Sociology thesis and dissertation collection
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Sociology and statistics in Britain, 1830-1990
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis examines the historical relationship between British sociology and statistics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It begins with an analysis of the role that the early development of statistics played ... -
Volunteering as a balancing act: who’s got time for that?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This thesis explores the temporal dimensions of women’s voluntary involvement in civic activities. How and why people find or make the time to volunteer within their busy lives is a puzzle given that volunteering is not ... -
Running on time: domestic work and commuting in West Bengal, India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)While there is a significant and burgeoning body of literature on (paid) domestic work in India, much of which explores the broader context of migration within which this labour often takes place, very little looks at ... -
Making of the Confucian individual: morality, subjectification and classical schooling in China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-08)This research explores the complexity of Confucian schooling in the context of contemporary China. Based on fieldwork in a Confucian-‐style classical school (given the pseudonym Yiqian School), ... -
Becoming technologists: a study of the recruitment and adjustment of graduate scientists and engineers to industrial employment
(The University of Edinburgh, 1974)During the 1960s there was widespread public concern and controversy in Britain about the flow of graduate scientists and engineers into industrial employment. This thesis summarises some of the major viewpoints in this ... -
Extending radical space? A historical comparative analysis of sub-state violent contention in Quebec and Corsica
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)This thesis offers a comparative historical analysis of sub-state violent contention in Quebec and Corsica. It focuses specifically on the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) and the Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale ... -
Collective relationships and the emotion culture of radical feminism in Britain, 1983-1991
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)The political tensions between different feminisms, emerging virtually in tandem with the origins of 'second wave' women's movements themselves, continue to present challenges for cooperation and collective action. If ... -
The Sociology of Sexual Polarity
(The University of Edinburgh, 1990)This thesis presents an attempt to create a general approach to the sexes in society through the sociology of Max Weber. This falls into three main sections: a consideration of methodological issues; a set of comparative ... -
Institutions in/cognito: the political constitution of agency
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Operating at the boundaries of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, politics and social theory, this thesis aims to develop an interdisciplinary model of the relationship between agency and structure. This thesis ... -
What experiences and challenges do schoolgirl mothers and mothers-to-be face when continuing in education?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015)Previous academic literature and Government agendas and policies share concerns about schoolgirl mothers /mothers -to -be not continuing in education and having lower qualifications. Despite this, research has not ... -
Friends, neighbours and kin: development of social contacts with special reference to stages in the life cycle and class factors
(The University of Edinburgh, 1971)This research was undertaken to examine the way that social networks are formed and change and the factors which influence these changes. The conjugal pair was taken as the focus of the network and married couples selected ... -
Das werden und vergehen von sitte und brauch in hessen und wales
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Spirit of Caprera: an ethnographic analysis of sailing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)The research investigates the Centro Velico Caprera (CVC), a sailing school located in the Mediterrean Sea, whose purpose is to replicate the lifestyle of a ship on land. This ambition creates an isolated environment ... -
Casting nets and framing films: an ethnography of networks of cultural production in Beirut
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Filmmakers first received widespread academic attention as case studies into the increasing casualisation of labour in post-industrial economies. Their precarious existence in project-based labour markets provided much ... -
Taking the complexity turn to steer carbon reduction policy: applying practice theory, complexity theory and cultural practices to policies addressing climate change
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Achieving the Scottish Government’s carbon reduction targets requires not only the decarbonisation of industry and electricity generation, which is now largely underway, but also significant changes in the actions and ... -
Who cares? Indian nurses ‘on the move’ and how their transnational migration for care work shapes their multigenerational relationships of familial care over time
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis explores how migration for care work shapes Indian nurses’ multigenerational relationships of familial care over time. Using qualitative research methods, it interrogates the intertwining of economic and ... -
Living the neoliberal global schooling project: an ethnography of childhood and everyday choices in Nepal
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)This research draws upon interdisciplinary studies of childhood and young people’s agency to present an ethnographic account of one group of young people in Nepal’s lived experience of ‘the global schooling project’, a ... -
Sylheti-heritage children in urban Scotland: challenging the deficit model through the lens of childhood in Sylhet
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis seeks to challenge deficit approaches to ‘different’ childhoods. It does this through documenting the everyday life experiences of Sylheti-heritage Muslim children in urban Scotland, and reading these childhoods ... -
Researching intimacy in family life: a mixed methods study of emotional closeness of grandparent-grandchild relationships in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This thesis aims to investigate how, and under what circumstances, intimacy in grandparent-grandchild relationships is enabled, enacted and sustained in the early years of grandchildren. Previous work on emotional closeness ... -
Performing remembrances of 9/11
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)The attacks of 11 September 2001 have had a profound impact for many, altering lives, perceptions, politics and policies. The last decade saw the construction of numerous memorials commemorating the events across the United ...
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