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161	Between Warrior and Helplessness in the Valley of Azawa - The struggle of the Kel Tamashek in the war of the Sahel Christian, Patrick James 01 January 2015 (has links) This dissertation is an Investigation into the Tuareg involvement in violent conflict in the Sahara and the Sahel of North Africa from a sociological psychological perspective of unmet human needs. The research begins by establishing the structure and texture of the sociological, psychological, and emotional life patterns of their existence when not involved in violent conflict. This is followed by an examination of the pathology of Tuareg social structures that are engaged in intra and inter communal violence as perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. The first part of the research establishes normal conditions of the sociological life cycle and highlights natural areas of conflict that arise from exposure to rapid and/or external changes to their physical and social environment. The second part establishes parameters of expected damage from trauma, extended conflict, and failure to adapt to rapid environmental, social and political changes. The research methodology relies on a case study format that uses collaborative ethnography and phenomenological inquiry to answer the research questions and validate propositions made from existing literature and pre]existing research. The research questions focus on aspects of the sociological structure and failing psychological and emotional needs that are relevant to the subjectfs involvement in violent conflict. The research propositions are in part shaped from existing knowledge of tribal sociological structures that are related to the Tuareg by ethnicity, environment, and shared psycho]cultural attributes. The expected contribution of this research is the development of an alternative praxis for tribal engagement and village stability operations conducted by the United States Special Operations Command. counterinsurgency counterterrorism ethnic and culture conflict identity conflict psychoanalytical anthopology psychogeography psychogeology social trauma studies Cultural Anthropology Social Psychology Sub Saharan Africa Studies African Studies Anthropology Defense and Security Studies Human Geography International and Area Studies Military and Veterans Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Place and Environment Psychology Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Social and Behavioral Sciences Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology Sociology of Culture
162	A Thin Blue Line and the Great Black Divide: The Inter and Intra Departmental Conflict Among Black Police Officers, Their Agencies, and the Communities in which They Work Regarding Police Use of Force Perception By Black Americans in a Southwestern State Keyes, Vance DeBral 01 January 2014 (has links) This study explores the relationship between Black police officers, Black citizens, and their external environment using a group of 30 police officers and citizens to establish the connection between police officer race and perceptions by same race citizens within the context of police use of force. I use the term Black to be inclusive of African Americans as well as others of African descent without regard to their ethnicity or national origin. Criminal justice means system application whereas criminology is the study of criminal behavior. In America, there exists a history of volatility between the police and Black communities. While I recognize that many Blacks may have no direct interaction with police, in order to facilitate this research, I rely on a well-known and controversial topic, which is the use of police force within Black communities. The participants involved in the study are employees of one of three large municipal police agencies or enrolled in an institution of higher education within a southwestern state. All participants self-identify as Black or African American. I employ qualitative methods by incorporating in-depth interviews in my research approach. At the conclusion of the study, the two groups’ perception about race, police use of force, and policing are compared, using common themes to develop a shared phenomenon of what it means to be a Black police officer and the Black officer’s relationship with the Black community. I suggest that because Black police officers experience a racial/professional dynamic; their twin identification causes them to believe that the Black community and non-Black officers question their racial and professional loyalty. I also suggest that the perception of Black police officers and Black citizens and the degree of support they enjoy or lack within their respective departments and communities affects their disposition regarding race and policing. Typically, researchers treat police as a homogenous racial group. This study is important because Black officers are neglected within the literature on police use of force and Black citizens are seldom asked about citizen-police relations involving Black officers. In addition, this project examines how the roles of professional and racial subcultures influence perceptions. Peace studies Criminology Black studies Black Community Conflict Force Perception Police African American Studies Civic and Community Engagement Community-Based Research Criminology Criminology and Criminal Justice Demography, Population, and Ecology Peace and Conflict Studies Place and Environment Race and Ethnicity Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture
