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{"title":"Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors: do grandparents’ environmental behaviors influence grandchildren?","authors":"Tiana Marrese, Itay Greenspan, Tally Katz-Gerro, Femida Handy","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2274021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2274021","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractTo understand the intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental behaviors within a family, we employ a nationally representative survey of young adults and their parents living within the United States. We analyze intergenerational transmission for three generations with information on children, parent, and grandparent behavior. Our findings suggest that strong relationships exist across three generations. Mediation analysis shows that parents significantly mediate the strong association between children and grandparents for most behaviors. These results imply that pro-environmental behaviors inculcated between generational dyads are robust and suggest educational efforts directed at quotidian household behaviors. AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation [grant number 2014080]. We thank the reviewers and editors for extensive and constructive comments.Disclosure statementWe confirm that there are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation [BSF Grant 2014080].Notes on contributorsTiana MarreseTiana Marrese is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research revolves around understanding how and why people engage in prosocial behavior. She is interested in exposing the underlying patterns of voluntary actions and nonprofit wage structures.Itay GreenspanItay Greenspan is a Senior Lecturer at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the nexus of civil society, civic participation, environmental behavior of individuals and families from a comparative perspective, and organized environmentalism. His current research examines the role of NGOs in localizing climate change adaptations.Tally Katz-GerroTally Katz-Gerro is a professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa. Her areas of research include environmental attitudes and behaviors, household sustainability practices, cultural consumption, and comparative research.Femida HandyFemida Handy is a professor of nonprofit studies at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. An economist by training, her work encompasses the economics of the nonprofit sector, volunteering, philanthropy, nonprofit management, environmental issues, and social entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136159002","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}

{"title":"Symbolic reality bites 2: contemporary representations of women and people of color in top 100 films","authors":"Elisha Marr, Laura B. Luchies","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2254431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2254431","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractSymbolic annihilation refers to media representations that exclude, trivialize, or demonize a group. Initially used to describe the scarcity and stereotypical portrayals of women in mass media, this term has expanded to provide insight into media representations of other groups less valued within a culture based on age, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Research on film and television has found evidence of symbolic annihilation of women, particularly older women and people of color. The purpose of this study is to add to this scholarship on media representations. A content analysis of the top 100 domestic grossing films of 2016 revealed that the symbolic annihilation of women and people of color continues to be evident in contemporary U.S. popular media. AcknowledgementsThe authors thank students in the January 2017 Social Research on Media Interim course for coding and Comfort Sampong and Ivanna Rodriquez for data cleaning.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Availability of data and materialAuthors will share upon request.Additional informationFundingThis research was supported by a grant from the Deur Endowment Fund at Calvin University.Notes on contributorsElisha MarrElisha Marr is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Calvin University. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Calvin in 1997 and her PhD from Michigan State University in 2006. Although her most current research and publications focus on transracial adoption, Marr’s teaching and research interests extend more broadly to the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in society. Marr seeks to add to the sociological understanding of how media and popular culture impact public opinion and shape behaviors and practices.Laura B. LuchiesLaura Luchies is a founder and principal consultant of DataWise Consulting, a social-scientific data collection, management, and analysis consulting organization. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Calvin in 2002 and her PhD from Northwestern University in 2011. Luchies’ academic research has focused on close relationships, especially interpersonal conflict and forgiveness. Recently transitioning from the Associate Director of the Center for Social Research at Calvin University to establishing her own organization, Luchies has 10 years of experience leading research and evaluation projects for businesses, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135800939","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}

{"title":"Moral narratives of sobriety: a qualitative study of a lived religion framework of Alcoholics Anonymous","authors":"Maia C. Behrendt, Kelsy Burke","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2267709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2267709","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study examines how Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) can be understood as a “lived religion” that seeks to legitimize and moralize certain experiences and beliefs through narratives that are affirmed by the substance abuse recovery community. Through a qualitative analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with both actively recovering and non-actively recovering participants of AA, we identify three distinct moral narratives described by participants related to the construction of spiritual beliefs, individual health, and social belonging that highlight how the structure of AA reifies stories of addiction recovery as morally charged. We contribute to sociology of religion and addiction studies by examining how social and spiritual systems (i.e. systems embodying our complex and multi-faceted social connections to other people and our beliefs and attitudes about powers greater than oneself) orient alcohol addiction recovery within the context of AA support groups. For sociological inquiry more broadly, we show how moral narratives have the power to shift individual understanding of social support, power and self-control, and belonging. Disclosure statementThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaia C. BehrendtDr. Maia C. Behrendt is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Norbert College, De Pere, WI, USA (maia.behrendt@snc.edu).Kelsy BurkeDr. Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA (kburke@unl.edu).","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013203","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}

