{"title":"Theorizing the form of media coverage over time.","authors":"E H Boyle, A Hoeschen","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01778.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01778.x","url":null,"abstract":"Because the media plays a critical role in cross-cultural communication, bias in the portrayal of particular cultures is an important issue. In this article, we use the form of newspaper articles over time to arbitrate between two competing theories of media coverage: Is the media primarily driven by self-interest, that is, the need to sell newspapers, or is it driven primarily by the same principled ideas that fuel international activism? Analyzing international newspaper articles on female genital cutting from 1978 to 1998, we find a close correspondence to international activism. Tracing the strategies of “transnational advocacy networks,” most articles are primarily devoted to leverage and accountability themes. Further, the ultimate decrease in articles on female genital cutting was not preceded by a decrease in articles designed to shock readers but rather by a peak in stories that emphasized the accountability of governments to eradicate female genital cutting. Over time, perhaps as the appropriateness of action became more taken for granted, there were fewer news stories on proposed solutions but relatively more news stories on success and implementation.","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"42 4","pages":"511-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2001.tb01778.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27967507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between adolescent nonmarital childbearing and educational expectations: a cohort and period comparison.","authors":"A M Beutel","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00097.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00097.x","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research on the relationship between adolescent childbearing and later life outcomes is deficient in two respects. First, it has focused almost exclusively on socioeconomic octcomes, failing to consider the possible effect of a birth on social psychological outocomes. Second, it generally has ot considered whether the relationship between adolescent choldbearing and outcomes has changed across cohorts and over time. This study attempts to fill these two gaps by estimating and comparing the effects of nonmarital chidbearing on change in a social psychological variable, educational expectations, over the perod between the sophomore year in high school and two years later, using longitudinal data for the sophomore cohorts of High School and Beyond, 1980, and the National Education Londgitudinal Study of 1988. Findings for both cohorts indicate that adolescent girls tend to reduce their educational expectations following a nonmarital pregnancy or birth. In addition, adolescent girls with low educational expectations are at greater risk of a nonmarital pregnancy or birth than adolescent girls with high educational expetions.","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"41 2","pages":"297-314"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00097.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28252337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competitive framing processes in the abortion debate: polarization-vilification, frame saving, and frame debunking.","authors":"D McCaffrey, J Keys","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb02365.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb02365.x","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how frame alignment processes are employed by a social movement organization in competitive response to a countermovement. Though the battles between feminist organizations such as NOW and conservative opposition are waged in many arenas, we focus exclusively on the ideological clash around abortion. After briefly describing the context of encounters, we examine the challenges launched against perceived threats to reproductive rights using New York State NOW chapter newsletters spanning 1970–1988. We identify three rhetorical strategies used by NOW to counterframe the debate for its members. polarization-vilification, frame debunking, and frame saving. Our findings suggest that in the face of opposition, framing strategies are modified with the goal of mobilization.","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"41-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb02365.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distant patriarchs or expressive dads? The discourse and practice of fathering in conservative Protestant families.","authors":"J P Bartkowski, X Xu","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00088.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00088.x","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the burgeoning research literature on paternal involvement, the relationship between religion and fatherhood has received remarkably little attention from empirical researchers. Our investigation illuminates this understudied dimension of fathering by examining how conservative Protestant gender ideologies impact paternal involvement in evangelical households. Our study begins with an examination of insider documents—nemely, gender and family advice manuals—written by conservative Protestant luminaries. One group of conservative Protestant advice authors argues that paternal involvement and masculine role modeling in the home is crucial to the proper formation of children's distinctive gender identities, while a rival coterie of authors advocates ungendered spousal roles and shared parenting responsibilities. We then turn to data from wave 1 of the National Survey of Families and Households to gauge the distinctiveness of parenting practices among conservative Protestant fathers. We find that conservative Protestant fathers are considerably more likely than their nonevangelical counterparts to engage in paternal supervision and affective parenting. Such findings underscore the complexity of fathering in conservative Protestant households and illuminate several fruitful directions for future research on the religious dimensions of paternal involvement.","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"41 3","pages":"465-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00088.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28252338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visibly queer: body technologies and sexual politics.","authors":"V Pitts","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00087.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00087.x","url":null,"abstract":"Queer body modification is a site for investigating the possibilities and limitations of agency in body practices. This article considers the use of new and recirculated body modification technologies—many of them modeled after practices of indigenous, non-Western groups—by members of gay, lesbian, and trasngendered communities. Through presenting and interpreting the interview-gathered narratives of six body modifiers, I describe body modification as a practice imbued with agency by subjects. By creating anomalous bodies that provoke shock and consternation, body modifiers not only underscore the body's symbolic significance as a site of public identity but also conceive it as a resource for opposing (hetero) dominant culture. Body modification, even though it tests social tolerance, is not guaranteed in its subversive effects. I approach the narratives from a perspective informed poststructuralism, and I understand body modifiers' agency as limited by and constituted within regulatory regimes of power, such as heteronormativity, pathologization, and colonialism. I describe how such deployments engage symbols embedded in historic systems of representation and thus raise important questions regarding agency.","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"41 3","pages":"443-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00087.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28278793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It's all about power: the political economy and ecology of redefining the Brazilian Amazon.","authors":"P S Ciccantell","doi":"10.1111/j.1533-8525.1999.tb00549.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1999.tb00549.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508532,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Quarterly","volume":"40 2","pages":"293-316"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1999.tb00549.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40163390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}