163	Women's Professional Sports: A Case Study on Practices that Could Increase Their Profitability McArdle, Danielle H 01 January 2016 (has links) Women’s professional sports leagues have often been considered a risky business endeavor. Critics cite low attendance, lack of sponsorships, lack of media rights deals, and numerous other reasons for why women’s professional sports leagues are not profitable. In analyzing the current landscape of women’s professional sport leagues, this paper uses a case study approach to develop a strategy that will highlight lessons learned from past women’s professional sports leagues, current professional sports leagues, sponsorship agreements, fans, social, digital, and mobile marketing strategies, and management practices to show how the business of women’s sports could be made into a more profitable endeavor. Women's Professional Sports Sports Business Profitability female women Advertising and Promotion Management Broadcast and Video Studies Communication Technology and New Media Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Inequality and Stratification Marketing Other Business Recreation Business Sales and Merchandising Social Media Sociology of Culture Sports Management Sports Studies Strategic Management Policy Technology and Innovation Women's Studies
164	Young, Urban, Professional, and Kenyan?: Conversations Surrounding Tribal Identity and Nationhood Achieng-Evensen, Charlotte 01 May 2016 (has links) By asking the question “How do young, urban, professional Kenyans make connections between tribal identity, colonialism, and the lived experience of nationhood?,” the researcher engages with eight participants in exploring their relationships with their tribal groups. From this juncture the researcher, through a co-constructed process with participants, interrogates the idea of nationhood by querying their interpretations of the concepts of power and resistance within their multi-ethnic societies. The utility of KuPiga Hadithi as a cultural responsive methodology for data collection along with poetic analysis as part of the qualitative tools of examination allowed the researcher to identify five emergent and iterative themes: (1) colonial wounds, (2) power inequities, (3) tensions, (4) intersection, and (5) hope. Participant discussion of these themes suggests an impenetrable link between tribal identity and nationhood. Schooling, as first a colonial and then national construct, works to mediate that link. Therefore, there is the need for a re-conceptualization of the term ‘nation’ in the post-Independence era. decolonization indigeneity researcher positionality nationhood colonial wounds indigenous knowing indigeneity researcher positionality KuPiga Hadithi Sage Philosophy Kenya Anticolonial theory Decolonization nationhood poetic analysis culturally responsive methodologies African Languages and Societies African Studies Community-Based Learning Community-Based Research Educational Sociology Ethnic Studies Inequality and Stratification International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Sociology Place and Environment Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Theory, Knowledge and Science
165	Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us Vernon, Allie Harrison 16 May 2019 (has links) Looking primarily at two critically acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how do these narratives about citizenship sustain, create, or re-envision American myth? Similarly, how do the narratives interact with the dominant culture at large? Do any of these texts achieve oppositional value, and/or modify the complex hegemonic structure? I use Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital” to investigate the ways in which economic, cultural, and social capital are distributed amongst identity groups of citizens, focusing on its favorable distribution to white upper-class men. Interesting, too, is the way in which these texts relate with one another and evolve over time. As Fitzgerald reaffirms boundary rights to white upper-class social capital to longstanding wealthy white males, Watts celebrates the survival of black individuals through the hard-earned persistence of human connection. Ultimately, as Gatsby fails to repeat the past, Watts succeeds in rewriting it. capitalism race class feminism feminist racial African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Popular Culture American Studies Behavioral Economics English Language and Literature Gender and Sexuality Income Distribution Inequality and Stratification Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Women's Studies Work, Economy and Organizations
166	Threads and Stitches of Peace- Understanding What Makes Ghana an Oasis of Peace? Pul, Hippolyt Akow Saamwan 01 January 2015 (has links) Ghana is considered an oasis of peace despite having the same mix of ethno-political competitions for state power and resources; north-south horizontal inequalities; ethno-regional concentrations of Christians and Muslims; highly ethnicised elections; a natural resource dependent economy; and a politically polarized public sphere, among others, that have plunged other countries in Africa into violent and often protracted national conflicts. Use of the conflict paradigm to explain Africa's conflicts glosses over positive deviance cases such as Ghana. This study used the peace paradigm in a mixed method, grounded theory research to examine Ghana's apparent exceptionalism in staving off violent national conflicts. From the survey of 1429 respondents and 31 Key Informants, findings indicate Ghanaians are divided on whether their country is peaceful or not. They are equally divided on classifying the state of peace in Ghana as negative or positive. Instead, they have identified sets of centrifugal and centripetal forces that somehow self-neutralize to keep Ghana in a steady state of unstable peace. Among the lift forces are strongly shared cultural and Indigenous African Religious values; symbiotic interethnic economic relationships; identity dissolution and cultural miscegenation due to open interethnic systems of accommodation and incorporation; and the persistence of historical multi-lateral political, sociocultural, and economic relationships. On the drag side are the youth bulge; emergent religious intolerance; elite exit from the state in using private solutions for public problems; and highly politicized and partisan national discourses that leave the country with no national agenda. In sum, Ghana is no exception to the rule. The four interconnected meso theories that this study identifies provide pointers to what factors Ghana needs to strengthen to avert descent into violence. Peace Studies African studies Ethnic studies Culture and peace Identify dissolution Intercultural accommodation Peace in Ghana Positive deviance Religion and Peace African Languages and Societies African Studies Demography, Population, and Ecology Economic Policy Economics Family, Life Course, and Society Inequality and Stratification Infrastructure International and Area Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Place and Environment Political Science Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Religion Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Welfare Sociology Sociology of Culture
