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On Living Fully, Or, How To Not Be Made An Object, Fiona Pearl Miller
On Living Fully, Or, How To Not Be Made An Object, Fiona Pearl Miller
Senior Projects Spring 2023
An analysis of autonomy in the modern era through the lens of the Transcendentalists and the Frankfurt School.
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor
Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor
Senior Projects Spring 2017
The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of how domestic workers are able to find resistance within their work place. Using eleven in-depth interviews with women working as domestic workers in New York City, this project contributes to the extant literature regarding domestic workers and stratified reproduction. I examine how domestic work is shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, and citizenship status. These factors contribute to the conception of domestic work as low-skilled labor as well as the denigration and poor treatment of workers on the job. Though workers often have to sustain poor treatment …
Making The Male Manager: Can Non-Cognitive Skills Explain The Glass Ceiling?, Nora Paget Harrington
Making The Male Manager: Can Non-Cognitive Skills Explain The Glass Ceiling?, Nora Paget Harrington
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Abstract: This project examines whether men and women’s non-cognitive skills —or personality characteristics— influence their respective occupational attainment. I take an interdisciplinary approach to inform my hypothesis by incorporating psychological and sociological theories on the production and reproduction of gender roles in order to understand why men and women may systematically differ along some personality dimensions. I use linear probability and probit models to measure the effect of the non-cognitive traits, locus of control, self-esteem, and risk tolerance on the probability of being a manager. In both models I find that an internal locus of control, high self-esteem, and high …
The Pull Of The Earth: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather And Writing The Land, Eliza Holmes
The Pull Of The Earth: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather And Writing The Land, Eliza Holmes
Senior Projects Spring 2012
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.