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Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

Creator:: Hunter, Daniel A.
Abstract:: Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: locally and regionally, the potential social impacts of wave energy, like the technology itself, on

A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

Creator:: Vega-Peters, Susan T.
Abstract:: Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to

An anthropological response to the call for cultural midwives based on three case studies of communities

Creator:: Pickering, Kristin Leigh Morgan
Abstract:: The ecological crisis, recognized by scientists as well as an increasing number of lay people urges a response from a variety of disciplines. The consideration of sustainability requires the help of a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, which can contribute an ability to identify cultural patterns that impede cultural change...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ecology and theories of social change. while being informed by the recent trends in anthropology, from

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

Creator:: Weimer, Robert Edward, II
Abstract:: The present study is an attempt to investigate some of the relationships between certain personality characteristics and expressed preferences for various communication structures; it is also an examination of the relative efficiency of the networks used. Subjects drawn from the university population participated in experimentally formed five-person groups. These groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: group is an essential mechanism of socialization and a primary source of social order" (79, p. 1

Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

Creator:: Chen, Roger L.
Abstract:: The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: concepts and theories from various schools of social science, to bring forth a more diversified, and thus

The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

Creator:: Sumii, Kensuke
Abstract:: This study aims to identify conceptions of the body, as well as "rational" treatment among primary care practitioners (PCPs) and emergency medicine practitioners (EMPs) dealing with managed care plans. I conducted ethnographic study throughout 1996, and interviewed six PCPs and four EMPs. In the course of my interviews, I discovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: people's modality of thought. Even the meaning of social phenomena, based upon traditional knowledge, is

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Creator:: Isono, Maho
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Working in a Korean hagwon: a native English teacher's view

Creator:: Hendrickson, Lyla B.
Abstract:: My thesis explains the several problems that arise when a person from a Western English speaking country goes to work as an English teacher at private institutes in South Korea. It is based on my own experiences when I worked as an English teacher at private institutes in South Korea...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , can perceive a situation or cultural aspect differently from a person from another culture. The

The role of social support in overcoming obstacles to abortion access : Oregon women tell their stories

Creator:: Ostrach, Bayla
Abstract:: Current estimates indicate that between one-third and one-half of women in the United States have at least one abortion in their lifetime, and that many women encounter socioeconomic, logistical, or social obstacles in the process of seeking care (Jones 2005, Guttmacher 2008). The purpose of this study is to critically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Title The Role of Social Support in Overcoming Obstacles to Abortion Access: Oregon Women Tell Their

Conception to contraception : an ethnographic study among the Meo in north India

Creator:: Akhtar, Md. Faiyaz
Abstract:: This ethnographic study was conducted among the Meo community of north India to understand cultural norms, prescriptive behaviors, and practices associated with conceptions and contraception among Meo women and men living in five neighboring villages in the region of Mewat. The study goals were to collect ethnographic data on fertility-related...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Social Facts ......................................................... .24 Theory of Historical

Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

Creator:: McGonagall, Odhran Mason
Abstract:: This thesis explores the relationships that income and housing space limitations have with regard to food security in full-time recreational vehicle (RV) households. This research used a scaled survey tool and a subset questionnaire to gather information on RV dwellers' housing and kitchen spaces along with participants' food shopping, storage,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: measured housing spaces and assessments of kitchen spaces to effectively compare how different social

Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

Creator:: Wangsgard, David B.
Abstract:: Street children are a significant presence in Hue, Viet Nam's tourist center, where they eat, sleep, work, and play. Utilizing ethnographic methods, this study examines how tourism impacts the lives of street children involved in the industry. The street children have generally been compelled to leave home because of adverse...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: also is the study of tourism. In the 1970s, social scientists began publishing a substantial amount of

Protecting the forests and the people : exploring alternative conservation models that include the needs of communities : an Ecuadorian case study

Creator:: Gittelman, Melissa Laurel
Abstract:: This research explores differences in environmental worldviews and connections to the land globally and more specifically in a case study of NGOs working in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest. The aims of this project are to investigate different environmental worldviews expressed between western NGOs and non western local NGOs and to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

Creator:: Cassell, Christopher J.
Abstract:: Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Designing policy and grounding expectations of technology begins by separating the facts about the "power

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Antiquities Act and thus bypassing congressional approval and National Environmental Policy Act

"It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

Creator:: Wicks, James Anthony
Abstract:: This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: social confusion." Frederic Jamesonl "I have no interest in making this anything other than what this

Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

Creator:: Package, Christina
Abstract:: In an effort to supplement the recently completed NOAA fishing community profiles, three coastal Oregon communities were chosen as sites for a collaborative project designed to produce long-form profiles. In order to provide a representation of the coast Newport, Port Orford, and Garibali, Oregon were included based on community size,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: policy on fishing communities. Marine reserves, wave energy parks, and aquaculture all have the

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: primarily a study in culture and social changes, using close reading of comic books to supply evidence. I

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that had been passed down from ancestors, loss of social interactions leading to the ongoing viability

Creating and sustaining a whole community in hierarchical institutions

Creator:: Matheis, Christian G.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine some of the relationships between hierarchy and community that exist in institutions. Within institutions, individuals are separated from one another and organized hierarchically based on arbitrary inequalities. In general, I discusses inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc. Institutions organized based...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: their best when we are part of a community. Yet, a need exists within and beyond social sciences to

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Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

An anthropological response to the call for cultural midwives based on three case studies of communities

A preliminary study of expressed preferences and task efficiency in differing communication networks

Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Working in a Korean hagwon: a native English teacher's view

The role of social support in overcoming obstacles to abortion access : Oregon women tell their stories

Conception to contraception : an ethnographic study among the Meo in north India

Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

Protecting the forests and the people : exploring alternative conservation models that include the needs of communities : an Ecuadorian case study

Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

"It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creating and sustaining a whole community in hierarchical institutions

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