University of Central Florida STARS HIM 1990-2015 2013 Sleeping, napping and staying up: the meanings of sleep among college students Natasha Tate University of Central Florida Part of the Anthropology Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015 University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIM 1990-2015 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Recommended Citation Tate, Natasha, "Sleeping, napping and staying up: the meanings of sleep among college students" (2013). HIM 1990-2015. 1470. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/1470 SLEEPING, NAPPING AND STAYING UP: THE MEANINGS OF SLEEP AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS by NATASHA L. TATE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors in the Major Program in Anthropology in the College of Sciences and in The Burnett Honors College at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Spring 2013 Thesis Chair: Dr. Joanna Mishtal Abstract Throughout public discourse, sleep, despite being a physiological function and an important facet of an individual’s health, is frequently utilized as a rhetorical device to comment on an individual’s productivity within society. As Antje Richter (2003:34) explains, to consider someone early to rise yet late to bed is less a comment on their sleeping behavior and more an assessment of their dedication to their business. Too often productivity is conveyed as existing in the absence of sleep, an idea that has contributed to the association of sleep with laziness (Yi 2003:60) and a general misuse of time (Richter 2003:36).