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Modes of Effectualizing Stigmatization: Slurs, Nazi Salutes, and Rock Throwing at Lakeshore High School The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Amanda Jane, Ezra Temko, Jasmine Cates
This study elucidates stigmatization’s mechanisms and power dynamics. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 recent alums and 11 educators at Lakeshore High School, we uncovered a culture of ra...
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Joy Beyond the Gender Binary: Experiences, Constructions, and Barriers of Joy in Nonbinary Lives The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Bailey Otter
Sociologists have increasingly begun exploring the experiences of gender-expansive populations; however, these studies are oversaturated with negative experiences of prejudice and discrimination an...
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The Racialized American Dream: Predictors for the 21st Century The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Jason Torkelson, Alex Parton, Joseph Gerteis, Evan Gunderson
The American Dream has long been understood as a “shorthand summary of a nation’s collective aspirations” (Hauhart 2015:65). What determines optimism about the Dream? This paper uses nationally rep...
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A Legacy of Revision: Maintaining Professional Expertise Over the Changing Diagnosis and Classification of Intellectual Disability in the United States The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Elise Wolff
Drawing on publications produced by one of the oldest and leading professional associations dealing with intellectual disability (ID), this paper explores the continual maintenance of expertise ove...
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The Effect of Parenthood on Care Workers’ Earnings: Exploring Identity Mobilization’s Applicability The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Alyssa Alexander, Anna Manzoni
The parenthood wage gap is well-documented in professional work, but we know little about parenthood’s effects on earnings among care workers. As employers may use stereotypes linked to parental id...
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Role of Type 2 Processing in the Suppression and Expression of Prejudice: An Analysis Using the Implicit Association Test and Response Times with Japanese Data The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Ryosuke Saito, Hiroki Takikawa, Kimihiro Shiomura, Shunsuke Tanabe, Kikuko Nagayoshi
This study investigates whether dual process theories (DPTs) can explain the mechanism behind the suppression of prejudice. A growing number of sociologists are using DPTs to examine the role of so...
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Gendered Employment Precarity and Refugee Resettlement in the United States The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Mehr Mumtaz, Vincent J. Roscigno, Katherine Sobering
This article examines experiences of workplace precarity and employment vulnerability among resettled refugees in the United States. Our study, which draws on eight months of participant observatio...
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Suspended in Time: De-Arresting Black Youth from the ‘Ethnographic Present’ The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Rahsaan Mahadeo
Within urban sociology, the unpredictability of poor, urbanized space explains why black youth are “present oriented” and why they treat orientations to the future as futile. But where urban sociol...
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Movement for Black Lives at Work? Racial Justice Spillover, Labor Organization, and New Worker Militancy The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Larry W. Isaac, Brittney Rose
Emerging from a confluence of events – including Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) – racial consciousness has intensified in recent years. In the wake of a long declining labor movement, there has ...
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Work Is Freedom: The Entrepreneurial Self Among Street Vendors The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Alejandra Cueto
Precarious work has risen worldwide in recent decades, affecting workers’ narratives about their economic activities. A key aspect of precarious work involves the combination of bad working conditi...
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Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Prison: Experiences of Social Ties Within the Total Institution The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ellis Frieh, Alicia Suarez
Women who are pregnant and postpartum in prison must deal with their incarceration along with the immense stress of having given birth while inside a total institution. Total institutions can strip...
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Beyond Petroleum? The Diffusion of Alternative Fuels in the United States, 1994–2015 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Ion Bogdan Vasi, Michael Sauder
What determines whether technological innovations are adopted or abandoned? We leverage comparative data from three competing alternative fuel technologies to explore the conditions under which soc...
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Elite Cueing, Gender, and the Partisan Gap in Environmental Support The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Azdren Coma, Erik W. Johnson, Philip Schwadel
This study extends research on how political and social contexts mediate the relationship between men’s and women’s political identities and their support for the environment. Our test consists of ...
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Network Position Affects Social Status in Early Adolescence The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jonathan Horowitz, Jill Hamm
Does position in the friendship network affect social status in early adolescence? Previous research shows that friendship relations are not equivalent to popularity hierarchies, but favorable posi...
