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Maxim-izing Profit: New Men's Magazines And The Rise Of Consumer Masculinity
(Sociology, 2007-08-23)This is content analysis of Maxim magazine, published by Dennis Publications, and first appearing in American newsstands in 1997. Maxim is the most widely circulated men's magazine in the United States, with an estimated ... -
Media Framing And Social Movements: A Case Study Of The Red Shirt Movement In Taiwan
(Sociology, 2010-11-01)In my thesis, I use the social movement literature and framing theory to examine the rapid rise and fall of Taiwan's Red Shirt social movement in 2006. The movement was against President Chen Shui-bian, who was accused ... -
The Mobilizing Power Of Grievances: Applying Loss Aversion And Omission Bias To Social Movements
(MobilizationDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)This study investigates how the nature of grievances can provide advantages or disadvantages to social movements. I use an experimental design to test the effects of loss aversion and omission bias on people’s reactions ... -
Modeling Collapse: Analysis Of The Bronze Age-iron Age Transition At Two Near Eastern Sites
(Anthropology, 2014-07-14)This project tests a three-step model for archaeological collapse, by analyzing assemblages from two museum collections, Alişar Hüyük and Tell el Fakhariyah. Focusing on three categories of artifacts, namely biological ... -
Motivating Martial Artists: An Examination Of The Drives And Lessons Learned Among Taekwondo Students
(Anthropology, 2014-12)There are a large number of martial art schools operating in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, teaching a variety of martial arts. Of all of those schools the students at the Texas Black Belt Academy chose their school, despite ... -
Music Piracy Or A Permanent Passive Revolution
(Sociology, 2007-09-17)The goal of this thesis is to examine a classic interpretation of Antonio Gramsci's notion of hegemony in the modern era and the emergence of counter-hegemonic forces through technology. The individualization of modern ... -
“My Mother Hates Her Body, She Swears She Loves Mine”: The Effects of Socialization Through Mothering on Daughters’ Body Talk and Intuitive Eating.
(2023-08-10)This study examines the effects of early socialization about the body within mother/daughter relationships and its impact on the practice of Intuitive Eating (a practice of listening to one’s own body regarding food, rather ... -
Negotiating the Unknown: The Role of Uncertainty in Social Exchange
(Blackwell Publishing LtdDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This article documents the role of uncertainty in social exchange. Specifically, it reviews how social exchange theorists incorporate uncertainty when explaining psychological processes and social behaviors. After identifying ... -
The New Distribution Oligopoly: Beats, iTunes, and Digital Music Distribution
(University of California, Santa BarbaraDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015) -
The News We Use: A Mixed Methods Analysis Of Cable News Media Polarization
(Sociology, 2014-03-12)The 2012 election is done and the dust has settled, but one cannot overlook the fact that the ever-widening gap between our two main political parties' ideologies and platforms has made it substantially harder for independents ... -
Not My Father's Game: Immigration, Major League Baseball And The Dominican Republic
(Anthropology, 2009-09-16)Since the 1980's the number of Latino players, specifically, Dominicans, on major and minor league baseball teams has increased significantly. This demographic shift is due, in large part, to Major League Baseball (MLB) ... -
Nuns Making Fun: An Exploration of Humor among Women Religious
(2019-08-02)This paper discusses the role and use of humor in the lives of nuns and consecrated women. A qualitative study consisting of interviews with nuns and consecrated women was conducted to produce data about the way in which ... -
Obscured Leisure: Crafting as Leisure for Stay-At-Home Mothers
(2018-11-15)The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning handcrafting has for stay-at-home mothers, the reasons some mothers engage in handcrafting, and how the practice of handcrafting influences motherhood. Qualitative data ... -
Outsourcing Single Parents' Household Labor
(Sociology, 2014-07-14)This study introduces a new data set to the literature on the outsourcing of household labor. The 2005 Pew Social Trends survey on Family Bonds is analyzed with consideration for established approaches on outsourcing. ... -
Participation, Identity, And Social Support In A Spiritual Community
(Sociology, 2007-08-23)Paganism is a loosely organized community whose religious ideology incorporates the immanence of Deity. As a religious association with an ideology different from traditional Judeo-Christian faiths, members are often labeled ... -
Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater
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Presidential Speech and the Framing of Poverty: From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor
(2015-12-07)Presidential narratives are influential components of the national conversation about social issues. In order to gain a better understanding of how the Presidents framed and discussed poverty and the poor State of the Union ... -
Pros and Cons: Anime Conventions and Cosplayers
(2018-12-20)Among the brightly-hued convention (con) halls, people dressed in feathers, foam armor, and spandex pose for pictures with one another as cosplayers. Cosplay is a way for fans to present themselves and their group to the ... -
RACE, CLASS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS USE OF FORCE BY POLICE
(2018-05-01)Another unarmed victim of police violence. Another acquitted officer. In recent years, this tragic course of events has repeated itself on multiple occasions in courtrooms, living rooms and social media spaces throughout ... -
Rebound Hardness Results For Raw Material Located Near Pinnacle Point, South Africa And The Implications Thereof
The focus of this study is to test our ability to glean ancient human behavioral ecology data through a specific form of raw material mechanical properties testing. Through the quantitative analysis of raw material in ...