2024-03-28T11:41:46Zhttps://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/oai/requestoai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124362018-04-30T19:48:23Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF NUTRITION EDUCATION ON THE LIFESTYLES OF THIRD-GRADE CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
Frishman, Natalia
Shelley, Mack C.
Montgomery, Doris
The current study assessed improvement in healthy lifestyles of third-grade children from Iowa schools who participated in nutrition education lessons provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Building and Strengthening Iowa Community Support for Nutrition and Physical Activity (BASICS) program in 2009. The program encourages children to eat more fruits and vegetables as snacks and to be active every day. Autoregressive models and logistic regression analysis results showed that the BASICS program improved awareness of the “Pick a better snack™ & Act” campaign among children and their parents. The program also led to children’s increased preferences toward fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk products, and to parents’ increased willingness to offer healthy foods to their children. The program stimulated children’s desires to be physically active and parents’ attentiveness toward children’s physical activity. These results indicated that the children influenced their parents’ recognition of campaign materials and how often their parents provided them with fruits and vegetables. Increasing parent age negatively influenced the probability of children receiving free and reduced-price lunch, reflecting the better economic situation of families with older parents.
2013-10-25
2013-10-25
2013-01-01
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 47-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12436
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12436
10.17161/STR.1808.12436
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124352018-04-30T19:48:49Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
INCREASING REPRESENTATION, MAINTAINING HIERARCHY: AN ASSESSMENT OF GENDER AND MEDICAL SPECIALIZATION
Davis, Georgiann
Allison, Rachel
Despite increases in the number of women entering the medical profession during the past four decades, female medical students remain more likely than their male colleagues to enter less prestigious medical specialties. Data from the Association of American Medical College’s 2004 Graduation Questionnaire are used to test both supply- and demand-side explanations for this pattern among a recent cohort of graduating medical students. Controlling for educational debt, type of medical school attended, and race/ethnicity, women are less likely to enter the prestigious fields of surgery and anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology. Although none of this study’s hypotheses account entirely for the effect of gender on medical specialization, results reveal that concerns about work and family balance and experiences of mistreatment in medical school affect all medical students’ career decision making, albeit in somewhat unanticipated ways.
2013-10-25
2013-10-25
2013-01-01
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 17-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12435
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12435
10.17161/STR.1808.12435
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124332018-04-30T19:50:04Zcom_1808_5894com_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_7025col_1808_12432
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013): Front Matter
2013-10-25
2013-10-25
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), frontmatter. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12433
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12433
10.17161/STR.1808.12433
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124482018-04-30T16:12:45Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
Book Review: Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, by Scott G. McNall
Ternes, Brock
2013-11-01
2013-11-01
2013-01-01
Article
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 125-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12448
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12448
10.17161/STR.1808.12448
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124342018-04-30T19:49:07Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
AN ANALYSIS OF EMBODIMENT AMONG SIX SUPERHEROES IN DC COMICS
Avery-Natale, Edward
This study analyzes the changes in physical presentation of several DC comic book superheroes, finding that the bodies of superheroes have become far more sexualized, exaggerated, and unrealistic in recent years. The comic reader’s “gaze” upon the bodies of the characters produces an intersection of spectacle and narrative that cannot be disconnected from both the physical body and the costume of the hero. Literature on the bodies of male and female bodybuilders reveals a connection to the hyper-embodiment of male and female superheroes, which represent the ego ideal of Western representations of “perfect” gendered bodies. The study concludes by asking if contemporary comic books must shift from the “Modern Age” to the “Postmodern Age” in order to break out of their practices of reaffirming gender binaries. The argument expands on work by Jean Baudrillard and Judith Butler.
2013-10-25
2013-10-25
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 71-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12434
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12434
10.17161/STR.1808.12434
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124472018-04-30T16:13:06Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
Book Review: Is Feminism Dead or is it Fluoride in the Water?
2013-11-01
2013-11-01
2013-01-01
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 111-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12447
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12447
10.17161/STR.1808.12447
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124452018-04-30T16:14:05Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
Interview with Steven Epstein
Wendel-Hummell, Carrie L.
Coulter, Maureen
2013-11-01
2013-11-01
2013-01-01
Article
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12445
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12445
10.17161/STR.1808.12445
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124492018-04-30T16:12:31Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
Book Review: Whitewashing the Web: A Review Essay
Henricks, Kasey
2013-11-01
2013-11-01
2013-01-01
Article
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 123-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12449
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12449
10.17161/STR.1808.12449
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/124462018-04-30T16:13:46Zcom_1808_4373com_1808_82col_1808_12432
Book Review: Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change and Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities: Global, Transnational and Local Contexts
Jauk, Daniela
2013-11-01
2013-11-01
2013-01-01
Article
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013), pp. 117-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.12446
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12446
10.17161/STR.1808.12446
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas