Pub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1801541
Diego Thompson, Kecia R. Johnson, Kenya M. Cistrunk, Ashley D. Vancil-Leap, Thomas Nyatta, Leslie Hossfeld, Gina Rico Mendez, Claudette Jones
Abstract Oktibbeha County (Mississippi) is among the highest food cost and food insecure counties in the nation. In 2016, a group of scholars from a land-grant university held periodic meetings to address food insecurity, food access, and local food systems development, creating the Oktibbeha Food Policy Council (OFPC). A large body of literature on food justice, intersectionality, food policy councils, and agri-environmental assemblage highlights the importance of these types of collaborative initiatives to facilitate better availability and access to fresh and healthy food among historically marginalized groups. However, little has been studied on how food policy councils can be generated and evolve in historically marginalized rural communities of the South. By analyzing the OFPC, this paper aims to contribute to this gap in the existing literature, exploring what factors led to its creation and development. Results of this study show how food justice and the intersection of race and socioeconomic status with local agri-food problems influenced the assemblage and work of this group, creating new opportunities, for low-income families and limited resource Black farmers. Discussions and conclusions center on the lessons, opportunities, and challenges learned from this experience and critical aspects that may be contemplated by similar initiatives and contexts.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-08DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1797602
M. Matre, K. Breault
Abstract Prior to his death in 2018, Marc Matre, Archivist and the longest serving Secretary-Treasurer of the Mid-South Sociological Association (MSSA), submitted a paper to the journal on the history of the MSSA. Reviewers wanted revisions that Marc was unable to complete because of his infirmity, and his last professional wish was that the journal and members of the association finish the work he had started. The following is that revision. It is the combined work of many who contributed to the project as noted in the acknowledgments. Biographical information about Marc follows the list of the principal founders of the association.
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Pub Date : 2020-08-05DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1799275
Megan Stubbs-Richardson
Abstract In General Strain Theory (GST), Agnew asserts that negative emotions in response to strains are associated with antisocial behavior. Researchers found GST to explain criminal and self-harm responses to bullying. However, not all youth respond antisocially, such as by harming the self or others. Thus, the question remains, when do youth respond to bullying antisocially versus asocially or prosocially? This study examined situation-based negative emotions, the availability of alternative relationships, and behavioral responses to physical, verbal, relational, and cyber bullying to answer this question. This study integrates research from sociology, criminology, health, and social psychology to address this question among a sample of high-school bully victims. This study found variation in the emotional and behavioral responses based on the type of bullying. However, across bullying types, the availability of alternative relationships was associated with increased prosocial responding.
{"title":"Responses to bullying among high-school students through the lens of general strain theory","authors":"Megan Stubbs-Richardson","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2020.1799275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2020.1799275","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In General Strain Theory (GST), Agnew asserts that negative emotions in response to strains are associated with antisocial behavior. Researchers found GST to explain criminal and self-harm responses to bullying. However, not all youth respond antisocially, such as by harming the self or others. Thus, the question remains, when do youth respond to bullying antisocially versus asocially or prosocially? This study examined situation-based negative emotions, the availability of alternative relationships, and behavioral responses to physical, verbal, relational, and cyber bullying to answer this question. This study integrates research from sociology, criminology, health, and social psychology to address this question among a sample of high-school bully victims. This study found variation in the emotional and behavioral responses based on the type of bullying. However, across bullying types, the availability of alternative relationships was associated with increased prosocial responding.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":"40 1","pages":"362 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02732173.2020.1799275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41465557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-30DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1797601
Krista Lynn Minnotte, Tailer Varud
Abstract The negative outcomes associated with job insecurity have been well established in the literature. Yet, scholars know very little about how job insecurity is related to coworker relationships in the workplace. Informed by the life stress perspective, this study examines the relationship between job insecurity and coworker support among U.S. workers. It also considers whether relationships diverge by gender. We use data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. workers (N = 2,822) to examine these relationships. The results showed that job insecurity was negatively related to coworker support among both men and women, with no evidence of gender disparities. Altogether, the findings suggest job insecurity is damaging to the workplace environment, creating barriers to supportive coworker relationships among both men and women.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-20DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1790446
Amanda D. Hernandez
Abstract This article offers Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness as an appropriate theorizing frame when analyzing lived experiences and perceptions of contradiction. First, I discuss the main theoretical frameworks used in sociology when examining the experiences of U.S. women of color: Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought and Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. Next, I introduce mestiza consciousness as an additional sociologically appropriate framework and discuss how it fits into the tradition of Black Feminist Thought and intersectionality. Finally, I conduct a brief case study in the subdiscipline of the sociology of religion to illustrate mestiza consciousness’ appropriateness as a theoretical frame.
