Browsing SOC Faculty Publications by Title
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An examination of bias of facial analysis based BMI prediction models
(IEEE, 2022-06-19)Obesity is one of the most important public health problems that the world is facing today. A recent trend is in the development of intervention tools that predict BMI using facial images for weight monitoring and management ... -
“As a clinician, you have to be passionately involved”: Advocacy and professional responsibility in gender-affirming healthcare
(Elsevier Ltd., 2023-03-01)Previous research has studied how clinicians such as physicians, nurses, social workers, and nutritionists understand advocacy as a professional responsibility. Analyses have typically focused on individual healthcare ... -
Book review: Gentrifier
(SAGE, 2018-09-01)Half a century after its introduction, urban sociologists continue to struggle with the conceptually ambiguous yet politically loaded term “gentrification.” Processes of capital reinvestment, demographic turnover, and ... -
Book review: Marketing schools, marketing cities: who wins and who loses when schools become urban amenities
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)In recent years, urban scholars have begun to draw the links between the contemporary school reform movement and the return of the middle class to inner-city neighborhoods. Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara has been at the forefront ... -
Book review: The fight for America's schools: grassroots organizing in education
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-03)When urban renewal threatened her West Village neighborhood, Jacobs marshaled the discourse of sociability in opposition. Her defense of diversity, density, and mixed-use districts arose from her journalism, her knowledge ... -
Book review: When middle-class parents choose urban schools: class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-08)While many inner-city public schools across the country continue to struggle with academic failure, insufficient resources, and declining enrollment, some typically located in gentrifying neighborhoods are experiencing the ... -
Chapter 1 -- Introduction Women and disability: The double handicap
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins with the interaction between more than one minority status being held concomitantly by an ... -
Chapter 1 -- Social context of family caregiving
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)The historical and current contexts of caregiving in later life in the United States are briefly discussed. A short description of the types of health problems typical in the elderly and affecting their need for care is ... -
Chapter 2 -- Spousal and intimate partner caregiving
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners is reviewed. Husbands and wives tend to provide different types of care. Caregiving has different effects, costs, consequences, and rewards for husbands and wives. Also, ... -
Chapter 3 -- Adult child caregiving
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by adult children to older parents is described. Sons and daughters generally provide different types and amounts of care, as well as receiving different amounts and types of support from others. Variations exist ... -
Chapter 3 -- TAM + ARCS = SNT framework for higher education
(IGI Global, 2019-10-11)This chapter studies the challenge and issue of developing a sound social networking technology (SNT) framework to affect positive student engagement and consequently effective learning. The author aims to enable educational ... -
Chapter 4 -- Caregiving by other relatives, secondary caregivers, and members of minority groups
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by siblings, grandchildren, and other relatives (including fictive kin and ex-spouses) is discussed. Research on secondary caregivers and team caregiving also is reviewed. Studies of kin care within sexual and ... -
Chapter 5 -- Current policy regarding caregiving and policy implications
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Discusses current policy regarding caregiving and policy implications. Although little federal and state legislation directly address familial provision of care, several policies affect people’s ability and willingness to ... -
College-going benefits of high school sports participation: race and gender differences over three decades
(SAGE Publications, 2015-05)The long touted athlete advantage in college enrollment has been tempered by assertions that this advantage is actually due to characteristics that precede participation. Moreover, it remains unclear whether the benefits ... -
Educational attainment of transgender adults: Does the timing transgender identity milestones matter?
(Elsevier, 2018-08)Adolescence is a difficult life stage in which to navigate a transgender identity, yet adolescence plays a key role in shaping educational trajectories. While transgender-related stigma and victimization within secondary ... -
Educational outcomes of gender-diverse youth: A national population-based study
(Sage Publications, 2021-08-16)Despite the growing population of youth identifying with a transgender or nonbinary gender identity, research on gender-diverse individuals’ educational outcomes is limited. This study takes advantage of the first nationally ... -
Excluding whom? Race, gender, and suspension in high school
(SAGE Publications, 2021-06-24)Students of color are more apt to face exclusionary discipline in school, such as suspension or expulsion, than their white counterparts, and once suspended students may be more likely to drop out of school altogether. ... -
Family caregiving in aging populations
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Family care giving policies and practices. -
Family relationships and adolescent well-being: are families equally protective for same-sex attracted youth?
(Springer/Plenum, 2013-03)Existing research suggests that sexual minority youth experience lower levels of well-being, in part because they perceive less social support than heterosexual youth. Sexual minority youth with strong family relationships ... -
Gendered fields: sports and advanced course taking in high school
(Springer, 2009-10-01)This study explores the association between sports participation and course taking in high school, specifically comparing subjects with varied gendered legacies-science and foreign language. Analyses of a nationally ...