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Notorious But Invisible: How Romani Media Portrayals Invalidate Romani Identity And Existence In Mainstream Society, Melanie Covert
Notorious But Invisible: How Romani Media Portrayals Invalidate Romani Identity And Existence In Mainstream Society, Melanie Covert
Sociology Dissertations
The Romani are a group of individuals that have been acknowledged in newspapers, television, movies and other forms of media but remain invisible as a people world-wide. Through the use of qualitative interviews, content analysis and qualitative synthesis, this study investigates why this phenomenon occurs in the United States as well as Europe. Overall, it was found that media portrayals negatively impact the Romani’s ability to successfully acculturate, increases their experiences of prejudice and discrimination and negatively impacts their social, physical and mental health. Romani media portrayals also appropriate the Romani’s ability to define themselves to mainstream society and impacts …
An Imperfect And Incomplete Quest For Freedom: An Extended Case Study Of Black American Counter-Framing And Resistance Strategies, Angela Luvara
An Imperfect And Incomplete Quest For Freedom: An Extended Case Study Of Black American Counter-Framing And Resistance Strategies, Angela Luvara
Sociology Dissertations
Through this study, I aim to expand the body of knowledge related to Black counter-framing strategies employed in the United States. In this extended case study, I examine the ways in which young Black cis-hetero male creators living in Atlanta, Georgia employ the use of counter-frames to navigate and resist the dominant white racial frame. Specifically, I analyze their use of double consciousness, freedom, and alchemical capitalism as counter-frames as resistance. I advocate for a nuanced approach to examining resistance strategies that includes embracing imperfect and incomplete acts of resistance. By examining these resistance strategies, despite their faults, perhaps we …
Public Housing Relocation And Utilization Of The Food Safety Net: The Role Of Social Capital And Cultural Capital, Marcie Hambrick
Public Housing Relocation And Utilization Of The Food Safety Net: The Role Of Social Capital And Cultural Capital, Marcie Hambrick
Sociology Dissertations
HOPE VI, instituted in 1993 and subsequent related policies, resulted in the demolition of traditional public housing and the relocation of former residents. For former residents living on low incomes, combining housing subsidy and other social services is important to survival. One crucial type of social services support provides food supplements. Research indicates that among low-income families, many do not receive necessary food social services. For example, among eligibles, food stamp utilization is at 50 to 60%, and for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) rates vary from 38 to 73%. Research indicates that 35% of …
"Some Guys Do, But That's Not Me." Language Use And The Rejection Of Hegemonic Masculinity., Lanier Basenberg
"Some Guys Do, But That's Not Me." Language Use And The Rejection Of Hegemonic Masculinity., Lanier Basenberg
Sociology Dissertations
Young men experience daily struggles to live up to an American ideal of masculinity that does not leave room for emotion, tenderness, and respect for their sexual partners – and they are beginning to reject this ideal outright. In this study I give young men the space and freedom to talk openly about sex in general and their sexual experiences in particular, with the goal of ascertaining how their talk illustrates and impacts their performance of masculinity. I employed a qualitative approach, including focus groups consisting of college men of all sexual orientations, and a comprehensive survey regarding their sexual …
Successful Sexual Aging: A Feminist Gerontological Examination Of Sexual Behavior And Health, Christina Barmon
Successful Sexual Aging: A Feminist Gerontological Examination Of Sexual Behavior And Health, Christina Barmon
Sociology Dissertations
As gerontology has shifted from emphasizing the problems of aging to exploring how older adults can thrive, researchers have increased their attention on new issues including sexuality and aging. A sometimes explicit, but often implicit assumption in this research, is that sex is good for you—that it is an integral part of a full and healthy life or successful aging. Although successful aging is one of the most commonly cited theories in social gerontology (Alley et al. 2010), it has not gone without criticism (Martinson and Berridge 2014). Using an unrefined successful aging framework for sex research has the potential …
Red, White, And Gay?: American Identity, White Savior Complex, And Pink Policing, Marik Xavier-Brier
Red, White, And Gay?: American Identity, White Savior Complex, And Pink Policing, Marik Xavier-Brier
Sociology Dissertations
In this dissertation, I examine the internal divisions in LGBT/Q communities. I illustrate how the notion of a single, unified community is not only fictive, but counter to the goals of liberation. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, I examine cultural artifacts of the contemporary gay rights movement to determine who has the power to shape domestic and international gay rights discourse. I analyze the role of gay citizenship through the same-sex marriage debates, the creation of the homonational soldier, and how gay rights is employed in international conflicts to strategically promote some countries as progressive, while denouncing others as backwards. I …
Neoliberalism And The Politics Of Social Enterprises In South Korea: The Dynamics Of Neoliberal Governmentality And Hegemony, Joohwan Kim
Sociology Dissertations
Social enterprises have been promoted globally as alternative economic institutions to neoliberalism for the last few decades. In this study, I explored how social enterprises and the subjectivities of social entrepreneurs emerged as new discursive formations and institutional mechanisms in the neoliberal transformation of governance strategies in South Korea. Three broader questions guide this study. First, how have social enterprises emerged as a new discursive formation and a new institutional mechanism in neoliberal South Korean society? Second, how are the new subjectivities of social entrepreneurs produced in ways that are consistent with neoliberalism? Finally what are the implications of the …