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Psychosocial correlates of LGBTIQ+ experiences in selected African countries: Reimagining LGBTIQ+ research Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Immaculate Mogotsi, Yvonne Otubea Otchere, Irene Botchway, Yvonne Muthoni, Rodney Gariseb, Lebogang Manthibe Ramalepe
This paper explores the multifaceted experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+) people in selected African countries within legal, health, and educational sectors, and the broader society. It further highlights efforts that address issues around inclusion and social injustice. In the selected African countries (e.g., Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, and Uganda), LGBTIQ+
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Understanding variations in LGBTIQ+ acceptance across space and time: The importance of norm perceptions and political dynamics Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Michael M. Sweigart, Danna Galván‐Hernández, Tabea Hässler, Peter Hegarty, Mary E. Kite, Eugene K. Ofosu, Banu C. Ünsal, Léïla Eisner
The 21st century has seen dynamic social, legal, and political change regarding the rights and acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer/questioning (LGBTIQ+) people. This article argues that social norm perceptions—perceptions of other people's opinions in a given social context—and the political dynamics that shape those perceptions are important for understanding differences
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Centering the margins: Reimagining resilience and resistance for transgender and nonbinary people of color Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Jay Bettergarcia, Cassandra Crone, Emily Herry, Bakhtawar Ali
By centering the margins through intersectional and cross‐cultural perspectives, this article offers a reimagining of resilience by exploring individual versus collective (i.e., group‐level) approaches and strategies adopted by transgender and nonbinary people of color (TPOC) to resist oppression. We address the dynamics of multiple group membership and recognize the profound effects of culture on
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The opportunities and limits of open science for LGBTIQ+ research Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Emily A. Leskinen, Sharon G. Horne, William S. Ryan, Jojanneke van der Toorn
The open science (OS) movement has the potential to fundamentally shape how researchers conduct research and distribute findings. However, the implications for research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer/questioning (LGBTIQ+) experiences present unique considerations. In this paper, included in the special issue on Reimagining LGBTIQ+ Research, we explore how the OS movement broadens
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Conducting research within the acronym: Problematizing LGBTIQ+ research in psychology Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Amanda Klysing, Marta Prandelli, Miguel Roselló‐Peñaloza, Daniel Alonso, Madison Gray, Jessica J. Glazier, Sarah Swanson, Yu‐Chi Wang
LGBTIQ+ research acknowledges shared experiences of groups marginalized due to gender identities, sexualities, and sex characteristics. This universalist coalition approach has resulted in much affirmational research and progressive policy development. However, it risks homogenizing the unique experiences and needs of specific groups; a risk lessened by a particularist subgroup approach. In this theoretical
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Both‐Sideology Endangers Democracy and Social Science Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 John T. Jost
In social psychology these days it is commonplace to read or hear that liberal‐leftists and conservative‐rightists are every bit as “moral”; prejudiced and intolerant; susceptible to misinformation, “fake news,” and conspiratorial thinking; lax about upholding democratic standards; and prone to terrorism and political violence. Upon careful inspection, however, I conclude that every one of these claims
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Inclusion and protection in tension: Reflections on gathering sexual orientation and gender identity data in the workplace Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Jojanneke van der Toorn, Sofia E. Bracco, Waruguru Gaitho, William S. Ryan, Sharon G. Horne, Joel R. Anderson, Emily A. Leskinen
This article addresses the complex issue of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection in workplaces, highlighting the intricate balance between fostering inclusion and mitigating potential harm and exclusion. This tension manifests uniquely across diverse cultural, legal, and organizational settings. We review existing literature, offer practical guidance for decision‐makers, and
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Fighting racism denial and becoming a mother‐scholar‐activist Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Courtney M. Bonam
Using autoethnography and a Critical Race Theory framework, I recount how I experienced racism denial in my son's school district during 2019–2020 (his kindergarten year). To build this counternarrative, I analyzed multiple data sources (e.g., field notes, personal journal entries, public documents) and, across three chapters, describe my interactions with key school district gatekeepers while advocating
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Shifting systems of racial inequity: Applying critical race psychology to advance racial justice Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Alaina Brenick, Andrea L. Miller, Roxanne Moadel‐Attie, Phia S. Salter, Courtney M. Bonam
Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, a renewed and more mainstream attention to systemic racism emerged. Critical Race Theory (CRT) has permeated the larger public discourse around race more than ever before. Yet, social, scientific, and political backlash intended to silence conversations about the systemic and power‐driven nature of racism have also characterized these years. 30+ years have
