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Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-06
Delia Baldassarri, Johanna Gereke, Max Schaub Sociological Science September 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a30 Abstract How does prosocial behavior extend beyond in-group boundaries in multiethnic societies? The differentiation of Western societies presents an opportunity to understand the tension between societal pressures that push people outside the comfort zones of their familiar networks to constructively
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The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Bridget J. Goosby, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Amy Zhang
Few studies examine how high-achieving Black women navigate chronic reproductive health morbidities. Black women are disproportionately more likely to experience uterine fibroids, with earlier onset and more severe symptoms. This study leverages a national mixed-methods data set of Black women academics to examine how they describe symptomatic fibroids impacting their careers and lives. We find that
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Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras* Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Hazel Velasco Palacios, Paige Castellanos, Leif Jensen, Janelle Larson, Francisco Alfredo Reyes Rocha, Carolyn Sachs, Arie Sanders, Kathleen Sexsmith
This research examines the potential of gender‐transformative approaches (GTAs) to improve gender equality in agricultural extension programs and food security through experiential learning and participatory methods. Scholars of gender and agriculture have long highlighted the gender gap in access to agricultural resources; to address this issue, development organizations have integrated GTAs into
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Housework as a Woman's Job? What Looks Like Gender Ideologies Could Also Be Stereotypes Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-03
Katrin Auspurg, Sabine Düval Sociological Science September 3, 2024 10.15195/v11.a29 Abstract We question the validity of standard measures of gender ideology. When asked about “men” and “women” in general, respondents may imagine women (men) with lower (higher) labor market resources. Therefore, standard measures may conflate gender ideologies (injunctive norms) with stereotypical beliefs (descriptive
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Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Alec P. Rhodes, Rachel E. Dwyer, Jason N. Houle
The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing
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Families of austerity: benefit cutbacks and family stress in the UK Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Gabriele Mari, Renske Keizer
Benefit cutbacks have been prominent after the Great Recession. The Family Economic Stress Model (FESM) theorizes how financial losses such as those spurred by cutbacks might adversely affect parental and child well-being. Yet, few links with policy have been established. We extend current knowledge by comprehensively assessing how benefits cutbacks may affect parents and their adolescent children
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Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM) Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Tianyu Shen, Collin F. Payne, Maria Jahromi
Many studies have compared individual measures of health expectancy across older populations by time-invariant characteristics. However, very few have included time-varying variables when calculating health expectancy. Even among older adults, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics are likely to change over the life course, and these changes may have substantial implications for health outcomes
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The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S. Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Emily Parker, Rebecca Anna Schut, Courtney Boen
In the United States, exclusionary public policies generate inequalities within and across labor, financial, and legal status hierarchies, which together undermine immigrant well-being. But can inclusive public policies improve immigrant health? We examine whether and how an immigrant-inclusive federal program, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), shaped health care access and use among farmworkers
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Book Review: The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land, By Lea Taragin-Zeller Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Cara Rock-Singer
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Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-30
Yao Lu, Neeraj Kaushal, Xiaoning Huang, S. Michael Gaddis, Ariela Schachter Sociological Science August 30, 2024 10.15195/v11.a28 Abstract This study examines how COVID-induced and general attitudes toward Asians have changed over the course of the pandemic using nationally representative survey experiments in 2020 and 2022. First, we measured COVID-induced anti-Asian attitudes as the effect of a treatment
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Book Review: Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, & Violence against Women By Walter S. Dekeseredy, Stu Cowan, and Martin D. Schwartz Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Victoria Silverwood
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Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753. Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Hannah Dixon Everett
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Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27
Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Irene Pañeda-Fernández, Leire Salazar, Jonatan Castaño Muñoz Sociological Science August 27, 2024 10.15195/v11.a27 Abstract Teachers are the evaluators of academic merit. Identifying if their assessments are fair or biased by student-ascribed status is critical for equal opportunity but empirically challenging, with mixed previous findings. We test status characteristics beliefs
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Demographic consequences of social movements: local protests delay marriage formation in Ethiopia Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Liliana Andriano, Mathis Ebbinghaus
Despite their significance, life-course dynamics are rarely considered as consequences of social movements. We address this shortcoming by investigating the relationship between protest and marriage formation in Ethiopia. Building on scholarship in social movements and insights from family demography, we argue that exposure to protest delays marriage formation. To test our theoretical arguments, we
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Navigating the Labour Market: Women Job Seekers’ Mobilisation of a Postfeminist Sensibility Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Ruth Abrams, Deborah Brewis, Miguel Imas
