethnic tensions, including, but not limited to, the onset of ethnic rebellion. I build upon and refine elements of a power and legitimacy school of scholarship to shed light on three critical points of escalation in ethno-political power relations. First, the politicization of ethnic boundaries is more likely in states with limited resources and lower levels of ethnic diversity or abundant resources and higher levels of ethnic diversity. Second, in those states where ethnic boundaries have already been politicized, state sanctioned ethnic exclusion is more likely when resources are scarce and ethnic diversity is higher or resources are abundant and ethnic diversity is lower. Third, in those states where state sanctioned ethnic exclusion is practiced, ethnic rebellion is more likely when the size of the excluded population increases but the ethnic diversity of the excluded population remains lower. Importantly, even when the excluded population is very large, ethnic rebellions become less likely as the ethnic diversity of the excluded population increases. I test these hypotheses using the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset, which includes the world's independent states from 1946 through 2005. Aside from the substantive contributions regarding the escalation of ethnic tensions, as a whole, the dissertation argues for, and demonstrates, the importance of quantitatively engaging with the entirety of qualitative theoretical perspectives, rather than just limiting quantitative inquiry to the onset of ethnic violence.
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Social structure
Ethnic studies
Civil War
Ethnic Exclusion
Ethnic Rebellion
Ethnic Tensions
Institutional
Structural
POLITICS OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND ETHNIC REBELLION: THE ESCALATION OF ETHNIC TENSIONS FROM 1946 TO 2005
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/301092021-03-05T16:54:48Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Neumann, Elyse
2020-03-21T19:02:12Z
2020-03-21T19:02:12Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16472
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30109
Due to their seemingly abnormal sexual preferences, Fat Admirers represent a group of stigmatized individuals who challenge Western ideals of beauty. This research investigates the self-protective strategies of Fat Admirers. I show how the sharing of stigmatizing experiences in a Fat Admirer online community helps structure an individual’s understanding of their identity that acts as a fourth self-protective strategy. The Fat Admirer identity consists of a stigmatized self in which individuals implement strategies that buffer against stigma in an online community setting. This research uses Crocker and Major’s (1989) conception of self-protective strategies that include 1. Attributing negative feedback to prejudice about their in-group 2. Comparing outcomes with in-group members 3. Devaluing negative attributes of the in-group. I argue that a fourth strategy (dialogic essentialism) is employed in which FAs converse with similar others in attempts to normalize their essentialist beliefs about their sexual preferences that in turn protects against possible stigmatization. Instead of interviewing participants to find out what their FA identity entails, this research uses an internet ethnographical approach to study the natural flow of conversation between members, which offers a new perspective into this community-the interaction among self-identified Fat Admirers. This research is important as it illustrates how members combat stigma through interactions that delineate acceptable membership practices. These interactions promote increased importance, validation, and protection of a stigmatized identity.
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Sociology
Buffers against Stigma
Fat Admirers
Fat Studies
Internet Ethnography
Stigma
The Self-Protective Properties of Stigma within the Fat Admirer Community
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/69772020-08-05T15:45:33Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Capps, Jason Scott
2011-01-03T02:31:41Z
2011-01-03T02:31:41Z
2010-07-28
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11074
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6977
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 citizens in the Pacific Northwest have in regard to innocent loss of life in war and in the American criminal justice system. The project serves as a frontal analysis of recent scholarship regarding attitudes toward casualty tolerance by political scientists Peter Feaver, Chris Gelpi, and Jason Reifler (FGR). FGR focus on debunking the `myth' that the American public is `casualty phobic' and suffers from the `Vietnam syndrome.' FGR's research focuses heavily on American soldier casualties, whereas my project shines a light on gauging public opinion on the deaths of innocent civilians in wars. I argue that their model of predicting casualty tolerance--based solely on the use of survey data--is woefully inept and lacks important contributions from social psychology, sociology and personality theories in fostering a deeper understanding of explaining varying levels of casualty tolerance by individuals who are attitudinally ambivalent. I also extend the definition of collateral damage to include innocent loss of life in the criminal justice system by individuals put to death for crimes not committed. The study implores two methods, surveys and in-depth interviews, in order to better understand attitudes toward `collateral damage' or innocent loss of life. Three new survey scales are introduced: a 14-item `Collateral Damage Tolerance Scale for War' (CDTSW), a 10-item `Collateral Damage Tolerance Scale