This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Sociology. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
1995 foreign student survey: assessment of needs and satisfaction, Warren Gehl
Campus-based mentoring as an intervention strategy for at-risk youth: An implication of its effectiveness, Andrea Palen-Vernon
Child hunger in Montana : a study of public school third-graders, Frances R. Phillips
Kawaiisu of south-central California| Creating a new identity, Leslie Zaglauer
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Forest Service wellness coordinators: Using metaphors to make sense of ambiguity in a work role, Susan E. Green
Art science and politics of program evaluation: A chronicle of an evaluation of the Montana Conservation Corps, Jennifer Haubenreiser
Mainland Chinese students in America: Community and marginality, Koji Hoshino
Family and gang involvement: An analysis of the effect of family function and family structure on gang involvement, James L. Martin
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Urban-rural difference: The effect of place of residence on racial attitudes, Timothy E. Lantz
Role of a tribal college in the academic performance of American Indian students, Hans P. Zaglauer
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Program evaluation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services Project, Nancy L. Arnold
Doing stories: An ethnography of electronic news gathering photographers, Dale M. Lindekugel
Examination of empowerment and rape myth acceptance among male adolescents in a sex offender treatment program, Mary A. Trankel
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Needs assessment survey for the Emilie Gamelin Project, Randall Charles Bedford
Three worlds of work and family: A longitudinal study, Janice Levinsohn Milner
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Boomtown residents: Integration boundaries and the relationship between permanent and transient members, Polly Zimmerman Anderson
Cards, chips and characters| An ethnography of the social world of the Oxford poker players, Gwen Farnsworth
Demonstrating the Process of Doing Applied Research: The Missoula Senior Nutrition Program User Profile, Anita L. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Acquisition of the professional nursing role: An application of a theoretical model, Anastasia M. Tureck
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
ANTECEDENTS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AMERICAN INDIANS AND THEIR CLASSMATES, Karl Ormond Edwards
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
CLASSIFICATION IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM: A PROJECT TO DECREASE DETENTION IN THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF MONTANA, Beth K. Miller
Juvenile Justice Training Program Revision for the Montana Board of Crime Control, Virginia Roberts
ALIENATION POWERLESSNESS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION AMONG CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS (GUARDS PRISONS), Stephen Paul Walters
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Non-traditional students : a descriptive study of their characteristcs and problems, Nancy S. Blom
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Academic performance athletics and attrition among Black freshmen at the University of Montana, James M. Jones
Staying home| An ethnography of full-time housewives, Janice Levinsohn Milner
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Those were the days my friend I thought they'd never end : a sociolinguistic study of the high school reunion, Cheryl A. Hall
Fitting into the written world: An ethnography of illiterates, Martin L. Harding
GAY FREEDOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMING OUT, Robert James Kus
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
SELF TALK: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SELF IN PERSONAL ENCOUNTER, Dean J. Bowman
EVALUATING PUBLIC DEFENSE SERVICES FOR CRIMINAL CASES: AN EXAMINATION OF DATA FROM MONTANA, Keith R. Fernsler
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Witchcraft in Missoula: A case study of the rumor process, Margaret Gilliam Lynam
Community action| An ethnographic study of occupational idealism and cynicism, Albert Niccolucci
Social organization of recruitment in the Unification Church, David Frank Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
THE SOURCES OF VARIABILITY IN JUVENILE COURT DECISION-MAKING: AN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS, Curt T. Griffiths
"I was raped": Problems in constructing and telling the believable account, Claire Elaine Johnson
The Giving business: Making out the social service scene in Missoula Montana, Loren Arthur Lutzenhiser
Function and meaning of work and the job: A replication and extension, George Richard Petaja
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT AND CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGIES, Robert L. Keller
ALCOHOL LEGALIZATION AND NATIVE AMERICANS: A SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY, Philip Alan May
ANOMIE ALIENATION AND REBELLION: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF REBELLION IN TWO INSTITUTIONS FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS, L. Thomas Winfree Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Affair, Madgie M. Hunt
Parent-teenager interactional conflict, Andrea Elaine Kautz
NOMINAL AND PERCEIVED VARIABLES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: THE CASE OF STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCH, Lawrence Louis Kielich
Differentials in the assignment of criminal status through sentencing, Albert Andrew Simkus
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Ethnography of friendship among cowboys, Jane Catherine Canton
