Hoynes, William
Being Admittable: identity, meaning-making, and the presentation of self in personal statements of the college admissions process
Big Dreams in a Little League: How Social Factors Influence Success in Competitive Youth Baseball
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Exploring the Connection between Nationalism and Genocide through Classical Sociological Theory
Capital Never Sleeps, and Neither Should We: The Good Sense of Social Movement Unionism
Counterculture Cyberculture: Branding Apple products as tools for personal liberation
Diversity in American advertising: a case study of Coca-Cola advertisements and their role in homogenizing the diversity movement
Through a historical study of advertising, this project aims to show how the idea of "diversity" is used by corporations to benefit the dominant hegemonic, and ultimately attempt to homogenize the diverse populations that they supposedly are highlighting. Analyzing the...
Easier said than done: collaborative pedagogy and its challenges in the Vassar College Writing Center
Embedded in Iraq: The Evolving Relationship Between the US State and the News Media during Periods of Conflict in post-9/11 America
My thesis is an exploration of the evolving relationship between the US State and the news media in periods of conflict, ranging from World War I to the War in Iraq, and how this relationship culminated in the practice of...
From Alternative to Integrative: An Exploration of Acupuncture Within the Western Medical Paradigm
I argue that our current health care system—which is based in Western medicine—is inadequate, not only because it is costly, but because it is failing to keep individuals healthy. I posit that this is due to a number of factors...
From Farm to School to Justice: How Social Problems are Constructed and (Un)Solved
Gramsci and Us: Toward Gramscian Strategy in the Neoliberal Moment
Hijacking the Media Hegemony: Culture Jamming in the Post Modern Condition
How Analytics, Big Data, and Technology Have Impacted Basketball's Quest to Maximize Efficiency and Optimization
Iconicity in the age of social media: Augmenting theories of iconicity through the study of a contemporary iconic photograph
Infotainment: the pressure of ratings and their dangers for democracy in cable news
In this thesis I argue that through the necessity to generate a profit, cable news organizations focus on attracting the most viewers so that they can then charge more for advertising and in turn make more money. This symbiotic relationship...
Leaks: Tracing the path of secrets through democracy
In this thesis, I explore the unique potential of political leaks to illuminate and critique the underlying power structure of the state. The primary motive of the institutional state is to maximize and preserve its own power; because of this...