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Located in the Sociology Department at the University of Kansas, Social Thought and Research is one of only two student-run sociology journals in the United States (along with the Berkeley Journal of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley). Please see our Home Page for further information about Social Thought and Research.
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Book Review: Technology & Society: Social Networks, Power, and Inequality (2016)
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Book Review: Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics (2017)
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Bloody Necessary: Climate Change, Menstruation, and Emergency Planning in Kansas
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2021)This paper examines an important gendered aspect of disasters: Menstrual Health Management (MHM). Sociology of disasters research tends to overlook the ways in which gender matters when examining the impacts of extreme ... -
Interview with Elizabeth Legerski
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2021)Dr. Liz Legerski is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Dakota. She utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore aspects of gender, social inequality, and health and social ... -
Interview with Alessandro Bonnano
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2021)Dr. Alessandro Bonanno, 2019 Blackmar Lecturer, is Texas State University System Regents Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of 25 books ... -
Editors’ Introduction
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 36 (2021): Front Matter
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Trailer Park Residents: Are They Worthy of Society's Respect?
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2019)Existing research is limited in explaining the existence of and reasons for stereotypes held against trailer park residents. This study uses an experimental design to measure attitudes towards trailer park residents, ... -
Book Review: Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens our Future
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Strategies for Sexual Subversion: Informing the Future of Sexualities Research and Activism
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2019)In this paper, I review, analyze, and evaluate the myriad ways early canonical and more recent high-profile scholarship in the field of sexualities envision a liberatory sexual politics and the most fruitful modes of ... -
Re-examining Adorno on the Regression of Consciousness and Democracy: Towards Social Transformation
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2019)Scholars have charged Adorno of hypocritically abandoning efforts to articulate possibilities of social transformation, a propensity he emphasizes is central to social critique and sociocritical sociology. Keeping consistent ... -
Interview with René D. Flores
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2019)Dr. René D. Flores, 2018 Blackmar Lecturer, is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His primary research interests are in the fields of international migration, race and ... -
Interview with Angie Carter
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2019)Dr. Angie Carter, 2017 Blackmar Lecturer, is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Justice at Michigan Technological University. Her work focuses on issues situated within environmental sociology, including ... -
The Promise and Pitfalls of Public Sociology
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 35 (2019): Front Matter
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 34 (2017): Front Matter
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Book Review: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
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A Bridge to Challenging Environmental Inequality: Intersectionality, Environmental Justice, and Disaster Vulnerability
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2017-05-01)This article explores the origins and expansions of environmental justice and disaster vulnerability literature. It proposes an intersectional framework as a tool for bridging these fields of research—fields that have ... -
A Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Impact For 30 Chinese Provinces Across three Regions Between 1997 and 2009
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2017-05-01)Growing evidence has shown substantial threats to China’s environment. After exceeding the United States in 2006, China became the world’s largest CO2 emitter and accounted for 29 percent of global CO2 emissions in 2013. ... -
The "World System" Of the Paris Agreement: Exploring The Construction, Dissemination, And Implementation of Climate Knowledge Through Redd
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2017-05-01)Climate change is one of the most pressing social and environmental issues of the 21st century, and will require innovative thinking to understand its complexity. The Paris Agreement, negotiated at the 2015 21st Conference ...