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From Ethnic to Interethnic: The Case for Identity Adaptation and Transformation
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2006-09-01)The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “ethnic identity” as an a priori and morally inviolable human condition exclusively attributed to a social group identified ... -
From Home Missions to Social Activism: A Comparative Study of Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist Women during the Progressive Era
(2018-08-02)Evangelical women in the United States have historically engaged in social activism through home missions. Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist women represent two contrasting groups that organized during the Progressive ... -
From individuals to environment: the relative roles of morphology, flight, density, synchrony, habitat structure, and weather on extra-pair paternity
(2016-08)Reproductive success is driven in large part by the mating system of a species, which ultimately determines patterns of gene transmission across generations. In species with socially monogamous mating systems, an important ... -
From it to you: An autoethnographic journey with Chinese users of German in Germany
(2016-08)There are currently several hundred thousand Chinese students studying abroad, yet knowledge about their experiences is mostly limited to anecdote and caricature. This autoethnography provides a more authentic account based ... -
From Marginalized to Maximized Opportunities for Diverse Youths With Disabilities: A Position Paper of the Division on Career Development and Transition
(Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2008-05-01)Current secondary education and transition practices have created differential education and employment outcomes by gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and disability classifications. These differential ... -
From maverick lands to managed lands: Ranching and school lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
(2000)In this dissertation I trace the decisions affecting school lands since 1890, and I try to assess how these decisions impact Cimarron County ranchers. The story is ongoing, and my contribution is to provide a more complete ... -
From nitrite reductase to Alzheimer's disease: Design, synthesis, and reactivity of new nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-containing ligands and their copper complexes.
(2006)Transition metal ions are essential for a wide range of biochemical transformations and are found in more than one half of all known enzymes. Our interest in the bioinorganic chemistry of copper prompted us to develop new ... -
From Novice Low to Advanced High: Five Decades of Paradigmatic Shifts in Foreign Language Pedagogy
(2013)For me, the search for the optimal method to promote students' oral -
From one to many, from many to one: Speech communities in the Muskogee stompdance population.
(1997)Sociolinguists use speech communities as their units of analysis. While widely used, the concept of the speech community has never been defined precisely. Many sociolinguists assume the populations they study are speech ... -
From orality to literacy: The intellectual traditions of black South African women.
(2003)Black women in South Africa have a long history of intellectualism as evidenced by their expertise as oral performers, rehearsing and revitalizing vibrant storytelling traditions that have been inherited by matrilineal ... -
From Outcast to Established Players - The Transformation of Non-Democratic Parties After Democratization
(2011)This dissertation investigates and examine how the Kuomintang has -
FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE TO A THEORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRAXIS: PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY, AND MEANING IN MULTIMODAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
(2016-05)Linguistics has prioritized the auditory mode of transmission in language at the expense of written forms and their relevance to the social construction of meaning and identity. Due to the privilege of spoken language as ... -
FROM PINK TO DETOURNEMENT: THE SEMIOTICS OF RADICAL QUEER DESIRES ON INTERNET SPACES
(2012)This research explores the way queer political groups use symbolic capital in their web presences. It seeks to read semiotically how images deployed in queer Internet spaces can create and reinforce queer identities. This ... -
From Red Dirt to Red State: Oklahoma and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
(2016-05-14)This thesis details the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) debate in Oklahoma from 1972 to 1982. It is a multifaceted story of how both local and national factors, race, religion, family ties, gender norms, politics, and feminism ... -
From self-made men to crusading women: The gendered evolution of the American temperance movement in the nineteenth century.
(2004)During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it seemingly evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women of the WCTU. But this ... -
From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts
(2018-12)In February, 2013, University of Oklahoma (OU) president, David Boren, issued a letter to all OU faculty members highlighting the high cost of textbooks, expressing his strong “support for the move to open access materials ... -
From the Graveyard Shift to the Benzene Plume: Visualizing Embodied Work Experience at the Former B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)From the time of its construction in 1944, to its eventual closure on February 28, 1986, the B.F. Goodrich Tire Factory in Miami, Oklahoma has played an important role in the community. During its 40-year lifetime, it was ... -
From the Mundane to the Profound: Developing a Political Model of Weather Information Processing and Climate Change Beliefs
(2019-08)This dissertation examines the relationships between the mundane, our daily habits of weather information collection, and the profound, our beliefs about climate change and relevant policy solutions. Climate change is a ... -
From the neighborhood to the nation: The social history of midnight basketball.
(1998)This study provides a narrative account of the phenomenon known as Midnight Basketball. It focuses upon the transformation of Midnight Basketball from a one-man basement operation to national organization and, finally, to ...