167	Talk This Way: A Look at the Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop and Christianity Swanson, Joshua 01 August 2020 (has links) Christianity and Hip-Hop culture are often said to be at odds with one another. One is said to promote a lifestyle of righteousness and love, while the other is said to promote drugs, violence, and pride. As a result, the public has portrayed these two institutions as conflicting with no willingness to resolve their perceived differences. This paper will argue that there has always been a healthy conversation between Hip-Hop and Christianity since Hip-Hop’s inception. Using sources like Hip-Hop lyrics, theologians, historians, autobiographies, sermons, and articles that range from Ma$e to Tipper Gore, this paper will look at the conversation between Hip-Hop and Christianity that has been ongoing for decades. This thesis will show why that conversation is essential for the church and necessary for Hip-Hop artists to express themselves fully. This paper will show rap and Hip-Hop culture to be a complex institution with its own theology, history, and prophets – that uses its own voice to express how urban youth view not only their lives but also how God and the church are present in their lives. hip-hop christianity history theology Christiain rap african american African American Studies American Art and Architecture American Popular Culture American Studies Biblical Studies Christian Denominations and Sects Christianity Cultural History Ethnic Studies Ethnomusicology History of Christianity History of Religion Modern Art and Architecture New Religious Movements Other American Studies Other Arts and Humanities Other Music Practical Theology Public History Religious Education Social History Sociology of Culture Sociology of Religion United States History Urban Studies and Planning
168	Women of African Descent: Persistence in Completing A Doctorate Bailey-Iddrisu, Vannetta L. 09 November 2010 (has links) This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003, p. 337).This study used Ellis’s (1997) Three Stages for Graduate Student Development as the conceptual framework to examine the persistent strategies used by these women to persist to the completion of their studies. Women African American Non-traditional student Doctoral Studies Women Studies Career Women of African Descent Graduate Studies Black women post graduate studies African American Studies American Studies Community-Based Learning Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Educational Sociology Ethnic Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gender and Sexuality Higher Education Administration Higher Education and Teaching Inequality and Stratification International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Place and Environment Race and Ethnicity Social and Cultural Anthropology Sociology of Culture Urban Education Urban Studies and Planning Women's Studies
169	THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958 Edmundson, Joshua R 01 June 2016 (has links) The ONE Exhibition explores an era in American history marked by intense government sponsored anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends in 1958 with the first gay Supreme Court case in U.S. history. Central to the story is ONE The Homosexual Magazine, and its founders, as they embarked on a quest for LGBT equality by establishing the first ongoing nationwide forum for gay people in the U.S., and challenged the government’s right to engage in and encourage hateful and discriminatory practices against the LGBT community. Then, when the magazine was banned by the Post Office, the editors and staff took the federal government to court. As such, ONE, Incorporated v. Olesen became the first Supreme Court case in U.S. history that featured the taboo subject of homosexuality, and secured the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech for the gay press. Thus, ONE magazine and its founders were an integral part of a small group of activists who established the foundations of the modern LGBT equality movement. POSTWAR AMERICA THE LAVENDER SCARE MATTACHINE SOCIETY GAY HISTORY QUEER HISTORY MCCARTHYISM American Politics American Popular Culture American Studies Arts and Humanities Civil Rights and Discrimination Contemporary Art Courts Cultural History Defense and Security Studies Diplomatic History Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies First Amendment Gender and Sexuality History Inequality and Stratification Judges Law Law and Politics Law and Society Law Enforcement and Corrections Legal Legal History Legal Studies Legal Theory Legislation Military History Military, War, and Peace Museum Studies National Security Law Photography Policy History, Theory, and Methods Political History Political Science Politics and Social Change President/Executive Department Public Administration Public Affairs Public History Public Policy Sexuality and the Law Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Social History Social Policy Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Supreme Court of the United States United States History Visual Studies

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