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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, ... -
Cooptation : analysis of a neglected social process
(University of Kansas, 1978-12-31)The concept of cooptation is at the same time very popular and quite neglected. One frequently reads or hears the phrase mentioned in passing, as though there were agreement as to what it meant, but there is a dearth of ... -
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 ...
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