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Who Is Presidential? Women’s Political Representation, Deflection, and the 2016 Election
(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
(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 ... -
Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina Garcı´a: Toward a Decolonial Hemispheric Feminism
(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, ... -
Narrative as a Resource for Feminist Practices of Socially Engaged Inquiry: Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness
(Wiley, 2013)Against the view that the physical sciences should be the privileged source of reliable knowledge within the academy in general, and in philosophy in particular, this essay argues that an interdisciplinary approach to ... -
Ageism and Feminism: From “Et Cetera” to Center
(Indiana University Press, 2006)Although women’s studies scholars and activists do not deny the reality of ageism, they have relegated it to secondary status, neglecting to theorize age relations or place old age at the center of analysis. After explaining ... -
Symbolic Politics of the State: The Case of In-state Tuition Bills for Undocumented Students
(Sage, 2016-05-18)A symbolic politics approach contends that the meanings policy proposals convey, and the audiences they attract, may matter more than whether they become law. Yet, we know little about the sociopolitical conditions prompting ... -
Self-rated health and interviewer-rated health: differentials in predictive power for mortality among subgroups of Chinese elders
(WHIOCE, 2017-01-04)Interviewer-rated health (IRH) and self-rated health (SRH) have strong and independent predictive power for mortality, but their relative predictive power has not been examined among sub-populations. Because individuals ... -
Digital Empowerment: African Women and Creative Media
Drawing from seven years' research with women singers, dancers, emcees, and ritual practitioners in Senegal and beyond, Dr. Neff examines the ways in which ethnic traditions intersect with the possibility of digital futures. ... -
Unmet needs in long-term care and their associated factors among the oldest old in China
(2015-04-12)Background With a rapidly aging population and a decline in the availability of family caregivers, the number of elders in China who have unmet long-term care needs is increasing. Because unmet needs often have negative ... -
Drug Use in Middle School: Assessing Attitudinal and Behavioral Predictors
(Oklahoma State University, Oklaoma Sociology Association, and Sociology Consortium of Oklahoma, 2004)Generally speaking, theories of adolescent drug use emphasize either attitudinal variables, such as self-esteem or self-control, or behavioral variables, such as interactions with delinquent peers. This research uses ... -
Applying differential association theory to online hate groups: a theoretical statement
(Social and Economic Research Association of the Turku Universities, 2012)In this paper, I will consider how social media can nurture and encourage mass murder within a framework of one of the most prominent and widely supported criminological theories: differential association. I will briefly ... -
work values, job characteristics, and gender
(University of California Press, 1987-07)This study uses ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of gender on work values, after controlling for various organizational variables. The analysis is based on a complete enumeration of women in a large ... -
accounting for occupational and organizational commitment - a longitudinal reexamination of structural and attitudinal approaches
(University of California Press, 1984)Using longitudinal data collected from a subsample (N = 92) of subjects surveyed five years earlier by Shoemaker et al. (1977), the present study assesses the relative utility of two distinctly different approaches to the ... -
relationship status, health, and health behavior: an examination of cohabiters and commuters
(University of California Press, 2010)A large amount of literature on relationship status, health, and health behavior indicates that marriage conveys health benefits. This literature, however, devotes relatively little attention to two theoretically interesting ... -
gender inequality and the division of household labor in the united-states and sweden - a socialist-feminist approach
(University of California Press, 1991-02)In this paper, we offer a socialist-feminist framework for exploring the persistence of gender inequality in the disvision of household labor. The inconsistent results generated by the relative resources, gender-role ... -
household crowding and family-relations in Bangkok
(University of California Press, 1993-08)Cities in developing countries are growing ever larger and more dense, fostering congested household environments. Using data from Bangkok, this paper examines the effect of household crowding on multiple measures of family ... -
neo-marxian critique, formulation and test of juvenile dispositions as a function of social-class
(University of California Press, 1979)First, this research challenges the methodological adequacy of previous juvenile disposition studies, particularly their conceptualization and measure of social class. Second, a neo-Marxian theory of juvenile court ... -
Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)The article explores the problem of epistemological ignorance. Drawing on the literature of feminist epistemology, in particular the epistemologies of ignorance, it theorizes white ignorance and male ignorance and how it ... -
Posttraumatic Stress Among Students After the Shootings at Virginia Tech
(Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2011-07-18)On April 16, 2007, in the worst campus shooting incident in U.S. history, 49 students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were shot, of whom 32 were killed. A cross-sectional ...
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