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Minority Support: School District Demographics and Support for Funding Election Measures
(SAGE Publications, 2019-09-20)In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to ... -
Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American children's success?
(Elsevier, 2023-04-14)Asian immigrants' children, even those from lower-backgrounds, tend to acquire higher levels of education than other ethnoracial groups, including White natives. Asian culture is often cited as a conventional explanation. ... -
Member Checking Gerontology: The Case of Retirement
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)Gerontology has long been a public-facing field with an applied focus. As such, the credibility of gerontology’s conclusions and guidance about aging are crucial, our advice having relevance and impact in proportion to its ... -
“Anything that benefits the workers should benefit the client”: Opportunities and Constraints in Self-Directed Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(SAGE Publications, 2022-12-05)Self-directed care (SDC) models allow Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) consumers to direct their own care, thus supporting flexible, person-centered care. There are many benefits to the SDC model but access to ... -
Immigrant Resentment and the Republican Vote: A Comparison of Voting Behavior in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections
(2020)Donald Trump’s rhetoric in the 2016 presidential election focused on an attack toward latinx immigrants. Much of the literature argues that racial resentment, authoritarianism, education, and class allowed Trump to obtain ... -
Strengthening the primary health care response to COVID-19: an operational tool for policymakers
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-12-16)Aims: The aim of this paper is to introduce an operational checklist to serve as a tool for policymakers in the WHO European Region to strengthen primary health care (PHC) services and address the COVID-19 pandemic more ... -
The Role of Neighborhood Experiences in Psychological Distress among African American and White Smokers
(Springer, 2020-01-11)Residential area characteristics and discrimination have been associated with psychological distress. Differences in these relationships across racial groups are not well understood. We examined the relative role of perceived ... -
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 ...
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