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Gendering Identity Talk: Gamers’ Gendered Constructions of Gamer Identity 流派身份论：游戏者对游戏者身份的流派建构

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-03-24 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2022.2042441

Bertan Buyukozturk

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A Qualitative Case Study of Catholic Patients’ Responses to Pain, Suffering, and Redemption: Application and Evaluation of the Rational Choice Approach to Religion 天主教病患对痛苦、苦难与救赎反应的质性个案研究:理性选择方法在宗教中的应用与评价

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.2010247

Yuk-ying Ho

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Attitudes about Paid Parental Leave in the United States 美国人对带薪产假的态度

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.2012861

Qi Li, C. Knoester, Richard J. Petts

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Feminist Friends of the Court: Amicus Curiae, Social Movement Institutional Activism, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Women’s Rights Cases 法院的女权主义之友:法庭之友、社会运动机构行动主义和美国最高法院的妇女权利案件

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.2009074

Holly J. McCammon, Magdalena N. Sudibjo, Cathryn Beeson-Lynch, Amanda J. Brockman, M. Moon

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Beyond Adherence: The Healthwork of People Living with HIV in Nigeria 超越坚持：尼日利亚艾滋病毒感染者的健康工作

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.2015730

Ayodeji Bayo Ogunrotifa

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“No Seat at the Party”: Mobilizing White Masculinity in the Men’s Rights Movement “无党籍”：在人权运动中调动白人男子气概

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.2009075

Emily K. Carian

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The Moderating Role of Context: Relationships between Individual Behaviors and Social Networks. 情境的调节作用:个体行为与社会网络的关系

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-04-17 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2022.2049409

Cheng Wang, John R Hipp, Carter T Butts, Cynthia M Lakon

{"title":"The Moderating Role of Context: Relationships between Individual Behaviors and Social Networks.","authors":"Cheng Wang, John R Hipp, Carter T Butts, Cynthia M Lakon","doi":"10.1080/00380237.2022.2049409","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00380237.2022.2049409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A social context can be viewed as an entity or unit around which a group of individuals organize their activities and interactions. Social contexts take such diverse forms as families, dwelling places, neighborhoods, classrooms, schools, workplaces, voluntary organizations, and sociocultural events or milieus. Understanding social contexts is essential for the study of individual behaviors, social networks, and the relationships between the two. Contexts shape individual behaviors by providing an avenue for non-dyadic conformity and socialization processes. The co-participation within a context affects personal relationships by acting as a focus for tie formation. Where participation in particular contexts confers status, this effect may also lead to differences in popularity within interpersonal networks. Social contexts may further play a moderating role in within-network influence and selection processes, providing circumstances that either amplify or suppress these effects. In this paper we investigate the joint role of co-participation via social contexts and dyadic interaction in shaping and being shaped by individual behaviors with the context of a U.S. high school. Implications for future study of social contexts are suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":39368,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Focus","volume":"55 1","pages":"191-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10956702/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44294609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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NCSA 2021 Presidential Address: Discovery, Disenchantment, and Recovery: Finding Sociology that Matters in Amish Country NCSA 2021年总统演讲：发现、着迷和恢复：在阿米什国家寻找重要的社会学

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1987075

Rachel E. Stein

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North Central Sociological Association 2020: John F. Schnabel Teaching Address: Practicing What We Preach: Inclusive Pedagogy and the Sociology Classroom 中北部社会学协会2020：John F.Schnabel教学演讲：实践我们所宣扬的：包容性教育学和社会学课堂

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1987077

Gregory T. Kordsmeier

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The Paradox of Time: Work, Family, Conflict, and the Social Construction of Time 《时间的悖论:工作、家庭、冲突和时间的社会建构

Sociological Focus Pub Date : 2021-09-14 DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1970062

K. Brumley, Katheryn C. Maguire, Shirin Montazer

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