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Up in smoke or down with worms? older adult environmentalist’s discourse on disposal, dispersal, and (green) burial
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-01-26)Environmentalists target their own behaviour choices as part of their identity, including recycling, transportation, and clothing. Based on interviews with older adult environmentalists, we investigate whether their ... -
Dialogic Essentialism and Protecting Against Stigma within the Fat Admirer Community
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-29)Fat Admirers (FAs) represent a group of stigmatized individuals who challenge Western ideals of beauty. Using an internet ethnography, I analyze the sharing of stigmatizing experiences among FAs on the Dimensions forum, ... -
Health and well-being for all: an approach to accelerating progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in countries in the WHO European Region
(Oxford University Press, 2020-05-11)Background Forty-three out of 53 of the WHO European Member States have set up political and institutional mechanisms to implement the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This includes governance ... -
KEEPING THINGS, BUT ONLY FOR A WHILE
(Oxford University Press, 2019-11-08)The life course is accomplished by material culture held as a convoy of possessions, but also sustained by public affordances and amenities that include the artifacts and artworks to be found in museums. In both places—household ... -
THE INTERSECTION OF RELIGION AND SES IN MANAGING CHRONIC CONDITIONS AMONG OLDER PERSONS IN NIGERIA
(Oxford University Press, 2019-11-08)Increased life expectancy in Nigeria has corresponded with higher rates of chronic diseases among older persons. Consequently, this is a new experience that older persons progressively have to deal with. In this study, I ... -
THE INTERNET IS A BOY’S CLUB?: ANALYZING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTER & INTERNET ADOPTION BY OLDER ADULTS
(Oxford University Press, 2019-11-08)The realization of technology’s exponential advancement has been noted in recent years. With ever advancing technologies becoming more integrated in our everyday lives, we must adapt and learn to utilize these new technologies ... -
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND FUTURE THOUGHT AMONG OLDER ADULTS
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Women’s Schooling and Religious Mobility: Joining, Switching, and Quitting Church in a Christian Sub-Saharan Setting
(Oxford University Press, 2017-07-10)In dialogue with mainly western literature on determinants of religious mobility and the evidence on the transformative role of mass education in developing settings, I examine the relationship of educational attainment ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala
(MDPI, 2016-07-11)High levels of violence against women and impunity in Guatemala have reached crisis proportions and have received increased international attention in recent years. The phenomenon of feminicide (e.g., killings of women in ... -
Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05)This article examines the enduring alterations in behaviors, practices, and self-image that immigrants’ evolving knowledge of and participation in the legalization process facilitate. Relying on close to 200 interviews ... -
Place, Time and Experience: Barriers to Universalization Of Institutional Child Delivery in Rural Mozambique
(Guttmacher Institute, 2016-03)CONTEXT Although institutional coverage of childbirth is increasing in the developing world, a substantial minority of births in rural Mozambique still occur outside of health facilities. Identifying the remaining ... -
Beyond Orchids and Dandelions: Testing the 5HTT ‘Risky’ Allele for Evidence of Phenotypic Capacitance and Frequency Dependent Selection
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The persistence of behaviorally deleterious genes in the human population poses an interesting question for population genetics: If certain alleles at these loci are deleterious, why have they survived in the population? ...
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