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First‐Generation Female Professors from Low‐Income Families in Pakistan: The Influence of Parents on Access to and Involvement in Higher Education Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Fouzia Sadaf, Shermeen Bano, Rahla Rahat
This paper presents findings of qualitative analysis of female professors' views about the role of their parents' attitudes and family backgrounds in shaping their access to and participation in university education in Pakistan. Structural barriers in the form of lack of education, in particular, high education facilities and opportunities were linked to disadvantaged rural places of residence and
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Reorienting the Orient: Expanding upon Anti‐Asian Racism Scholarship through the Lens of Colorism Theory Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rachel Engel
This article challenges scholars to broaden their definition of anti‐Asian racism and whiteness through the lens of colorism theory. Existing literature on Asian Americans finds that the racial category is unique in its high percentage of foreign‐born individuals, yet little attention has been paid to how systems of discrimination and social stratification relevant in the Asian regional context have
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“We Are Bulletproof”: The Transcultural Power of Fandom in #StopAsianHate1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Amy Zhang, Christina Ong
Fears of COVID‐19, alongside existing anti‐Asian sentiment, resulted in 11,467 documented hate incidents against Asians/Asian Americans in the United States between March 2020 and March 2022, per the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center. In response, #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate were used on Twitter to increase public awareness. Considering anti‐Asian racism transcends geographic boundaries, we interrogate:
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Class Consciousness as Cultural Capital among High‐SES Parents of Children with Disabilities Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Pnina Gal‐Jacob, Avihu Shoshana
This article proposes to examine the parenting features of high socioeconomic class (SES) parents of children with disabilities. This examination also enables us to clarify to what extent high‐SES parenting of children with disabilities aligns with the prevailing research on high‐SES parenting of children without disabilities. To resolve this question, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with
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Predictors of Religious and Spiritual Identities in a Nationwide Sample of Black LGBTQ Adults in the United States Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 M. N. Barringer, B. Savage
LGBTQ people have a complex history with religion and spirituality in the United States. This dynamic is likely to be complicated for black LGBTQ people given the intersection of their LGBTQ identity with their racial identity, both of which are marginalized in U.S. society. There is, however, a paucity of quantitative research that examines significant predictors of religious and spiritual identities
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Confronting Japan's Anti-Asian Racism: The Transformation of the Beheiren Movement's Identity during the Vietnam War Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Setsuko Matsuzawa
This study explores the Beheiren movement (also known as The Citizens' Alliance for Peace in Vietnam), Japan's first transnational anti-war movement (1965–1974). It focuses on the transcultural formation and transformation of its movement identity during the Vietnam war. Initially, movement participants developed an ethnoracial consciousness toward the Vietnamese based on their perceptions of a common
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The US Student Antisweatshop Movement's Presence and Success at the Campus Level: Impacts of Collective Identity Strength and Network Density1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Dale W. Wimberley, Pallavi Raonka, Talitha Rose, Sofia Sabirova, Sasha Gheesling
College students and campuses have played key roles in social movements because colleges' cultural and structural features tend to facilitate movements. But such attributes vary across campuses. This quantitative study models how two campus features that correspond to core elements of social movement theory—students' collective identity strength and social network density—appear to impact United Students
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“Be All That You Can Be”: The Role of Identity, Pro-Social Labeling, and Narratives in Veterans Treatment Courts* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Nicole Sherman
Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) are one of the ever-developing brands of specialty or problem-solving courts that have emerged in recent decades. These courts recognize that the criminal behavior stems from a variety of issues, and that punishment should represent a therapeutic jurisprudential approach in its strategies. As such, VTCs treat substance abuse and mental health issues and address criminality
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Facilitators and Barriers to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Willingness for Full-Service Sex Workers: A Social–Ecological Approach Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Stephen D. Ramos, Steff Du Bois
Full-service sex workers (FSSWs) are at heightened risk of contracting HIV due to facing multi-level challenges to sexual health. This study investigated factors associated with willingness to use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—a daily HIV preventative medication, among FSSWs. Using social–ecological theory, an online survey was developed with initial guidance from a local sex worker advocacy organization