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Fines, Fees, and Families: Monetary Sanctions As Stigmatized Intergenerational Exchange The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Veronica L. Horowitz, Ryan P. Larson, Robert Stewart, Christopher Uggen
This study examines the intergenerational consequences of court-imposed monetary sanctions for parents and children. Research on punishment and families has generally focused on imprisonment, yet m...
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“I Don’t Care Who Rules in the White House”: Boundary-Training in Science and Everyday Politics of Knowledge The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 June Jeon
How do scientists construct the meaning of science as oppositional to politics? How do the institutional contexts of scientists’ work environment, training processes, and peer-group interactions re...
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Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Bianca Wirth, Eric Baumer
During the early 2000s, the U.S. government began to partner with local law enforcement agencies for assistance with the enforcement of immigration laws. Participation in the voluntary 287(g) progr...
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Power & Moral Capital - A “Theory of Access” for People Receiving Public Assistance in Rural USA The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Candace K. May, Julie Yingling
In-depth interviews with people using public assistance in a rural place in the United States demonstrated barriers to accessing resources through formal work and self-provisioning and the ability ...
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One Nation Under Attack: Color-Blind Racism, Racialization, and White Victimhood in a Case of Organized Islamophobia The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sarah Walton
In the wake of 9/11 and the Trump campaign in 2016, organized Islamophobia has been on the rise in the U.S. In this article, I ask: How do those leading and participating in anti-Muslim mobilizatio...
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Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in the Political Donations of America’s Corporate Elite The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Yongjun Zhang, Jennifer Heerwig
Women and racial minorities have made significant inroads into senior managerial and, especially, board of director positions over the past half-century. Despite this, there is little research on g...
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How Age Shapes Ethno-Racial Disparities in Accessing Mortgage Credit The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jose Loya
Unequal homeownership access is a major component of ethno-racial stratification. Previous studies have demonstrated substantial ethno-racial disparities in access and outcomes throughout the homeo...
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Correction The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-01
Published in The Sociological Quarterly (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2024)
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Fronts and Friends: Social Contingencies in the Management of Drug Debt The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Allison Laing, Lindsey Richardson
Illicit drug markets have long been associated with violence as a mode of regulating market behavior, especially regarding debts linked to drug purchase. While a growing literature examines violent...
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Beyond the Numbers: Brass Players Hearing Gender in the Music Workplace The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Patricia L. Maddox, Sarah Schmalenberger
The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of cisgender women, transgender women, and nonbinary brass players. Semi-structured telephone interviews with fifty cisgender women, transgen...
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“Value-Conditioned Interest”: Secularity, Institutional Support, and the Sociology of Religion in Graduate Departments The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Matthew Blanton, Daniel Krasnicki
Although religion once played a central role in sociological inquiry, today it has fallen from prominence and now occupies a marginal space in the field. Sociologists of religion suggest that this ...
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Civil Society and Democracy under Pressure: Does Authoritarian Mobilization and Party Incapacity Diminish the Positive Effect of Civil Society? The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Andrew P. Davis, Yongjun Zhang
Countries worldwide are experiencing a sharp wave of democratic decline that is cutting away at the gains made toward democracy that had occurred in decades prior. While the majority of scholars de...
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Labor Market Inequality, Debt, and the Consequences of Sub-Baccalaureate Higher Education The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Alec P. Rhodes
U.S. young adults in the 2000s and 2010s entered a national labor market that was highly stratified by education. While the socioeconomic consequences of a four-year bachelor’s degree are well docu...
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Unconventional Work, Conventional Problems: Gig Microtask Work, Inequality, and the Flexibility Mystique The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Reilly Kincaid, Jeremy Reynolds
Gig work platforms often promise workers flexibility and freedom from formal constraints on their work schedules. Some scholars have questioned whether this “formal flexibility” actually helps peop...
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Mooring Christian Nationalism: How Religious Institutions, Participation, and Beliefs Inform Christian Nationalism The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Darren E. Sherkat, Derek Lehman, Nabil Bill Julkif
Christian nationalism has been linked to a variety of political and social outcomes in the contemporary United States, however little research has investigated factors that give rise to it. Most sc...
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How Local Perceptions Contribute to Urban Environmental Activism: Evidence from the Chicago Metropolitan Area The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Juanita Vivas Bastidas, Maria Akchurin, Dana Garbarski, David Doherty
In this paper, we examine how structural and social-psychological factors combine to motivate urban environmental activism. Specifically, we argue that residents’ everyday perceptions about environ...
