Browsing Department of Sociology and Anthropology by Author "Young, Robert"
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Is It a Boy or a Girl? Constructing a Gendered Identity for our Companion Animals
Wellman, Jennifer Ann; 0000-0003-4352-7278 (2021-12-17)A qualitative study of the differences in how we gender our cats and our dogs. Fifty women between the ages of 18 and 50 were interviewed, who kept cats, dogs, or both cats and dogs. Differences were found in how naming ... -
The News We Use: A Mixed Methods Analysis Of Cable News Media Polarization
Lott, Stephen (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 ... -
Presidential Speech and the Framing of Poverty: From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor
Kennedy, Jamaica; 0000-0003-3592-7722 (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 ...