Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013)

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    Book Review: Whitewashing the Web: A Review Essay
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Henricks, Kasey
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    Book Review: Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, by Scott G. McNall
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Ternes, Brock
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    Book Review: Is Feminism Dead or is it Fluoride in the Water?
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01)
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    Interview with Steven Epstein
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Wendel-Hummell, Carrie L.; Coulter, Maureen
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    INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF NUTRITION EDUCATION ON THE LIFESTYLES OF THIRD-GRADE CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Frishman, Natalia; Shelley, Mack C.; Montgomery, Doris
    The current study assessed improvement in healthy lifestyles of third-grade children from Iowa schools who participated in nutrition education lessons provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Building and Strengthening Iowa Community Support for Nutrition and Physical Activity (BASICS) program in 2009. The program encourages children to eat more fruits and vegetables as snacks and to be active every day. Autoregressive models and logistic regression analysis results showed that the BASICS program improved awareness of the “Pick a better snack™ & Act” campaign among children and their parents. The program also led to children’s increased preferences toward fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk products, and to parents’ increased willingness to offer healthy foods to their children. The program stimulated children’s desires to be physically active and parents’ attentiveness toward children’s physical activity. These results indicated that the children influenced their parents’ recognition of campaign materials and how often their parents provided them with fruits and vegetables. Increasing parent age negatively influenced the probability of children receiving free and reduced-price lunch, reflecting the better economic situation of families with older parents.
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    INCREASING REPRESENTATION, MAINTAINING HIERARCHY: AN ASSESSMENT OF GENDER AND MEDICAL SPECIALIZATION
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Davis, Georgiann; Allison, Rachel
    Despite increases in the number of women entering the medical profession during the past four decades, female medical students remain more likely than their male colleagues to enter less prestigious medical specialties. Data from the Association of American Medical College’s 2004 Graduation Questionnaire are used to test both supply- and demand-side explanations for this pattern among a recent cohort of graduating medical students. Controlling for educational debt, type of medical school attended, and race/ethnicity, women are less likely to enter the prestigious fields of surgery and anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology. Although none of this study’s hypotheses account entirely for the effect of gender on medical specialization, results reveal that concerns about work and family balance and experiences of mistreatment in medical school affect all medical students’ career decision making, albeit in somewhat unanticipated ways.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF EMBODIMENT AMONG SIX SUPERHEROES IN DC COMICS
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) Avery-Natale, Edward
    This study analyzes the changes in physical presentation of several DC comic book superheroes, finding that the bodies of superheroes have become far more sexualized, exaggerated, and unrealistic in recent years. The comic reader’s “gaze” upon the bodies of the characters produces an intersection of spectacle and narrative that cannot be disconnected from both the physical body and the costume of the hero. Literature on the bodies of male and female bodybuilders reveals a connection to the hyper-embodiment of male and female superheroes, which represent the ego ideal of Western representations of “perfect” gendered bodies. The study concludes by asking if contemporary comic books must shift from the “Modern Age” to the “Postmodern Age” in order to break out of their practices of reaffirming gender binaries. The argument expands on work by Jean Baudrillard and Judith Butler.
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    Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013): Front Matter
    (Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01)