Sociology: Recent submissions
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Gender and the Green Economy
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)The Green Economy is supposed to be sustainable but is it? Being sustainable would entail being equitable. Feminist scholarship shows that the mainstream economy is thoroughly organized by gender, is inequitable, and ... -
Community Formation in a Nascent Retirement Village
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Retirement communities are a rapidly growing phenomenon in the United States. These settings provide a variety of services and recreational activities to retired persons in an attempt to create an age-segregated ... -
How English Experience and Employment Sector Influence Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Assimilation
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)An abundance of research suggests that an immigrant’s English experience is a major determining factor in the success of their socioeconomic assimilation. Most scholars equate English experience with English fluency, or ... -
Selling Seeds, Selling Communities: Re-Seeing Agronomy and Conventional Agricultural Seed Development and Exchange in Rural Kansas and Missouri
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This qualitative research explores agri-food issues in contemporary, conventional hybrid seed production and exchange, particularly the sales of high-earning corn and soy hybrids ubiquitous on the farms practicing conventional ... -
Disparities in the Uptake of Colorectal Cancer Screenings: The Role of Education, Insurance, and Screening Type
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Preventative screenings hold the promise of detecting disease before it becomes fatal. However, they often have the unintended consequence of creating socioeconomic disparities because individuals with social and economic ... -
Collectivism and the Intellectuals: Svend Ranulf, Emile Durkheim, Fascism, and Resistance
(Indiana University Press, 2017)Ideals of collective solidarity and community are often affirmed by authoritar-ians as well as by democrats. That double fact has seemed paradoxical to many thinkers, some of whom conclude, or suspect, that the pursuit of ... -
Health lifestyle behaviors among U.S. adults
(Elsevier, 2017-12)Existing research that studies individual health behaviors and conceive of behaviors as simplistically reflecting narrow intentions toward health may obscure the social organization of health behaviors. Instead, we examine ... -
Reducing Low Birth Weight among African Americans in the Midwest: A Look at How Faith-Based Organizations Are Poised to Inform and Influence Health Communication on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
(MDPI, 2017-02-04)Low birth weight (LBW) rates remain the highest among African Americans despite public health efforts to address these disparities; with some of the highest racial disparities in the Midwest (Kansas). The Developmental ... -
The Architecture of Feminicide: The State, Inequalities, and Everyday Gender Violence in Honduras
(Latin American Studies Association, 2017-08)Increasing exclusion and inequality in Honduras have posed escalating security risks for women in their homes and on the streets. In this article, we examine gender-based violence against women, including gender-motivated ... -
Depression, Executive Dysfunction, and Prior Economic and Social Vulnerability Associations in Incarcerated African American Men
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-01)Low executive function (EF) and depression are each determinants of health. We examined the synergy between deficits in EF (impaired cognitive flexibility; >75th percentile on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test perseverative ... -
HIV status, fertility intentions, and contraception in the era of expanded access to antiretroviral therapy: A case study of rural Mozambique
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-12-29)Provision of effective contraception to HIV positive women of reproductive age is critical to effective management of HIV infection and prevention of both vertical and horizontal HIV transmission in developing countries. ... -
Motivating forces in the development of collectivized forms of leisure-time activity
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The Local Dimension of Transnational Activity in Environmental Conflicts: Tambogrande, 1961-2004
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Based on the in-depth analysis of the Tambogrande case, the most well known case of social mobilization in Peru, I argue that the success or failure of transnational activity is closely linked to actions performed on the ... -
The Sources of Life Chances: Does Education, Class Category, Occupation, or Short-Term Earnings Predict 20-Year Long-Term Earnings?
(Society for Sociological Science, 2018-03-21)In sociological studies of economic stratification and intergenerational mobility, occupation has long been presumed to reflect lifetime earnings better than do short-term earnings. However, few studies have actually ... -
"'Asianness Under Construction:' The Contours and Negotiation of Panethnic Identity/Culture among Interethnically Married Asian Americans."
(SAGE, 2017)Based on life-history interviews of interethnically married U.S.-raised Asians, this article examines the meaning and dynamics of Asian American interethnic marriages, and what they reveal about the complex incorporative ... -
Parents’ Experiences as Educational Advocates for Children with Autism in Public Schools: Parent-Educator Relationships
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)While global, interdisciplinary debates continue regarding increased prevalence in autism spectrum disorders, there is no doubt that the visibility of individuals with autism have increased in public schools. Families of ... -
Drawing Lines and Taking Sides: An Examination of Boundary Work among Oppositional Worldviews
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Christians and atheists have clashed publicly over ideological tensions throughout the history of the United States. Active atheists and evangelical Christians have, and continue to, vie for legitimacy and access to power, ... -
Sustainable Practices in the High Plains: A Study of Water Conservation Efforts and Well Ownership
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Extreme demands for crop irrigation and droughts have stressed water supplies in Kansas, making the state increasingly reliant on its underground reserves of freshwater. As precipitation and the availability of surface ... -
MAKING THE CHOICE TO USE HERBS: PATHWAYS TO THE PRACTICE OF HERBALISM
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)This study examines how herbal medicine users chose to begin using herbal medicine: How do people learn about, become interested in, and begin using herbal medicine? How do social, cultural, personal, and situational factors ... -
Determining Diabetes: The Role of Educational Attainment and Race/Ethnicity in the Link between Health Behaviors and Diabetes
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Drawing on a theoretical framework that integrates the social determinants of health perspective with health lifestyles theory (Cockerham 2005) and social psychological theories of person control (Mirowsky and Ross 2003), ...