Social Thought and Research, Volume 28 (2007)
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/4634
2024-03-28T12:27:08ZSocial Thought and Research, Volume 28 (2007): Front Matter
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5227
Social Thought and Research, Volume 28 (2007): Front Matter
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZSport Participation and Adolescent Deviance: A Logistic Analysis
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5228
Sport Participation and Adolescent Deviance: A Logistic Analysis
Vermillion, Mark
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between sport participation and school defined deviance in eighth grade adolescents. Building upon the previous sport participation literature and utilizing Hirschi s social bond theory to inform variable selection procedures, analysis of the relationship is measured with mediating student, family, and school variables extracted from the National Education Longitudinal Survey. After a brief discussion of the previous sport participation literature, theoretical framework used, methodology, research design, and measures, the results reveal sport participation had a slight impact upon adolescent deviance. The analysis supports the ideas that there are statistically significant differences between athletes and non-athletes in regards to certain characteristics (informed by social bond theory) that influence deviant behavior. In addition, logistic regression shows that while sport participation does have a moderate impact upon adolescent deviance, it could be other social bond characteristics, such as family characteristics, have a greater impact upon deviant behavior. Current research limitations and future directions are discussed.
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZIdeology, Hegemony, Discourse: A Critical Review of Theories of Knowledge and Power
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5226
Ideology, Hegemony, Discourse: A Critical Review of Theories of Knowledge and Power
Stoddart, Mark C. J.
For over a century, social theorists have attempted to explain why those who lack economic power consent to hierarchies of social and political power. They have used ideology, hegemony and discourse as key concepts to explain the intersections between the social production of knowledge and the perpetuation of power relations. The Marxist concept of ideology describes how the dominant ideas within a given society reflect the interests of a ruling economic class. In this paper, I trace the movement from this concept of ideology to models of hegemony and discourse. I then trace a second set of ruptures in theories of ideology, hegemony and discourse. Marx and others link ideology to a vision of society dominated by economic class as a field of social power. However, theorists of gender and race have questioned the place of class as the locus of power. I conclude by arguing that key theorists of gender and race Hall, Smith, hooks and Haraway offer a more complex understanding of how our consent to networks of power is produced within contemporary capitalist societies. This argument has important implications for theory and practice directed at destabilizing our consent to power.
2007-01-01T00:00:00ZVoyeurism, Ethics, and the Lure of the Extraordinary: Lessons from Studying America s Underground
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5224
Voyeurism, Ethics, and the Lure of the Extraordinary: Lessons from Studying America s Underground
Blee, Kathleen
2007-01-01T00:00:00Z