Factors associated with parole board decision making in Montana, Curt T. Griffiths
Prison and the Montana Indian, Loren Duane Harrison
A systems analysis of the informal juvenile court, Jeremiah Franklin Johnson
THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF VIOLENCE: A HOLOCULTURAL STUDY, Wilfred Toshiyuki Masumura
AN INVESTIGATION OF WORK AND LEISURE EXPERIENCES OF WORKERS IN TWO ASSEMBLY LINE PLANTS IN A RURAL SETTING, James Lee Steele
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
A Study of Missoula youth: behavioral change of a trip-to-trip group, Audrey Jane Atkinson
ON THE BLOCK: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF AUCTIONS, Robert Edward Clark
Innovation and diffusion: An identification of three change processes, Kathleen Mary Harrington
Service station attendants and their customers| A study of face to face interaction, Walter Lynn Houdyshell
Becoming a fraternity member, John Henry Newman
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Social organization of tracing as viewed by the tracers, Glenn Paul Anderson
THE ELDERLY WIDOWED AND THEIR PATTERNS OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND DISENGAGEMENT, Arnold S. Brown
MORMONS AND MORRISITES: A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONFLICT, Larry Joseph Halford
The Indian offender in Montana, Edwin Lee Hall
Organizing for adult education: a community handbook and relevant case study, John Schwechten
Pre-death preparation among young married couples; A study of students and non-students in Missoula Montana, Larry Jay Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Social interaction of the orthopedically disabled as viewed by the disabled, Caroline Colton Francis
Examination of factors affecting the diversity of opinion among priests, Lawrence Louis Kielich
Rural anomia: A study of selected farming communities in northern Alberta, William Randall Meeks
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Population dynamics and related economic trends in Montana counties: 1930-1960, Robert Ralph Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Suicidology: A study of suicide trends and theories 1950-1964, Rodney Craig Metzger
Investigation of the attitudes of teachers toward educable mentally retarded students, Nancy Ann Mickelson
Predicting aftercare performance, Noel Edward Nelson
Senior male college students' attitudes toward impending military service, Eva Kristina Wetzel
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Rural neighborhoods defined by the application of analytic induction, William Thomas Boring
Instrumental and expressive sentiment in the emergence and maintenance stages of fraternal solidarity, William Kenneth Calvin
A study of the Missoula Head Start program, Mary Balch Cummings
Systems and contra-systems: The case of student radicalism, Robert Kelly Hancock
Exploratory investigation of the "hobo jungle" and some of its members, Floyd William Howell
Study of the role of the minister's wife, Barbara Margaret Marinan
The history and theory of capital punishment in Montana, Robert Oakley Raffety
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Participants' views of three anti-poverty programs, Margaret Bucher
Las Vegas Nevada: A demographic and ecological analysis, Thomas Leslie Burns
Children's concepts of occupational stratification, J. M. Moynahan
Aspirations and expectations of Mexican-American youth: An exploratory study, Joel Bevington Reed
Metropolitan park planning and county government, Edwin F. Zuern
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Early drinking behavior and social background of college men, Walter S. Custer
Elmendorf Conference the dynamic interrelationships in social behavior within a conference the basic unit of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul a study of leadership, Patrick M. Harstead
Study of change in self-concept among selected members of the Trapper Creek Job Corps center, Margaret Felt McIntosh
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Reference group implications of the student-teacher's professional orientation, Jon Driessen
An investigation of predispositional factors toward delinquency and extent of delinquent behavior among nondelinquents, Larry Joseph Halford
Study in the changing age and sex distribution and fertility of the Montana population by counties 1940-1960, Timothy Edward Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Position of Roman Catholics on birth control attitudinal and practical, Twila Bolin
Social acceptance and participation patterns of accelerated children in Missoula Montana, Mabelle (Gould) Hardy
The relationship of college married student housing to selected socio-economic and social-psychological variables, Raymond F. Schoenfeld
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Hellenes of Missoula, Montana| Social adjustment, Peter D. Chimbos
Factors which influence college students' occupational choices, Anne Shipley
Case study of Seeley Lake school bus route, Grace Elizabeth Siniff
Functional analysis of the duplicate bridge group, Jack J. Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Study of the influence of religious attitudes on the socialization process among selected mothers in a western Canadian metropolitan area, Hanna Felicitas Dwyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
Social adjustment of the Greek immigrant to American culture in Great Falls, Anthony C. Ginalias
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
Juvenile delinquency: a comparative and ecological study of agency delinquents in Missoula Montana 1955-1956, Joan Bailey
On changing academic majors in college, Charles Richard Fletcher
Attitudes of Montana State University student army veterans toward the Army Integration Program since 1950, Evelyn Joan Gilbertson