The purpose of this study is to understand how recovering alcoholics manage stigma and conduct facework when disclosing their alcoholic identity to a romantic partner. While studies analyzing other contexts, including the workplace and parties, show topic avoidance as a successful approach to alcoholic disclosure, topic avoidance does not work...
This honors thesis project is opening up the discussion around issues of gender identity and how it intersects in a sports context. This project includes the voices from high-level athletes, sports professionals, advocacy organization leaders, medical professionals and researchers to illuminate the different perspectives surrounding this complex issue. Caster Semenya,...
Climate scientists believe that humanity has just about twelve years to solve climate change. As the second largest polluter in the world, this leaves the United States in a position of power and global responsibility. However, the United States has seen a rise in climate change denial since the late...
In the twenty-first century, social media has become an integral part of life in various countries across the world. However, not enough is being done, in terms of research, to look at how social media affects mental health. This is echoed in some of the literature I will discuss later...
Throughout various decades, the news media has provided readily accessible depictions of criminality to audiences. The importance of the criminal suspect to the broadcast medium means that crime news is often presented with racial imagery. The criminal typification of race is characterized as the representation in which crime is stereotypically...
This project takes an in-depth look at how media on social networking sites (SNSs) affect adolescents. The findings are relevant to our current social media-saturated world. Individuals have access to SNSs at younger and younger ages. This prompts concerns for an adolescent’s well-being since their brains are developing during this...
Latin Americans, and more particularly those Latin Americans who are influential in the making of foreign policy, are torn between their fear of United States intervention and their new realization that dangerous threats to their security also emanate from other quarters. Though the principle of non-intervention is a key concept...