Browsing Department of Sociology and Anthropology by Issue Date
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Ethnicization Of Politics In Afghanistan
(Sociology, 2012-07-25)This thesis project examines the relationship between ethnic identity and politics and to explore how ethnicity has influenced the post-Taliban state building, the electoral system, and ethnic manipulations in presidential ... -
Facebook Or Face-to-face? Connection And Community In A Wired World
(Sociology, 2012-07-25)We live in a state of constant connection. Literally speaking, businesses provide free Wi-Fi connections to patrons, and smartphones allow people to connect to the Internet anywhere and everywhere. Social networking ... -
The Rugged Action Hero And His Sexy Love Interest: Gender In Popular Movie Posters
(Sociology, 2012-07-25)As a social institution, the media exert a profound influence on people's lives and shape the way people conceive gender. Although a great deal of research exists analyzing gender in the media, the area of gendered ... -
Approaches to the Archaeology of Submerged Landscapes: Research on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge, Lake Huron
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With Liberty And Justice For Some
(Sociology, 2013-03-20)This thesis identifies trends in attitudes toward LGBT civil rights from 1973 to 2012; however, the main purpose is to examine public attitudes toward marriage equality in the United States in 2006. Based upon the 2006 ... -
iTunes: Breaking Barriers and Building Walls
(Taylor & FrancisDepartment of Sociology & Anthropology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-04-18)With the development of online music distribution, a number of authors argued that independent musicians could compete on equal ground with major record labels. In this article, I explore the effects that online distribution ... -
Rising Income Inequality And The Socioeconomic Gradient In Self-rated Health: An Examination Of The United States From 1975 To 2010
(Sociology, 2013-07-22)This study explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, and examines how that relationship may be affected in the context of rising income inequality. Using General Social Survey (GSS) data from ... -
Color-coding Poverty: Selectivity In Commitments To Individualism And Structuralism Across Various Racial And Ethnic Groups
(Sociology, 2013-07-22)It is by now widely understood that a "generic conception of the poor" (Feagin 1975; Robinson 2009; Sigelman and Welch 1994, Wilson 1996) drives the dominant American ideology of individualism. However, research also ... -
Couchsurfing In North Texas: A Localized View Of A Global Phenomenon
(Sociology, 2013-07-22)The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory research project to discover issues and problems faced by people who are a part of Hospitality Exchange Networks. This research focuses on the largest free travel ... -
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 ... -
Resurrecting Old Pattonia: Uncovering The Lifeways Of A 19th Century Shipping Port Community
(Anthropology, 2014-03-12)An East Texas steamboat landing community, known as Pattonia, operated from 1843 to the late 19th century. Here I attempt to identify what socioeconomic stratification and consumerism on the landscape meant for the daily ... -
Gender, Style, Technology: The Changing Landscape Of Motorcycle Culture
(Sociology, 2014-03-12)This thesis demystifies the cultural process of symbolic interpretation and appropriation within contemporary American motorcycle culture by using literature review and cultural analysis to explore the impact and influence ... -
Gendered Cues In Job Advertising: Perpetuating Occupational Segregation
(Sociology, 2014-03-12)Current approaches within literature inadequately explain the presence and persistence of occupational sex segregation. In addition, little research empirically examines allocation methods as a key contributor to this ... -
A Study Of Anthropomorphic Figurines In The Neolithic Of Southwest Asia And Southeastern Europe
(Anthropology, 2014-03-12)Anthropomorphic figurines resemble people, very often the people who created them. Thus, these figurines stand to provide insight into their cultures perhaps from the perspective of the original members of the culture. ... -
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 ... -
Digital Downsizing: The Effects of Digital Music Production on Labor
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Department of Sociology & Anthropology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014-04-04)Music production and reproduction has always been effected by the implementation and adaptation of new technologies. Digital technology works to displace labor in the music industry in two parallel ways. (1) It displaces ... -
A 9,000-year-old caribou hunting structure beneath Lake Huron
(National Academy of SciencesDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, 2014-05-13)Some of the most pivotal questions in human history necessitate the investigation of archaeological sites that are now under water. Nine thousand years ago, the Alpena-Amberley Ridge (AAR) beneath modern Lake Huron was a ... -
Assessing the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience to Hazards
(Springer Science+Business Media DordrechtDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas at Arlington, 2014-07)This article contributes to the disaster literature by measuring and connecting two concepts that are highly related but whose relationship is rarely empirically evaluated: social vulnerability and community resilience. ... -
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. ... -
How Does The Sudden Impact Of A Disability Within The Immediate Household Affect Siblings?
(Sociology, 2014-07-14)AbstractThis paper examines the relationship amongst siblings when they are impacted with a crisis. The crisis in this paper is a spinal cord injury. The theoretical framework for the paper is based on family systems theory. ...