for Death Penalty' (CDTSDP), and a 15-item Islamophobia Scale. In contemporary American politics the importance of the swing voter cannot be overstated. This study gives primacy to understanding in a more direct way what middle-scores think about innocent loss of life in war and in the criminal justice system. The foundation of the study is a Frankfurt School approach that highlights the following: individual differences are real and far-reaching, that personality has psychodynamic roots, and that variations in psycho-cultural experience (in early childhood, in the family, in the workplace) produce major variations in attitudes and character structure. The survey results indicate the power of authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), incidences of corporal punishment, and Islamophobia as strong predictors of more or less tolerance of innocent loss of life in war. In regard to collateral damage in the use of the death penalty four variables proved to be central: RWA, SDO, views toward the nature of God, and approval/disapproval of capital punishment. The interview data confirm predicted responses from high and low scoring individuals toward more or less tolerance of collateral damage. As for middle scorers the following themes emerged as contributors to more or less tolerance: perceived threat of terrorism, being informed or uninformed about current events like war and the criminal justice system, the degree to which middle scorers buy in to the master narratives or national stories regarding justifications for collateral damage, and ability of middles to formulate and articulate counter narratives. The continued relevancy of Erich Fromm is discussed as well as a pitch for a renaissance of his social-psychological analytical approach to studies of casualty tolerance.
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Sociology
Social research
Attitudinal ambivalence
Collateral damage
Fromm, Erich
Right-wing authoritarianism
Social dominance
Collateral Damage In Iraq and Capital Punishment in the U.S.: How the Public Makes Sense of Extreme Violence and Death
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/248332018-01-31T20:07:52Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Collins, Nathan Russell
2017-08-13T22:27:46Z
2017-08-13T22:27:46Z
2015-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13984
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24833
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 held identities that strongly impact their everyday lives. When an individual exits a fundamentalist group they enter a process through which their identity is transformed. This transformation occurs throughout a number of steps which appear to be similar to those leaving other encapsulating groups, namely orthodox Jewish communities. The process begins with the defector recognizing holes in the sacred canopy their church has wrapped them in, and ends with a complete transformation of identity.
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Sociology
Religion
Cultural anthropology
Christian
Encapsulation
Fundamentalism
Identity
Narratives
Stepping Out: Narratives of Former Fundamentalist Christians
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149932017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Colyer, E. E.
2014-09-02T19:54:10Z
2014-09-02T19:54:10Z
1915-07-08
Colyer, E. E. "Social Results of High School Education." University of Kansas July 8, 1915.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14993
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Social Results of High School Education
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184992020-06-24T19:39:49Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Swanson, Nina Mildred
2015-09-21T18:31:45Z
2015-09-21T18:31:45Z
1922
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18499
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The development of public protection of children in Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/137322020-10-22T14:36:44Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Lacy, Lester D.
2014-05-23T03:13:28Z
2014-05-23T03:13:28Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13732
The purpose of this paper is to give the history of
the social phases, Ie., methods of agitation, education,
organization and law enforcement from the time of the
first settlements in Kansas and the establishment of the
Territorial government, down to the present time. The history of the laws has been carried along with the social history because it is impossible to trace the one as it should be without the other. Each is necessary for the other because they were developed together and each depends on the other. Part II contains a summary of the methods of agitation, organization and law enforcement. This brief summary is taken from part I and put in this form in order to show more.clearly the development of the means used and for the purpose of ready reference in case a concise statement was wanted for practical purposes. Part III contains the opinions of one hundred and seventy-two bankers of the state in regard to prohibition.
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Kansas
Temperance movement
A History of the Social Phases of the Temperance Movement in Kansas
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/191152017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Raymond, Irene
2015-12-04T15:09:59Z
2015-12-04T15:09:59Z
1915
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19115
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Waste and its elimination as regards exceptional children
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/197132017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Ransom, Will A.
