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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Legislating Innovation: Why Charter Schools Can't Fix Public Education
(Sociology, 2014-07-14)How do we account for the fact that, despite myriad school reform and counterbalancing resistance efforts, the education system in America seems to be in a constant state of disrepair? Some observers attribute this to the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Community Gardens as Instruments of Group and Neighborhood Cohesion: A Mixed Methods Case Study
(2017-05-16)A mixed methods case study, which investigated whether community gardens can foster a sense of community within its members and whether that engenders a deeper sense of community about the neighborhood. Using SEM-based ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Balancing the Theoretical Toolkit: A Quantitative Examination of Social Mobility and Culture
(2019-05-17)Stratification researchers of the last four decades have contributed a multitude of information on how class-origins, culture, and social psychological factors affect class reproduction. However, scholarship has spent ...