Sociology Department: Dissertations

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2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996



2007 DISSERTATIONS


2006 DISSERTATIONS

Jana King Allen (2006) Practicing transparency: Roles and ideologies of foreign lawyers in China's transitional economy

Yumiko Aratani (2006) Race, space, and life-chances: The role of parental housing in stratification processes

Jennifer Elizabeth Brunton (2006) Effable/ineffable: fresh perspectives on the sociology of creativity (New York)

Lui Chu (2006) Out of the Cold-War west: A sociological view on the emergence of a Chinese art cinema in the mid-1980s (Pierre Bourdieu)

Emily Erikson (2006) The English in the East Indies: Economic integration at the birth of capitalism

Gioconda Herrera (2006) The Catholic Church and public life in Ecuador under liberalism, 1895--1920

Gueorgi Kossinets (2006) Essays on structural modeling of evolving social networks

Paul-Brian McInerney (2006) Circuit riders and software giants: economic conventions and the making of a technology market

Neema Noori (2006) Delegating coercion: Linking decentralization to state formation in Uzbekistan

Gregory Charles Smithsimon (2006) The shared city: using and controlling public space in New York City


2005 DISSERTATIONS

Antonina Domenica Bambina (2005) Understanding online social support : the interplay of internet technology, social networks and social support

Hanna Cho (2005) Assets and advantages : the impact of parental wealth on children's educational and homeownership outcomes

Charalambos Demetriou (2005) Public identity of the Greeks of Cyprus, 1400--1700

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga (2005) Gender, racialization and the incorporation to work among Dominican and Mexican women in New York City

Michael Lee Hillary (2005) Religion, immigrant churches, and community in an industrializing city : Swedish Protestants in Rockford, Illinois, 1854-1925

Andreas Yiorgos Kourvetaris (2005) Local races, politicized ethnicity, and political narratives in New York

Randi Rosenblum (2005) Standards up for grabs: the negotiation of responsibility, authority, and flexibility at an urban public college

Gokce Sargut (2005) Linking oligopolistic & organizational explanations of cultural production : an interorganizational approach to measuring product content homogeneity in the Golden Age of movies, 1931-1950

Mylinda R. Willsey (2005) The role of state political beliefs and economic resources in setting health policy : the case of Medicaid hospital funding

Xiaodan Zhang (2005) Bargain without union : paternalist labor relations in China's reform era


2004 DISSERTATIONS

Juliana Marie Blome (2004) The making of a man : masculinity ideology and its relationship to sexual activity, violent behavior, and academic underachievement among economically disadvantaged, African-American, adolescent males

Amanda Kidd Damarin (2004) Fit, flexibility, and connection : organizing employment in emerging web labor markets, New York City 1993-2003

Joseph Panfu Eshun Jr. (2004) Where do business incubators come from? The origins, evolution, and institutionalization of business incubators : evaluating performance and assessing outcome

Miki Hasegawa (2004) We are not garbage! : the homeless movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002

Henning Hillmann (2004) Identity from economic networks (England, Vermont)

Gina Sue Neff (2004) Organizing uncertainty : individual, organizational and institutional risk in New York's internet industry, 1995-2003

Florencia Torche (2004) Unequal but fluid : social mobility in Chile in a comparative perspective

Balazs Vedres (2004) Network sequences of social change : the transformation of ownership and economic policy discourse in Hungary, 1987-2001


2003 DISSERTATIONS

Daniel James Kratochvil (2003) Contested federalism : the intergovernmental struggle for regulatory control of the petroleum marketplace in the United States and Canada, 1945-1981

Helen-Maria Lekas (2003) How do they fare on welfare : single mothers receiving aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and living in New York City

Jennifer C. Lena (2003) From "flash" to "cash" : producing rap authenticity, 1979 to 1995

Eri Noguchi (2003) A rising tide doesn't lift all boats : the determinants of upward mobility (or the lack thereof) in the United States, 1979-1998

Irina Taïssa Oryshkevich (2003) The history of the Roman catacombs from the Age of Constantine to the Renaissance

Ariko Ota (2003) Porcelain and power : Merchandising policies in Tokugawa Japan, 1800-1870

Holly J. Raider (2003) The governance of economic exchange : technology, relationships, and the structure of contracts


2002 DISSERTATIONS

Matthew Simpson Bothner (2002) Structural position, economic performance, and technology adoption in the global computer industry

Andrew D. Buck (2002) Coalition politics and democratization in a Russian city, 1994-2000

Carlos Antonio Costa-Ribeiro (2002) The Brazilian occupational structure

Yuval Elmelech (2002) Transmitting inequality : an asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic inequality and its intergenerational transmission

Jorge Fontdevila (2002) Rationalities of risk : intimate action in the age of AIDS among men on methadone

Melanie D. Hildebrandt (2002) The construction of racial intermarriage : a comparison of the effects of gender, race, class, and Black ethnicity in the daily lives of Black/White couples

Gregory Jackson (2002) Organizing the firm : corporate governance in Germany and Japan, 1870-2000

Victoria Stephens Johnson (2002) Founding culture : art, politics and organization at the Paris Opera, 1669-1792

Jo H. Kim (2002) Experiencing globalization : production of ethnicity, gender and identity in Korean transnational corporations in the United States

Yonca Koksal (2002) Local intermediaries and Ottoman state centralization : a comparison of the Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Ankara and Edirne, 1839-1878

John David Krinsky (2002) Working against workfare : coalitions and claims in the politics of welfare reform in New York City, 1995-2000

Sara S. Lee (2002) Racial and ethnic identities of second-generation Korean immigrants in New York City

Sophie Muetzel (2002) Making meaning of the move of the German capital - networks, logics, and the emergence of capital city journalism

Tsutomu Nakano (2002) A paradox of embeddedness : social network analysis of a Japanese industrial district

Joyce Trina Robbins (2002) From manpower policy to workforce development : the state, national business agendas, and U.S. employment policy, 1960-2000

Galit Shashoua-Goldblatt (2002) The personal is political : the transformation of breast cancer organization in New York State


2001 DISSERTATIONS


2000 DISSERTATIONS

Anthony Patrick Browne (2000) Manufacturing local action : a comparative case study of organizational democracy

Jay Evans Cross (2000) The structure of patriarchy, the structure of law : a macrosociological study of American antistalking legislation, 1992-1993

Hajdeja Iglic (2000) The formation of political ties : personal networks and political action in the former Yugoslavia, 1987

Szabolcs Kemeny (2000) Between commitment and strategizing : praticing flexibility in organizing principles

SangJun Kim (2000) Inventing Moralpolitik : a sociological interpretation of Confucian ideology, ritual, and politics

Haesook Kim (2000) Dynamics of gender and legal professions : the case of women jurists of South Korea

Jan Isobel Sedofsky (2000) A comparison of male and female scientists' careers : productivity, rewards, and attitudes

Ayumi Takenaka (2000) Ethnic community in motion : Japanese-Peruvians in Peru, Japan, and the U.S.

Keming Yang (2000) Double entrepreneurship in China's economic reform


1999 DISSERTATIONS


1998 DISSERTATIONS


1997 DISSERTATIONS


1996 DISSERTATIONS