Browsing by Author "Perkins, Stephen M."
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Against the Grain : Collective Identity and the Grassfed Livestock Movement in Oklahoma
Raridon, Andrew (Oklahoma State University, 2013-05-01)Social scholars have given consideration to many aspects of the alternative agrifood system, but overall they have not engaged the emergent pasture-based, or grassfed, livestock movement. This shortcoming is addressed here ... -
"Because it is my body, and I own it, and I am in charge": Power and resistance in biomedical and midwifery models of birth
Ross, Kathryn Worman (2013-05)I utilize participant observation, autoethnography and in-depth interviews with women who have given birth at home and homebirth midwives in Oklahoma to understand perceptions and responses to society's hegemonic birth ... -
Becoming an embalmer's apprentice: An assessment and application of existential sociology
Probstfield, Meghan Daniel (2006-05)Scope and Method of Study: -
Chicano Nationalism: The Brown Berets and Legal Social Control
Correa, Jennifer G. (Oklahoma State University, 2006-07-01)The purpose of this study was to examine the legal social control strategies and tactics that were used by law enforcement officials at the local, state, and federal level to suppress a faction of the Chicano Movement known ... -
Defending the southern Plains: An analysis on the evolution of the Wichita tribes' fortifications, ca. 1450-1811
Hart, Emilee (2016-05-04)Before colonial intervention, Native American tribes dominated the Southern Plains and competed with each other for necessary resources, forcing tribes to become creative in defending themselves. This thesis will examine ... -
Educating a Girl Is like Repairing Someone Else's Wall: Assessing Women's Motivation for Attending Secondary School in Kathmandu, Nepal
Karki, Srijana (2016-05-01)Women in Nepal face numerous cultural and social constraints. Lately, a number of women's secondary schools have opened in Nepal and women are attending these schools irrespective of the challenges they face. Using in-depth ... -
Ethnic Organizations and Ritual Dynamics: Exploration of an Asian Indian Community
Dasari, Adam Stephen (Oklahoma State University, 2008-07-01)This dissertation explores the ethnic identity among the Asian Indian Community in the city of Springfield, a large metropolitan area in south central United States. This research tries to understand the ritual dynamics ... -
Exploring the views of American, international, and Mexican students of the Anglo Saxon model of the research university: A Q methodology study
Apanecatl-Ibarra, Edgar (2016-05)The purpose of this Q methodological study was to explore the views of three groups of graduate students concerning the Anglo Saxon model of the research university. A review of relevant literature revealed that current ... -
Female Empowerment Through Social Entrepenuership in Egypt : An Exploratory Study
Abdeljawad, Juliet (Oklahoma State University, 2013-07-01)In our more progressive society oftentimes it is difficult to understand the degree of impoverishment worldwide. As a result studies have been conducted with particular emphasis on countries mainly in Asia and Africa, ... -
Frontier apart: Identity, loyalty, and the coming of the Civil War on the Pacific Coast
Carter, Bryan Anthony (2014-07)The development of a Western identity, derivative and evolved from Northern, Midwestern, and Southern identities, played a significant role in determining the loyalty of the Pacific States on the eve of the Civil War. ... -
Hallowed path: An historical analysis of the mutable perspectives on interpretations of Mississippian Period iconography
Singleton, Eric (2017-05)Interpreting Mississippian Period iconography has been an ongoing process for the last five hundred years. As early European explorers moved into the Southeastern United States, only the remnants of the once great Mississippian ... -
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. ... -
Idle No More and the Treadmill of Production: Corporate Power, Environmental Degradation, and Activism
West, Samantha Lynn (2015-07-01)Idle No More (INM) is a First Nations rights social-environmental movement that began as a response to the proposal of Bill C-45 in Canada. Bill C-45, also known as the Jobs and Growth Act of 2012, deregulated �barriers ... -
Jihad: Holy War or Inner Struggle?
Abdeljawad, Lara M. (Oklahoma State University, 2007-12-01)'The highest form of jihad is to speak the truth in the face of a tyrannical ruler' that is what the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) once asserted when asked how to interpret jihad. The Muslim world today is faced with tyranny and ... -
Moving from the Global North to the Global South: Understanding Self-Initiated Expatriation to Bangkok, Thailand
Garrett, Robert D. (2019-07)Globalization and advances in technology have led to an overall increase in the complexity and intensity of global mobility. Most of this mobility is from low-income to high-income countries, or from poor countries to ... -
Negotiating "Indian-ness": Transnational identities of Indians in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area
Subanthore, Aswin (2016-12)Historically, research on immigrants in the U.S. has relied heavily on interpreting various ways in which they socially and spatially assimilate into urban areas. Since the September 11 attacks, this research has begun to ... -
Neoliberalism and special education: An ethnographic case study in an urban charter school
Mac, Sylvia (2015-12)In this study, I ask, "How are neoliberal education reforms shaping the experiences of special education students?" More specifically, I ask, 'What is the classroom environment and school culture for special education ... -
"No longer objects of history:" American Indian activism in the late twentieth century
Eberle, Jared Leon (2018-07)Native American activism after the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 has been an understudied, yet critical period of twentieth century Indigenous history. The events in the two decades that followed the alleged zenith ... -
One little, two little, three little stereotypes: A history of native culture and imagery in American cinematic cartoons
Devore, Dustin Marcus (2017-12)The first depiction of Native Americans in American cinematic animation appeared in 1924. Over the course of the near one hundred years since that first depiction, federal Indian policy and the portrayal of Indians in ... -
Proud Voices : an Analysis of First Nation Oppostiion to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project
Johnson, Kevin (Oklahoma State University, 2013-05-01)This thesis examines dynamics between indigenous populations and modern industrial development by examining sociocultural impacts that development of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project (ENGP) poses to First Nations. The ...