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“The Best Little Boy in the World”: Disidentification in the Production of Black Gay Male Subjectivity1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Christopher S. Chambers
This article examines how Black gay men produce identities in correspondence with cultural scripts of Black manhood. I illustrate how these scripts organize a subjectivity shaped by white supremacy and signify racial consciousness, respectability, and commitment to Black antiracism. The script intentionally excludes queer men. Instead, Black queer men are “faggots,” a subjectivity signifying weakness
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Is Love (Skin Color) Blind?: Skin Color and Interdating across Ethnoracial Groups1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Emilce Santana
The role skin color plays in shaping cross-ethnoracial relationships is not well understood despite its implications for the trajectory of U.S. ethnoracial relations. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen, I investigate two questions: Among ethnoracial minorities, how does a person's skin color relate to the likelihood of dating individuals from another ethnoracial group? Does this relationship
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Racial Gaslighting in a Politically Progressive City Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ashley Woody
Drawing from in-depth interviews with an ethnically diverse sample of Black, Indigenous, and people of color living in Portland, Oregon, this article draws upon the concept of racial gaslighting, which Davis and Ernst (Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2019, 7, 761) describe as the political, social, economic, and cultural process that pathologizes those who resist or question the racial status quo
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Cognitive and Apathetic Racism in Patterns of Gun Ownership and Gun Control Attitudes Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Amie L. Nielsen, Margaret S. Kelley, Christopher G. Ellison, Oshea Johnson, Bryan T. Gervais
Our objective is to expand upon the emerging literature that examines the role of multiple forms of racism in gun ownership and gun control attitudes among non-Latino whites. While some of these studies, using standard measures of racial resentment, speculate about the color-coded nature of crime and whether this partially motivates gun ownership, here we specifically consider whether cognitive and
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Taking Stand-Up Seriously: Comedy as a Site for Imagining Decolonial Futures Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Oskar Primbs, Marcelle C. Dawson
Stand-up comedy is a rich arena of sociological inquiry that enables social actors to utter bold truths in a way that educates rather than offends. As such, stand-up comedy can inform conversations around potentially “thorny” issues like racial inequality. This article draws on primary qualitative content analysis of the work of Kura Forrester, a female, Indigenous comedian in Aotearoa New Zealand
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An Organizational Sociology of Education: Using Structural, Network, and Ecological Perspectives to Study Schools Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Jose Eos Trinidad
Highlighting changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s, this review integrates three perspectives for an organizational sociology of education. The structural perspective focuses on how the formal organization of resources, relationships, and information can influence student outcomes and inequalities through opportunities to learn. The network perspective highlights the role
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Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Low-Income, First-Generation Students' Perceptions of College Administrative Support Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Elizabeth M. Lee
Selective colleges have become more attentive to, and publicly supportive of, low-income and first-generation (LIFG) students over the last 20 years. However, despite claims of support, LIFG students report lower senses of campus belonging, satisfaction, and other important outcomes than do more affluent peers, suggesting a disjuncture between expressed and perceived support. This article draws on
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Lifetimes of Punishment: The Imperial Feedback Loop of Anti-Asian Violence Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Michael Nishimura
As opposed to limiting the scope of anti-Asian violence to “hate,” this article frames anti-Asian violence as inextricable from U.S. empire. Building on Go (2020) American Journal of Sociology 125(5):1193, I theorize what I call the “imperial feedback loop” to conceptualize anti-Asian violence within a postcolonial and transnational context. Using a series of life history interviews, I chart the pathways
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What Role Do Occupational Differences Play in Subjective Working Conditions Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic? Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Roos van der Zwan, Mara A. Yerkes, Janna W. Besamusca, Peter M. Kruyen, Chantal L. H. S. Remery
Evidence on the role of occupational differences in subjective working conditions during the pandemic is limited. However, an understanding of how such inequalities develop throughout the pandemic is needed to prevent an overall worsening of social inequality in society. We study occupational inequalities in subjective working conditions—work pressure and work-life balance—throughout the pandemic.
