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Sociology Theses and Dissertations
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Listrovaya, Liudmila
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation delves into the complex socio-environmental issues that lay at the intersection of natural resource governance, environmental injustice, and environmental discourse in Russia—a nation with an economy ...
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Theis, Nicholas
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation uses social network analysis to integrate the relationality of nation-states more fully into quantitative macro-environmental sociology. Specifically, I am interested in the
following questions: How can ...
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Labuza, Andrew
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
Most contemporary political theories argue that the state is autonomous from the hegemony of the capitalist class. This project tackles the question of the relative autonomy of the state through a novel approach of converting ...
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De'Arman, Kindra
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Legally required federal management of horse and burro (donkey) populations on the American West rangelands has proven to be a challenge for the United States government. Federal management has resulted in more than desired ...
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Sikirica, Amanda
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This dissertation addresses features of the displacement paradox in the context of electricity generation, both at the cross-national level and within one region of the United States. The displacement paradox is the empirical ...
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Dunn, Marvin Glenn
(University of Oregon, 1977-03)
This study is an attempt to increase our understanding of the class
structure and political economy of the United States, through a detailed
examination of one extended family of great wealth. Focusing on a single
case, ...
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Satchwell, Wayne
(Univeristy of Oregon, 1940-06)
The state of Oregon has long been interested in the problems of the blind. In 1872 a school for the blind was established in Salem; in 1921 the Oregon Employment Institution for the Blind (now the Oregon Blind Trades School) ...
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Kleingartner, Archie
(University of Oregon, 1962-06)
From the wealth of data which might be gathered on any particular subject, every social investigation must specify what material will be used and for what purpose it will be used. Any subject can be approached from a variety ...
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Bain, Read
(University of Oregon, 1921-04)
During the last ten years the reorganization of state government has been one of the liveliest subjects in political science.
A great deal has been written about it, but little has been done
to remedy the defects pointed ...
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Koval, John P.
(1960-06)
The focus of this particular study is on collective bargaining, or more generally, industrial sociology. Fringe benefits, the particular aspect of collective bargaining in question, were chose not so much for their present ...
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Norton-Smith, Kathryn
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
This dissertation explores the lived experiences of young adults with cancer through qualitative methods, including 40 in-depth interviews and participant observation. This dissertation extends sociological inquiry to an ...
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Contreras-Medrano, Diego
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
Farm labor contractors are third-party employers and critical components ofinternational labor chains that prevail worldwide through the recruitment and
management of temporary workers. While the public often focuses on ...
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Alexander, Michelle
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
Here I bring together Game Studies, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies to explore the scope of digital and analog roleplaying communities. Using interviews conducted with 50 participants who reported playing the ...
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Betancourt De la Parra, Mauricio
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
Theoretical studies of imperialism, dependency, unequal exchange, and world-systems have commonly overlooked the ecological foundation of cross-national trade and relations. More generally, in the social sciences the ...
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Loustaunau, Lola
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
This dissertation research examines how precarity was experienced and resisted by migrant food processing workers in the Pacific Northwest, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenging the exceptionalizing narratives ...
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Hanson, Kenneth
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
This dissertation is an empirically grounded study of the love and sex doll community. Conducted over 14 months of digital ethnographic research, this dissertation draws from participant observation, in-depth interviews, ...
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Ahmed, Sarah
(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)
Pakistan remains one of the two countries wherein Polio remains endemic. Central to the Polio Eradication project, led by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), are female community health workers. These women--who ...
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Petrucci, Larissa
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
This dissertation research examines the work arrangements of software workers in high-technology industries in order to raise questions, dispel myths, and develop a labor process theory of knowledge-based work in the 21st ...
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Bales, Robert Freed
(University of Oregon, 1941-06)
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Cupo, Dimitra
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This study bridges the gap between self-defense classes whose founders, instructors, and students are predominantly white, advocating for an individualistic and embodied self-defense, compared to the self-defense practiced ...
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