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Mosquito Hall: Ethnic Labels and Social Injustices Within the Public School System (open access)

Mosquito Hall: Ethnic Labels and Social Injustices Within the Public School System

The research outlined in this paper explores two important issues relevant to understanding Latino identity and educational achievement: ethnic labels and educational injustices.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Moses, Daniel & Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epilepsy: Not a Disease, But a Disorder (open access)

Epilepsy: Not a Disease, But a Disorder

Paper is an in-depth discussion on the causes, symptoms, and treatments for epilepsy and and an examination of data on worldwide death rates related to the disorder.
Date: 2013
Creator: Prasain, Manisha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools (open access)

How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools

Paper discusses modern forms of bullying in high schools.
Date: 2014
Creator: Taub, Stephanie; Mlinar, Brenna & Hogue, Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas

Paper explores the effects of the The Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas on the Latino community in Oak Cliff.
Date: 2013
Creator: Gomez, Corina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community (open access)

Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community

Paper analyzes and explores the history and development of the slash fanfiction-writing subculture, and how it relates to the lack of accurate media depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
Date: 2016
Creator: Bradley, Allison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pillars of Society? How Religion May Propagate Male Rape Myths (open access)

Pillars of Society? How Religion May Propagate Male Rape Myths

Paper examines the societal factors that contribute to myths about male rape, as well as the experiences of victims.
Date: 2015
Creator: Hackman, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse (open access)

Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse

Paper examines the relationship of family structure to alcohol and drug use among people diagnosed with ADHD.
Date: 2014
Creator: Palmer, Renée & Peters, Jessica
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology (open access)

Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology

Introduction to the special section on capstone projects from the Department of Sociology for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Michael Nino.
Date: 2014
Creator: Nino, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service (open access)

For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service

Paper explores the issues face by veterans attending higher education institutions after their time in service, and what support services are most effective and why.
Date: 2016
Creator: Buchanan, Jeremy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Healthcare/Healthscare: A Study of the U.S. Veterans Administration (open access)

Healthcare/Healthscare: A Study of the U.S. Veterans Administration

Paper analyzes inadequacies in the veteran's healthcare system in the United States.
Date: 2015
Creator: Coco, Maria M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Identity Among African American Women (open access)

Self-Identity Among African American Women

Paper examines the impact of social environments on the development of self-identity in young African American women.
Date: 2008
Creator: Jackson, Andrina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, Mēgan S. Albaugh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants (open access)

Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants

Paper explores how the motivations of participants shape the meaning and significance of flash mobs.
Date: 2010
Creator: Atilano, Rodriguez
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Development a Myth? The Failure of Capitalist Economic Development in Developing Nations (open access)

Is Development a Myth? The Failure of Capitalist Economic Development in Developing Nations

Paper examines the flaws in the capitalist development paradigm for impoverished nations, and argues that this view of human development inherently encourages inequality, exploitation, environmental destruction, and sociocultural degradation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bensen, Clara
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China (open access)

Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China

Paper explores the evolution of mass local protests in China and the factors that contribute to the likelihood of mass protest in a province.
Date: 2010
Creator: Chan, Victor Cheung Yin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology (open access)

Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology

Paper examines customer and vendor relations and generational transmission of ethnomedicine in a multicultural aspect focusing on the immigrant spectrum of traditional medicine from the angle of the Mexican American community.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bernal, Rubén
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parenting Styles vs. Mass Media: What Has a Bigger Impact on Children’s Bullying Behavior? (open access)

Parenting Styles vs. Mass Media: What Has a Bigger Impact on Children’s Bullying Behavior?

Paper explores common traits of bullies and attempts to determine why children bully, using the dateset Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC), 2009-2010.
Date: 2014
Creator: Palmer, Alyssa; Davis, Shelby & Hayes, Taylor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Consequences of Coming Out: The Societal Implications of Being Gay (open access)

The Consequences of Coming Out: The Societal Implications of Being Gay

Paper discusses a study investigating the social obstacles faced by gay men and women.
Date: 2015
Creator: Fessenden, Deborah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization (open access)

Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization

Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.
Date: 2014
Creator: Beach, Katie & Jackson, Madison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste (open access)

Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste

Paper examines the distribution of Superfund and municipal solid waste sites within neighborhoods differing on social, demographic, and economic characteristics of the inhabitants in Tarrant County, Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Pohlmeyer, Remington
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dynamics of Interfaith Relationships (open access)

The Dynamics of Interfaith Relationships

Paper examines the relationship of interfaith dating age, education, and economic status.
Date: 2007
Creator: Banks, Kimberly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library