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Students' Academic Habitus and Its Relation to Family Capital: A Latent Class Approach to Inequalities among Secondary School Students1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Frederick de Moll, Alyssa Laureen Grecu, Andreas Hadjar
Habitus plays a crucial part in Bourdieu's theory of sociocultural reproduction for understanding the persistence of inequalities in the education system. According to Bourdieu, students from homes that are heavily equipped with cultural capital develop a specific kind of habitus, that is, modes of perceiving, thinking, and acting, remarkably well-adjusted to the expectations of teachers and educational
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“Urgently Needed to Protect Asian American Children and Families”: The Social Movement for Asian American Studies at K-12 Grades Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Russell Jeung, Annelle Maranan Garcia, Annie Bae, Christina (Krysty) Shen, Joseph Malasa
The national movement for Asian American Studies (AASs) curriculum at the K-12 level has burgeoned during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent surge of anti-Asian hate. Seventeen states proposed legislation requiring AAS content in their public schools and ten states have now mandated it. Using case studies of two states, Illinois and New Jersey, this article details how community activists and
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The Deviance and Relationship between Locus of Control, Control Ratio, and Self-Control Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Matan Markovizky, Yoel Shafran
The purpose of the current study is to examine the widely used term controllability through analysis of three important factors, based on three known theories of delinquency: The first factor, the control ratio, is the relationship between people's perception of their control over their environment and their perception of the environment's control over them (Tittle, Control Balance: Toward a General
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Dissecting Anti-Asian Racism Through a Historical and Transnational AsianCrit Lens Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Min Yu, Roland Sintos Coloma, Wenyang Sun, Jungmin Kwon
The primary focus of this paper is twofold: to demarcate the epistemic erasure of societal knowledge and narratives of Asian Americans as braided with other forms of anti-Asian racism by tracing its historical roots in orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism; and to redress such erasure by foregrounding transnational perspectives and Asian American Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit). By attending to
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Migrant Worker's Social Networks and Collective Behavioral Willingness—A Whole Network Analysis Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Meng Cai, Suxia Li, Nan Zhang, Haifeng Du, Wei Wang
Migrant workers' social networks are an important source of social support in their collective behavior. This study adopts the whole network method and proposes a measure of accumulated social capital in social networks, which makes up for the insufficiency of direct social capital. It compares the heterogeneous effects of formal and informal networks and accumulated and direct social capital on migrant
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Cognitive Dissonance and the Maintenance of a Positive Self-Concept among Interracially Partnered Whites Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Ainsley Lambert-Swain
This article analyzes the narratives of 40 partners in white/non-white interracial relationships about their experiences navigating race across racially homogenous spaces. Both partners of color and white partners constructed rural areas, the South, and suburbs as racially hostile areas they avoided when possible. When discussing the white settings couples frequented socially, however, the narratives
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An Exploration of Positive Stereotypes: Legitimating the System and Naïve Challenges to It Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Laurel R. Davis-Delano, Elizabeth M. Morgan, David M. Merolla, Drexler James, Tuyet Mai Ha Hoang
Scholars have documented harm associated with positive stereotypes about groups that experience inequality. We surveyed five samples from the United States to explore antecedents to dominant group endorsement of positive stereotypes about women, gay men, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Native Americans. We found more liberal participants, and those with more close contact with members of these
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Me, My Track and Society: How Track Identification Affects the Relationship between General Self-Esteem and Perceived Public Track Status Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Lorenz Dekeyser, Mieke Van Houtte, Charlotte Maene, Peter A. J. Stevens
Prior research has demonstrated the adverse effects of ability grouping (here tracking) on a broad range of outcomes for secondary school students, including their self-esteem. A recent line of study focuses on the importance of track identities in understanding how ability grouping impacts students. This study builds on these findings by investigating the role of public track regard and chauvinistic
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For Medicinal Purposes: Whose Advice Exerts Authority on Medical Marijuana? Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Luis Antonio Vila-Henninger, Lars Thorup Larsen
Citizens are embedded in legal systems in which the authority of different experts is normally given preference over citizens' opinions about medical marijuana and other medical issues. Yet, citizens may reject expert authority if they consider themselves to be competent based on their knowledge or social position. Thus, we are led to ask: In the context of direct democracy, what forms of expert authority—if
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Can Political Orientation Explain the Social Structure of Online Aggression? Integrating Social Media and Survey Data Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Lea Stahel, Sebastian Weingartner
Are people with lower social status more likely to post aggressive content online? And if yes, can this be explained by people's political views? Some previous attempts to approach these questions have been insufficiently comprehensive and methodologically sound. This study therefore expands the existing literature on online aggression with both a sociologically grounded, theoretical model of the interplay