{"title":"Perceived economic security, relative <i>gratification</i> , and xenophobic sentiment during the Trump administration","authors":"Harris Hyun-Soo Kim, Chae Eun Kim, Hyun Jin (Katelyn) Kim","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2263118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2263118","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe bulk of prior research focuses on economic hard times as a source of material insecurity and relative deprivation in fueling negative attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. The present study shifts the focus to a novel concept: relative gratification. During the height of Trump administration, the American economy enjoyed unprecedented growth and stability. Yet, as our study shows, anti-immigrant sentiment became more pronounced among US citizens with greater perceived material security, i.e., those who felt more relatively “gratified.” What is the logic behind this seemingly paradoxical outcome? By drawing on insights from the social psychology literature, we propose and demonstrate that favorable macroeconomic conditions instilled in some people a sense of privileged entitlement and heightened national pride, both of which contributed to hostilities toward the foreign born. Our moderation analysis also indicates that controlling for a proxy for Trump approval, this relationship was stronger for Republican-leaning individuals as well as those who self-identify as being more politically conservative. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Appendix A. Mixed-effects models examining the relationship between measures of relative gratification and xenophobic sentiment.Download CSVDisplay TableAppendix B. Robustness checks for the interaction effects (Pew Political Survey, July 2019).Download CSVDisplay TableAppendix C. Sensitivity analysis using Trump party approval as the moderator (Pew Political Survey, July 2019).Download CSVDisplay TableNotes1 According to a report by Pew Research Center (Citation2019), at the second anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration, although his approval ratings suffered in other areas, the American voters’ perceptions of economic conditions “continue to be positive” and the public’s evaluation of Trump’s handling of the national economy “remains a relative strength.” As we will demonstrate in the main text, anti-immigrant sentiments were in fact higher among study participants who more favorably assessed the domestic macroeconomic situation.2 See Runciman’s (Citation1966) classic conceptions of egotistical (individual) relative deprivation and fraternal (group) relative deprivation. Our use of this concept is consistent with the following definition: “feelings that one’s group is unfairly deprived of desirable goods in comparison to relevant out-groups” (Meuleman et al. Citation2020).3 In Trump’s America, for the most part, it was believed to be largely unauthorized (e.g., Mexican) immigrants as well as overseas foreign (e.g., Chinese) workers presumably in direct labor market competition (Pettigrew Citation2017; for a related view, see also Hochschild Citation2016).4 Relatedly, political support for the Leave option in the Brexit referendum was systematically higher in regions hit harder by economic globalization, i.e., places with greater foreign econ","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738579","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}

{"title":"Does utilization of victim services programs influence individuals’ fear of crime? Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey","authors":"J. Abbott, Shelly A. McGrath","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2245934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2245934","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although there is a robust body of literature addressing fear of crime, leading scholars point to the need to further examine the link between criminal victimization and fear. In the current study, we aimed to examine how certain actions after victimization, primarily use of Victim Services Programs (VSPs), impact components of individuals' general, situational fear. Updating early work by Davis, using 2016–2019 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), we found that victims who utilized VSPs demonstrate increased odds of components of fear than those who did not use VSPs. Other relevant findings are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45237344","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}

{"title":"Making the invisible visible: examining Black women in Black Lives Matter","authors":"Michelle L. Estes, Adam M. Straub, Maggie León-Corwin","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2245936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2245936","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was created by three women in 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin. Since inception, BLM has gained national attention through its organization of and participation in numerous social movement activities, many of which have been driven by Black women. However, previous research and the persistent existence of racism and sexism indicate that Black women may be marginalized and made invisible within mainstream news media that discusses social movement activities. Mass media continues to be a powerful agent of socialization within society; therefore, it is critical to examine how various forms of media portrays different groups. The current paper examines how newspaper media portrays Black women engaged in Black Lives Matter movement activities. We utilize content analysis to analyze 645 newspaper articles that discuss BLM. We use intersectional inequality along with Patricia Hill Collins' controlling images as guiding theoretical frameworks to analyze our data and interpret the findings. Overall, findings show that Black women are largely invisible within newspaper articles discussing Black Lives Matter. This occurs in a variety of ways, such as focusing on protester response to police violence against Black men and using gender-neutral language when discussing individuals engaged in movement activities. Moreover, findings indicate that newspaper media utilize all of Collins' controlling images in their depiction of Black women in BLM; however, the utilization of controlling images in not equal. We discuss these findings in detail in addition to providing directions for future scholarly research.Keywords: genderracesocial movementsmediainequalityBlack Lives Matter Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichelle L. EstesMichelle L. Estes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University. Political Science at Tennessee Tech University. Her main research interests include inequality in the criminal legal system. More specifically, she has been examining the negative consequences that are produced by wrongful convictions.Adam M. StraubAdam M. Straub is an Assistant Profession in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University. Broadly, his work focuses on vulnerability, resilience, and risk before and after natural hazards and disasters. Recent research includes the social production of risk in Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria and cultivating resilience in rural Oklahoma.Maggie León-CorwinMaggie León-Corwin is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Oklahoma. Maggie uses a multimethodological approach to address the intersection of inequality in human-environment interactions related to hazards and disasters. Her research spans top","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136392211","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}

