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Anticipatory Race‐Related Stress and Depressive Symptoms Among U.S. Black Women Attending a Historically Black University: Are Psychosocial Resources Stress Buffers? Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Christy L. Erving, Tiffany R. Williams, Alexander J. Holt, Aigné Taylor
In an era of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, many Black Americans believe that racism is a mainstay of U.S. culture. Even if not experiencing racial threats or violence directly, racial tension can induce stress via anticipatory race‐related stress (ARRS). Drawing from theories of social stress and the intersectionality framework, this study examined the association between ARRS
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Working Time, Income Inequality, and Life Expectancy: A Longitudinal Analysis of US States, 2005–2018 Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Jared Berry Fitzgerald
Previous studies on the relationship between working time and health generally find that longer working hours are detrimental for health outcomes. An unexplored issue in prior research is how other social structures, such as income inequality, can influence the working time/health relationship. Integrating arguments on the health consequences of income inequality and working time, this study considers
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“We May Look Like Cream‐of‐the‐Crop Kids, but it's Tough Here”: Elite Identity, Emotional Burden, and Ethical Transgressions Among Students at an Elite High School Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Miri Aviram, Avihu Shoshana
This article explores the identity of students at an elite high school and how it contributes to privilege and inequality. Thirty‐two students from an elite high school in Israel were interviewed to examine two main questions: What characterizes these students' identity? How does their identity impact the cultivation and fostering of privilege and inequality? The findings identify three components
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“Don't Touch!”: The Role of Cultural Knowledge in Low‐SES Parents' Perceptions of Museums Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Shelley M. Kimelberg, Watoii Rabii
Museums can provide valuable benefits for children, but children from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds are less likely to have exposure to such institutions. We draw on interviews with 52 low‐SES parents to explore how perceptions of museums influence whether parents would consider bringing their children there. Respondents express a clear preference for enriching activities for their children.
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Does Social Trust Travel? Comparing Resident and Non‐resident Citizens from a High‐Trusting Country Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Isak Vento, Staffan Himmelroos, Maria Bäck
In this study, we analyzed the effects of emigration on a high‐trust population's trust in other people. Our object of study was the Swedish‐speaking Finns, a homogenous national language minority of Finland with a relatively high proportion of emigrants. Using two highly comparable random sample surveys, one among Finland‐Swedes who had emigrated and one among Finland‐Swedes residing in Finland, we
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Becoming a Cannabis Professional Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Alexander B. Kinney
In recent years, U.S. states have relaxed their laws to permit the operation of a commercial cannabis market despite enduring federal criminalization. While media outlets commonly point to money as the primary motivator for working in the newly regulated cannabis industry, this article advances the alternative view that becoming a cannabis professional is linked to a broader process of drug‐related
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The Thorny Intersection Between Adult Drug Treatment Courts and Medical Marijuana Criminal Immunity Laws Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Michael D. Sousa
Two revolutionary developments impacted the United States criminal justice system over the past 30 years that are now primed for an institutional reckoning—the legalization of medical marijuana at the state level and the exponential rise of adult drug treatment courts across the country. The states that have legalized medical marijuana also provide criminal immunity protections for qualifying medical
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Craving Closure: The Challenges of a Canceled Commencement During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Erin K. Anderson
As a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic, significant disruptions were experienced in the 2020 school year. Transitions to remote teaching and student dismissal from campuses contributed to higher rates of stress, anxiety, depression, and uncertainty about student futures. Many educational institutions in the U.S. had to cancel or modify commencement ceremonies in response to social distancing mandates
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Finding ‘Home’ and Navigating ‘Cultural Precarity’: Grey Areas Between Racism and ‘Hate Crime’ Victimization Among Korean Businesses Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Claire Seungeun Lee, Hannarae Lee, Insun Park
The United States has often been lauded for its reputation as a melting pot, embracing diverse cultures and backgrounds. However, beneath this outward display of diversity lies a more intricate reality illuminated by the experiences of immigrants. This study, which involved 19 interviews with first‐generation Korean immigrants operating small businesses in the United States, examines the diverse forms
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Once upon a Time in Parenthood: Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Parents' Time with Children, 1991–2019 Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 S. Abby Young, Ann M. Beutel
