Columbia University Dissertations: Dissertations

Sociology: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1990

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Freeman, Lewis (2007) Social stratification and social mobility in situation comedy

Hala, Nicole Akai (2007) Authority and identity : political conditionality and ethno-national contention in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 1993-2002

Hicks, Carson Chase (2007) Bringing the states back in : the National Governors' Association and transformations in U.S. welfare policy, 1986-1996

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Aratani, Yumiko (2006) Race, space, and life-chances : the role of parental housing in stratification processes

Chu, Lui (2006) Out of the Cold-War West : a sociological view on the emergence of a Chinese art cinema in the mid-1980s

Erikson, Emily (2006) The English in the East Indies : economic integration at the birth of capitalism

Herrera, Gioconda (2006) The Catholic Church and public life in Ecuador under Liberalism, 1895-1920

Kossinets, Gueorgi (2006) Essays on structural modeling of evolving social networks

McInerney, Paul-Brian (2006) Circuit riders and software giants : Economic conventions and the making of a technology market

Noori, Neema (2006) Delegating coercion : linking decentralization to state formation in Uzbekistan

Shim, Bo-Seon (2006) Race and culture in nonprofits : the transformation of New York Asian American arts organizations, 1971-2004

Smithsimon, Gregory (2006) The shared city : using and controlling public space in New York City

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Bambina, Antonina (2005) Understanding online social support : the interplay of internet technology, social networks and social support/

Bremner, Francesca (2005) Life of a street in Sri Lanka : spatial practices and ethnic conflict

Cho, Hanna (2005) Assets and advantages : the impact of parental wealth on children's educational and homeownership outcomes

Demetriou, Charalambos (2005) Public identity of the Greeks of Cyprus, 1400-1700

Fuentes-Mayorga, Norma (2005) Gender, racialization and the incorporation to work among Dominican and Mexican women in New York City

Hillary, Michael (2005) Religion, immigrant churches, and community in an industrializing city : Swedish Protestants in Rockford, Illinois, 1854-1925

Kourvetaris, Andreas (2005) Local races, politicized ethnicity, and political narratives in New York/

Lee, Gunjeong (2005) Social capital and gender : structured use of health related services among people with HIV/AIDS in New York City

Rosenblum, Randi (2005) Standards up for grabs : the negotiation of resposibility, authority, and flexibility at an urban public college

Sargut, Gökçe (2005) Linking oligopolistic & organizational explanations of cultural production : an interorganizational approach to measuring product content homogeneity in the Golden Age of movies, 1931-1950

Valiani, Arafaat (2005) Formations of dissent : militancy and violence in Gujarat

Wanderley, Fernanda (2005) Reciprocity without cooperation : small producer networks and political identities in Bolivia

Willsey, Mylinda (2005) The role of state political beliefs and economic resources in setting health policy : the case of Medicaid hospital funding

Zhang, Xiaodan (2005) Bargain without union : paternalist labor relations in China's reform era

2004 DISSERTATIONS

Blome, Juliana (2004) The making of a man : masculinity ideology and its relationship to sexual activity, violent behavior, and academic underachievement among economically disadvantaged, African-American, adolescent males/

Damarin, Amanda (2004) Fit, flexibility, and connection : organizing employment in emerging web labor markets, New York City 1993-2003

Eshun, Joseph (2004) Where do business incubators come from? The origins, evolution, and institutionalization of business incubators : evaluating performance and assessing outcome

Hasegawa, Miki (2004) "We are not garbage!" : the homeless movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002

Hillmann, Henning (2004) Identity from economic networks

Neff, Gina (2004) Organizing uncertainty : individual, organizational and institutional risk in New York's internet industry, 1995-2003

Torche, Florencia (2004) Unequal but fluid : social mobility in Chile in a comparative perspective

Vedres, Balázs (2004) Network sequences of social change : the transformation of ownership and economic policy discourse in Hungary, 1987-2001

Wood, Lesley (2004) The diffusion of direct action tactics : from Seattle to Toronto and New York

2003 DISSERTATIONS

Kratochvil, Daniel (2003) Contested federalism : the intergovernmental struggle for regulatory control of the petroleum marketplace in the United States and Canada, 1945-1981

Lekas, Helen-Maria (2003) How do they fare on welfare : single mothers receiving aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and living in New York City

Lena, Jennifer (2003) From ʻflashʾ to ʻCashʾ : producing rap authenticity, 1979 to 1995

Noguchi, Eri (2003) A rising tide doesn't lift all boats : the determinats of upward mobility (or the lack thereof) in the United States, 1979-1998

Oryshkevich, Irina (2003) The history of the Roman catacombs from the Age of Constantine to the Renaissance

Ota, Ariko (2003) Porcelain and power : Merchandising policies in Tokugawa Japan, 1800-1870

Raider, Holly (2003) The governance of economic exchange : technology, relationships, and the structure of contracts

2002 DISSERTATIONS

Bothner, Matthew (2002) Structural position, economic performance, and technology adoption in the global computer industry

Buck, Andrew (2002) Coalition politics and democratization in a Russian city, 1994-2000

Costa-Ribeiro, Carlos (2002) The Brazilian occupational structure

Elmelech, Yuval (2002) Transmitting inequality : an asset-based analysis of racial and ethnic inequality and its intergenerational transmission

Fontdevila, Jorge (2002) Rationalities of risk : intimate action in the age of AIDS among men on methadone

Hildebrandt, Melanie (2002) The construction of racial intermarriage : a comparison of the effects of gender, race, class, and Black ethnicity in the daily lives of Black/White couples

Jackson, Gregory (2002) Organizing the firm : corporate governance in Germany and Japan, 1870-2000

Johnson, Victoria (2002) Founding culture : art, politics and organization at the Paris Opera, 1669-1792

