Over the period of the One Child Policy (1979/80-2015), Chinese parents (particularly women), were required to adopt parity driven contraception: women were required to be …
Since the 1970s, urban gardening in North American cities has become a common practice, with many cities actively promoting and protecting gardens. This comes as …
Credit and creditworthiness are increasingly consequential in the global North and South alike. For over 139 million people, many of whom are excluded from mainstream …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
This paper seeks to explain the regime variation between the two cases of neoliberal populism: Peru under Fujimori and Turkey under Erdogan. To do so, …
This dissertation focuses on community context using metrics related to health. It aims to make contributions to the neighborhood effects literature. This literature has found …
Abstract of Determinants of Climate-Smart Agriculture: What’s the role of Gender, by Quinn Bernier, (AM)., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis explores the role that …
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 …
The United States of America has witnessed a tremendous increase in the percentage of its population incarcerated. With only five percent of the world's population …
The principal question the dissertation addresses is why the advent of democracy has not brought about progressive social reform in South Africa. Using a combination …
Abstract of “Empire, Democracy, State, and Nation: Sociological Occlusions of the German and Russian Empires” by Juho Korhonen, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2019 Contrary to …
For non-white South Africans, the implications of apartheid reached well beyond racial segregation. Racial disparities were also embedded in the allocation of public investment across …
My dissertation aims to offer multi-level accounts of environmental inequalities in the contemporary United States, focusing on toxic chemicals released from industrial facilities. Prior quantitative …
Persistent residential segregation by race/ethnicity has raised many serious social problems in the U.S, and progress towards residential integration during the past decade has been …
The Human Genome Project has stimulated interest in translating research on gene-disease associations into clinical and public health practice. I explore how this research influences …
This paper addresses one basic question about separated children: why do children separate from their families? We examine this question in the context of South …
Over 20 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults and 1.2 million same-sex couples live in the United States. Despite increases in visibility and …
This dissertation uses life history data from Kisumu, Kenya and Cape Town, South Africa to investigate the influence of family instability on social and health …