Recent decades have seen increases in parents' time with children and their endorsement of time‐intensive parenting, but little is known about adolescents' attitudes regarding the time that parents in general (i.e., not their own parents specifically) spend with children. We analyze separate attitudinal measures of fathers' time and mothers' time with children using data from the eighth and tenth grade
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Steering Women out of Engineering: Career Assessment Tools as a Technology of Self‐Expressive Segregation Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Mary Blair‐Loy, Olga V. Mayorova, Rana Hegazy, Olivia A. Graeve, Pamela C. Cosman
Previous research has shown that gendered societal expectations are adopted by students as seemingly personal and individualistic self‐assessments and preferences, which then lead to gender‐normative choices about college majors and careers. This study examines one seemingly objective mechanism, which millions use each year for guidance on college majors and careers. We examine two Career Assessment
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Recreational Cannabis and Recriminalization in the “Emerald Triangle” Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Philip R. Kavanaugh
Cannabis had been illicitly cultivated for over half a century in the isolated tri‐county region of far northern California known in drugs lore as the “Emerald Triangle.” The regional industry gained legitimacy and experienced a significant boom in the 1990s when California legalized medical cannabis. In 2016, California legalized cannabis possession, use, and cultivation generally, and recreational
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American Rural–Nonrural Differences in Motherhood Wage Penalties Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Xiao Li
A rich body of literature has studied variances in motherhood wage penalties. Yet studies have not explored American rural–nonrural differences in this phenomenon. The spatial differences in women's experiences deserve exploration. Based on prior studies, rural mothers may experience greater wage penalties than nonrural mothers because of their high marriage rates, low educational levels, and the traditional
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Student Perceptions of Reproductive Health Consequences Resulting from Rape Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Lisa C. Kistler, Claire M. Renzetti, Diane R. Follingstad, Caihong R. Li
Persistently high rates of campus rape combined with changing legal landscapes surrounding reproductive health make student perceptions of the reproductive health consequences resulting from rape an important topic of research. In this study, we analyze student perceptions of a hypothetical campus rape in which a victim experiences no medical consequences, becomes pregnant, or contracts a sexually
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Synthesizing the Global English‐Language Abortion Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of Media Discourse* Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Amy Adamczyk, Lindsay J. Lerner
Abortion is one of the most politically divisive topics currently being discussed in the media. No study has yet attempted to make cross‐national comparisons assessing the nuances associated with various views on abortion in the English public press. Using an original hand‐coded sample of over 800 English‐language newspaper articles from 41 countries that mentioned abortion, we examine how country‐level
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The Interplay of Climate and Disaster in Men's Stories of the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand1 Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ashleigh Rushton, Suzanne Phibbs, Christine Kenney, Cheryl Anderson
This paper contributes to the emerging field of men, masculinities, and disasters by drawing on narratives of men's accounts of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, including how stories of the earthquake intersect with experiences and understandings of extreme weather and climate change. A qualitative methodology was employed, and semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 19 men who experienced the
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Breaking Borders, Bridging Fields: Unveiling the Transculturality of Anti‐Asian Racism in a Global Context Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Zhifan Luo, X. Alvin Yang, Muyang Li
Despite the recent surge in scholarly attention to anti‐Asian racism, what is largely missing in this growing body of literature is a bridge connecting studies on this subject to the broader field of race and ethnicity studies. In this special issue, we propose to use the concept of transculturality, which is defined as the process of cultural interaction, interpenetration, and hybridization that transcends
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Gender Identity Revisited among Gender‐Open Parents: New Perspectives from Classical Models of the Self Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Elizabeth Rahilly, Andrew Seeber
As transgender and non‐binary (TNB) identities grow more visible in Western culture, some parents seek to ensure their children's gender self‐determination versus assuming their gender from birth. Such “gender‐open parenting” practices, however, can impact the parents' gender as much as the children's. Using interview data and thematic analysis from a larger project on gender‐open parenting, we examine
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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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 #StopAsianHate Sociological Inquiry (IF 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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 2.2) 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