- IDEALS Home
- →
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- →
- Dept. of Sociology
- →
- Browse Dept. of Sociology by Title
Browse Dept. of Sociology by Title
Now showing items 325-344 of 349
-
(1983)The focus of this research is the patient experience at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience ...
application/pdf
PDF (11MB)
-
(2016-07-15)Given the increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, sentiment, and policy advocacy, it is important to understand the development, maintenance, and power of undocuactivism, which is the mobilization of undocumented immigrants. ...
application/pdf
PDF (65MB)
-
(1985)The purpose of this study is to develop and test a general causal model of criminal activity that accounts for the relationship between unemployment rates and crime rates. The model proposed here argues that when predicting ...
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(1997)Previous research in sociology and epidemiology has shown strong adverse effects of unemployment on physical and psychological health. However, this research has two major limitations. First, researchers have ignored the ...
application/pdf
PDF (7MB)
-
(2007)This dissertation argues that for ICTs to be used as a tool to empower women economically, socially and politically, there should be a bottom-up approach where poor, non-literate and rural women act as their own experts ...
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(1970)
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(1985)The debate of what determines earning variations persists between the individualistic and structural views. My dissertation further explores this important question by incorporating into a combined framework the work ...
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(2017-04-19)Through an ethnographic study (semi-structured interviews, participant observation, photography, and archival research) of Koreatown in Los Angeles, I examine how visuality and countervisuality influence the transnational ...
application/pdf
PDF (31MB)
-
(1992)An unanswered question raised by women's disproportionate entry into male occupations is: "Where did the men go?" To determine which occupations men and other groups (i.e., women, white men, white women, nonwhite ...
application/pdf
PDF (11MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (13MB)
-
(2003)This research focuses on the embedded stereotypical assumptions in the expression of White Euroamerican mythologies about American Indians, prejudice and racism toward American Indians, and disrespect for Indian religious ...
application/pdf
PDF (15MB)
-
(2001)The siege of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik that began on October 1st, 1991 was among the earliest military aggressions of the Yugoslav army in response to the breakup of the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The thriving ...
application/pdf
PDF (12MB)
-
(1998)This work underscores the relevance of gender identity for understanding activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.
application/pdf
PDF (8MB)
-
(2001)I examine the relations between the many activisms of women and the interrelations of oppressions as females, poor and blacks. I suggest that the activism of poor black women who live in the shantytowns of Salvador has ...
application/pdf
PDF (14MB)
-
(1997)Thus, I regard reducing the c-section rate as the primary agenda of childbirth reform in Taiwan. I advocate the extended use of midwives as the best strategy to reduce medically unnecessary c-sections. I also suggest the ...
application/pdf
PDF (12MB)
-
(1996)The perception of lesbian women as more criminal than heterosexual women can be seen in many facets of our culture over time. This study examines that perception as it appears in the media, government, politics, religion, ...
application/pdf
PDF (5MB)
-
(1987)This dissertation presents a case study of the stevedores in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from their union's founding in 1903 to 1964. Quantitative and qualitative historical methodologies were used to assess how ...
application/pdf
PDF (6MB)
-
application/pdf
PDF (10MB)
-
(1988)Theories of the labor process posit that capitalists must control the workplace. Research on the labor process links the logic of capitalism to increasing bureaucratization and mechanization resulting in a loss of workers' ...
application/pdf
PDF (10MB)
-
(2010)I aim to go beyond describing the unintended consequences of the project and answer the question of why these unintended consequences matter. I argue that outcomes that might appear as side effects of an intervention to ...
application/pdf
PDF (2MB)
Now showing items 325-344 of 349