2016-01-06T17:16:17Z
2016-01-06T17:16:17Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19713
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Public opinion and municipal government
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/254362018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Craig, Christy
2017-11-17T22:41:04Z
2017-11-17T22:41:04Z
2015-01-01
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14297
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25436
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, including ethnographic observation, participation in book club meetings, and in-depth narrative interviews. I examined how women developed a sense of social place, increased cultural capital, and developed gendered sexual identities through reading and participation in women’s book clubs. Clear differences emerged in the different cultural contexts of each country, particularly as related to the role of reading in romantic relationships. Women in Ireland utilized reading and book clubs to develop knowledge and understanding; women in the United States were influenced to increase their status partially in order to potentially secure or retain a high-status romantic partner. At the same time, important key themes relating to social positionality and social networks, capital development, and the construction of sexuality were similar and central to women in both cultural environments. This research adds to our understanding of the sexual field by exploring the way women increased their erotic habitus outside of the sexual field for increased erotic capital within the sexual field.
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Sociology
Book Clubs
Culture
Erotic Capital
Gender
Sexuality
Women's Reading
READING BETWEEN THE LINES: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND EROTIC CAPITAL IN AMERICAN AND IRISH WOMEN’S BOOK CLUBS
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84552020-08-27T13:05:35Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Dodge, Faye
2011-11-22T17:56:23Z
2011-11-22T17:56:23Z
1911-05
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8455
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The Nature and Extent of Indian Agriculture in North America
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/256352018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Perry, Nicole Kristin
2017-12-11T22:46:48Z
2017-12-11T22:46:48Z
2015-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14388
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25635
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 imprisoned at the Women’s Industrial Farm (WIF) in Lansing, Kansas throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The WIF thus served as an institution of social control, imprisoning women whose sexual behaviors violated social norms. This research examines three groups of women’s involvement with this institution: the elite activist women who lobbied to create the Farm, the professional women who ran the institution, and the inmates detained under Chapter 205. By comparing these groups of women’s relationship to the Farm, this research explores the intersection of class, sexuality, gender, race, and respectability in their respective social positions. Contributing to the literature on the intersection of class and sexuality, this research highlights the importance of respectability for all three groups of women and the barriers between each group of women and a respectable status. Social inequalities and privileges informed how respectability functioned at the Farm, allowing the activist and professional women to construct themselves as being respectable through their involvement with the WIF at the same time that they constructed the imprisoned women as being disreputable. These different groups of women’s involvement with the Farm deepened social boundaries between groups along existing social hierarchies. This attention to the role of respectability in constructing boundaries is key to understanding inequality and a reminder of the larger cultural work that is accomplished through institutions of social control and discussions of the criminality of groups of people.
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Sociology
American history
Gender studies
boundary work
historical sociology
respectability
social control
women's history
DISEASED BODIES AND RUINED REPUTATIONS: VENEREAL DISEASE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN’S RESPECTABILITY IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY KANSAS
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257482018-06-01T15:48:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Kennedy, Emily J.
2018-01-28T22:26:01Z
2018-01-28T22:26:01Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14569
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25748
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 media portrayals of sex workers. In light of increased cultural acceptance of changing sexual practices and identities, I ask, has there been increased acceptance of commercial sex work and sex workers as measured in public opinion, sex workers’ experiences, popular films, and news media portrayals? In order to answer this question, I reviewed and interacted with more than 100 sex work bloggers on Tumblr.com, and conducted interviews with 36 sex workers, to determine the effect of the Internet on their work and their experience of acceptance or stigmatization in their personal and professional lives; attended two commercial sex industry conferences to observe the impact of the Internet on different aspects of the industry; conducted content analysis of the top 50 films annually from 1990-2013 to examine changes in the depictions of sex workers from the beginning of the Digital Age to the present; and analyzed 353 English-language newspaper articles on prostitution and sex work during the period October 21, 2012-December 5, 2012 to determine how sex work was portrayed in the news – as criminal or commercial activity. I found that sex work and sex workers remain deeply stigmatized in American society. This is despite sex worker activism and increased availability of pornography and other commercial sex products. I conclude that the persistent stigmatization of the commercial sex industry and those who work within it results from occupational structures within the commercial sex industry, continued criminalization of sex work, the entertainment industry’s negative depiction of sex workers, and news media reports of sex workers as criminals, especially the conflation of “sex trafficking” and sex work.
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Sociology
criminalized work
Internet
low-status occupations
sexuality
sex work
Digital Desire: Commercial, Moral, and Political Economies of Sex Work and the Internet
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84542020-08-27T13:04:07Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Dalke, Diedrich L.
