• Staying Connected: Alternative Transportation Use, Neighborhoods, and Social Participation Among Older Americans 

  Latham-Mintus, Kenzie; Manierre, Matthew; Miller, Keith (Oxford Academic, 2022-02)

  BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A wealth of empirical evidence documents improved health among older adults who participate in social activities. Alternative transportation can serve as a bridge linking older adults to social ...
• Racialized Religion and Judicial Injustice: How Whiteness and Biblicist Christianity Intersect to Promote a Preference for (Unjust) Punishment 

  Perry, Samuel L.; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Wiley, 2021-03)

  America's judicial system is both exceptionally punitive and demonstrably unjust toward racial minorities. While these dual realities are structured into America's institutions, we propose they are also partially sustained ...
• Linked Lives: Does Disability and Marital Quality Influence Risk of Marital Dissolution among Older Couples? 

  Latham-Mintus, Kenzie; Holcomb, Jeanne; Zervos, Andrew P. (MDPI, 2022)

  Using fourteen waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal panel survey with respondents in the United States, this research explores whether marital quality—as measured by reports of enjoyment ...
• Perceived Mental Illness Stigma Among Youth in Psychiatric Outpatient Treatment 

  Elkington, Katherine S.; Hackler, Dusty; McKinnon, Karen; Borges, Cristiane; Wright, Eric R.; Wainberg, Milton L. (Sage, 2012-03)

  This research explores the experiences of mental illness stigma in 24 youth (58.3% male, 13–24 years, 75% Latino) in psychiatric outpatient treatment. Using Link and Phelan’s (2001) model of stigmatization, we conducted ...
• Considering the Space Race from the Sociological Perspective 

  Zoeller, Aimee (Humanities in Class Digital Library, 2021-11-15)

  How might we understand the current billionaire space race from a social class and critical race standpoint? How does one’s multiple social identities and social positions inform their worldview of space exploration?
• Frustration in Technology-Rich Learning Environments: A Scale for Assessing Student Frustration with E-Textbooks 

  Novak, Elena; McDaniel, Kerrie; Daday, Jerry; Soyturk, Ilker (BERA, 2022-03)

  e-Textbooks and e-learning technologies have become ubiquitous in college and university courses as faculty seek out ways to provide more engaging, flexible and customizable learning opportunities for students. However, ...
• Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Users’ Knowledge, Conversations with Healthcare Providers, and Condom Use: Findings from a U.S. Nationally Representative Probability Survey 

  Fu, Tsung-chieh; Herbenick, Debby; Dodge, Brian M.; Beckmeyer, Jonathon J.; Hensel, Devon J. (T&F, 2021)

  To describe long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) users’ knowledge, patient-provider interactions, and condom use associated with LARC use. Methods: Data are from the 2018 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, ...
• Racist Resurgences: How Neoliberal and Anti-Racist Lefts Make Space for the Far Right in Sweden and the United States 

  Schall, Carly Elizabeth (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022)
• Do People in Conservative States Really Watch More Porn? A Hierarchical Analysis 

  Perry, Samuel L.; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Sage, 2020-01)

  Recent studies have found that state-level religious and political conservatism is positively associated with various aggregate indicators of interest in pornography. Such studies have been limited, however, in that they ...
• Diversity Discourses: Moral, Ethical and Pragmatic Reasoning in the Swedish Immigration and Integration Debate, 1968-1975 and 1991-1995 

  Schall, Carly Elizabeth (Springer, 2020)

  This article seeks to understand how values enter into political discourse via justification and how those values are negotiated over time. The article maps out the terrain of diversity discourses, both as a specific type ...
• Crusading for Moral Authority: Christian Nationalism and Opposition to Science 

  Baker, Joseph O.; Perry, Samuel L.; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Wiley, 2020-09)

  Numerous studies show biblicist Christianity, religiosity, and conservative political identity are strong predictors of Americans holding skeptical attitudes toward publicly controversial aspects of science, such as human ...
• Mentoring for Faculty from Working-Class Backgrounds 

  Towers, George W.; Poulsen, Joan R.; Carr, Darrin L.; Zoeller, Aimee N. (2021-06-01)

  Faculty mentoring across gender, race, and culture is facilitated by formal mentoring programs. Mentoring across the cultural differences associated with social class, however, represents a largely unaddressed gap in the ...
• Experiencing Our Town : In the words of immigrant women 

  Towers, George W.; Zoeller, Aimee N.; Wills, Katherine (Indiana University, 2020-04-16)

  The multifacted experiences of being a woman and an immigrant in Indiana was co-discovered and articulated through writing workshops supported by Indiana University Purdue University faculty and staff.  The writing ...
• Gender Differences in the Effects of Support Exchanges on Self-Esteem and Mastery for Mid- to Late-Life Adults 

  Irby-Shasanmi, Amy; Erving, Christy L. (Taylor and Francis, 2020-08-02)

  Applying social psychological theories of social exchange and gender socialization perspectives, we assess gender differences in the effects of receiving and giving social support on self-esteem and mastery (i.e., self-concept) ...
• Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election 

  Baker, Joseph O.; Perry, Samuel L.; Whitehead, Andrew L. (Oxford, 2020)

  Some of the strongest predictors of voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election were Christian nationalism and antipathy toward Muslims and immigrants. We examine the interrelated influence of these three ...
• Linking Mastery Across the Life Course to Mobility Device Use in Later Life 

  Latham-Mintus, Kenzie; Clarke, Philippa J. (Oxford University Press, 2017-05-04)

  Objectives Mastery in older ages is shaped by earlier-life experiences. Prior research has demonstrated that mastery is associated with health-promoting behaviors; however, little research has examined whether mastery ...
• How Culture Wars Delay Herd Immunity: Christian Nationalism and Anti-vaccine Attitudes 

  Whitehead, Andrew L.; Perry, Samuel L. (Sage, 2020)

  Prior research demonstrates that a number of cultural factors—including politics and religion—are significantly associated with anti-vaccine attitudes. This is consequential because herd immunity is compromised when large ...
• Religion in the Age of Social Distancing: How COVID-19 Presents New Directions for Research 

  Baker, Joseph O.; Martí, Gerardo; Braunstein, Ruth; Whitehead, Andrew L.; Yukich, Grace (Oxford University Press, 2020-09-16)

  In this brief note written during a global pandemic, we consider some of the important ways this historical moment is altering the religious landscape, aiming our investigative lens at how religious institutions, congregations, ...
• Terrorism, Counterterrorism and “The Rule of Law”: State Repression and “Shoot-to-Kill” in Northern Ireland 

  White, Robert W.; Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Lulla, Vijay (2019)

  Authors have argued that counterterrorism must be consistent with “the rule of law.” Often associated with this approach is the assumption that plural political structures limit the state’s response to terrorism and that ...
• Evangelicals, Then and Now: Plausibility, Boundaries, and American Evangelicalism as Ethnicity 

  Steensland, Brian (Wiley, 2019-12)

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