Scholarly Works, Department of Sociology

Newsletters may threaten the mainstream media, but they also build communities

Ovink, Sarah (Washington Post, 2021-07-08)

This Washington Post article contributes a perspective on newsletters over the 20th century, and was published as part of the "Made by History" series.

Considering COVID-19 through the Lens of Hazard and Disaster Research

Ritchie, Liesel; Gill, Duane (MDPI, 2021-06-30)

Decades of social science research have taught us much about how individuals, groups, and communities respond to disasters. The findings of this research have helped inform emergency management practices, including disaster ...

Gateway or Cul de Sac? Using Big Data to Assess Legal Recreational Marijuana and Changes in the Use of “Hard” Drugs

Perdue, Robert T.; Hawdon, James E. (The North Carolina Sociological Association, 2019-09-30)

Does legalizing marijuana result in decreased narcotic use as legalization proponents and some researchers claim? Or, conversely, does legalizing marijuana provide a gateway for experimentation and future “hard” drug use ...

Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat: Black Men, Masculinity, Faith and Food

Brown, Letisha Engracia Cardoso (MDPI, 2020-06-15)

Men often have poorer health outcomes than women. In the United States, Black men in particular tend to have worse health than not only Black women but other racial/ethnic groups of men. One factor that contributes to ...

Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Community-Engaged Environmental Health Research in Appalachian Virginia

Satterwhite, Emily; Bell, Shannon Elizabeth; Marr, Linsey C.; Thompson, Christopher K.; Prussin, Aaron J.; Buttling, Lauren; Pan, Jin; Gohlke, Julia (MDPI, 2020-03-05)

This article describes a collaboration among a group of university faculty, undergraduate students, local governments, local residents, and U.S. Army staff to address long-standing concerns about the environmental health ...

Contemporary Spatial Publicness: Its New Characteristics and Democratic Possibilities

Han, Soyoung; Kim, Joong Won; Kwon, Yoonku (MDPI, 2019-08-29)

In this study, we explore the recognition of publicness as understood by everyday users of public space. By analyzing news articles in South Korea selected from 1 January 2010, to 31 December 2018, this study examines a ...

A Puzzle of Racial Attitudes: A Measurement Analysis of Racial Attitudes and Policy Indicators

Roos, J. Micah; Hughes, Michael D.; Reichelmann, Ashley V. (Sage, 2019)

In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers argued that a new dimension of racial prejudice, termed “symbolic racism” and later “racial resentment,” emerged among white Americans as their endorsement of traditional prejudice ...

The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala

Copeland, Nicholas M. (Cornell University Press, 2019)

Nicholas Copeland sheds new light on rural politics in Guatemala and across neoliberal and post-conflict settings in The Democracy Development Machine. This historical ethnography examines how governmentalized spaces of ...

Dysfunction #6: White Reign

Harrison, Anthony Kwame; Miles, Corey J. (antoine lefebvre editions, 2019)

This issue of DYSFUNCTION centers the career of James Albert “Billboard” Jackson as a catalyst for contemplating the conditions and experiences of Black travel in White supremacist America. Jackson, who pioneered Black ...

Hip-Hop Ethos

Harrison, Anthony Kwame; Arthur, Craig E. (MDPI, 2019-02-27)

This article excavates the ethos surrounding hip hop, starting from the proposition that hip hop represents a distinct yet pervasive expression of contemporary black subjectivity, which crystalized in 1970s New York City ...

Environmental Injustice and the Pursuit of a Post-Carbon World: The Unintended Consequences of the Clean Air Act as a Cautionary Tale for Solar Energy Development

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth (Brooklyn Law School, 2017-01-01)

The combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and, to a lesser extent, changes in land cover, have led to a rise in greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the atmosphere and an increase in global average surface temperatures.¹ ...

Who Is Presidential? Women’s Political Representation, Deflection, and the 2016 Election

Boyle, Kaitlin M.; Meyer, Chase B. (Sage, 2018)

In 2016, Hillary Clinton was the first woman to gain the presidential nomination from a major political party in the United States, yet she was unsuccessful. The current study explores barriers to being elected as president ...

Victimization, Urbanicity, and the Relevance of Context: School Routines, Race and Ethnicity, and Adolescent Violence

Peguero, Anthony A.; Portillos, Edwardo L.; Hong, Jun S.; González, Juan Carlos; Kahle, Lindsay L.; Shekarkhar, Zahra (Hindawi, 2013-07-14)

The United States is undergoing a historical racial and ethnic demographic shift. There is limited criminological research exploring if and how these changes influence variation in the relationship between routine activity ...

College Match and Undermatch: Assessing Student Preferences, College Proximity, and Inequality in Post-College Outcomes

Ovink, Sarah; Kalogrides, D.; Nanney, Megan Paige; Delaney, Patrick Prescott

Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows

Torres, Jose; Aokarian, Jacob; Hawdon, James E. (2016-11-09)

Banishment policies grant police the authority to formally ban individuals from entering public housing and arrest them for trespassing if they violate the ban. Despite its widespread use and the social consequences resulting ...

Virtually Standing Up or Standing By? Correlates of Enacting Social Control Online

Costello, Matthew; Hawdon, James E.; Cross, Amanda (2017-11-01)

Research has consistently established the robustness of the bystander effect, or the tendency of individuals to not intervene on behalf of others in emergency situations. This study examines the bystander effect in an ...

Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina García: Toward a Decolonial Hemispheric Feminism

Gillman, Laura J. (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

This essay merges scholarship on coloniality and hemispheric theories to elaborate a hemispheric decolonial feminism. I adopt this approach to illustrate how two Cuban exile writers, Mayra Montero and Cristina García, ...