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Reflections on Psychological Critical Race Theory (PCRT) as a framework for disrupting racism in pursuit of social justice Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 James M. Jones
Psychological Critical Race Theory (PCRT) was introduced in 1998. PCRT illustrates the integral connection of psychological research and theory to the legal framework of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Five tenets of PCRT were described: (1) Spontaneous and persistent influence of race; (2) Fairness is derived from divergent racial experiences; (3) Asymmetrical consequences of racial policies; (4) Paradoxes
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Exploring Black parents’ critical consciousness in relation to their engagement with their children's schools Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Aixa D. Marchand, Isis H. Settles, Shubhangi Kumari, Stephanie J. Rowley, Matthew A. Diemer
Despite consensus that parent involvement is integral to children's educational success, Black parents’ involvement remains largely characterized from a deficits‐based perspective. Using critical race and critical consciousness theories, this study explored parents’ analysis of educational inequities and their school engagement. Using interview data from a sample of Black parents (n = 20), emergent
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Confronting racism‐evasive ignorance in standard pedagogy of hegemonic social psychology Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Glenn Adams, Syed Muhammad Omar
A core tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an understanding of systemic racism as a defining and constitutive feature of the Eurocentric modern order. In contrast to this foundational insight, discussions in hegemonic social psychology tend to approach racism in a manner—specifically, as prejudice and individual bias—that abstracts the topic from social and historical context. We consider this proposition
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A qualitative investigation of narratives of Black forgiveness through the lens of critical race theory Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Michael J. Perez, Grace N. Rivera, Jaren D. Crist, Jericka S. Battle
Through a Critical Race Theory perspective, we investigated how racial ideology, in particular colorblind ideology, was present in Black forgiveness narratives for racial violence. We collected United States news articles from two high profile cases of Black forgiveness (N = 122), the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the killing of Botham Jean. We used a thematic analysis
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Cultivating the transfer landscape: Using a CRT framework to examine transfer receptivity at a Hispanic Serving Research Institution Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Saskias Casanova, Valeria Alonso Blanco, Sara Radoff, Francia Cruz Silva
When students of color transfer to Hispanic Serving Research Institutions (HSRI), they experience institutional barriers and stigmatization. Through 268 HSRI transfer students of color (TSOC) surveys and 12 interviews from four focus groups, we examined the role of stigmatization, campus relationships, and cultural strengths on TSOC's sense of belonging. Quantitative results showed greater stigmatization
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Colorblindness and race dismissiveness: Discursive racism and the limits of multicultural competence Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Wen Liu, Tamara R. Buckley, Erica Gabrielle Foldy
This qualitative study integrates critical race theory to examine the practice of multicultural competence and the mechanism of discursive racism in the context of child welfare workers. We troubled the dominant paradigm of multicultural competence taken up by practitioners, and deployed discourse analysis on racial dialogue in a real‐life setting to highlight how the multicultural competence approach
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Addressing the White problem critically: A latent profile analysis of racial attitudes Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Ryan Parigoris, Alissa Hochman, Sarah Hayes‐Skelton, Karen L. Suyemoto
Advancing racial justice requires changes in White people's critical consciousness, including understanding the historical, material, and cultural conditions that have given rise to and maintain racism and White supremacy on individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels. To effect such changes, we need to better understand White people's current racial attitudes and their relation to anti‐racist action
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“Are you supposed to be here?”: Formerly incarcerated men of color navigating positions of authority Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Emily E. Crain, Lindsey Sank Davis, Gemima St. Louis, Hailey Jensen, Isabel Robertson, Gavin Meade, Shantel Carrasco, Dagney Overbey, Lenox Alves
The current study sought to understand the lived experiences of 10 formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men in an apprentice program for physical trainers using directed content analysis. Participants described a variety of microaggressions, including those representing known themes (e.g., assumption of criminality) and new (sub)themes (e.g., borrowed legitimacy). They also described new opportunities
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Feeling a little uneasy: A comparative discourse analysis of White and BIPOC college students’ reflective writing about systemic racism Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Brett Russell Coleman, Caitlyn Yantis
This critical discourse analysis compares the ways in which White and BIPOC college students discuss their experiences of an educational intervention meant to promote better understanding of systemic racism. We analyzed reflective writing produced by 11 White psychology students from a private liberal arts college in the eastern United States and 17 BIPOC students from a Human Services program at a