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Implicit Resentment and the Gun Policy Preferences of White Americans Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Terrence D. Hill, Daniel Tope, Jeremy Uecker
Although several studies have examined race differences in gun-related attitudes, researchers are only beginning to explore how racial attitudes might contribute to the gun policy preferences of white Americans. While many white Americans tend to oppose firearm restrictions, it is unclear whether racialized policy preferences tend to support these leanings. Our analysis of national data from Wave 4
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Testing Boundaries or Feeling Cautious: College Students' Gendered Perspectives on a Flirtatious Conversation* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Anne Groggel
Role-taking is the process of mentally and affectively placing the self in the position of another. This study used a mixed-methods approach to highlight how a traditional sexual script often imposes gendered expectations of role-taking. To explore role-taking within flirtatious exchanges, a sample of college students read a Snapchat conversation and then inferred what each character was thinking and
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A Clash of Powers: Church and State Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Corey J. Colyer, Rachel E. Stein, Katie E. Corcoran
Sociologists define power as one party's capacity to influence another's action. Thus, power is a relational property of interpersonal interaction. However, its dynamics embed within institutions such as the church and the state. This paper explores power dynamics using a case study of the conflict between an Old Order Amish church and the civil law of Ohio. The church excommunicated a member for violating
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Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Xiana Bueno, María Montenegro, Wen-Juo Lo, Danny Valdez, Brandon L. Crawford, Ronna C. Turner, Kristen N. Jozkowski
This study examines how Latinx migrant generation and the circumstances of abortion may be linked to attitudes toward abortion legality among a sample of U.S.-Latinx adults. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes modeling, we found that abortion attitudes across different migrant generations are sensitive to circumstances motivating the abortion. We did not find
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There Goes the Neighborhood: How Racial Threat Shapes the Formation of Integrated and Segregated Neighborhoods Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Richard Greg Moye, Melvin Thomas
Neighborhoods in the United States are highly segregated by race. Black–white segregation is particularly acute. Although racial segregation has been declining in recent years, it remains extremely high—especially in the largest metropolitan areas. The historical pattern has been that as African Americans move into a neighborhood, whites move out and thus the neighborhood (gradually or rapidly) transitions
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Exploring Education Differences in the Parental Well-Being Gap Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Jennifer March Augustine, Daniela V. Negraia
Increasing evidence suggests that raising minor children is a “mixed bag” of emotions. Parents with minor children report more positive emotions, but also more negative emotions than adults without children. Little attention, however, has been paid to how this mixed bag varies by one's education level: a key socioeconomic indicator connected to family life and well-being. Drawing on data from the American
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Do Men and Women Integrate Guns into Risky Health Lifestyles in Young Adulthood? Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Amy M. Burdette, Elizabeth Lawrence, Terrence D. Hill, Miles G. Taylor, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow
In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and latent class analysis to assess the extent to which individuals integrate guns into broader health lifestyles. We also examine how these new health lifestyles differ for men and women. While men integrate guns with a variety of risk-taking behaviors, including smoking, heavy drinking, risky sexual behavior
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Is Deception Really a Despicable Tool in Experiments? A Discipline-specific Analysis in Sociological Social Psychology Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 May Takeuchi, Alexander Takeuchi, Louis N. Gray
Methodological use of deception in experiments has been a controversy between different social and behavioral science fields. Because of the disciplinary differences in the types of behaviors studied and the assumptions made about them, generally speaking micro-economists tend to oppose its use rather strongly, while sociological social psychologists tend to argue for more discipline specific examinations
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Examining Associations Between Discrimination, Social Cohesion, and Health among White LGBT versus POC LGBT Chicagoans Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Lynn Kannout, Steff Du Bois
Consistent with the minority stress perspective, lesbian/gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals on average report worse health than heterosexual individuals in several domains, for example, general health, mental health, physical health, and healthcare access. Intersectionality-based research shows that LGBT people of color (POC) are, on average, at even greater risk for adverse health outcomes
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Everyday Race: Millennials, Generation Z, and the Census Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jonathan M. Cox, Vernon T. Headley, Kristal S. Johnson
The census is a central feature of U.S. governance, providing important information regarding the U.S. population used to determine legislative representation and the allocation of federal funding. The count also involves a measure of race and ethnicity, however the sociopolitical construction of race means census categories have shifted throughout history. Existing data highlight how current classifications
