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Submissions from 2023

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State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note, Dustin C. Brown, Joseph T. Lariscy, and Benjamin H. Walker

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State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note, Dustin C. Brown, Joseph T. Lariscy, and Benjamin H. Walker

Submissions from 2022

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My Father Died this Summer: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Our Deadening Lives and Identities Held Captive, Joanna Boudreaux

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My Father Died this Summer: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Our Deadening Lives and Identities Held Captive, Joanna Boudreaux

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Conceptualizing rurality: The impact of definitions on the rural mortality penalty, Wesley L. James, Claire Brindley, Christopher Purser, and Michael Topping

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Conceptualizing rurality: The impact of definitions on the rural mortality penalty, Wesley L. James, Claire Brindley, Christopher Purser, and Michael Topping

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“I don't say that I'm a who's who”: Negotiating Identity through Humility Work, Sun Ah M. Laybourn

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“In My Heart, I Am Cambodian”: Symbolic Ethnicity among Parents Who Adopt Transracially, Sun Ah M. Laybourn and Carla Goar

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“In My Heart, I Am Cambodian”: Symbolic Ethnicity among Parents Who Adopt Transracially, Sun Ah M. Laybourn and Carla Goar

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Critical Mass and Critical Representation Economic Transition, Workplace Cultures, and Women CEOs in China, Caroline Virginia Reilly and Junmin Wang

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Critical Mass and Critical Representation Economic Transition, Workplace Cultures, and Women CEOs in China, Caroline Virginia Reilly and Junmin Wang

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Racial Disparities in Air Pollution Burden and COVID-19 Deaths in Louisiana, USA, in the Context of Long-Term Changes in Fine Particulate Pollution, Kimberly A. Terrell and Wesley James

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Racial Disparities in Air Pollution Burden and COVID-19 Deaths in Louisiana, USA, in the Context of Long-Term Changes in Fine Particulate Pollution, Kimberly A. Terrell and Wesley James

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GENDER BIAS, INSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENTS and INNOVATIVENESS of FEMALE CEOS in CHINA, Junmin Wang, Caroline Virginia Reilly, and Kaniz Fatema

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GENDER BIAS, INSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENTS and INNOVATIVENESS of FEMALE CEOS in CHINA, Junmin Wang, Caroline Virginia Reilly, and Kaniz Fatema

Submissions from 2021

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Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists, Di Di, Simranjit Khalsa, Robert A. Thomson, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Community and the Critique of Technology: A Revisionist Account of an Essential Concept, Clayton Fordahl

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Political Performance, Profanation, and Mundane Interaction: a Revised Cultural Sociology of the 2016 American Presidential Election, Clayton Fordahl

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When the Gods Fall: Varieties of Post-Secularization in a Small, Secularized State, Clayton Fordahl and Berglind Ragnarsdóttir

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“Sow, Grow, Know, and Show”: The Impact of School Gardens on Student Self-Perception in the Mississippi Delta, Emily A. Holmes, Mary F. Campbell, Wesley James, and Karen Matthews

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The Association Between Substance Use and Violence: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of High School Students in the United States, Satish K. Kedia, Patrick J. Dillon, Yu Jiang, Wesley James, Andy C. Collins, and Soumitra S. Bhuyan

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SCIENCE–RELIGION BOUNDARIES IN INDIAN SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACES, Simranjit Khalsa, Brenton Kalinowski, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Evaluation of a Peer-Led Comprehensive Sexual Health Program for College Teens, Chris N. King, Rachel M. Arthur, Jonathan R. Bennett, Wesley L. James, and Karen C. Matthews

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Adopting the model minority myth: Korean adoption as a racial project, Sunah M. Laybourn

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Traces and shards of self-injury: Strange accounting with “Author X”, Brittany Presson, Brandi Barnes, Carol Rambo, and X. Author

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“SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP”: STATUS SILENCING AND THE MAINTENANCE OF TOXIC MASCULINITY IN ACADEMIA, John C. Pruit, Amanda G. Pruit, and Carol Rambo

Remixing/reliving/revisioning "my mother is mentally retarded", Carol Rambo

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Surviving racism and genocide: Native american caricature iconography and racial formation projects, Anthony J. Stone and Carol Rambo

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Managing R&D in Chinese listed firms: The interactive effects of ownership concentration and corporate governance, Junmin Wang

Submissions from 2020

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Mass media exposure and maternal healthcare utilization in South Asia, Kaniz Fatema and Joseph T. Lariscy

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Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research, Clayton Fordahl

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Lions and foxes: revisiting Pareto’s bestiary for the age of late pluto-democracy, Clayton Fordahl

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Characteristics of persistently unhealthy counties: A comparison of white and black mortality over time*, Wesley James, Julia Wolf, and Jeralynn Cossman

