While exceptionally high Palestinian fertility has been featured prominently in the academic literature and the news press, dramatic drops in fertility have been noted in …
The term social infrastructure may be unfamiliar to many, but it plays a crucial role in bringing people together, countering isolation, and building social capital. …
With the expansion of technology into the educational sphere, schools are seeing major changes in the overall learning process. More specifically, online learning is changing …
The Los Angeles uprising of 1992, also known as "Sa-I-Gu" among Korean Americans, not only riveted the nation, but marked a watershed moment in Korean …
This dissertation is a work of cultural sociology, focused on the relationship between social transformations and the racial self. Specifically, I examine the conditions under …
Two important social transformations have occurred since the 1960's: The rise of the black middle class and the influx of immigrants from Latin, America, Asia …
When asked to picture a Peace Corps volunteer, most of us summon to mind earnest young people—inexperienced, perhaps, but passionate and energetic. We imagine them …
Brazil is both praised and criticized as a country that is willing and able to resist international commitments to protect local industries. Yet, puzzlingly, since …
This dissertation investigates how communities and advocacy groups in Appalachia, Maine, and Alaska use biomonitoring to work toward environmental health and justice. Biological monitoring, or …
The main goal of this dissertation is to explore differentiated citizenships within the urban poor in India. This research is based on the assumption that …
This study investigates both the opportunities and constraints for civil society in China to effect political change. Diverging from the dominant approach of state-society relations, …
In 1988, social movement struggles for re-democratization in Brazil succeeded in enshrining a new constitution that promised universal and equal access to public health care …
Communal living is an intentional group of 5 or more unrelated people living in a shared space, house, or property with shared interests, beliefs, and/or …
This dissertation explores transformations in citizenship among indigenous people in Guatemala. It investigates how and why decentralization has responded to indigenous activists’ demands for reconfiguring …
This dissertation investigates the conditions under which communities influence land development. To do so, I examined surprising apparent triumphs of local "community power" over controversial …
Pain is often understood as an incommunicable, physical experience – yet it’s also one that is inherently shaped by social contexts. Driven by a sociologically-informed …
In addition to the public health crisis instigated by COVID-19, the pandemic generated a set of structural and conceptual problems for social researchers to unpack …
Over the past forty years, people with disabilities have experienced dramatic social change. One of the strongest indicators of their changing status is the increase …
Since the 1950s, the US has relied on international and osteopathic medical graduates (non-USMDs) to fill 25-40% of postgraduate (residency) positions because there are too …