Browsing by Subject "Sociology, General"
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Causes and Impacts of Institutional and Structural Variation: Globalization in the Tobacco and Pork Industries
(2010)Among the most significant changes to the agricultural sector in the twentieth century include a sharp decline in employment and the numbers of farms, a decline in the proportion of total value that accrues to agricultural ... -
From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy-the-Kid: The Evolving Social Construction of Juvenile Offenders in the United States From 1899-2007
(2010)Few studies have historically assessed the surges and troughs of public perception regarding juvenile offenders across over a century of legislative and social change. Furthermore, a minority of juvenile crime investigations ... -
Household Debt Across the Life Course: An Analysis of the Late Baby Boomers
(2010)As an aggregate, American households have shown rising debt levels over the past few decades, yet we do not understand how debt varies within households over time and what factors influence this variation in a meaningful ... -
Moms, Midwives, and MDs: a Mixed-Methods Study of the Medicalization and Demedicalization of Childbirth
(2009)This dissertation explores the simultaneous trends towards increasing and decreasing medical intervention in childbirth. Using the medicalization literature as a theoretical framework, I use a mixed-methods approach to ... -
Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis
(2010)The United States experienced a tremendous expansion of higher education after the Second World War. However, this expansion has not led to a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the ... -
Social Engagement, Limitations, and Mortality in Late Life
(2010)This study uses social integration theory within a life course framework to examine the relationships among social engagement, physical limitations, cognitive limitations, and mortality. Data for this study come from the ... -
To Thine Own Self Be True? an Exploration of Authenticity
(2007-12-14)What does it mean to be authentic? Is authenticity an attribute of the individual, or do certain environmental factors facilitate or inhibit the enactment of the authentic self? This research proposes that authentic behavior ... -
Women's Retirement Insecurity Across U.S. Birth Cohorts
(2010)Older women in the U.S. face greater risks of economic insecurity in comparison with other age groups and with men their own age. Although these risks have been documented in prior research, few studies investigate the life ... -
Your Body Knows Who You Know: Social Capital and Health Inequality
(2009)Does social capital, resources embedded in social networks, influence health? My dissertation examines whether social capital directly impacts depression, and how it interplays with other established structural risk factors ...
