Colorism Syllabus
Unit 2 Final- Colorism final Moving beyond the syllabus. What now? Now that you have surveyed printed, audio, and visual materials related to colorism, you may be asking what to do now...
Category: Social Sciences
Do We Get the World We Deserve? A View of Altruism Based on Game Theory Outcomes
Abstract This paper explores the concept of altruism and connects it to game theory models. The analysis considers the theory of gene-culture co-evolution and concludes that altruistic behavior might be both conditioned through...
Schizophrenia: A Beautiful Fight
Abstract As recent trends in popular culture have demonstrated, we are deeply intrigued by stories of psychological trauma, especially those of schizophrenia. When we hear of struggles involving vivid hallucinations, blurred realities, and...
Age, Sex, Location? Searching for a Boyfriend Who Wants a Long Term Relationship
Abstract The Internet is one of the most commonly known technological phenomenons. In the past decade, it has provided people with a completely new way to view a number of different things. One...
Wait, You Stormed Franklin Street! Why? The Social and Psychological Motivations of UNC Sports Fans
Abstract Sports are a distinct subculture in the United States that encompass diverse populations and affect the lives of millions of people. This article examines the social and psychological factors that influence sport...
‘Til Death Do Us Part: The End of Government Regulation of Marriage and the Emergence of Domestic Partnership Contracts
Abstract The current debate over same-sex marriage has brought into question how exactly the government should interact with the institution of marriage, if at all. In America, marriage and government have coalesced for...
“Guns? Check. Explosives? Check. Minivan? …” What makes a Gamer? or Personalized Gaming Experience and the Gender Dynamics of Video Games
Abstract This article closely examines the past and present representation of female characters in video games, investigating the correlation between “video game realism” and the de-objectification of female video game characters. Although there...
False Assumptions: Why Title IX is not to Blame for Changes in Men’s Athletics
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to disprove the arguments of those who believe that Title IX negatively impacts men’s athletics and explain how this information is particularly important to lawmakers and...
The Ties Imagined: Re-thinking Benedict Anderson through the Arab Spring
Abstract Benedict Anderson, a prominent twentieth century political theorist, saw the nation as more than a certain form of government acting sovereignly within geographic constrains. For Anderson, it is the common ideas and...
Are the numbers right? Reliability of Political Polls in Venezuela
Abstract What do Venezuela’s poll results mean? I will study a set of polls created by Datanalisis, a market research company with more than 25 years of experience in the Andean area, Latin...