Job seeking is a crucial yet overlooked process through which people navigate the world of work. Yet there remains limited qualitative research examining the complex and nuanced experiences of job seekers in a contemporary labour market. This article explores 38 interviews with job-seeking women in England, all of whom were interviewed over a six-month period. Using a postfeminist sensibility, findings
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Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Kaspar Burger, Nathan Brack
Research has shown that socioeconomic and psychological resources may influence educational trajectories. There are still unanswered questions, however, about the unique roles of these resources and the interplay between them. We consider two such questions: First, how do major psychological resources—a sense of school belonging and optimistic future expectations—predict educational trajectories when
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Book Review: Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women’s Roles in Anti-Trans Violence By alithia zamantakis Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Sethe Zachman
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Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945–2019 Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Miriam Hurtado Bodell, Måns Magnusson, Marc Keuschnigg
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised extension to the standard topic model that allows sociological knowledge to be infused into the computational learning of meaning structures. Seed words help crystallize topics around known concepts, while utilizing topic models’ functionality
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Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-20
Peter McMahan, Eran Shor Sociological Science August 20, 2024 10.15195/v11.a25 Abstract Sociologists of culture have long noted that contrasting cultural frames can lead to status ambiguity and status multiplicity. We explore these phenomena in the domain of professional sports by first replicating and then extending and challenging recently published findings on selections for the National Basketball
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Policy Brief Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Margot Moinester, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope
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The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas☆ Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Rita Helena Phillips
Digital initiatives may have helped to maintain active social networks during restrictive, social distancing measures of the COVID‐19 pandemic. To examine how and under which circumstances digital initiatives can contribute to social cohesion, semistructured interviews with 35 stakeholders of local communities and clubs were conducted. The thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews identified
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Unemployment Insurance and the Family: Heterogeneous Effects of Benefit Generosity on Reemployment and Economic Precarity Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-16
Ursina Kuhn, Debra Hevenstone, Leen Vandecasteele, Samin Sepahniya, Dorian Kessler Sociological Science August 16, 2024 10.15195/v11.a24 Abstract We investigate how unemployment insurance generosity impacts reemployment and economic precarity by family type. With Swiss longitudinal administrative data and a regression discontinuity design using potential benefit duration, we examine differences between
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Book Review: The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump By Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Stephanie Seidel Holmsten
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A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Bernard J. Koch, Tim Sainburg, Pablo Geraldo Bastías, Song Jiang, Yizhou Sun, Jacob G. Foster
This primer systematizes the emerging literature on causal inference using deep neural networks under the potential outcomes framework. It provides an intuitive introduction to building and optimizing custom deep learning models and shows how to adapt them to estimate/predict heterogeneous treatment effects. It also discusses ongoing work to extend causal inference to settings where confounding is
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Diverging Entrepreneurial Paths of Survivalist Truckers: Migrants’ Ongoing Agency in US Trucking Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Görkem Dağdelen
This article explores the formation of migrant agency by scrutinizing the decision-making processes of owner-operator truckers. Drawing on qualitative data collected among male migrants from Turkey in the US, the main finding is that migrant truckers, by making various decisions at the turning points of their career, choose one of three trucking segments and decide the number of trucks that they own
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Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Gabriella Cioce, Davide Però, Marek Korczynski
In the context of the rising power of capital over labour, research on labour mobilization is important. From the research literature, we know that labour mobilizations might be initiated by trade unions or via workers’ self-organization. Yet, we know little about the cultural and social processes through which individual workers come to self-organize in the first place. To address this gap, we present
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Disparate Impact? Career Disruptions and COVID-19 Impact Statements in Tenure Evaluations Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-13
Lauren A. Rivera, Katherine Weisshaar, András Tilcsik Sociological Science August 13, 2024 10.15195/v11.a23 Abstract Extensive research reveals employer biases against workers with career disruptions, particularly those related to caregiving. However, the effectiveness of organizational practices intended to mitigate such biases is less well understood. This study examines the use of COVID-19 impact
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Critical Rural Theory: A Decade of Influence on Rural Education Research☆ Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Wendy Pfrenger
Rural education researchers have long been interested in the impact of increasing urbanization, with its attendant shifts in policy, culture, and capital mobility, on rural people and communities, but their findings have existed largely to the side of “mainstream” research examining urban and suburban populations. With the publication in 2011 of Critical Rural Theory: Structure, Space, Culture, scholars
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Book Review: Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools, By Michael V. Singh Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Melanie Z. Plasencia