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Indian scientists’ definitions of religion and spirituality, Simranjit Khalsa, Brenton D. Kalinowski, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Lung cancer mortality among never-smokers in the United States: estimating smoking-attributable mortality with nationally representative data, Joseph T. Lariscy, Robert A. Hummer, and Richard G. Rogers

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Let’s Drink to Being Socially Active: Family Characteristics, Social Participation, and Alcohol Abuse across Mid- and Later-life, Eric M. Vogelsang and Joseph T. Lariscy

Submissions from 2019

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Comparability of Mortality Estimates from Social Surveys and Vital Statistics Data in the United States, Dustin C. Brown, Joseph T. Lariscy, and Lucie Kalousová

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Growth and persistence of place-based mortality in the United States: The rural mortality penalty, Arthur G. Cosby, M. Maya McDoom-Echebiri, Wesley James, Hasna Khandekar, Willie Brown, and Heather L. Hanna

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For conscience and kingdom martyrs, monarchs and the spirit of modernity in Early Modern England, Clayton Fordahl

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Gendered perceptions of fairness in housework and shared expenses: Implications for relationship satisfaction and sex frequency, Brian Joseph Gillespie, Gretchen Peterson, and Janet Lever

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Smoking-attributable mortality by cause of death in the United States: An indirect approach, Joseph T. Lariscy

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“God Smites You!”: Atheists’ Experiences of Stigma, Identity Politics, and Queerness*, Degan Loren and Carol Rambo

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Developing an awareness of emotion management strategies to support athlete success, Gretchen Peterson

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Autoethnography as a methodology in researching social problems, Carol Rambo, Brittany Presson, Victoria Gaines, and Brandi Barnes

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Autoethnography as a methodology in researching social problems, Carol Rambo, Brittany Presson, Victoria Gaines, and Brandi Barnes

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LEGAL UNFAIRNESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP and INNOVATION in China, Junmin Wang

Submissions from 2018

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The Dialectics of Stigma, Silence, and Misunderstanding in Suicidality Survival Narratives, Taylor M. Binnix, Carol Rambo, Seth Abrutyn, and Anna S. Mueller

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Coming Unhinged: A Twice-Told Multivoiced Autoethnography, Carolyn Ellis, Arthur P. Bochner, Carol Rambo, Keith Berry, Hannah Shakespeare, Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Tony E. Adams, and Robert E. Rinehart

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Authenticity: The Sociological Dimensions of a Politically Consequential Concept, Clayton Fordahl

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Sovereignty and Martyrdom: A Sociological Sketch, Clayton Fordahl

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Suffering and sovereignty: Martyrdom in the late modern West, Clayton Fordahl

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Persistence of death in the United States: The remarkably different mortality patterns between America's Heartland and Dixieland, Wesley James, Jeralynn Cossman, and Julia Kay Wolf

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Improving the Health of Rural America's Chronically Ill: A Case Study of a Patient-Centered Medical Home Clinic in Mississippi, Wesley James, Karen Matthews, Peter Albrecht, and Anna Church

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Cigarette Smoking and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Adult Mortality in the United States, Joseph T. Lariscy, Robert A. Hummer, and Richard G. Rogers

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Naturally Ambivalent: Religion's Role in Shaping Environmental Action, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

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The state as a vehicle of technological change:Economic openness,technological catching-up, and indigenous innovation in Chinese firms, Junmin Wang

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Economic Openness and Institutional Embeddedness: Global Capital and Firm Performance in China's Stock Market*, Junmin Wang, Yanlong Zhang, and Doug Guthrie

Submissions from 2017

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The differential effects of rural health care access on race-specific mortality, Jeralynn Cossman, Wesley James, and Julia Kay Wolf

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The post-secular: Paradigm shift or provocation?, Clayton Fordahl

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Long-Term Trends in Black and White Mortality in the Rural United States: Evidence of a Race-Specific Rural Mortality Penalty, Wesley James and Jeralynn S. Cossman

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A faith for all? Boundaries of religion and ethnicity among Sikhs, Simranjit Khalsa

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Black–White Disparities in Adult Mortality: Implications of Differential Record Linkage for Understanding the Mortality Crossover, Joseph T. Lariscy

Submissions from 2016

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Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States, Joseph T. Lariscy, Claudia Nau, Glenn Firebaugh, and Robert A. Hummer

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Political conservatism, religion, and environmental consumption in the United States, Jared L. Peifer, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

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Claiming, Resisting, and Exempting Pathology in the Identities of Self-Injurers, Brittany Presson and Carol Rambo

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Strange Accounts: Applying for the Department Chair Position and Writing Threats and Secrets “in Play”, Carol Rambo

