Date of Award
3-14-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Sociology
First Advisor
Frank D. Beck
Abstract
Place-identity is a concept that examines the corresponding relationship between the self and space. Much work has been accomplished on this topic in environmental psychology and geography, but sociological research on this concept is scarce. This project employs reflexive participant photography, qualitative methods and an analytical framework derived from place-identity theory to research the affect of socioeconomic status on place-identity in the Republic of Moldova. Socioeconomic status consists of four sub-variables - parents's professions, formative loci and experience from formative loci - which further represent class-status and community-society constructs, respectively. These constructs were compared to assess the predominate variables in the data. There are two major findings: Socioeconomic status does affect Moldovan place-identity, particularly in economic and recreation related spaces to a greater measure than in religious, commercial and educational related spaces, and; class-status constructs, represented by parent's professions, affected more change in the data than community-society constructs, represented by formative loci and experience from formative loci.
Recommended Citation
Savacool, Robyn, "Disparities In Moldovan Place-Identity A Product Of Systemic Stratification" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 543.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/543
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2016.Savacool.R
Page Count
249
Included in
Eastern European Studies Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Sociology Commons
Comments
Imported from ProQuest Savacool_ilstu_0092N_10706.pdf