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Critical race theory and COVID‐19 vaccination: An experimental test of interest convergence Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Sophie Trawalter, James N. Druckman, Kyshia Henderson
Critical Race Theory (CRT) offers crucial insights into the persistence of racism. The theory also identifies the conditions under which White Americans will support policies aimed at redressing racial inequities. According to the tenet of interest convergence, White Americans will support policies aimed at redressing racial inequities when it serves their interests to do so; that is, when their interests
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The first primer for the QuantCrit‐curious critical race theorist or psychologist: On intersectionality theory, interaction effects, and AN(C)OVA/regression models Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jose H. Vargas, J. Zak Peet
Moderated general linear modeling (MGLM) is a highly popular statistical approach in the social sciences, as it allows analysts to examine the separate and interactive effects of 2+ variables on a numerically‐measured outcome. Despite correspondences between MGLM and intersectionality theory, interdisciplinary cross‐communication is rare. Quantitative research can be strengthened when vetted through
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Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Jordan G. Starck, Kyneshawau Hurd, Michael J. Perez, Christopher K. Marshburn
One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the interest convergence hypothesis postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the extent they advance White Americans’ interests. We elaborate and update Bell's argument by demonstrating that current diversity commitments in higher education are another example of interest convergence. First, we present empirical
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Focusing the critical race psychology lens: CRT and the psychological study of social issues Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Phia S. Salter, Roxanne Moadel‐Attie, Andrea L. Miller, Alaina Brenick, Courtney M. Bonam
The years since George Floyd's murder in 2020 have been characterized by both a renewed attention to systemic racism and a backlash intended to silence conversations about race. Critical Race Theory (CRT), in particular, has become a larger part of the public discourse around race than ever before. Although CRT developed in the 1980s as a critical approach in legal studies and was incorporated into
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Disrupting neoliberal diversity discourse with critical race college transition stories Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Giselle Laiduc, Ian Slattery, Rebecca Covarrubias
The college transition can challenge students’ sense‐making of diversity, race, and oppression. Yet prevailing neoliberal discourses touting the market value of diversity can thwart this potential by promoting color‐evasive messaging that avoids reckoning with racism. Guided by Critical Race Theory, we explored incoming students’ sense‐making of diversity (n = 421) after being exposed to either color‐evasive
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Navigating growing pains: Tensions in integrating critical race theory in psychology and strategies for addressing them Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Korinthia D. Nicolai, Terrell R. Morton, Corina De La Torre, Jessica T. DeCuir‐Gunby, Alison C. Koenka
Recently there has been an uptake in the call for research that explores race and racism within the context of psychology. Researchers can use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to do so. However, scholars within the field of psychology may confront growing pains when integrating psychology research with CRT due to their respective inquiry worldviews—postpositivism and critical—which result in several tensions
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A raceless legal psychology in a system marked by race Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Rubí M. Gonzales, Victoria C. Plaut
Despite the fact that evidence of racial inequality in the U.S. criminal legal system has become overwhelming, the field of legal psychology has largely ignored issues of race and systemic racism. Although legal psychology focuses on a system that has disproportionately affected certain racial groups, and much of the field questions the fairness of the system, its research seems to rarely take a critical
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Ignorance of critical race theory predicts White Americans’ opposition to it Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Brianna S. Richmond, Negin R. Toosi, Joseph D. Wellman, Clara L. Wilkins
Acknowledging systemic racism, a key tenet of Critical Race Theory (CRT), may be threatening to many Americans but it can also reduce racial biases. However, anti‐CRT legislation prohibits learning about racism, thus highlighting the mutually reinforcing relationship between systemic racism and the production of ignorance. We assessed White Americans’ knowledge about CRT through participant‐generated
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Thinking critically about race bias and culpability perceptions of Latinxs in the criminal justice system Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Cynthia Willis Esqueda, Kiley Gilbert
Critical race theory (CRT) guides insight into structural and institutional discrimination for identifying causes of race disparities in the United States social and political systems. Disparities are pronounced in the criminal justice system (CJS) for Latinx people, and negative attitudes exist about those incarcerated. LatCrit theory promotes an examination of unique issues creating disparities for
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Critical race theory in human development and family science Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 J. Andan Sheppard, Ryan Gabriel, Ashley M. Fraser, Ashley B. LeBaron‐Black
