Masters Theses from 2012
The Global Debt Minotaur: An Analysis of the Greek Financial Crisis, Steven Alfonso Panageotou
Gender, Social Ties, And Reentry Experiences, Jennifer Rhiannon Scroggins
Short-Term Missions: Reinforcing Beliefs and Legitimating Poverty, William Vaughan Taylor
New Means, Old Ends? World Bank Governmentality in Thailand and Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nicholas Ryan Zeller
Dissertations from 2011
The Role of "Sense of Place:" A Theoretical Framework to Aid Urban Forest Policy Decision-Making, Kimberly Louise Davis
Mediating Justice: Toward A Critical-Reflexive Sociology, George Christopher Gondo
Education & Crime: A Study in Student Perceptions of Culpability, Larry Curtis Long
Passivity: Looking at Bystanding Through the Lens of Criminological Theory, Rahim Manji
Women and the Environment: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Gender and Demographic Characteristics of Environmental Concern, Carmel Elizabeth Price
Unto the Least of These: The Pentecostal Church and Social Ministry, Stacey U Tucker
The Financial Crisis as an Expression of Macrohistorical Trends: World Hegemony, Neoliberal Globalization, and Financialization in 21st Century Capitalism, Shane Montgomery Willson
Dissertations from 2010
Systems, Social Order, and the Global Debt Crisis, John Hamilton Bradford
Regulating the Global Politico-Economic Order: The Functioning of the Development Assistance Provision Regime, Justin James Gann
Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Math and Science among Elementary Students: An Exploration of the Role of Teachers, Katie F. Gugliotta
Modernity, Capitalism, and War: Toward a Sociology of War in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914, Eric Royal Lybeck
The Assumption of Non-coerciveness and the Total Food Market, Harwood Schaffer
Interstitial Copresence: Experiencing Self With and Within Everyday Forms of Electronically Mediated Communication, Steven J. Seiler
Georgian's Reaction to Water Shortage: Water Conservation Behavior during the 2007 Drought, Alexander M. Stoner
Adolescent Female Substance Use: An Examination of Male Peer Influences and Parental Control, Sarah Gwynne Whiteford
"Rapping About Authenticity": Exploring the Differences in Perceptions of "Authenticity" in Rap Music by Consumers.", James L. Wright
Masters Theses from 2009
Conflicts and compromises college women talk about sex and sexuality, Lanier Francis Basenberg
Giving Back Not Giving Up: Generativity Among Older Female Inmates, Regina White Benedict
The Construction of Social Networks of Support in a New Latino Gateway, Meghan Elizabeth Conley
Stewards of the mountains: A case study of the Lindquist Environmental Appalachian Fellowship, a faith-based environmental organization, Lyndsay Hughes Dawson
Exploring differences and similarities in the content of reports on Hurricane Andrew in five point media sources, Reigan Jacoba Minchey
Contested Legitimacy: Coercion and the State in Ethiopia, Dima Noggo Sarbo
Water conservation behaviors in Georgia the effects of place, Amber Kay Scott
Creating cultural monsters: A critical analysis of the representation of serial murderers in America, Julie Bethany Wiest
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas: Rethinking Economic Integration After the Failures of Neoliberalism, Shannon D. Williams
Dissertations from 2008
Migrating Money: Remittances in a Global Setting, Robert Randall Adams
Skin Color Bias in the Immigration Process: A Multi-Methods Approach, Sarah E. Hendricks
Industrial Concentration and Quality of Life, James Nathaniel Maples
From authoritarian dirty war to neoliberal, 'democratic' class war neoliberalism as class struggle in Argentina, Aaron Thomas Rowland
Masters Theses from 2007
Media, Accounts, and Coherence: ‘De Facto’ Impression Management of a Transgressing Sport Star in The Chicago Tribune, Erin Maureen Austin
Does National Policy Influence Individual Car Driving Behavior: A Cross-National Study of the European Union, Erika Lynn Borek
The Falling Rate of Profit Thesis Reassessed: Toward a Sociology of Marx’s Value Theory of Labor, John Hamilton Bradford
Groundwater: A Community’s Management of the Invaluable Resource Beneath its Feet, Nancy D. Brannon
Counterterrorism and the Deterrence Doctrine, Casey E. Cordy
Felony Disenfranchisement Legislation: A Test of the Group Threat Hypothesis, Angel Dawn Geoghagan
Eight Karats of Justice: Analysis of the Grassroots Resistance Movement Against Goldmining in the Villages of Bergama, Turkey, Banu Aysu Koçer
Meth Epidemic in Rural Tennessee: Construction of a Social Problem, Brian Harold Langley
From Gay Street to Turkey Creek: Knoxville’s Urban and Suburban Growth Machines, Katherine Leigh Morris
The Social Ecology of Parenting: Systematically Modeling The Antecedents of Supportive and Intrusive Parenting, Julie A. Schluterman
Extraction, Ecology, Exploitation, and Oppression: The Political Economy of Coal in Appalachia, William R. Wishart
Dissertations from 2006
Multiculturalism and the State: Globalization, National Protection, and the Role of Social Policy in Québec and Canada, Corey Allen Blad
Exploring Sexual Scripts: College Students’ Perceptions of Seduction and Rape, Nicole Corsaro Cravens
Understanding Environmental Concerns and Contexts: A Multilevel Exploration of Economic, Social and Natural Environment Contexts on Environmental Concerns, Sean Thomas Huss
Masters Theses from 2005
The Collaborative Creation of Alternate Realities and the Use of Torture: An Analysis of Abu Ghraib, Denise Margarett Knight
Narrating Single Motherhood: What Does It Mean to Be a Single Mother?, Brandee Rutherford Mathews
