Social Thought and Research, Volume 30 (2009)https://hdl.handle.net/1808/56412024-03-29T02:33:35Z2024-03-29T02:33:35ZA Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (2009) by Lionel Lionel Cantú Jr. and edited by Nancy A. Naples and Salvador Vidal-OrtizSin, Rayhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/57022018-04-30T20:03:42Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZA Review Essay: The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (2009) by Lionel Lionel Cantú Jr. and edited by Nancy A. Naples and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Sin, Ray
This book sees a dialectic relationship between macro level forces such as the global market and micro level processes such as identity formation in which the interaction between the two constitutes sexuality, and sexuality in turn shapes those macro and micro level processes. As the authors write, “sexuality, as a dimension of power, shapes and organizes processes of migration and modes of incorporation. In turn, the contextual and structural transitions that mark the migration experience impacts the way in which identities are formed” (p21). This mutually constitutive relationship is what the authors call the “queer political economy of migration.”
Queering the Political Economy of Migration: Identities, Space and Borders
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEmotionally Contentious Social Movements: A Tri-Variate FrameworkSin, Rayhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/57012018-04-30T20:03:56Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEmotionally Contentious Social Movements: A Tri-Variate Framework
Sin, Ray
After decades of seeing emotions as irrational and unimportant, scholars in social movements are beginning to value the role of emotions in social movements. This paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on emotions and contentious politics by proposing a synthesized tri-variate framework called the “emotional tripod.” The emotional tripod consists of three mutually constitutive “legs” that explain the origins of emotions (emotional habitus), the process of intensifying and transforming emotions (emotional effervescence) and the quality of the emotions generated (affective/reactive emotions). This paper empiricizes the framework by looking at the visual materials produced by PETA. Lastly, this paper briefly critiques the efficacy of emotions in generating collective action.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEqual Opportunity, Market Preference and Voter Turnout: An Analysis of the 1996, 32000, and 2004 U.S Presidential ElectionsHughes, Robert Paulhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/57002018-04-30T20:04:06Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEqual Opportunity, Market Preference and Voter Turnout: An Analysis of the 1996, 32000, and 2004 U.S Presidential Elections
Hughes, Robert Paul
This article examines how the American political tradition both constrains and enables voter turnout in United States presidential elections. Specifically I examine the impact of the American Creed, defined as the intersection of beliefs in equal opportunity, market preference, and individual responsibility, on voter turnout. Using data from the 1996, 2000, and 2004 American National Election Surveys, I develop a unified vote choice model and test it using multinomial logistic regression. While the idea that people will choose to vote when they feel strongly about an issue or value is intuitive, my findings show that the American Creed acts as “master frame,” or “lens,” that both constrains and enables turnout by limiting the “acceptable” motivations to vote. Specifically, I find that support for equality increases Democratic turnout but has no effect on Republican turnout. Similarly, support for market preferences increases Republican turnout but has no effect on Democratic turnout. I close with a discussion of the implications on the health of U.S. democracy, and the importance of including the choice of abstention in voting behavior research.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZBarriers to Reintegration: An Audit Study of the Impact of Race and Offender Status on Employment Opportunities for WomenGalgano, Sarah W.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/56992018-04-30T20:04:24Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZBarriers to Reintegration: An Audit Study of the Impact of Race and Offender Status on Employment Opportunities for Women
Galgano, Sarah W.
Previous research has illustrated that the stigma of a criminal record can severely impede employment opportunities for exoffenders, especially African American men, however there is very little research examining how women are affected by criminal records. I expand upon prior research by testing the effects of criminal history and race on female employment prospects. I predict that as research has shown for men, race will present a significant barrier for women seeking to find employment and further predict that a criminal history will be even more stigmatizing for women than it is for men. To test these predictions I employed an audit methodology and submitted fictitious resumes to Chicago-land employers for entry-level jobs. I then compared employer callback rates to test the separate and combined effects of race and criminal history. Results indicate that a prior criminal history had little impact on employer response rates (the white female without a criminal record received responses to 19% of the jobs applied for, the white female with a criminal record 14%, the African American female without a criminal record 14%, and the African American female with a criminal record 12%). Results initially indicated that race had no significant impact on employer response rates. Due to the continuing decline of the economy over the data collection period I ran tests to compare data collected prior to the midpoint of data collection to that collected after the midpoint. The results were weak evidence for racial disparity (favoring white applicants) over the first half of the data collection period suggesting that future research should investigate whether African American women in healthier economies face greater adversity in the hiring process than their Caucasian counterparts.
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