Browsing by Author "Caniglia, Beth Schaefer"
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Becoming an embalmer's apprentice: An assessment and application of existential sociology
Probstfield, Meghan Daniel (2006-05)Scope and Method of Study: -
Challenges of Women Volunteers and Activists in Women's Ngos in India: a Feminist Standpoint Analysis
Mitra, Aditi (Oklahoma State University, 2005-07-01)This dissertation is situated in the context of post-colonial understanding of feminism and the spread of the women's movement as a global phenomenon. It analyzes how urban middle and upper class women working in ... -
Electronic waste in the United States: Using Q methodology to analyze sustainable attitudes of millennials
Wooldridge, Athena L. (2015-12)Using Q methodology (Brown, 1980; Stephenson, 1953; Watts & Stenner, 2012), this research study involved the collection of data from consumers age 18-25 years (Millennials) who have participated actively in the purchase ... -
Evaluation of Tools for Sustainablity Assessment in Tourism
Gordon, Kati (Oklahoma State University, 2007-12-01)The various approaches for sustainability assessment described in the literature review provide a theoretical background to better understand the methods of sustainability assessment found in practice. The case studies ... -
Examination of Ritual Abuse Laws: an Integrative Conflict Model Adaptation for a Contemporary Analysis of Law Formation (California, Idaho)
Hodges, Stanley H. (Oklahoma State University, 2006-12-01)The method used for the purpose of this study was a content analysis of literature, a content analysis of legal documents and a content analysis of interviews of persons that were important to the framing of the topic in ... -
"Gore"-ing the IPCC: How U.S. Conservative Media Has Framed the Climate Change Debate
Elsasser, Shaun (Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of the study is to examine the conservative U.S. media's response to global climate change in 2007 and 2008, focusing on manifest claims that emerged after the awards and nominations achieved by Al Gore and the ... -
Green Space Distribution and Environmental Justice in Oklahoma City
Delano, Daisha Lee (2015-07-01)Environmental justice has long focused on the distribution of harmful environmental facilities that disproportionately affect low income and minority communities; however, recent work has begun to look at the distribution ... -
Health and Safety Incidents Among Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps' Response
Dicks, Kristina Leigh (Oklahoma State University, 2013-07-01)Every year thousands of Americans leave the country to begin service with the Peace Corps. Hundreds of Peace Corps Volunteers will return every year because of health conditions that could not be treated in the host country. ... -
Impact of the Media on False Public Perception of Tornado Safety Precautions
Bartlett, Jeff N. (Oklahoma State University, 2005-07-01)This study reports the findings of college students who completed questionnaires to gauge their perceptions of tornado preparedness and the impact of a video clip showing the wrong safety precautions being successfully ... -
Information and communication technology development and anthropogenic global warming: A cross-national panel study of ICT development on carbon dioxide emissions 1990-2009
Simpson, Joseph Michael (2013-12)Policy makers and ecological modernization scholars have begun to focus attention on the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to the mitigation of CO2 emissions, the primary cause of anthropogenic ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Abstinence Education
Elias, Vicky Lee (Oklahoma State University, 2007-07-01)Non-predictive but significant associations between the strength of the abstinence message and marital status, poverty, fertility, and educational attainment were indicated. Students receiving a strong abstinence message ... -
Newspaper Coverage of Environmental Problems in China: An Analysis of Three Chinese Newspapers
Rong, Cheng (Oklahoma State University, 2009-05-01)I examine the coverage of environmental issues by three major newspapers in China, and find that all three newspapers' coverage of environmental problems and issues increased from July 2001 to June 2007. However, by examining ... -
Pendululm of Change: Oklahoma's Juvenile Justice
Belusko, Jan Wallace (Oklahoma State University, 2006-05-01)The purpose of this study was to provide an historical summary of the development of the juvenile justice system in Oklahoma and to determine if the system was a "crime control model" or "due process model." The methodology ... -
Policy alternatives for balancing conservation and agricultural expansion in the tropics
Benavides, Francisco (2005-12)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to analyze domestic environmental policy as a solution for balancing the need to promote conservation in Costa Rica with the opportunity of increasing the production ... -
Porto Alegre Consensus: Emergence and Evolution of the World Social Forum
Byrd, Scott Christopher (Oklahoma State University, 2005-05-01)The World Social Forums and corresponding Forum movement marks a shift in transnational social movement methodology and solidarity. The Forums work to thicken linkages between global civil society actors, liberate communicative ... -
Quality of life after a traumatic brain injury: The role of spirituality
Wertheimer, Jeffrey C. (2003-08) -
Relationship between preferences for familiar design elements and principles and place attachment of women living in continuing care retirement communities
Lyon, Melinda Wallace (2010-05)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to describe the preferences of female residents of CCRCs toward familiar design elements and principles as described in the context of place attachment. Eighteen ... -
Replication of Social Class and Racial Cleavages Upon Major Social Indicators
Clayton, Rodney Edward (Oklahoma State University, 2005-07-01)The purpose of this study is to replicate the work of Smith in the areas of social stratification and inequality. In particular, this study examines theoretical sociological views of class as a function of structural ... -
Role of analysis and deliberation in changing community preferences for strategies and indicators of sustainable forest management
Rodriguez-Pineros, Sandra (2009-07)Scope and Method of Study: -
Significance of legal and extra legal variables in predicting sentencing outcomes under Oklahoma's community sentencing act
Hadwiger, Joy (2007-07)Scope and Method of Study: This study applies focal concern theory to identify factors important to the sentencing decision making of offenders eligible for sentencing under Oklahoma's Community Sentencing Act. Legal and ...