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Book Review: Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power By Lisa Weaver Swartz Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Laura Krull
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Labor Market Consequences of Grandparenthood Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-09
Won-tak Joo, Felix Elwert, Martin D. Munk Sociological Science August 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a22 Abstract Little is known about the labor market consequences of becoming a grandparent. We estimate grandparenthood effects on labor supply and earnings using detailed multigenerational data from Danish population registers. Results show that the consequences of grandparenthood are unequally distributed and
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Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Karen Nairn, Carisa R. Showden, Kyle R. Matthews, Joanna Kidman, Judith Sligo
We argue youth-led social justice movements are key sites for building collective hope in the face of the existential threats of colonisation, climate change and sexual violence. Building on the concepts of projective agency and affective scaffolding, we create an analytical framework to understand how collective hope was created and challenged in the work of six activist groups in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Erin Macke, Claire Daviss, Emma Williams-Baron
Researchers have developed many uses for digital trace data, yet most online survey experiments continue to rely on attitudinal rather than behavioral measures. We argue that researchers can collect digital trace data during online survey experiments with relative ease, at modest costs, and to substantial benefit. Because digital trace data unobtrusively measure survey participants’ behaviors, they
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Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Chris Felton, Brandon M. Stewart
Instrumental variables (IV) analysis is a powerful, but fragile, tool for drawing causal inferences from observational data. Sociologists increasingly turn to this strategy in settings where unmeasured confounding between the treatment and outcome is likely. This paper reviews the assumptions required for IV and the consequences of violating them, focusing on sociological applications. We highlight
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Three Lions or Three Scapegoats: Racial Hate Crime in the Wake of the Euro 2020 Final in London Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-06
Christof Nägel, Mathijs Kros, Ryan Davenport Sociological Science August 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a21 Abstract Does (under-)performance of athletes from stigmatized racial groups influence the incidence of racial hate crimes? We consider the case of the English national football team during the 2020 European Football Championship and analyze whether the performance of black players during the final at
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Book Review: In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South By Firuzeh Shokooh Valle Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Manisha Desai
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Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Sara Johnsen
Patient-centered care is widely cited as a component of quality contraceptive health care, but its operationalization in clinical interaction is contested. This article examines patient-centered care as an interactional phenomenon using the case of patient dissatisfaction with side effects of hormonal contraceptive medications. Drawing on transcript data from 109 tape-recorded reproductive health visits
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Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Tobias Heidland, Philipp C Wichardt
This paper connects insights from the literature on cosmopolitan worldviews and the effects of perspective-taking in political science, (intergroup) anxiety in social psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. In particular, we asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description (N = 662). The main treatment describes
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Getting out and giving back: repertoires of destigmatization in the private social safety net Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Daniel Bolger
Receiving assistance can be stigmatizing. As the cash welfare rolls have fallen to near-historic lows, the privatization of the social safety net in many states has brought up new questions about how recipients of assistance meet their material needs without sacrificing their sense of dignity. I draw on 15 months of ethnographic observation and 44 interviews with social service recipients in two majority
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Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-02
Patrick Sharkey Sociological Science August 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a20 Abstract The changes in daily life induced by the COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to longstanding concerns about social isolation in the United States. Despite the links between the physical setting for individuals’ daily lives and their connections with family, friends, and the various institutions of collective life
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Book Review: Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt By Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Victoria Sands
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Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Jiwon Lee
This article uses the example of voter turnout in US presidential elections to compare two new methods for age, period, and cohort (APC) analysis: the APC interaction model and the APC bounding analysis. While discussing the formal, conceptual, and interpretive differences between the two methods, the analysis demonstrates how both methods can be used to generate distinct but complementary findings
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An inherently reflexive habitus: Navigating lesbian, gay and bisexual lives in Cyprus The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Andria Christofidou, Christiana Ierodiakonou
This article advances literature on reflexive habitus in relation to LGB people by demonstrating empirically that habitus and reflexivity can coexist, albeit in very complex ways. The analysis offered relies on interview data with self-identified lesbian women, gay men and bisexual people in Cyprus – a context that is undergoing social change while however preserving its core heteronormative and conservative
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From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Erika Cudworth