The field of human development and family science (HDFS) conducts interdisciplinary research that has substantially benefited children and families. However, like other disciplines, in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, HDFS has begun to deeply reflect on its relationship to race and racism. In this paper, we aim to help with this process. We do so by
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“My mother did not have civil rights under the law”: Family derived race categories in negotiating positions on Critical Race Theory Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Rahul Sambaraju
How do persons negotiate the relevance of historic racial injustice for contemporary concerns? In this paper, I show that persons could develop and use racial categorizations in association with family relations to make salient (or not) the relevance of past racial injustice for contemporary concerns. I examined how people construct and orient to racial group membership as implying historical oppression
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Whiteness hurts society: How whiteness shapes mental, physical, and social health outcomes Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Caroline R. Efird, Clara L. Wilkins, H. Shellae Versey
Confronting whiteness could complement and amplify the study of Critical Race Theory and enhance psychologists’ capacity to effectively study and address health and social issues. Whiteness is a racialized social system and a set of beliefs that uphold White American social supremacy and the oppression of populations of color. We discuss how prior scholarship has addressed whiteness and we illustrate
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Testimonios on participatory action research as a critical race approach to studying Southeast Asian american Refugee subjects Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Angela‐MinhTu D. Nguyen, Que‐Lam Huynh, Richard Chang, Nathan Lieng
Instead of being agents of inquiry and change, Southeast Asian American (SEAA; Viet, Hmong, Lao, Cambodian) refugee subjects are often objectified and essentialized by researchers in the social sciences. In this article, we document our collaborative journeys to unlearn colonial and racist ways of thinking about and conducting research on marginalized communities, including our own SEAA communities
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Resistance from below among racialized peoples: Exploring Kurdish understandings of power Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Canan Coşkan, Ercan Şen
Understanding power and resistance dynamics from below requires focusing on the micropolitics of oppressed group existence. This involves exploring the ways members of the oppressed and resisting groups make sense of power in terms of identity, community, culture, and politics. As Kurdish researchers living in Turkey and Bakurê Kurdistan, we conducted in‐depth interviews with 16 Kurds in Van and Istanbul
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Critical cognitive science: A systematic review towards a critical science Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Iván Carbajal, Everrett Moore, Lianelys Cabrera Martinez, Kiara Hunt
Many leading scholars have highlighted the use of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in approaching research and practice in psychology. Critical Race Theory allows for cognitive science to take a more intersectional perspective rather than perpetuate the exclusionary and universal limitations associated with traditional cognitive science. This review and commentary apply CRT to cognitive science to address
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Colorblind racial ideology as an alibi for inaction: Examining the relationship among colorblind racial ideology, awareness of White privilege, and antiracist practices among White people Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Charles R. Collins, Camille Walsh
This study examines the relationship among White antiracism, colorblind racial ideology (CBRI), and White privilege awareness. We use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to frame the historical context of racism in the U.S. and the emergence of racist ideologies. We examine the extent to which White privilege awareness mediates the relationship between CBRI and antiracist practices among White people. We found
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Motivations for violent extremism: Evidence from lone offenders’ manifestos Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Lusine Grigoryan, Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Shalom Schwartz
This study explores the motivational drivers of violent extremism by examining references to motivational goals—values—in texts written by lone offenders. We present a new database of manifestos written by lone offenders (N = 103), the Extremist Manifesto Database (EMD). We apply a dictionary approach to examine references to values in this corpus. For comparison, we use texts from a matched quota
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Women disproportionately shoulder burdens imposed by the global COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Lisa M. Dinella, Kiameesha Evans, Jordan A. Levinson, Samantha Gagnon
The current study focused on how the sudden onset of the pandemic magnified existing inequalities for women in the United States. A total of 2115 participants responded to an online survey regarding pandemic-related changes to household and childcare responsibilities, employment, mental and physical health and safety, housing, worries and stress, and coping strategies. We employ an intersectionality
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Understanding women's work, children and families during the COVID-19 global pandemic: Using science to support women around the globe Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Lisa M. Dinella, Megan Fulcher, Erica S. Weisgram
Times of disaster disproportionately impact women, children, and vulnerable populations. Thus, concern about women's welfare became paramount as the intensity of the COVID-19 global pandemic increased. Due to these concerns and the need to examine them from a scientific perspective, we announced a call for empirical and theoretical investigations into how women around the world were experiencing this
