Sociology Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Understanding Values in Organizational Contexts: The Case of Species Conservation
(2021)Biodiversity loss poses an existential threat to human life, and human activities both intentionally and unintentionally affect other species. Values provide an important tool for explaining such human behavior. While we ... -
Sex Cam Modeling: Labor, Intimacy, and Prosumer Porn
(2021)This dissertation begins with the assumption that the porn industry has radically changed in ways we are yet to fully understand. Drawing on interviews and auto-ethnography, it attempts to offer three distinct theoretical ... -
Income Inequality and Caste in India: Evidence from India Human Development Surveys
(2021)The problem of income inequality has become a defining problem in today’s world yet, the implications of overall income inequality for different social groups remain understudied. The sociological literature on stratification ... -
LOVE WALKS: THE SOJOURNED SELF, SOCIAL SOLIDARITY, AND PILGRIMAGE
(2020)My research site is pilgrimage as a space of liminality. I focus on the Camino de Santiago, particularly its Camino Frances route, a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain. Specifically, I explore the experiences of ... -
Inequality in the College-to-Career Transition: Self-Scarring and Underemployment
(2020)A recent college graduate working as a coffee shop barista, earning minimum wage and carrying thousands of dollars in student loan debt, is a familiar trope in conversations about the value of a bachelor’s degree. In the ...