Twitch: A performance of chronic liminality, Carol Rambo

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Gossip as Social Control: Informal Sanctions on Ethical Violations in Scientific Workplaces, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Simranjit Khalsa, and Elaine Howard Ecklund

Submissions from 2015

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Stability, asset management, and gradual change in China’s reform economy, Doug Guthrie, Zhixing Xiao, and Junmin Wang

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Hispanic Older Adult Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the Hispanic Paradox, Joseph T. Lariscy, Robert A. Hummer, and Mark D. Hayward

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Can social ties be harmful? Examining the spread of suicide in early adulthood, Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn, and Cynthia Stockton

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Can social ties be harmful? Examining the spread of suicide in early adulthood, Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn, and Cynthia Stockton

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Suicide ideation and bullying among US adolescents: Examining the intersections of sexual orientation, gender, and race/ethnicity, Anna S. Mueller, Wesley James, Seth Abrutyn, and Martin L. Levin

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Connecting social psychology and the sociology of sport: Using Goffman as a framework for sociological sports research, Gretchen Peterson

Submissions from 2014

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Gender, acculturation, and smoking behavior among U.S. Asian and Latino immigrants, Bridget K. Gorman, Joseph T. Lariscy, and Charisma Kaushik

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"What Are You?": Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project, Tiffanie Grier, Carol Rambo, and Marshall A. Taylor

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Integrating spatial and time sensitive data to monitor social patterns: A dynamic methodology for studying social issues, Wesley James, Ronald E. Cossman, and Neal Feierabend

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All rural places are not created equal: Revisiting the rural mortality penalty in the United States, Wesley L. James

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Relationship of racial composition and cancer risks from air toxics exposure in memphis, Tennessee, USA, Chunrong Jia, Wesley James, and Satish Kedia

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Sports and Emotions, Gretchen Peterson

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State-market interactions in China's reform era: Local state competition and global market building in the tobacco industry, Junmin Wang

Submissions from 2013

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Public support for Hispanic deportation in the United States: The effects of ethnic prejudice and perceptions of economic competition in a period of economic distress, Arthur Cosby, Kristen Aanstoos, Marissa Matta, Jeremy Porter, and Wesley James

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Race/ethnicity, nativity, and tobacco Use among U.S. Young adults: Results From a nationally representative survey, Joseph T. Lariscy, Robert A. Hummer, Jessica M. Rath, Andrea C. Villanti, Mark D. Hayward, and Donna M. Vallone

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Predictors of Entry into Age-Discordant Relationships Among Adolescent Girls, Jeni Loftus, Brian C. Kelly, and Sarah A. Mustillo

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Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Patterns of U.S. Adolescent and Young Adult Smoking, Becky Wade, Joseph T. Lariscy, and Robert A. Hummer

Submissions from 2012

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Uneven magnitude of disparities in cancer risks from air toxics, Wesley James, Chunrong Jia, and Satish Kedia

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Inequality, Health Infrastructure, and Spatial Context: Understanding Pathways to Variations in the Causal Determinants of Race-Specific Mortality Rates, Wesley L. James and Jeremy R. Porter

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"That's what makes a woman": Infertility and coping with a failed life course transition, Jeni Loftus and Angie L. Andriot

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Short-term sexual health effects of relationships with significantly older females on adolescent boys, Jeni Loftus and Brian C. Kelly

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The effects of relationships with older females on the substance abuse and mental health of adolescent Boys, Jeni Loftus and Brian C. Kelly

The generalized exchange of punishments in adult recreational softball: The case of "going middle", Gretchen Peterson

Claiming the bodies of exotic dancers: The problematic discourse of commodification, Carol Rambo, Sara Renée Presley, and Don Mynatt

Erotic dancing, Carol Rambo and John Pruit

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Hormone therapy and Alzheimer disease dementia: New findings from the Cache County Study, Huibo Shao, John C.S. Breitner, Rachel A. Whitmer, Junmin Wang, Kathleen Hayden, Heidi Wengreen, Chris Corcoran, and Jo Ann Tschanz

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The Rise of SASAC: Asset Management, Ownership Concentration, and Firm Performance in China's Capital Markets, Junmin Wang, Doug Guthrie, and Zhixing Xiao

Submissions from 2011

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Differential record linkage by Hispanic ethnicity and age in linked mortality studies: Implications for the epidemiologic paradox, Joseph T. Lariscy

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Depressive symptoms among adolescent girls in relationships with older partners: Causes and lasting effects?, Jeni Loftus, Brian C. Kelly, and Sarah A. Mustillo

Expectant mothers: Women's infertility and the potential identity of biological motherhood, Jeni Loftus and Paul Namaste

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Final reflections on editing symbolic interaction: Farewell and smooth sailing, Carol Rambo

Submissions from 2010

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Underlying causes of the emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penalty, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Wesley L. James, Arthur G. Cosby, and Ronald E. Cossman