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A Guidebook To Thesis And Non-Thesis Options Of The Masters Program In Sociology 2010-2011, Department Of Sociology And Rural Studies

Sociology Guidebooks

This pamphlet is designed to serve as a guide for graduate students in the Department of Rural Sociology. As a guide, it does not replace the Graduate School Bulletin requirements. It spells out in detail the responsibilities of a graduate student in the Department of Rural Sociology.

Mobility And Migration In Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives, Alf Hornborg

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives. Miguel. N. Alexiades, editor. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology. Xviii + 310 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index. $90.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-84545-563-7 [http://www.berghahnbooks.com].

Ambassador In The Classroom: Maliha Zulfacar Returns From Diplomatic Post, Teresa Hendrix

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Magazine, Spring 2010

Cal Poly Magazine

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Es Mucho Más Que Comprar… Discursos Y Prácticas Espaciales Cotidianas En Malls De Santiago, Joel Stillerman, Rodrigo Salcedo

Peer Reviewed Articles

This article seeks to analyze the discourses and, especially, the everyday spatial practices of different user groups at the Plaza Vespucio and Florida Center malls, and to establish how these practices and discourses transform the mall into an open and relatively free space where class and age identities are enacted and social inequalities are negotiated. We argue that the mall provides a meeting place where everyone, except the poorest, is accepted, as well as an attractive and welcoming environment that allows users to transfer practices from other spaces and generate specific practices of social differentiation. The mall also imposes limits …

Uis Commission On Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 58, June 2010, Jan Paul G. Van Der Pas

Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves

Contents: The Caves of Easter Island -- Proposed Expedition to Lava Tubes of Mount Kilimanjaro -- Ancient Shizuoka wind cave to be filled with concrete to reinforce local road -- Visit to the 11th Pseudokarst Symposium 12-16 May 2010- Saupsdorf (Germany) -- Collectors item....? -- CaveChat

The Inevitability Of Theory, Richard O. Lempert

Articles

I wrote this Article in response to an invitation to deliver the keynote address at Berkeley Law School’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy conference Building Theory Through Empirical Legal Studies. Lauren Edelman, the intellectual mother of the conference, gently brushed aside my suggestion that I present one of my own attempts to synthesize the results of empirical research to generate theory, and asked that I directly address the conference topic. I am glad that she did.

Bridging The Gap: Linking Co-Curricular Activities To Student Learning Outcomes In Community College Students, Katie Lauren Storey

Dissertations

This study investigated the extent to which participation in co-curricular events enhances the achievement of student-learning outcomes in community college students. One community college in Illinois—Chicago Metropolitan Area Community College (CMACC), a pseudonym—was selected to research based on its robust co-curricular activity programming. A concurrent nested mixed methodology (Plano Clark & Creswell, 2007) was used, nesting quantitative data within qualitative data.

To generate quantitative data, a student survey was distributed to 128 students involved with co-curricular activities at CMACC. Participating students were asked to identify their involvement with co-curricular programming and how this participation correlated with the institution’s general education …

Missouri's Public Defender Crisis: Shouldering The Burden Alone, Sean D. O'Brien

Missouri Law Review

Though this Article criticizes the quality of defense provided by overburdened defenders, it is written with the hope that adequate resources may one day make it possible for them to perform their vital function effectively. Public defenders perform socially and legally significant work every day. They are not to blame when the conditions under which they labor make it impossible to do their jobs. To fix this broken system, Missouri must first understand the scope and roots of the problem. Part II of this Article discusses Missouri's reluctant implementation of right to counsel since Gideon v. Wainwright and the State's …

Desegregating Legal Education, Peggy Cooper Davis

Georgia State University Law Review

This is a transcription of the 44th Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture given by Professor Peggy Cooper Davis of New York University School of Law.

