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Jeanie Akamanti (Ph.D. expected August 2008)
Dissertation: “ Effects of Electronic Benefit Transfer on People with Disabilities: A Qualitative Examination"
Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (Chair), Dr. Thomas Calhoun, Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn, Dr. Michelle Miller, and Dr. Elisabeth Reichert .
Abstract: . I use ethnography and grounded theory to identify the effects of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) policy on people with disabilities and analyze how the policy is constructed to serve as a form of social control. My research examines how EBT affects life choices and opportunities for recipients. It also illustrates how this policy marginalizes and undermines the civil and human rights of those with disabilities and creates and perpetuates the social construction of disability.
Research Interests: Constructs of Disability, Social Control of Marginal Populations.
Curriculum Vitae (In PDF Format)
Course Syllabi: SOC 223/WMST 221 Women and Men in Contemporary Society
Contact Information Department of Sociology 3425 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901 Phone: 618-453-2494 (w) Email: akamanti@siu.edu
Stephen P. Hagan (Ph.D. expected May 2009)
Dissertation: (prospectus) “We Provide the Dance Floor, You Make the Music”: E-movements, Building and Maintaining Community Through the Progressive Blogosphere
Committee: Dr. Robert D. Benford (chair), Dr. Darren Sherkat, Dr. Jennifer L. Dunn, Dr. Tim Clark, Dr. John Downing
Abstract:
Research Interests:Social Movements, Deviance, Social Problems, Culture, Leisure, Technology, Media Analysis, Religion
Course Syllabi: Soc 108 Introduction to Sociology
Contact Information Department of Sociology 3429 Faner Hall, Mailcode 4524 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL 62901 Office: 3427 Phone: 618-528-6395 Email: sphagan@siu.edu
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