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Recently, Michael Hines has studied popular culture and consumer and employer choice in modern America in the context of economics, pyschology, history, social theory, anthropology and sociology.

Below are PDF files of research papers by Michael Hines.

Economic Philosophies of Reproduction and of Class Mobility
Exploring Class Differences in the Economic Socialization of Young Adults
A senior thesis to the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard College.
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This thesis explores the process of economic socialization in the American teenager. It explores specifically the roles of home, family, community, and school in terms of socio economic status as the key elements in the economic socialization of the young adult.
[109 Text Pages, plus cover, appendices, and works cited.]

Ever On EverQuest
This paper focuses on the emerging and maturing dynamic of the massively multi-player role-playing game (MMORPG) with EverQuest and its players as a case example. This paper uses pychoanalytical approaches to the study of pop culture to explore how EverQuest fulfills emotional needs thus capturing an addicted heavy using fan base. The paper also looks at EverQuest through the lense of critical theory such as the school of Social Capitalists and the Frankfurt School of Marxist cultural theory.
[31 Text Pages, plus cover and works cited.]

Collegiate Cultural Convergence
This paper uses the approach of David Halle to explore the sociological infulences on the behaivor of college students in their dorm decorating behaviors.
[24 Text Pages, plus three appendices and works cited]

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