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Sad Puppies and SJWs: Symbolic Revolution and Challenges to Field Orthodoxy in the Struggle for Control of Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Gregory Goalwin
In 2013 a group of science fiction authors launched a campaign to reform the Hugos, one of science fiction’s most prestigious awards. Dubbing themselves “Sad Puppies,” these activists sought to cor...
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Grappling with Chance in a Changing World: Towards a Typology and Understanding of Fortune The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Matthew L. Turnbough
The social changes tied to late modernity and an increasingly precarious labor market have facilitated the emergence of fortune as a potentially significant element for understanding contemporary s...
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The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Chad Alan Goldberg, Masoud Movahed
While previous scholarship highlights the importance of cross-class alliances between intellectuals and workers in past social-democratic and labor movements, the growth of right-wing populism may ...
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The Inevitability and Promise of Historical Sociology The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Brian Donovan
As sociologists, we engage in history whether or not we see ourselves, professionally, as historical sociologists. These remarks discuss the varieties of ways sociologists use and approach historic...
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Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Samuel L. Perry, Cyrus Schleifer, Andrew L. Whitehead, Kenneth E. Frantz
American “Christian nationalism” is strongly associated with ethno-racial prejudice and xenophobia, particularly among White Americans. Yet research to date ignores the possibility of Christian nat...
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Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Farm Animal Welfare: An Empirical Analysis Using the Voiceless Animal Cruelty Index The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Michael D. Briscoe, Jennifer E. Givens
ABSTRACT Ecologically unequal exchange theory explains that unequal trade arrangements between higher- and lower-income countries result in greater environmental degradation in lower-income countries. Farm animals are sometimes neglected by sociology because of their unique place between nature and society. Here, we extend ecologically unequal exchange theory to analyze trade relationships between
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The Interdependent Forces of Local Growth: A County-Level Study, 2001-2011 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Matthew Thomas Clement, Nathaniel Dede-Bamfo, Jack DeWaard, Seoyoun Kim
ABSTRACT Perspectives in human ecology and political economy present local growth as a syndrome of interdependent changes happening over time within municipalities. This quantitative study examines the reciprocal relationship between three core concepts of growth: employment, land development, and migration. To assess these associations across the United States, covering the years 2001–2011, we merge
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Psychiatric Labels: Exploring Indirect and Direct Assessments of Task Performance The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Amy Kroska, Sarah K. Harkness, Kelsey N. Mattingly, Mollie A. Lovera
ABSTRACT We explore the idea that performance expectations in problem-solving groups (e.g., juries, planning groups) are partially outside of group members’ awareness. We first identify a divergence between indirect and direct teammate performance assessments among participants who are working with a teammate with schizophrenia in a two-person task group. The indirect indicator is the participant’s
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From Rights Claims to Quality Frames in US Child Care Advocacy The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Valerie Taing
ABSTRACT How and why do advocates choose frames, and what are the effects of these choices? This study draws on two decades of data about the Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW), an advocacy organization founded by feminist early childhood educators in 1977 to raise child care wages. It traces how contextual factors shape framing choices, and how framing choices shape advocacy goals and claims
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Moving Away from One’s Origins: Predictors of Becoming a First-Generation College Graduate and Not Becoming a Continuing-Generation Graduate The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Anna Manzoni, Jessi Streib
ABSTRACT Nearly a third of students whose parents do not have bachelor’s degrees become first-generation college graduates and over a third of students with at least one parent with a bachelor’s degree do not become continuing-generation college graduates. We apply insights from social reproduction theory to study educational mobility, examining which factors are associated with becoming a first-generation
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Are More Educated States More Gay-Friendly? How the Increase in College Attainment Promotes Acceptance of Gay Men and Lesbians The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Jason Budge
ABSTRACT Attitudes toward gay men and lesbians in the United States have liberalized dramatically over time yet vary substantially between states. Trends in college attainment mirror this uneven progress. This study draws on theories of the university as a cultural institution to examine the relationship between college-educated populations and attitudes toward gay men and lesbians over time and across
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High Hopes: Gender Trends in Educational Expectations for Graduate and Professional School, 1976-2019 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 S. Abby Young, Ann M. Beutel, Stephanie W. Burge
