Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- Selected Works (8)
- Binghamton University (3)
- Parkland College (3)
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (2)
- Rhode Island College (2)
-
- Brigham Young University (1)
- Butler University (1)
- California State University, San Bernardino (1)
- Central Washington University (1)
- Chapman University (1)
- Lawrence University (1)
- Liberty University (1)
- Loyola University Chicago (1)
- Rollins College (1)
- Trinity University (1)
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1)
- University of New Hampshire (1)
- University of South Carolina (1)
- University of South Florida (1)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1)
- Wayne State University (1)
- Publication
-
- Terence Hays (5)
- Northeast Historical Archaeology (3)
- A with Honors Projects (2)
- Honors Projects (2)
- Richard A Lobban (2)
-
- Social Sciences (2)
- All Master's Theses (1)
- Anthropology Department newsletter (1)
- Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works (1)
- Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects (1)
- FHSS Mentored Research Conference (1)
- Faculty & Staff Publications (1)
- Faculty Monographs (1)
- Faculty Publications (1)
- Graduate Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Honors Theses and Capstones (1)
- Masters Theses (1)
- Peter S. Allen (1)
- Psychology Faculty Articles and Research (1)
- Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research (1)
- Student Scholarship (1)
- USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection (1)
- Wayne State University Dissertations (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 31 - 34 of 34
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Norms, Discrete Choices, And False Dichotomies, Eric Schniter, Nathaniel Wilcox
Social Norms, Discrete Choices, And False Dichotomies, Eric Schniter, Nathaniel Wilcox
Psychology Faculty Articles and Research
Eric Schniter and Nathaniel Wilcox comment on Bram Tucker's article, "Do Risk and Time Experimental Choices Represent Individual Strategies for Coping with Poverty or Conformity to Social Norms? Evidence from Rural Southwestern Madagascar", which "revisits a debate played out in Current Anthropology as to whether subsistence decisions are the result of individual strategy to cope with poverty and increase wealth... or conformity to social norms."
"Still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, Andrea Nevedal
"Still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit, Andrea Nevedal
Wayne State University Dissertations
Adults aged fifty and older are the fastest growing age group with HIV/AIDS. Research on older adults with HIV has focused primarily on health status and physiological changes that occur as people age with HIV. However, little is known about the socio-cultural consequences that occur when older adults are diagnosed with HIV and as they age with HIV. Drawing from an anthropological approach to the life course and Becker's (1997) framework of life disruption, this dissertation research explored to what extent people experienced disruption from living with HIV and reorganized their lives after experiencing disruption.
The specific aims included identifying …
On Swearwords And Slang, Robert Moore
On Swearwords And Slang, Robert Moore
Faculty Publications
Slang lexemes and swearwords are commonly discussed in conjunction with each other as though they were slightly different versions of the same phenomenon. However, they clearly are not, as a careful consideration of their different prototypical functions reveals. Each of these lexical categories has a central or core function, and in each case this function is linked to the obligatory expression of affect. Different kinds of affect are entailed in the prototypical uses of slang and of swearwords, but in the case of both of these lexical types, this affect is incompatible with the formality and deference of honorifics, or, …
"People...Do Not Come With Standardized Circumstances": Toward A Model For An Anthropology Of E-Government, Marc K. Hebert
"People...Do Not Come With Standardized Circumstances": Toward A Model For An Anthropology Of E-Government, Marc K. Hebert
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Many Americans appreciate the availability and ease of using government websites to conduct their business with the state. What then of the most vulnerable in society? How do they access and use a standardized application process for government assistance, considering their potential resource, educational and physical constraints? Many go to public libraries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which shifts the responsibility to help applicants from the government agency administering the program to local actors whose primary duties lie elsewhere.
The aim of this research is to document the experiences of three groups of people, primarily located in a central Florida, urban …