From an Issue-based to a Globalized Frame for Addressing Women's Grievances: Possibilities for Social Change?, Kristen Lea VanHooreweghe
Food Security in the 21st Century: Lessons from Cuban Agriculture for Materializing Realities, Evan L. Weissman
Dissertations from 2004
Behind the Blue Line: Investigating Police Officers' Attitudes Toward Women and Rape, Amy D. Page
Does Alliance Formation between National Labor Unions and National Environmental Organizations Exist?, David Foster Steele
Paternal Involvement: Effects on Delinquency, Porche' Teshia Wynn
Dissertations from 2003
The criminal exploitation of ambiguity : a multi-level analysis of fraudulent telemarketers, Glenn Steven Coffey
Toxic Communities: Examining the Relationship between Race, Market Forces, and Environmental Hazards using Elementary Schools as Community Locus, Stephanie Joy Gonzales
Assessing environmental concern, health, and justice in Claksville, Tennessee, Shirley Ann Rainey
Parenting behind bars : an evaluation of the parenting program at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, Jacquelyn L. Sandifer
Bridging Thought Communities: Implications of Membership in Degree-Completion Program Groups for the Self-Concepts of Adult Students, Matthew S. Vos
The Straightedge Subculture on the Internet: A Case Study, James Patrick Williams
Social capital, rationality, and inequality : the distribution of environmental health risks in the Southeastern United States, Sammy Joseph Zahran
Ideology, community and demography : explaining the link of violence against human and nonhuman animals, Lisa Anne Zilney
Masters Theses from 2002
Working hard for the money : tax noncompliance in the small building and construction industry, Anne Austin Carroll
Sources of attraction to the megachurch : factors influencing the individual's decision to participate, Ray Philip Dalton
Culture of Intimidation: Power Relationships, Quiescence, and Rebellion in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Barry R. Durbin
Protestant fundamentalsim, intolerance, and punitiveness, Andrea Christine Mouser
Gender differences : the effects of economic distress on subjective well-being, Julie Schluterman
Malaysia and Singapore in the world economy : state, capitalism, and authoritarianism, Azlan A. Tajuddin
Masters Theses from 2001
Community through the looking glass: the quest for utopia, Marsha Martin Hupfel
Race, criminal embeddedness, and the American Dream, Kent Ryan Kerley
Why is Johnny failing? it depends on who you ask, Jody Gordon Manning
Bridges and barriers to ecosystem-based approaches : the case of Tennessee Valley Authority's adoption of the watershed approach, Brent K. Marshall
The impact of structural context on local crime control strategies and media attentiveness to crime, Dani Allred Smith
The impact of structural context on local crime control strategies and media attentiveness to crime, Dani Allred Smith
Demographic shifts and green values in rural America : a southern Appalachian case, James Robert Talley
Demographic shifts and green values in rural America : a southern Appalachian case, James Robert Talley
Violence in cohabiting and married couples, Tamela Marie Wheeler
Dissertations from 2000
Caste, class, and justice : segregation, accumulation, and criminalization in the United States, Andrew Wayne Austin
SMO maintenance and multiple campaign successes : a case study of Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians, Laurel Long Holland
Between God and markets : class, race, and state in the underdevelopment of the American South, Shirley Ann Hollis
Masters Theses from 1999
Murder for hire : examination of expressive and instrumental motives, Suzanne Reagan DeSear
Following women's sports : the behavior of fans, Gerald D. Harrison
In with a bad crowd : an analysis of criminal decision-making in small groups, Andrew Hochstetler
Forcing welfare recipients into a lose-lose situation : political economy and Families First, Leigh A. Holzberger
Middle-class, white-collar offenders: needy women - greedy men?, Karen A. Mason
Presentation of rape : a content analysis of newspaper reports, Amy Nicole McNeal
Evaluating teacher training of sociology graduate students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Aldea Renee Misenheimer
Power, resistance, and the state: a case study of economic development in Roane County, Tennessee, Deborah Godwin Perkins
Does it matter where you live? : social disorganization, gender-role attitudes, financial satisfaction, and male-to-female partner violence, Judy Allene Van Wyk
Dissertations from 1998
Ethnic self-identity and the role of Islam : a study of the Yemeni community in the south end of Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan, Abdullah Azib Al-Ahmary
Sources of liturgical variation, Walter Haupt Bower
Routine activities and motor vehicle theft : a crime-specific analysis, John Heith Copes
Murder for Hire: Event Characteristics and Causal Implications, Nicole Madonna Corsaro
Mediated inequality : the role of governmental, business, and scientific elites in public education, Wanda Rushing Edwards
Sustaining the treadmill of production : Chattanooga and the social construction of a solution, Amy Kay Gibson
Hackers : practices, motivations, and identity, Sean Thomas Huss
Cabbages and kings : the process of gentrification in Cabbagetown, Frank Bingham McGinley
Environmental racism by design? : the case of the Scarboro community, Tamara Lee Mix
Media perceptions of murder-for-hire events, Tricia M. York
Dissertations from 1997
Motivated offenders and criminal opportunities as determinants of violent and property crime rates in the United States, 1980-1990, Kevin M. Bryant