Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Abstract: To explain the stigma around homelessness and housing insecurity, scholars tend …
Month: August 2024
Tensions of Making Women’s Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces by Chloe Hart (2024)
Work and Occupations Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working …
The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication by Sadie Dempsey and Jianing Li (2024)
Oxford University Press Sadie Dempsey co-authored a chapter with Jianing Li (Rutgers University) titled, “The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication” that was recently published in Media and January …
In the news: research on immigration and crime
“Crime rates, offending rates and incarceration rates tend to be lower amongst foreign-born individuals.” That’s what research co-authored by Michael Light concludes. Michael’s research on crime and immigration has been featured in the news lately …
Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level by Alex Mikulas, Brenden Beck, and Max Besbris (2024)
Socius Abstract: Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how …
A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster by Anna Rhodes and Max Besbris (2024)
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and social action as environmentally contingent, this article examines behavior and attitudes around accepting help after disaster. Through two years …