{"title":"“One big race”, narrow paths and Golden spoons: fatalistic narratives among young South Koreans","authors":"Bryce O. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2224118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2224118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Durkheim’s Le Suicide outlined two distinct types of suicide that depend on an individual’s level of social regulation. While one of these, anomie/anomic suicide has been greatly explored by both Durkheim and subsequent literature, the concept of fatalistic suicide has been neglected due to Durkheim’s own proclamation that it had little contemporary importance. In this article, I report narratives related to suicide gathered from interviewing South Koreans aged 20–30 that mirror elements of fatalistic suicide, such as violently blocked passions and oppressive discipline. South Koreans in this age group often discussed that they have constantly felt immense pressure from society to achieve particular life goals by certain ages, and not achieving these expectations essentially means that one’s life is over. Furthermore, I contend that achieving these lofty expectations, such as going to what is considered a prestigious university or getting a well-respected first job is hardly possible for the masses, and instead sets up many students and postgraduates for inescapable failure. The reaction to this failure of being able to meet goals and expectations can be understood in terms of Durkheim’s anomie, given that people’s goals can no longer be regulated by society once they have failed. This article posits that individuals move between extremes of Durkheim’s social regulation.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46388776","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}

{"title":"Selected abstracts from the 48th Annual Mid-South Sociological Association meetings in Nashville, TN, October 12–15, 2022","authors":"Shelly A. McGrath, Meredith Huey Dye","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2179583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2179583","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47943914","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}

{"title":"The ongoing conservative turn in the American Catholic priesthood","authors":"Brad Vermurlen, Mark Regnerus, S. Cranney","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2215461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2215461","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Surveys of Catholic priests in the United States dating back to the 1980s have shown that newer priests—and the priesthood in the aggregate—are becoming more conservative on moral, ecclesial, political, and theological issues. The present study examined whether this long-observed conservative shift has continued up to the present day using data from two surveys of Catholic priests: a 2002 Los Angeles Times survey of priests and the 2020–2021 Survey of American Catholic Priests, which largely replicated the former. Comparisons of means across surveys and analyses based on decade of ordination both revealed that Catholic priests in the United States are increasingly conservative on issues of moral belief, attitudes concerning who should and should not qualify for ordination, as well as politics and theology. Regression models demonstrated that having been ordained more recently was consistently associated with holding more conservative beliefs, net of other factors. More religiously observant priests, captured by frequency of praying the Divine Office, were more likely to be conservative on every question asked. The major exception to the conservative shift are priests self-reporting as entirely homosexual, who tend to be more liberal than heterosexual priests on a range of topics.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44184657","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}

{"title":"How I was brought up? Parental SES and adult work conflict, stress, and satisfaction","authors":"Matthew A. Andersson, Laura Upenieks","doi":"10.1080/02732173.2023.2192534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2192534","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In an American economy marked by intense devotion to work, worker well-being is diminished by perceived work-nonwork conflict, especially within higher-status occupations. Yet, work and labor perceptions are constructed within an intergenerational attainment process. This raises the important issue of whether parental origins are determinative of perceived work stress during adulthood. We combine multiple years of national data (2010, 2014, and 2018 General Social Survey) and utilize life-course models of health to begin to understand the differential roles of personal and parental socioeconomic statuses for perceived work conflict and stress in adulthood. We find that educational attainment is linked to perceived work-family and family-work conflict, whereas occupational attainment is linked to work-family conflict as well as perceived job stress and satisfaction. These patterns do not change significantly upon controlling parental socioeconomic status. Parental education and socioeconomic standing associate with adult work stress and perceived family-work interference, but these associations mostly become insignificant once adult attainment is considered. In total, our findings are more consistent with pathway models of life-course stress and well-being, implicating adulthood circumstances, than with critical-period models that emphasize the enduring importance of childhood characteristics.","PeriodicalId":47106,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Spectrum","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43858489","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}