2011-11-22T17:51:58Z
2011-11-22T17:51:58Z
1911-05-15
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8454
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The Problem of Workingmen’s Insurance vs. Accidents in the United States - One Phase of Social Insurance
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/86982020-09-02T14:44:49Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Kleihege, George William
2012-01-30T17:31:31Z
2012-01-30T17:31:31Z
1911-05
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8698
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The Development of the Cotton Industry in the United States up to 1840
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82392020-08-25T13:21:07Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_7158col_1808_14224
Andis, Elijah Sheridan
2011-10-18T17:35:48Z
2011-10-18T17:35:48Z
1903-05-15
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8239
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Equal Suffrage in Colorado
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/78992020-08-07T16:17:36Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Petty, Laurie
2011-08-02T22:00:27Z
2011-08-02T22:00:27Z
2011-04-27
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11558
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7899
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 adopted a child while in a tenured or tenure-track position, this study explores issues related to how departmental culture is experienced by professors who become mothers or fathers, with particular emphasis on the role of the department chair. Findings indicate that the perceived supportiveness of the department chair is an important factor in how both men and women faculty perceive the departmental and institutional culture surrounding parenthood.
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Sociology
Sociology of education
Higher education
Department Chairs and High Chairs: The importance of perceived department chair supportiveness on faculty parents' views of departmental and institutional kid-friendliness
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/301012021-03-05T16:54:48Zcom_1808_82com_1808_1260col_1808_14224col_1808_1951
Spotswood, Joelle
2020-03-21T18:44:45Z
2020-03-21T18:44:45Z
2019-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16389
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30101
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8085-2400
Previous research has examined the degree to which social origins affect college completion, but few have studied the association of family background, social class, and neighborhood contexts with regard to the rate of four-year college attrition. To fill this gap, this study utilizes rich administrative data on first-time (students who have not completed any post-secondary courses), full-time freshman cohorts (2007-2014) from a four-year Midwestern teaching university which provided information on students’ demographic information, including parental education and income, academic performance, and family background via admission and Federal Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) applications. I supplement these with secondary data on students’ county and high school socioeconomic characteristics. Linear probability and hazard models are estimated. Primary amongst the findings is that parental education is the significant predictor in dropping out of college rather than parental income, even when controlling for academic preparation and a variety of other family and neighborhood variables. Being a first-generation student, someone who does not have a parent with a college degree, significantly and substantially increases the likelihood of dropping out of college, as does being male. To a lesser though still significant extent, county unemployment also predicts retention or withdrawal, suggesting the importance of neighborhood effects. The results imply the value of cultural rather than economic capital transmission in students’ college success and lend further evidence for the widening class inequality gap regarding college completion. This study is especially significant for educational sociologists and higher education retention programs, providing empirical data from which to draw to create targeted intervention for potentially at-risk freshman.
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Educational sociology
Sociology
Education policy
Academic readiness
Capital transmission
College attrition
First-generation students
Higher education
Socioeconomic status
Who Drops Out from College? A Study of Social Origin at a Midwestern Teaching University
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/108322020-09-24T13:54:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_82col_1808_1952col_1808_14224
Decker, Stephanie Kristine
2013-02-17T17:48:15Z
2013-02-17T17:48:15Z
2012-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12545
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10832
An analysis of transcripts from three very different sets of public confessions--the Moscow Show Trials, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings, and Iraq Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier--identifies the common characteristics of public confessions. These confessions all occurred after deviant acts demonstrated an inconsistency within the social order--typically violent behavior that was formally condemned but was also encouraged, accepted, and even ordered by officials, reflecting a larger lack of consensus as to what was acceptable and what was unacceptable within the societies. The confessions addressed the nature of the deviance, assigned responsibility for the deviance, discussed the implications of the deviance for political legitimacy, and sought closure. Historically, power holders have organized public confessions to acquit the social order of any responsibility for deviant acts, to legitimize their authority, and to delegitimize their challengers. However, with the advent of new forms of media that allow for user-generated content, individuals and social movements may now intentionally organize public confessions to challenge the legitimacy of power holders and the social order.
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Sociology
Confession
Deviance
Iraq veterans against the war
Moscow show trials
South African truth and reconciliation commission
Toward a Sociology of Public Confessions
Dissertation
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