Browsing SOC Faculty Publications by Type "Article"
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“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: 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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Grandchild, grandparent, and parent coresidence from 1970 to 1990: structural factors affecting state patterns
(Baywood Publishing, 2006)This study analyzes structural forces affecting state patterns of parental presence within grandparent-grandchild coresidence by testing demographic, social change, policy environment, and social problems models. The project ... -
Grandparents in law: investigating the institutionalization of extended family roles
(Baywood Publishing, 2002)Previous research on grandparents has focused on the individual and familial level and has characterized grandparent roles as ambiguous and contingent. Emphasizing instead structural phenomena, this theoretical paper argues ... -
Happiness in married older adults: is there a cultural divide in definition or importance?
(Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2013-11)Happiness is a key variable in aging studies. However, the concept of happiness may not be the same across cultural groups. This cross-sectional study of 8974 participants in the Health and Retirement Study examines whether ... -
High school context, heterosexual scripts, and young women's sexual development
(Springer US, 2018-07)Adolescence is a critical period for sexual development, and previous research demonstrates that school cultures play an important role in shaping adolescent sexual behavior. However, little is known about the role of ... -
High School Religious Context and Reports of Same-Sex Attraction and Sexual Identity in Young Adulthood
(Sage Publications, 2013-06)The objectives of this study are to understand the association between high school religious context in adolescence and the reporting of same-sex attraction and sexual identity in young adulthood and how these associations ... -
High-volume hydraulic fracturing and human health outcomes a scoping review
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018-05)Objective: Examine extent of peer-reviewed literature exploring human health effects of hydraulic fracturing (HVHF). Methods: A scoping review methodology was used to examine peer-reviewed studies published from 2000 through ... -
“I thought my heart would burst”: The role of ultrasound technology on expectant grandmotherhood
(Sage, 2010-02)Using both quantitative and qualitative data, this study investigates the role of ultrasound technology on feelings of attachment and emotions experienced by expectant grandmothers. A total of 109 expectant grandmothers ... -
Identifying the urban: resident perceptions of community character and local institutions in eight metropolitan areas
(Wiley, 2018-09)What does the term urban signify as a descriptor of contemporary communities in the United States? We investigate this question using data from the Soul of the Community survey, examining how people within eight metropolitan ... -
Impact of family abuse on running away, deviance, and street victimization among homeless rural and urban youth
(Pergamon, 2006-10)Various demographic and familial risk factors have been linked to runaway behavior. To date, there has not been a systematic investigation of the impact of size of community on runaway behavior. This study will compare ... -
Impact of running away on girls' pregnancy
(Academic Press, 2011-07-25)This study assessed the impact of running away on pregnancy in the subsequent year among U.S. adolescents. We also investigated interactions between running away and sexual assault, romance, and school disengagement. ... -
Impact of running away on girls' sexual onset
(Elsevier, 2010-01)The purpose of this study is to longitudinally examine the impact of running away on sexual onset, and to determine the 12-month prevalence of sexual onset among runaway females. -
In search of a safe school: racialized perceptions of security and the school choice process
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-23)Do school security policies affect how safe parents perceive schools to be, and do they influence parental choice behavior? We address these questions using data from a survey that asked U.S. parents to evaluate hypothetical ...