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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 ... -
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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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 ... -
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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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, ...
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