Modernizing The Colonial Labor Subject In India, Valerian Desousa

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2010

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, June 2010

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Is Life The Same As Death?: Implications Of Graham V. Florida, Roper V. Simmons, And Atkins V. Virginia On Life Without Parole Sentences For Juvenile And Mentally Retarded Offenders, Natalie Pifer

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fare Tales And Fairy Tails: How Gay Sex Tourism Is Shaping The Brazilian Dream, Gregory Mitchell

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This article analyzes the aspirations of michês, straight-identified Brazilian men who exchange sex for money with bisexual and gay-identified male sex tourists from North America and Western Europe. In so doing, I contrast the exoticizing fantasies of the tourists with the consumerist daydreams of the michês, who often see sex work with men as one of the few routes available to them for consumer consumption and possible migration. Contrary to existing research on Brazilian sex workers, my findings demonstrate that, for the michês, the ability to participate in consumer culture occupies their minds far more than discussions of sex or …

Agents Or Victims? Youth Sex Workers On The U.S.-Mexico Border, Yasmina Katsulis

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The everyday lives of youth sex workers remain largely ignored in global debates about the impact of criminalization and policing on sex workers. Youth sex workers are often portrayed as victims of commercial child sexual exploitation, with little acknowledgement of their everyday worlds. Using data from a mixed method study with youth and adult sex workers in Tijuana, this paper will explore the occupational experiences of youth sex workers within a social context where many adult sex workers have obtained a quasi-legal status, as well as the consequences of age status with respect to occupational risks and hazards.

Focusing On The Child, Not The Prostitute: Shifting The Emphasis In Accounts Of Child Prostitution, Heather Montgomery

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Most media accounts of child prostitution rely on brief vignettes describing in detail the abuse endured by children who sell sex. In contrast, ethnographic studies look more holistically at these children, discussing their families, their social and economic situation and their lives before, during and after prostitution. This article will compare the various ways of portraying these children, arguing that in focusing so much on selling sex, the children’s lives away from prostitution are overlooked.

Illegal Lives, Loves, And Work: The Effects Of Criminalization On Sex Workers In Canada, Emily Van Der Meulen

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Based on interviews with Toronto sex workers, this article argues that the impacts of criminalization on sex workers’ lives includes increased vulnerability to violence, decreased business, and the necessity for secrecy. Criminalization also impacts sex workers’ intimate and business relations by necessitating external support and protection, mythologies around pimping, and increased power by police and landlords. Sex workers’ lived and intimate knowledge lend them a greater awareness of the effects and consequences of the current Canadian legislative framework as well as a greater awareness of what social and legal changes are necessary to improve their lives.

Writing Sex Work Online: The Case Of Belle De Jour, Debra Ferreday

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper investigates the media representation of sex work. Taking the case of the blogger Belle de Jour as a starting point, it considers sex blogging in the context of wider debates within feminist theory and cultural studies to consider under what circumstances experience becomes re-presented as authentic or otherwise in popular narratives of sex work. It engages with the layers of mystery and demystification, stigma and resistance that surround online narratives of sexual labour and to challenge the notion that accounts of sex work, need to be universally ‘representative’ in order to be heard.

Sex Work For The Soul, Lucinda Blissbomb

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

As a white, middle-class Australian sex worker, my greatest professional fear was being “outed” to the women’s and community organizations with which I worked. For twenty years I supplemented my activist work, with its concomitant high social capital but limited financial rewards, with sex work, which provides financial rewards accompanied by significant stigma. This paper discusses the strategies I built into my day-to-day existence to protect my privacy, manage stress, and keep a long-term secret from my loved ones and colleagues while engaging in activism to promote our rights and the notion that sex work is real, and rewarding, work

From The Field, Sienna Baskin, Thaddeus Blanchette, Gregory Mitchell, Jayne Swift

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

These short pieces, written by individuals engaged in sex work-related activism and scholarship, are intended to provide a snapshot of ongoing social justice efforts regarding this highly politicized issue. In the following commentaries, Sienna Baskin documents U.S. efforts to provide legal aid to sex workers and victim-survivors of sex trafficking, Thaddeus Blanchette describes a Brazilian prostitute’s campaign for a seat in Congress, Megan Morgenson speaks to the need to incorporate sex workers’ perspectives into anti-trafficking initiatives, Sarah Jenny Bleviss documents new mobile phone technology designed to help U.S. sex workers navigate the risks they face working in a criminalized profession, …

Review Of The Dancing Girls Of Lahore: Selling Love And Saving Dreams In Pakistan’S Ancient Pleasure District By Louise Brown, London, Harper Perennial, 2009., Treena Orchard

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of What’S Money Got To Do With It? Risky Behavior In Commercial Sex Work In Managua, Nicaragua By Alys Willman, Saarbrücken, Germany: Vdm Verlag, 2009., Chimaraoke Izugbara

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

A Content Analysis Of Criminal Justice Policy Review, 1986-2008, Philip M. Stinson, Jennifer L. Huck, Jason D. Spraitz

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Academic disciplines have been characterized as static institutions that do not change or conform to outside forces. Abbott (1999) and Silbey (2000) have discussed this issue in relation to how the history of refereed journals in the social sciences can provide information on department, institution, and disciplinary changes that often wear a false guise of continuity. This paper analyzes the content of Criminal Justice Policy Review by replicating the methodology Silbey (2000) used to study the content of Law & Society Review in terms of editorship, authorship, article contents, method and mode of research, and article topics. The results indicate …

Must Economics Always Determine Academic Destiny? Achievement Across Time In Two Academically Equivalent But Socioeconomically Diverse Same City Catholic Schools, Roseanne L. Williby, John W. Hill

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

The study analyzed the pretest-posttest results of high stakes test scores, absence frequencies, and high school eligibility cut scores of students who completed fourth-grade through eighth-grades in two academically equivalent but socioeconomically diverse same city Catholic schools. Study outcomes were compared for a naturally formed group of students (n = 28) who had completed fourth-grade through eighth-grades in an urban Catholic school representing fewer family socioeconomic advantages and 40% eligibility for free and reduced price lunch program participation and tuition assistance and a randomly selected group of students (n = 28) completing fourth-grade through eighth-grades in a suburban Catholic school …

Editorial: What Is Criminology? A Control-Freak Discipline!, Biko Agozino

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

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“‘Not In Canada’: The Non-Ebola Panic And Media Misrepresentation Of The Black Community”, Charles T. Adeyanju, Temitope Oriola

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

This paper investigates the case of a non-Ebola panic in Hamilton, Ontario in 2001. Using in-depth interviews of journalists, hospital staff, members of the Congolese-Black community and content analysis of coverage by four Canadian newspapers, this study shows that the media problematized the case by cross-articulating a health scare of Ebola with immigration, crime and “race”. Utilizing extant “late modernity” literature and its attendant anxiety over risks, the study shows how a “scapegoat” was created, feasted upon by the media and aroused the collective conscience of mainstream Canadian society. Consequently, the voice of the community was misrepresented and underrepresented in …

Modeling The Differential Incidence Of "Child Abuse, Neglect And Exploitation" In Poor Households In South Africa: Focus On Child Trafficking, Paulin Mbecke

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

This paper is based on an in-progress Ph.D. research 2 themed: “Modeling the Differential Incidence of Child Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation in Poor Households in South Africa”. The aim of the research is to build a theoretical grounding and to propose a practical model for understanding child abuse. The research argues that the gaps and shortcomings in understanding child abuse are, to a large extent, the consequence of an over-estimation of socio-economic variables as main variables contributing to the incidence of child abuse. The paper does not attempt to collect data on child trafficking to explain its extent in South …

The Progress Of Democratic Policing In Post-Apartheid South Africa, William R. Pruitt

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

Since the end of apartheid in South Africa the country has been forced to democratize. A major part of that democratization is the new police organization that was implemented post-apartheid. This article looks at the policy changes in the police department and the effects these policies have had on making the South African police a democratic police force. Using data from the Afrobarometer, the public’s opinion of the new police over a three year span is analyzed to see if the police have succeeded in their new role in South Africa. Major changes were required to assist the South African …

Community Policing: International Patterns And Comparative Perspectives. Crc Press, Taylor And Francis: Boca Raton, Florida By Dominique, Wisler And Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe (Eds.), 2009, Kingsley U. Ejiogu

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

No abstract provided.