Work within the sociology of the family and personal life has tended to proceed with little or no recognition of non-human members of the household. In the sociology of human–animal relations, however, ideas of multispecies families, multispecies households and animal companions (pets) as kin have been proposed in attempting to capture the close bonds between people and the animals they share their
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Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Mischa J. T. Dekker
Online and offline spaces where victims shared their experiences with street harassment were instrumental in putting this issue on the political agenda around the world. However, one question in particular sparked uneasiness among French activists: how to deal with stories that, in their view, reproduced stigmas about racialized men or disadvantaged areas? Existing scholarship addresses how people
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Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Lara Monticelli, Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Can utopian realism constitute an antidote to today’s ‘pervasive atmosphere of capitalist realism’, as defined by the late critical theorist Mark Fisher? Through this article, a collaboration between a sociologist and a literary scholar, we argue that the answer to this question is a resounding yes. To substantiate our thesis, we conduct a ‘sociological exegesis’ of the best-selling science fiction
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Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Ryan T. Steel
Cannabis can provide patients benefits for pain and symptom management, improve their functionality, and enhance their well-being. Yet restrictive medical cannabis programs can limit these potential benefits. This article draws on four years of research into Minnesota’s medical cannabis program—one of the most restrictive in the United States—including in-depth interviews with patients and a survey
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The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity International Political Sociology (IF 3.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Jaroslav Weinfurter
This article returns to the existentialist roots of ontological security theory (OST) and proposes a phenomenological re-reading of ontological security through the theoretical language of spherology and immunology in order to bring OST into a more substantive engagement with the spatial and immunological realities and practices of the globalizing world. Departing from the work of Peter Sloterdijk
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Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Kim de Laat, Alanna Stuart
This article examines how Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (IBPOC) music industry workers navigate moments of racism and microaggressions. Through interviews with musical artists and industry workers ( N = 55), the article identifies two strategies for navigating situational acts of racism: alleviation and confrontation. Those choosing to alleviate reactions to racism express a psychic weight
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Book Review: The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women (Globalization in Everyday Life) by Fauzia Husain Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Sarah Ahmed
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Book Review: When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age, Anna Gjika Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Jamie L. Small
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Marked by Association(s): A Social Network Approach to Investigating Mental Health-Related Associative Stigma Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Elizabeth Felix
With most scholarly attention directed toward understanding the stigma experiences of individuals with mental illness, less attention has been given to associative stigma: an understudied form of social exclusion and devaluation experienced by the social ties of stigmatized individuals. This study advances scholarly understanding of associative stigma by drawing on social network methods to better
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Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Caroline V. Brooks
There are competing perspectives on the impact of Hispanic immigrants’ social networks on health; the Hispanic health paradox views networks as sources of resilience, whereas the tenuous ties perspective views networks as sources of risk. In this study, I explore the effect of networks on health by examining three network pathways: social capital, social bonding, and network stress. Using egocentric
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Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Ariel Azar
This study employs multichannel sequence analysis of data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe to explore variations in the association between work–family life trajectories and women’s mental health across European cohorts born between 1924 and 1965 within different policy contexts. It finds that trajectories characterized by prolonged employment and delayed familial commitments
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Eddie Webster, 29/03/1942 – 05/03/2024 Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Michael Brookes
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Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Reed T. DeAngelis
Scholars cite racist political-economic systems as drivers of health inequities in the United States (i.e., racial capitalism). But how does racial capitalism generate health inequities? I address this open question within the historical context of predatory lending during the 2008 financial crisis. Relevant hypotheses are tested with multiple waves of data from Black and White participants of the
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“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers☆ Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Joseph Firnhaber, Sandra M. Malone, Anna Donnla O'Hagan, Sinéad O'Keeffe, John McNamara, Siobhán O'Connor
Farming is a stressful occupation with many farmers facing daily uncertainty and high mental health risks. In addition to unpredictable occupations, rapidly changing European and Irish agricultural policies may put farmers in a liminal state. We aimed to identify sources of occupational stress or well‐being for Irish farmers, particularly regarding change in their lives and communities. We collected
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Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Anna Matysiak, Wojciech Hardy, Lucas van der Velde
Research from the US argues that women will benefit from a structural labour market change as the importance of social tasks increases and that of manual tasks declines. This article contributes to this discussion in three ways: (a) by extending the standard framework of task content of occupations in order to account for the gender perspective; (b) by developing measures of occupational task content