Sociology thesis and dissertation collection
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Recent Submissions
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Building blocks: a historical sociology of the innovation and regulation of exchange traded funds in the United States, 1970-2000
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Between 1993 and 2016, the U.S. exchange traded fund (ETF) market has proliferated from one product worth $6.5 million USD to 1,455 products worth over $2 trillion USD. Despite its dramatic growth, the ETF market has yet ... -
Mediated music, mediated nations: Taiwanese popular music in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Taiwan’s pop music is enormously popular in China. This study aims to probe the reasons for this success as it has taken place against a backdrop of hostile political relations between the Taiwanese and the Chinese. The ... -
Beautiful game quantified? – A sociological study of performance analysis in professional football
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)The aim of this thesis is to illustrate the practice of performance analysis in football and to explicitly illustrate the way match statistics are socially constructed, how this represents an interpreted form of knowledge, ... -
Nationalist movement as an arena of political struggle: the case of Kosovo
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)This thesis focuses on the Kosovo Albanian national movement between 1968 and 2008. Using a multi-layered approach, it analyses a) the factors that determined its political success, b) its continuous transformation and, ... -
Consolidation and fluidification: the milkfish assemblage across the Taiwan Strait
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)There are two ways of understanding assemblages of humans and non-humans inspired by actor-network theory (ANT): consolidation and fluidification. ANT argues that both subjects and objects take shape as a result of ... -
Subcultural distinction in East Asian education: the case of high school rock in Taiwan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)What kind of rock culture would grow out of an exam-oriented educational system? In the western rock world, self-learning has been characterized as most popular musicians’ principal learning pattern, closely intertwined ... -
Visualizing the Nation: National identity, tourism advertising, and nation branding in Croatia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)in many daily forms of media we see the nation being represented by or alongside images. These images of the nation inform the way we see both others and ourselves. This thesis attempts to understand the way the nation ... -
Studies in inter-group relations
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Bridge between worlds: relating position and disposition in the mathematical field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Using ethnographic observations and interview based research I document the production of research mathematics in four European research institutes, interviewing 45 mathematicians from three areas of pure mathematics: ... -
Mediated voices: nation/state-building, NGOs and survivors of sexual violence in postconflict Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Mass ethnic violence, including genocide and ethnic cleansing, can take a variety of forms, but sexual violence often remains a key and defining feature. In the Bosnian war of 1992-1995 following the break-up of Yugoslavia, ... -
Corruption discourse and modern state legitimation – a historical comparison of Britain and Germany
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)This thesis examines the way in which corruption discourses are embedded in processes of state formation. It builds on the theoretical premise of social constructionism, namely that ‘corruption’ is not an entity that ... -
Emergence of the Scottish economic imaginary
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Scotland’s economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British politics since. Often, that debate ... -
Minor differences of narcissism: narcissistic personality in Germanophone Europe and North America
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)How can the same object become split when viewed by different groups of observers? What is the relationship between conflict and consensus, and the ritual and the rational? I interrogate these questions through the case ... -
Varieties of ‘Kurdishness’ in Turkey: state rhetoric, language, and regional comparison
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Kurds are the largest ethnic group in Turkey; they have been at the centre of conflict since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Scattered across Turkey, with their own language, distinct from the official ... -
Thinking with Elias about British independent funeral firms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)This thesis is about using rather than applying Norbert Elias’s conceptual ideas, and its analytical procedure employs a ‘fair play’ approach to theorists and theory. This is put to use regarding British independent ... -
Imagining virtual community: online media fandom and the construction of virtual collectivity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis uses ethnographic research into online media fandom, focusing on self-reflexive analytical documents that fans call meta, to investigate longstanding questions about the nature of virtual community. It argues ... -
Children's stories and negotiated identities : bakhtin and complexity in upper primary classrooms in Jamaica and Scotland
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Impairment, disablement and identity
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Understanding the lives of older women: adjustment in later life
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Policing prostitution: view from the streets
(The University of Edinburgh, 2002)ThisthesisdescribesandanalysestirepolicingoffemalestreetprostitutioninEdinburgh.Inparticular,itprovidesananalysisoftheconstructionofprostitutes'identitiesthroughpolicing.Myapproachattemptstodispelsomeofthemyths,misunders ...
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