Kim, Jo (2002) Experiencing globalization : production of ethnicity, gender and identity in Korean transnational corporations in the United States

Köksal, Yonca (2002) Local intermediaries and Ottoman state centralization : a comparison of the Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Ankara and Edirne, 1839-1878

Krinsky, John (2002) Working against workfare : coalitions and claims in the politics of welfare reform in New York City, 1995-2000

Lee, Sara (2002) Racial and ethnic identities of second-generation Korean immigrants in New York City

Muetzel, Sophie (2002) Making meaning of the move of the German capital - networks, logics, and the emergence of capital city journalism

Nakano, Tsutomu (2002) A paradox of embeddedness : social network analysis of a Japanese industrial district

Robbins, Joyce (2002) From manpower policy to workforce development : the state, national business agendas, and U.S. employment policy, 1960-2000

Shashoua-Goldblatt, Galit (2002) The personal is political : the transformation of breast cancer organization in New York State

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Kawamura, Yuniya (2001) The legitimation of fashion : Japanese designers in the French fashion system

Poros, Maritsa (2001) Shopkeepers, diamond dealers, and doctors : networks of inclusion and exclusion among Asian Indian immigrants in New York and London

Rajah, Valli (2001) Accommodation and resistance : drug-involved women working within, around and against intimate-partner violence

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Browne, Anthony (2000) Manufacturing local action : a comparative case study of organizational democracy

Cross, Jay (2000) The structure of patriarchy, the structure of law : a macrosociological study of American antistalking legislation, 1992-1993

Iglič, Hajdeja (2000) The formation of political ties : personal networks and political action in the former Yugoslavia, 1987

Kaufman, Kathy (2000) Outsourcing the hearth : immingration and the strategic allocation of labor in American families

Kim, Haesook (2000) Dynamics of gender and legal professions : the case of women jurists of South Korea /c Haesook Kim.

Kim, Sang-jun (2000) Inventing Moralpolitik : a sociological interpretation of Confucian ideology, ritual, and politics

Sedofsky, Jan Isobel (2000) A comparison of male and female scientists' careers : productivity, rewards, and attitudes

Takenaka, Ayumi (2000) Ethnic community in motion ; Japanese-Peruvians in Peru, Japan, and the U.S.

Yang, Keming (2000) Double entrepreneurship in China's economic reform

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Carter, Prudence (1999) Balancing "Acts" : issues of identity and cultural resistance in the social and educational behaviors of minority youth

Cooper, D. (1999) The distributive state in Botswana : development, labor, and the resilient peasantry

Gibson, David (1999) Taking turns and talking ties : conversational sequences in business meetings

Hordon, Deborah (1999) The impact of adolescent childbearing on later life : a social class analysis

Levy, Daniel (1999) Remembering the Nation : ethnic Germans and the transformation of national identity in the Federal Republic of Germany

Park, Hea-young (1999) The church community - Korea and New York

1998 DISSERTATIONS

, Sentürk, Recep (1998) Narrative social structure : anatomy of the Hadith transmission network, CE 610-1505

Chin, Margaret May (1998) Sewing women : immigrants and the New York City garment industry

Lee, Jennifer (1998) Immigrant entrepreneurs : opportunity structure and intergroup relations

Schluter, Daniel P. (1998) Fraternity without community : social institutions in the Soviet gay world

Watanabe, Masako (1998) Styles of reasoning in Japan and the United States : logic of education and two cultures

Yoshida, Motoko (1998) The conceptual foundation of physicians' use of acupuncture : a study of New York State.

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Cao, Cong (1997) Chinese scientific elite : a test of the universalism elite formation

Chen, Duan-Rung (1997) Network dynamics of disease transmission : a study of the relevance of social networks for HIV?STD transmission/

Moreno, Maria Josè. (1997) Identity formation and organizational change in nonprofit institutions : a comparative study of two Hispanic museums

Rus, Andrej (1997) Informal sources of corporate governance in the process of privatization in Eastern Europe

Zielyk, Ihor V. (1997) Ethnicity and irredentism in diaspora : profile of an Ukrainian-American community

1996 DISSERTATIONS

Conley, Dalton Clark (1996) Being black, living in the red : wealth and the cycle of racial inequality

Crook, David B. (1996) The role obligations of adult college students and the effects of roles on postsecondary educational careers

Essig, Laurie (1996) Sex, self, and other : the production and performance of queer in Russia, 1989-94

Szántó, András. (1996) Gallery transformations in the New York art world in the 1980's

Warshawski, Marlene Ruth (1996) The role of archives in remembering the Holocaust

Weiss, Elisa Sondra (1996) An expanded theroy of social stress : the case of chronic pysical illness in inner-city mothers

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Gabbay, Shaul M. (1995) Social capital in the creation of financial capital

1994 DISSERTATIONS

Berend, Zsuzsa (1994) Cultural and social sources of spinsterhood in nineteenth-century New England

Wolfe, Deborah S. (1994) Beauty as a vocation : women and beauty contests in America

1993 DISSERTATIONS

Haritos, Rosa (1993) The forging of a collective truth : a sociological analysis of the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus

Mescher, Gary Walter (1993) Fisheries industrialization and the consequences for small-scale fishermen : the weir fishermen of New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy shore

Ruan, Danqing (1993) Social networks in urban China

Scandlyn, Jean Naomi (1993) When the social contract fails : intergenerational and interethnic conflict in an American suburban school district

Wiese, James Andrew (1993) Struggle for the suburban dream : African American suburbanization since 1916

1990 DISSERTATIONS

Diaz-Cotto, Juanita A. (1990) Imprisonment and the state : the political dynamics of Latino men and women in New York State prisons, 1971-1987

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