{"title":"Developing a mestiza consciousness theoretical framework","authors":"Amanda D. Hernandez","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2020.1790446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2020.1790446","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article offers Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness as an appropriate theorizing frame when analyzing lived experiences and perceptions of contradiction. First, I discuss the main theoretical frameworks used in sociology when examining the experiences of U.S. women of color: Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought and Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. Next, I introduce mestiza consciousness as an additional sociologically appropriate framework and discuss how it fits into the tradition of Black Feminist Thought and intersectionality. Finally, I conduct a brief case study in the subdiscipline of the sociology of religion to illustrate mestiza consciousness’ appropriateness as a theoretical frame.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":"40 1","pages":"303 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02732173.2020.1790446","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44197477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-27DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1781004
Alicia Smith-Tran
Abstract This study is informed by two questions: How can studying the biographies of Black middle-class women illustrate how early life experiences shape adulthood health and leisure choices? More specifically, what life course processes affect one’s ability and choice to become a recreational runner? Using life story data, I utilize two interrelated concepts from the life course perspective, cumulative processes and turning points, to highlight how both of these social processes affect decisions to running recreationally. For the women in the study whose running stories exemplify cumulative processes, their narratives focused on the continuation of middle-class health and leisure practices from childhood and adolescence. Other participants’ narratives centered on poignant biographical moments related to health that served as key turning points that significantly altered participants’ exercise trajectories in adulthood. This subset of women were oftentimes working class or poor as children. The findings of this study have implications for why it is important to take an intersectional, long-armed approach to understanding Black women’s health and leisure during adulthood.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-04DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1770640
K. McNamara
Abstract As of October 2019, it is legal for employers to fire a worker if they identify as LGBT. The Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) was a proposed bill that would have prohibited LGBT discrimination in the workplace, but continuously failed to be enacted by Congress. This paper explores ENDA’s tempestuous history by conducting a historical analysis of the bill, Congressional Records, and congressional hearings, to identify the factors which influenced ENDA’s outcome. The findings indicated support for historical contingency theory because the historical conditions affected (1) the capacity of LGBT groups to advance their interests, and (2) the state managers and their decision to enact ENDA. These findings are important because it offers a clearer history of LGBT politics and shows how cultural attitudes, state policies, and state actors influenced ENDA’s policy formation process. Specifically, the analysis highlights that the historical conditions of the years when ENDA was proposed affected its failure to be enacted.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-14DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1763878
Kay S. Varela, Sanna King, Anthony A. Peguero, Alicia Rusoja
Abstract There is a growing body of research that explores how school punishment practices are disrupting educational progress. It is also known that educational success and failure are linked to sex and racial/ethnic inequalities. What remains less known is how school punishment and student perceptions of just and fair punishment practices are related to sex and racial/ethnic disparities, specifically with the likelihood of being pushed out. This study utilizes multilevel analyses, drawing from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, to examine the impact school procedural justice has on being pushed out for male and female racial/ethnic minority students. The findings indicate that fair and just school procedural justice practices moderate the relationship between punishment and being pushed out. It also appears, however, male and female racial/ethnic minority students have increased odds of being punished, as well as have poor perceptions their school’s procedural justice. Even though improving school procedural justice could minimize the risk of being pushed out for male and female racial/ethnic minority students, the negative educational effect of being disciplined remains strong.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-13DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1760155
Alexis S. McCurn
Abstract This study draws on nearly 2 years of field research in Central East Oakland, CA, to provide an ethnographic account of the daily experiences of poor, young, black women in urban space. Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of young women living in the inner-city and the innovative strategies they develop to navigate daily life in this setting. The accounts from young women in this study reveal the different types of formal and informal labor black women do to ensure survival in the inner-city and how they describe this daily work as the “grind.” The intersection of formal and informal labor that makes up the grind is reflected in three dimensions: the half-time hustle, underground entrepreneurship, and informal support networks. Like men in the neighborhood women must contend with underemployment, poverty and race and class isolation. I explain how black women are impacted in very specific ways by these key structural shifts and harsh structural conditions and must in turn manage constraining and contradictory gendered expectations while negotiating the grind.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-29DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1753133
Fang Gong, Jun Xu
Abstract Despite the well-documented socioeconomic inequalities in health, it is less known about how objective and subjective socioeconomic statuses (SES) are related to self-rated health (SRH) in an international context. Using data from the 2007 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) that included 33 countries across six continents (N = 40,049), we found that for objective SES, either education or income, or both were related to SRH as general linear trends (i.e., higher SES was associated with better SRH as a general trend) rather than graded associations (i.e., adjacent levels of SES were associated with SRH in a dose–response relationship). After controlling for subjective SES, the magnitude of the associations between objective SES and SRH reduced, whereas the associations between subjective SES and SRH remained strong in nearly all countries. Findings suggested that more rigorous analyses are needed to clearly describe the SES-health associations, and future international research should expand to include subjective measures of SES.
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