Semester

Fall

Date of Graduation

2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MA

College

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Sociology and Anthropology

Committee Chair

Lawrence Nichols.

Committee Co-Chair

Roland Althouse

Committee Member

New Newfield

Abstract

This master thesis talks about social services for women that provided by social welfare agencies in Saudi Arabia. This thesis is a descriptive study that uses the content analysis as a method to investigate social services agencies that provides special services for women. This thesis also had special interest in social services that improve women's lives in Saudi Arabia. The content analysis is made on documents and brochures of 4 main social services agencies that offer services for women. The content analysis was made in term of these agencies main aim and target, their main massage, their programs for women, and their statistics. The main questions this thesis tried to answer is what kind of social services welfare agencies offering for women? How do they describe women in their documents? And how they differ from each other?

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