Sociology thesis and dissertation collection
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Lived experiences of marriage: regional and cross-regional brides in rural North India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Based on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork (September 2012-August 2013) in a village in Baghpat district located in the western part of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), the thesis compares the lived ... -
Aesthetics of emotional acting: an argument for a Rasa-based criticism of Indian cinema and television
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-05-22)The thesis explores elements of Sanskrit drama studies, its philosophy of aesthetics, Hindu theology and Indian cinema studies. It seeks to identify and appreciate the continual influence of a pioneering and influential ... -
Embodied agency and agentic bodies: negotiating medicalization in Colombian assisted reproduction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis explores the processual nature of agency and constraints in the experience of medicalized conception in a not yet explored locale: Bogota, Colombia. In ten months of ethnographic research at two fertility centers ... -
Propertied communities: the agrarian emergence and industrial transformation of nationalism in the US and Norway - a property rights perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)All western states today define themselves as nation-states, and all of these states have a political and economic structure in which an individual’s right to own private property is an underlying and pervasive feature. ... -
‘You are warmly invited.’ Exploring knowledge exchange seminars as sites of productive interactions and social networking
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis examines Knowledge Exchange (KE) seminars and the wider social, political, and economic environment in which they are situated Two-way interactive exchanges between academics and Non-Academic Professionals ... -
Personal narratives of nationalism in Turkey
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)The Kurdish Question, which dates back to the Ottoman Era, has been a constituent element of narratives of Turkish nationalism for the past 30 years. The Kurdish Question stands as the most prominent “other” of Turkish ... -
Learning technological capability in developing countries : case of two industries in Vietnam: textile/garment and electronics
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Young people and careers : a comparative study of school careers guidance in Shanghai and Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
Health education for family planning, schooling as family planning: contrasing perspectives on fertility and girls' education in Niger
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Botanic gardens and their live plant collections : present and future roles
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
You cannae stop the future : young people and environmental issues
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Health and social theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997) -
Living with saints: women's relationships and experience in daily life in Lake Pátzcuaro (México)
(The University of Edinburgh, 1999) -
Doing fatherhood, doing family: contemporary paternal perspectives
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)Research in recent decades has identified a conception among fathers, and others, of a widespread qualitative change in the potential nature of fatherhood for men. This widely circulated ideal of contemporary, participatory ... -
Legal histories and modern identities: the emergence of nationalisms in the historical territories of the Kingdom of Navarre, Basque Provinces and State of Spain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)This thesis proposes a legal and organizational approach to better understand processes of modernisation and the emergence of nationalist conflict. Theories of nationalism tend to be significantly influenced by state-centred ... -
Exploration of emotional participation within couple relationships
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)The study is informed by work from the 1990s which looked at emotional aspects of couple relationships and how this interacts with gendered power (Duncombe and Marsden, 1993, 1995; Benjamin, 1998). The context of couple ... -
Social control and deviance in Edinburgh's Pakistani community
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Perspectives on Age, Health and the Environment: Socio-Ecological Imperatives and the Care of the Elderly
(The University of Edinburgh, 1992) -
Survival and decline of locally-based and family firms in the Kirkcaldy area, ca.1900-1960
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995) -
Feminising science: linking theory and practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 1995)
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