Dissertations from 2009

Persistently present: College students, social-mobile technologies, and the transformation of social life, Mark A Gammon

Parents, patriarchy, and decision-making power: A study of gender relations as reflected by co-residence patterns of older parents in the immigrant household, Lang Lin

Dissertations from 2008

"It's the people here": A study of ritual, conversion, and congregational life among Chinese Christians, Andrew Stuart Abel

"Ghetto" or getaway?: Constructions of crime and danger in an east coast vacation village, Sarah Becker

Dissertations from 2007

Doing health, doing gender: Testing a social constructionist view of health and risk behavior engagement, Cathryn Elise Brubaker

Jim Crow's teachers: Race, remembering, and the geopolitics of teaching in the North Carolina coastal plains, Hilton Keon Kelly

Uneasy alliance: The participation of African Americans in conservative social, political, and intellectual movements, Louis G Prisock

Not even past: Race and commemoration in a southern city, Katherine D Walker

Dissertations from 2006

Narcotic addiction in post-Soviet Ukraine, Gregory A Adams

Caregivers, workers, professionals: Challenges and strategies of family day care providers, Amy B Armenia

Done deal: Socially expected and contested duration in the corporate merger and acquisition market, Eric R Cheney

Lofty ideals and ground realities: Feminism, activism, and NGOs in Pakistan, Afshan Jafar

Beyond staying and leaving: Battered women's responses to abuse, Ingrid Semaan

Dissertations from 2005

Detecting distinctions: Extended family integration among Latinos/as and Whites, Mariana Gerena

Engendering trauma: Gender, race, and family after child sexual abuse, Clifton Shawn McGuffey

Kin support in Black and White: Structure, culture, and extended family ties, Natalia A Sarkisian

Dissertations from 2004

Preaching science or promoting citizenship? Teaching sociology in high school, Michael A DeCesare

An organizational perspective on quality of care in nursing homes, Carter Cleveland Rakovski

The launch pad: Middle class families and the transition to college, Elizabeth Hope Souza

Sex and sensibility: Gender, race, and class in three youth cultures, Amy C Wilkins

Latvian nationalist ideas and intellectuals 19th century-1939, Ieva Zake

Dissertations from 2003

The business of diversity: Strategies and structures in United States information technology businesses, Youlanda Michelle Gibbons

The impact of child care choices on the social networks of working-class couples across the transition to parenthood, Heather-Lyn Haley

Context, ritual, and gender: An ethnography of stripping, Kimberly B Price

Developmental states and serendipitous outcomes: A comparative study of economic growth, income inequality, and human well being in Mexico and South Korea, Isha Sharma

Saris, spouses, and software: Gender and assimilation among South Indian high-tech and homemaker immigrants in Portland, Oregon, Karen S Straight

Dissertations from 2002

'The green and pleasant land'. Cultural citizenship: Social welfare, law, and identity in contemporary England, Lee Robert Blackstone

Environmental racism and labor market discrimination: Residential location and industrial endogeneities, Pamela Renee Davidson

From welfare rights to welfare fights: Neo-liberalism and the retrenchment of social provision, John Arthur O'Connor

Dissertations from 2000

Estimating of latent trait from Likert-type data: A comparison of four procedures, Karla Lea Egan

Leadership, ideology and the community living movement, Michael John Kendrick

Identifying the social problem of rape on campus: Responses from within the university, Janet Karen Lohmann

Fitting in by race/ethnicity: The social and academic integration of diverse students at a large predominantly white university, Kathleen M Morley

The illusion of local aid: Extractive and distributive effects of the Massachusetts State Lottery on cities and towns, Elizabeth A Williams

Dissertations from 1999

The meaning of care: Social support, informal caregiving and HIV disease, Michael Robert Fraser

The effects of life stress and social support on reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans, Patricia Mary Gallagher

The new business chamber in Hungary: A comparative historical study of a compulsory civic organization, Leslie Kriebel

Gender on the court: Girls and boys in youth recreational basketball, Rhonda L Singer

Dissertations from 1998

Constructing lesbigay families: The social organization of domestic labor(s) in lesbian and gay families, Christopher Michael Carrington

Sisterhood and brotherhood: An exploration of sibling ties in adult lives, Shelley Jan Eriksen

Self-selection and migrants' destination choice: A study of Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico, Jeffrey John Kuenzi

Questioning the community question: Wal-Mart, place identity and a classic New England town, Todd Jeffrey Robbins

Dissertations from 1997

How kids create and experience gender and race, Valerie Ann Moore

The location of hazardous waste facilities, John Michael Oakes

Reel to real: Gender, genre, and the Hollywood romantic comedy, Mark David Rubinfeld

The postmodern moments in the Marxist tradition, Jo-Young Shin

Dissertations from 1996

The changing pace and nature of the spatial distribution of the United States population, Oyebanjo Ayorinde Lajubutu

Dissertations from 1995

The social construction of sexual harassment in nursing, Patricia Mary Hanrahan

Dissertations from 1992

When to worry more: An empirical investigation of the effects of non-randomly missing data on regression analysis, Deborah Ellen Sellers

Dissertations from 1987

Homeless women in America: Their social and health characteristics, Julie A Lam

Dissertations from 1985

A MATTER OF PLACE: A MICRO-ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF COLLEGE RESIDENCE HALLS, ALICE HOPPER EPSTEIN

Dissertations from 1984

MUSIC OF THE WORKPLACE: A STUDY OF MUZAK CULTURE (SOCIAL CHANGE IDEOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY), JERRI ANN HUSCH

NORMATIVE CONSENSUS IN JUDGMENTS OF PRISON SENTENCES: POPULAR AND SELECTED CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM PERCEPTIONS OF FAIR PUNISHMENTS FOR CONVICTED OFFENDERS (GENDER, RACE), JOANN LANGLEY MILLER

Dissertations from 1981

WORK AND POST-PRISON ADJUSTMENT: THE ROLE OF EMPLOYMENT IN REDUCING ECONOMIC AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS FACED BY EX-FELONS, JEFFREY KEITH LIKER

SEXUALIZATION OF THE WORKPLACE, BETH ELISE SCHNEIDER

Dissertations from 1979

THE SOCIAL MEANING OF MASS HYSTERIA IN WEST MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE, RAYMOND LAI-MING LEE

Dissertations from 1977

MAN, WILDERNESS, AND ENVIRONMENTALISM, A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIALMOVEMENTS, GLENN EMIL NILSON

AN OCCUPATIONAL ANALYSIS OF WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL GOLF, NANCY THEBERGE

Dissertations from 1976

UTILIZATION OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESOURCES IN RURAL BOTSWANA, PRISCILLA RICHARDSON ULIN

Dissertations from 1975

THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF MINORITY UPRISING: A COMPARISON OF THE NAT TURNER SLAVE REBELLION (1831) AND THE NEWARK RIOT (1967), CORRIE S HOPE

Dissertations from 1974

CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL REALITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES: SOCIAL ORDER, CHANGE, AND PROCESS, YOON MOK CHOE

Dissertations from 1973

HOUSEHOLDS IN A NINETEENTH-CENTURY TOWN: A HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY SIZE AND COMPOSITION IN AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, 1850-1880, MARY JANE RICHARDS PI-SUNYER

Dissertations from 1971

THE MEANING OF WORK AMONG THE HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED, H. ROY KAPLAN