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More Than an Opioid Crisis: Population Health and Economic Indicators Influencing Deaths of Despair Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Lee Dalphonse, David A. Campbell, Bernard J. Kerr, Jessica L. Kerr, Christine Gadbois
Using a pooled cross-section regression, the study analyzes state-level data on deaths of despair as a function of population health, economic, and demographic indicators identified in the academic literature. There is an urgent need to identify and address factors associated with suicides and deaths attributed to the use of alcohol, opioids, and other drugs and referred to as deaths of despair. According
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Sibship and Inequality Beliefs: Do Siblings Have a Liberalizing or Conservatizing Effect? Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Joseph J. Merry, Donna Bobbitt-Zeher
How do individuals come to hold certain beliefs about meritocracy, individualism, and redistribution? Several sociodemographic factors are regularly used to understand variation in these beliefs, but other predictors remain untested. Meanwhile, scholars studying family dynamics are increasingly turning their attention toward the long-term social effects of distinct family features. One facet of this
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Between “Empowering” and “Blaming” Mechanisms in Developing Political/Economic Responses to Climate Change Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Maria Laura Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda
This conceptual paper reviews four dimensions of the climate change (CC) debate concerning perception, framing, and political and economic dimensions of CC. It attempts to address the question posed by sociological research as to what can be done to reduce the social forces driving CC. In doing so, it attempts to uncover mechanisms that delay or prevent the social change required to combat CC. Such
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Racial Attitudes in the Deep South: Persistence and Change at the University of Alabama, 1963–2013* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Michael Hughes, Steven A. Tuch, Debra M. McCallum, Gabrielle P. A. Smith, Celia C. Lo, Utz McKnight, Richard C. Fording
Using data from a unique series of surveys collected between 1963 and 2013, this study examines racial attitudes among young white adults in the Deep South over a 50-year period. Repeated surveys of University of Alabama students in 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1983, 1988, and 2013 measured racial stereotypes, support for racial segregation, and in the 2013 study, racial resentment and support for ameliorative
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Blurring Genres, An Agenda for the Study of Climate Change Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Steve Kroll-Smith, Maggie Leon-Corwin
Conflict of interest We have no conflict of interests in the preparation of this article.
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Queering Climate Change: Exploring the Influence of LGBTQ+ Identity on Climate Change Belief and Risk Perceptions* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Cameron T. Whitley, Melanie M. Bowers
Although researchers have broadly addressed how race, party identification, political ideology, and binary gender categories influence climate change opinions, little attention has been paid to the relationship between sexuality and gender variance (LGBTQ+ identity broadly) and climate change perceptions. Using a quota-based survey from 2022 that approximates the US population on key demographic characteristics
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Determinants of Bias Perceptions in South Africa: The Case of A Highly Unequal Society Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Frederich Kirsten, Mduduzi Biyase, Marinda Pretorius, Ilse Botha
While objective class dynamics have received much attention in South Africa, less is known about the subjective social positions individuals place themselves in. For example, in a highly unequal society like South Africa, some individuals would overestimate (inflate) or underestimate (deflate) their social position compared to their objective class position. This paper aims to provide further information
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Anticipatory Economic Stressors: Perceived and Potential Sources of Economic Disadvantage for LGBTQ Adults Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Emma R. Bosley-Smith
This article examines anticipatory economic stress—or the stress of future economic crises or events that may negatively impact material well-being—for LGBTQ adults. Using qualitative interview data from 76 LGBTQ adults, three main sources of anticipatory economic stress emerged: the family, the workplace, and health care. Following an intersectionality framework, these anticipatory economic stressors
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Control over Muslim Women's Bodies: A Critical Review Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Atieh Babakhani
Struggling between the contradictory demands of colonial and neocolonial forces, Muslim women have been constantly at the center of ideological, political, and religious discourses and subjected to surveillance at multiple levels. More specifically, Muslim women's bodily practices, particularly the veil, as an embodied marker of difference that challenges the Western ideals of femininity and signals
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Layered Sites of Environmental Justice: Considering the Case of Prisons* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Tara Opsal, Austin Luzbetak, Stephanie Malin, India Luxton
A growing body of scholarship highlights the merits of fusing green criminology and environmental justice frameworks to better understand intersections among carceral systems, race- and class-based stratification, and environmental harm. This paper explores how correctional institutions (CIs) with known histories of federal environmental law violations compare against other previously established environmentally
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Defending the Commons: New Frontiers in Latin American Perspectives on Environmental Justice Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Nathalia Hernández Vidal, Gabriela Merlinsky, Paola Bolados