ABSTRACT Educational expectations have increased over time, with greater increases among young women than men, yet research focused on expectations for post-baccalaureate degrees is limited. We investigate young men’s and women’s plans to attend graduate or professional school using Monitoring the Future data from 12th graders for 1976 to 2019, focusing on how academic performance and work and family
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Doing Sexuality: How Married Bisexual, Queer, and Pansexual People Navigate Passing and Erasure The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Daniel J. Bartholomay, Meagan Pendleton
ABSTRACT Society’s binary understanding of gender and sexuality often render the identities of bisexual, queer, and pansexual (bi+) people invisible in everyday interactions. Furthermore, when a bi+ person gets married, they are often mistakenly presumed to have “made a choice” regarding their sexual preference or identity. What are the consequences – both negative and positive – of this perception
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Assessing the Anti-Globalization Movement: Protest Against the WTO, IMF, and World Bank in Cross-National Perspective The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Arman Azedi, Evan Schofer
ABSTRACT This study examines protests targeting Multilateral Economic Institutions (MEIs), namely the WTO, IMF, and World Bank from 1995 to 2018 across a large sample of countries using data drawn from media reports. We consider conventional social movement arguments regarding domestic and international resources and political opportunities, as well as economic threats, integration into the global
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LG but Not T: Opposition to Transgender Rights Amidst Gay and Lesbian Acceptance The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Kelsy Burke, Emily Kazyak, Marissa Oliver, Payton Valkr
ABSTRACT This article draws on sociological theories of affect and ambivalence to empirically examine individuals who express support for the rights of gays and lesbians but not transgender people. Using a representative survey of Nebraska residents and quantitative and qualitative analysis of close-ended and open-ended responses, we find that the group we call “inconsistents” are more similar demographically
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Measuring Cross-National Variations in Religiosity and Attitudes Toward Science and Technology Using Machine Learning The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 John J. Lee
ABSTRACT This study uses resampling methods and machine learning to measure how religio-scientific groups are distributed across regions, countries/territories, and religious groups. Across 76 societies (N = 143,092), the distribution of class membership is as follows: traditional (31.9 percent), modern (23.7 percent), post-secular (30.3 percent), and postmodern (14.1 percent). Although most societies
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Left Behind: Yachts, Dinghies, and Perceptions of Social Inequality in COVID-19 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, Jacob Conley, Abigail Newell
ABSTRACT Little is known about how portrayals of American unity (i.e. “we’re all in this together”) have been received by essential workers on the front lines of the COVID risk divide, and how the pandemic may have contributed to perceptions of class inequality among lower-income workers. In this paper, we draw upon 192 in-depth interviews with precarious and gig-based workers in New York City. We
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Poverty, Prevalences, and Penalties in U.S. States, 1993-2016 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 D. Adam Nicholson
ABSTRACT Poverty is unevenly distributed within the United States – – a fact demonstrated by a rich literature on inequality in the US. By ignoring such variation, research runs the risk of overlooking the geographical distribution of poverty and risks that increase the likelihood of poverty. In this article, I address this by: (1) building on the prevalence and penalties framework, developed in cross-national
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Clocks, Calendars, and Claims: On the Uses of Time in Social Problems Rhetoric The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Brian Monahan, Joel Best
ABSTRACT Social problems claims use rhetoric and other tools of symbolic communication to persuade audiences that some troubling condition is important and needs to be addressed. This paper considers how common measures of social time are employed as rhetorical elements in social problems claims. It is argued that time units operate as temporal frames that contribute to the structure of claims, articulate
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Mobilizing Equal Employment Rights: The Social and Political Determinants of Discrimination Complaints (2009–2018) The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Masoud Movahed, Elizabeth Hirsh
ABSTRACT This article explores the regional and national determinants of workplace discrimination complaints across the US states from 2009–2018. Drawing on the EEOC charge data supplemented with a number of additional data sources, the authors examine the extent to which socioeconomic, demographic, and political environments explain variation in the rate of total, race, and sex-based employment discrimination
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Ethnicity, Poverty, Race, and the Unequal Distribution of US Safe Drinking Water Act Violations, 2016-2018 The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Junghwan Bae, Michael J. Lynch
ABSTRACT The current study examines whether social and economic factors affect the geographic distribution of safe drinking water act (SDWA) violations at the county-level, 2016–2018. Our research controls for a variety of factors in an effort to assess whether community ethnicity, poverty, and racial characteristics appear to be related to the geographic distribution of SDWA violations. The results
