The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

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The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

Graduate Scholarship

Sociology Dissertations
Organizations and Institutions

2010 Lee, Linda Cloud
The Organizational Configurations of Schools

2010 Kertcher, Zack
Institutional Expansion: The Case of Grid Computing

2010 Buntin, Jennifer Jean
‘A Community of the Nations’: Institutional Responses to Mexican Migration at the Urban Edge

2008 Harvey, Rachel Marie
Duty to Firm and Market: The Subnational and Sociocultural Constitution of the London Gold Fixing, a Global Financial Market

2008 Lechtman, Zohar
Gendering Chicago Politics: Institutionalization of Women in Positions of Power

2007 MacIndoe, Heather Frances
Public Goods and Public Claims: Foundation Philanthropy in Chicago 1990-2000

2007 McGhee Hassrick, Elizabeth
Organizational Inequalities: The Social Production of Parent Surveillance Pressures in Urban Schools

2007 Kapadia, Kavita D.
The Social Organization of Urban Schools, New Teacher Retention, and the Effects of Induction

2005 Petrin, Robert A.
The Structure of School Production

2004 Stoelinga [Hallman], Sara Ray
Knitting the Right Sweater: Institutionalization of Teacher Leaders in the School Fabric

2003 Rojas, Fabio Guillermo
Organizational Decision Making and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines

2002 Barman, Emily Alice
Between Giving and Getting: Donor Choice and the Field of Workplace Charity

2001 Sandefur, Rebecca Leigh
The Social Organization of Legal Careers

2001 Swanson, Christopher Brian
Riding the Waves or Driving the Tide? Educational Reform and Institutional Change

2000 Lau, Estelle Tsui
Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration and Chinese Exclusion

1999 Chang, Dukjin
Privately Owned Social Structures: Institutionalization-Network Contingency in the Korean Chaebol

1998 Morgan, Harriet Phillips
Moving Missions: Organizational Change in Liberal Arts Colleges

1998 Jacobson, David Lee
Contemporary Organizational Integration in Schools and Firms

1997 Park, Chan-ung
An Actor-Based Institutional Approach on the Development of Welfare Institutions: State Health Insurance Movements in United States, Great Britain and Korea

1997 Frumkin, Peter J.
Conflict and the Construction of an Organizational Field: The Transformation of American Philanthropic Foundations

1996 Chaskin, Robert Jeffrey
Grassroots Development from the Top Down: Democratic Principles and Organizational Dynamics in a Community Development Initiative

1995 Becker, Penny A. Edgell
How We Do Things Here: Culture and Conflict in Local Organizations

1995 Birkeland, Peter Monroe
Sociology of Franchising: Trust and Control in the Service Economy

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