Environmental Justice scholarship and action have different histories and genealogies. In this article, we combine our interdisciplinary formations in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and feminist political ecology to examine three case studies that show how place-based communities understand, enact, and embody their struggle for environmental justice. We draw from Latin American and Caribbean
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Animal Advocacy and the “Good Cop-Bad Cop” Radical Flanking of Laboratory Research Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Erin M. Evans
This research explores the concurrent effects of radical and reformist approaches to animal advocacy on how animal welfare is institutionalized in laboratory research. The long-term outcomes of militant animal rights activism are not adequately explained by the two current radical flank effect models: a positive effect where militancy helps moderates, and a negative effect where militancy compromises
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“Ground Zero” for Climate Crisis: Narratives About Climate Adaptation and Implications for Justice in Coastal Louisiana Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Simone Justine Domingue
Decisions about climate change adaptation are informed by technical information, but they are also shaped by social and political factors and impacted communities. Given the realities of a changing climate, more research is needed to examine how technically trained practitioners and other actors describe their work in relation to social and political factors. This article contributes to knowledge on
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From Non-Believer to Believer: What Leads People to Change Their Climate Views Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 June Jeon, Rachel Gurney, Michael M. Bell
Studies have highlighted the political, economic, and psychological factors in the debate over anthropogenic climate change—a hegemony approach—but have rarely focused on the stories and possibilities of people's transitions from climate change non-believer to climate change believer. Based on publicly accessible narratives, this study examines the stories of those who have switched from non-believer
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Struggle for Transdisciplinary Moments: Building Partnerships for Resettlement Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Haley Blakeman, Jessica R. Z. Simms, Helen L. Waller, Pam Jenkins, Katherine Cass
The effects of climate change are both acute and chronic, leaving many communities in a perpetual state of uncertainty. For others, there is no such uncertainty—their communities will soon be uninhabitable. Some levels of government have begun to recognize and slowly respond to communities facing the possibilities of relocation. This paper considers the impact of transdisciplinary thinking and collaborative
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Global Surpluses of Extraction and Slow Climate Violence: A Sociological Framework Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Aidan O'Sullivan, Jessica Omukuti, Stacia S. Ryder
This review article examines the concept of slow violence in relation to the current climate collapse. It outlines the extractive relationship between states in the Global North and Global South, and explores how this relationship creates and sustains disproportionate climate violence for the Global South. It critiques proposed adaptation and mitigation solutions for the Global South that emphasize
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Beyond Spatial Models: A New Perspective on American Operational Ideology Using Latent Class Analysis Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Graham Wright, Sasha Volodarsky
Analyses of operational ideology—the pattern of correlations between different political attitudes—in the American public generally assume “spatial” models of ideology. Using Latent Class Analysis, we relax many of these assumptions by treating operational ideology as a latent categorical variable and analyze the changing structure of American operational ideology between 2004 and 2020. We find that
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Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US: How We Failed Children of Color by Paul R. Ketchum and B. Mitchell Peck Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Felicia Arriaga
This book speaks to two different audiences, and I applaud the authors for the efforts they made to reach both. One audience, the one I fall into that is critical of crime data and its overreliance to criminalize communities of color, might wish this book was titled “Police Data is Self-Report Data,” while the other audience might be drawn in because of the title's nods to criminology specific language
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Climate Scholarship Needs Du Bois: Climate Crisis through the Lens of Racial and Colonial Capitalism* Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Archana Ramanujam
A large literature is proliferating on capitalism's role in driving climate breakdown. In this literature, capitalism is seen as the endless pursuit of growth, under which nature and its finite resources are exploited for profit. The climate crisis is the result of these processes. However, capitalism alone cannot explain the racial inequities produced by climate disruption, nor can it account for
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The Green Elephants in the Room: Perceived Environmental Harm and Support for Regulation Among Republicans Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Timothy Dacey, Evan Stewart
Previous research identifies a “great paradox” in attitudes toward environmental regulation: some people close to environmental risk nevertheless oppose environmental regulation for partisan reasons. Does this pattern hold in large survey samples? Unexpectedly, we do not find evidence for it. Instead, we find that Republicans who report higher levels of personal environmental harm also report stronger
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A Sisterhood: The Collective Resilience Born in the Periphery of Prison Sociological Inquiry (IF 1.69) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Kirsten Mai Castle
The collateral consequences of incarceration and prison visitation, transcend the boundaries of prison and transform women's lives. Through an intersectional approach, this research uncovers in what capacity degradation and secondary prisonization shape women's lives, and what coping mechanisms women form in response to the difficulties of visitation. Existing research has yet to identify visitors'