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Families in quarantine: COVID-19 pandemic effects on the work and home lives of women and their daughters Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Emily F. Coyle, Megan Fulcher, Konner Baker, Craig N. Fredrickson
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 disrupted the lives of millions of US families, with rising unemployment and initial lockdowns forcing nationwide school and daycare closures. These abrupt changes impacted women in particular, shifting how families navigated roles. Even pre-pandemic, US women were responsible for the majority of household labor and childcare, and daughters bore greater
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How the COVID-19 global pandemic further jeopardized women's health, mental well-being, and safety: Intersectionality framework and social policy action Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Megan Fulcher, Kingsley M. Schroeder, Lisa M. Dinella
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately endangered women's health, well-being and safety. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 7 million people worldwide have died from the virus by May 2023. While COVID-19 posed an immediate threat to the lives of people around the world, the interconnections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class resulted in differential consequences of the global
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What have we learned about sexual harassment among young people? Concluding reflections Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, Carolina Lunde
This article contains concluding reflections for a special issue on sexual harassment among young people. In this concluding article, we reflect on the 14 individual papers in the special issue through three cross-cutting themes, each with important implications for policy and practice. The themes highlight that (1) attitudes and norms related to sexual harassment are core to its occurrence among young
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Introduction to Michael A. Hogg's SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Dominic Abrams
It is a great pleasure to write this introduction to Michael Hogg's Kurt Lewin Award address. I first met Michael Hogg (Mike) in 1983 at the University of Bristol where he had just completed his PhD supervised by John Turner, and where Mike and I were appointed as assistant professors responsible for the whole social psychology program. We were temporary substitutes for Turner (who had moved to Australia)
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Walls between groups: Self-uncertainty, social identity, and intergroup leadership Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Michael A. Hogg
Lowering barriers between polarized groups and the identity silos they inhabit can be challenging in times of crisis and uncertainty. This article overviews uncertainty-identity theory’s analysis of the motivational role played by self-uncertainty in group identification and group/intergroup behavior, and focuses on how self-uncertainty can motivate zealous identification with “extremist” groups and
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On the history and growth of the stigma concept: A reflection on the positioning of social relationships in stigma research Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Bruce G. Link
The stigma concept has been tremendously successful one. Before Goffman's influential book only a handful of papers used the term in the abstract or title of a paper—in 2020 there were 3464. While the reason for stigma's dramatic growth is likely over determined two possibilities are suggested. The first is the usefulness that the concept carries for understanding the shame, social awkwardness, rejection
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Antecedent goals for concealable stigma disclosure: The ironic effects of compassion Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Anthony M. Foster, Amelia E. Talley
Disclosure of a concealable stigmatized identity is perhaps one of the most difficult obstacles facing individuals who live with “discreditable” attributes. Although previous research suggests that antecedent goals, or the reasons why individuals disclose their stigma to others, have a fundamental influence on disclosure events and their subsequent outcomes, much of this work has focused on the perspective
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Theorizing racialized disaster patriarchal capitalism in the age of COVID-19: A framework for feminist policy change Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Johanna E. Foster, Sophie Foster-Palmer
In this concluding article, the authors use a global, intersectional feminist political economy lens to reconceptualize disaster response policy and practices that center women's lives. They extend this issue's discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on women's health and safety in ways that have exposed and expanded gender inequalities, and differently for different groups of women, to the discourse
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Black motherhood and the dual pandemics: The protective role of stable income on mental wellbeing Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Nneka Ibekwe-Okafor, Jacqueline Sims, Stephanie M. Curenton
The dual pandemic (racial discrimination and COVID-19) has contributed to mental health disparities across various social identities. Black mothers, in particular, have shouldered the heightened stresses of being Black and female during a time of immense anti-Black racism and societal pressures to assume caretaking roles at the expense of, or in addition to, other financial obligations. Thus, this
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Special issue introduction: Sexual harassment among young people Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Therése Skoog, Carolina Lunde, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario
Sexual harassment is a serious and widespread social issue affecting numerous young people across the globe. Sexual harassment is prevalent in many everyday situations and contexts, not least in school. In recent years, public discussions emerging from the seminal #MeToomovement, have put the adversities of sexual harassment in the academic spotlight. This special issue presents cutting-edge research
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A perceived control-relationally devaluing experiences model of low socioeconomic status vulnerability to negative relationship outcomes Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Corey Petsnik, Jacquie D. Vorauer
We propose that individuals low (vs. high) in socioeconomic status (SES) are vulnerable to impaired relationship functioning through two different mutually reinforcing paths that both directly implicate perceptions of control and relational devaluation. The first of these involves chronic exposure to relational devaluation as a function of factors such as stigmatization in broader society that serves
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Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 David Matthew Doyle, Manuela Barreto
Research on the relational effects of stigma must move beyond the intergroup context and, most importantly, focus upon the ways in which stigma itself shapes social relationships. In order to more deeply investigate the relational consequences of social stigma, researchers interested in this topic need to consider the potential contributions of relationship science. Drawing upon past theory, we pose
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Recognizing and addressing how gender shapes young people's experiences of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in educational settings Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jessica Ringrose, Kaitlyn Regehr
This paper explores findings from a study with 150 young people (aged 12-21) across England, which employed qualitative focus groups and arts-based methods to investigate young people's experiences of digital image-sharing practices. In this paper, we explore how gendered pressures to send nudes experienced by girls is a form of Image-Based Sexual Harassment (IBSH) and how pressures upon boys to secure
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How stigma gets “in between”: Associations between changes in perceived stigma, closeness discrepancies, and relationship satisfaction among same-sex couples Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 David M. Frost, Allen J. LeBlanc
Same-sex couples continue to experience social stigma, which can have negative consequences for the quality of their relationships. The current study combined minority stress theory with closeness discrepancy theory in an examination of how the production of disjunctures between actual and ideal experiences of closeness (i.e., closeness discrepancies) accounts for an indirect association between stigma
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Intersections of ageism toward older adults and other isms during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Luisa Ramirez, Caitlin Monahan, Ximena Palacios-Espinosa, Sheri R. Levy
The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant global issue that has exacerbated pre-existing structural and social inequalities. There are concerns that ageism toward older adults has intensified in conjunction with elevated forms of other “isms” such as ableism, classism, heterosexism, racism, and sexism. This study offers a systematic review (PRISMA) of ageism toward older adults interacting with other
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All is nice and well unless she outshines him: Higher social status benefits women's well-being and relationship quality but not if they surpass their male partner Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Melissa Vink, Belle Derks, Naomi Ellemers, Tanja van der Lippe
In two studies, we find that climbing the societal ladder has positive associations with women's well-being and relationship outcomes but can also have negative consequences when women surpass their male partners in status. In Study 1 (N = 314), we found that women who reported having higher personal status also reported several positive relationship outcomes (e.g., higher relationship quality than
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‘‘Reclaiming our time’’: Black mothers cultivating the homeplace during times of crisis Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Chonika Coleman-King, Taryrn T. C Brown, Latoya Haynes-Thoby, Tianna Dowie-Chin
This collaborative auto-ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black-(other)mother-scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims to dominate black bodies. Drawing on Black feminism
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The worldwide ageism crisis Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Sheri R. Levy, Ashley Lytle, Jamie Macdonald
Ageism is a worldwide crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated ageism toward older adults with hate speech, intergenerational resentment, and human rights violations. This article provides an overview of the interdisciplinary and international theoretical and applied research literature in three subareas: intergenerational attitudes and relations, psychological and physical effects of ageism on older
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Exploring the experiences of pregnant women in the U.S. during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic Journal of Social Issues (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Courtney E. Williams, Dana Berkowitz, Heather M. Rackin
In this paper, we integrate the stress process model with symbolic interactionism to frame our analysis of interviews with 35 women who were pregnant and/or gave birth during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. We detail three stressors, highlight their variation, and discuss how they coped with these stressors. Women reported having to navigate contradictory information about the public health