Browsing by Subject "American Studies."
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(Re)engaging the other half of America in electoral politics :
(2001)This dissertation outlines both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the underlying phenomenon. Specifically, 22 focus groups and 54 in-depth personal interviews were conducted to address the causes and solutions ... -
Social explanation and social function: An investigation of the nature of functional explanation for the social sciences.
(1999)Chapter Four argues that functional explanation in the social sciences should employ social proper functions. As in biology, this requires the ability to make the connection between the consequence of the trait ... -
The spatial discourse of realism and modernism in American fiction, photography, and poetry.
(1997)The first three chapters establish the principles and methods underlying the spatial practice of realism. In Crane's Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and Riis's How the Other Half Lives, ...