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Screen Time, Social Media, and Religious Commitment among Adolescents The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jeremy E. Uecker, Paul K. McClure
ABSTRACT Research on the impact of new technologies on American youth often fails to consider their impact on religious commitment, and research on adolescent religiosity often fails to consider how technology use may influence adolescents’ religious lives. But the copious amount of time adolescents spend in front of screens and on social media platforms may affect their religious commitment through
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Romantic Relationships and Depressive Symptoms among Young Women The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Brittany N. Hearne
ABSTRACT Romantic partnership is associated with fewer depressive symptoms; however, it is unclear whether this association varies by age among young women. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979–Young Adult Sample (N = 2,403) was used to compare depressive symptoms among partnered – married, cohabiting, or dating – and unpartnered women (ages 18–29). Multilevel regression results show that
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“Othering” by Consent? Public Attitudes to Covid-19 Restrictions and the Role of the Police in Managing Compliance in England The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Robert Inkpen, Aram Ghaemmaghami, Geoff Newiss, Paul Smith, Sarah Charman, Stephanie Bennett, Camille Ilett
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to consider the relationship between an emergent decay of social trust created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the formation of “in” and “out” groups. Data from 37 extensive semi-structured interviews with members of the public in England found that identifying the “other” through normative conceptions of “security and order” was used by participants to legitimize their
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Conspiracy Movements: A Definitional Introduction and Theoretical Exploration of Organized Challenges to Epistemic Authority The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Sarah J. Halford
ABSTRACT The term “conspiracy movements” has been mentioned in passing in a variety of texts, but it has yet to be defined. This article defines and critically examines the assumption that conspiracy theorists are too unorganized to “qualify” for movement status. It is suggested that invariant or state-centric theoretical models have obscured conspiracy activism and opts for an approach rooted in multi-institutional
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Echo Chambers in a Closed Community: Vaccine Uptake and Perceived Effectiveness among the Amish and Old Order Mennonites The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Rachel E. Stein, Katie E. Corcoran, Corey J. Colyer, Bernard D. DiGregorio
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship finds linkages between religiosity and vaccination practices but neglects the role of religious, social structural influences. The relationship between religious beliefs and immunization in the context of closed religious communities remains understudied. We use a survey of Amish and Old Order Mennonite parents to explore relationships between religious belief, group closure
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Connecting the “Others”: White Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Views in America The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Joseph Gerteis, Nir Rotem
ABSTRACT Drawing from recent work on “otherness” and social boundaries in America, we investigate anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish opinion among white Americans. After outlining the logic of the comparison, we use nationally representative data to analyze these forms of othering. Although anti-Muslim opinion is more extensive, the two track together empirically and share a cultural logic as connected forms
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Doing Our Part: Teaching about Environment and Climate Change The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Julie A. Pelton
ABSTRACT This article discusses the important role Midwest sociologists can play in making sure our discipline is central to the conversation about how to address environmental issues and the climate crisis. I issue a challenge for all of us to find our individual contribution to taking on climate change – as teachers who can shape the way sociology teaches about the environment across the curriculum
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Subjective Class Identification in Australia: Do Social Networks Matter? The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Xianbi Huang
ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors that are associated with subjective class identification by using Australian national survey data. Results show that social networks play a significant role in respondents’ subjective evaluation of where they fit in the social hierarchy, with those individuals who have a reference group for social comparison being more likely to identify as middle class
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The Inequality Trap & Willingness-to-Pay for Environmental Protections: The Contextual Effect of Income Inequality on Affluence & Trust The Sociological Quarterly (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Anthony Roberts, Severin Mangold
ABSTRACT Prior studies show affluence and trust increases economic support for environmental protections. However, despite widespread economic prosperity over the last two decades, variation in support for environmental protections persists across countries. We contend this variation is attributable to the growth of national income inequality which “traps” societies in environmental indifference by