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Below you may find selected research articles from Sociology faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

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Submissions from 2014

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The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe, Christoper Bader

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Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt: The Impact of New Media on Contemporary Social Movements and Challenges for Social Movement Theory, Victoria Carty

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McDonaldizing Croatia, Ashley Wendell Kranjac

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ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction, Gina S. Ligon, Mackenzie Harms, John Crowe, Leif Lundmark, and Peter Simi

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Multi-­‐Method Assessment of ISIL, Michael Nagata, Ali Abbas, Scott Atran, Bill Braniff, Andrew Bringuel, Muayyad al-Chalabi, Sarah Canna, Jocelyne Cesari, Jacquelynn Chinn, Jon Cole, Steven Corman, Jonathon Cosgrove, Allison Astorino-Courtois, John Crowe, Richard Davis, Natalie Flora, James Giordano, Craig Giorgis, Mackenzie Harms, Benjamin Jensen, Richard John, Randy Kluver, Larry Kuznar, Gina Ligon, Leif Lundmark, Clark McCauley, William H. Moon, Sophia Moskalenko, Dan Myers, Ryan Pereira, Stacy Pollard, Philip Potter, Hammad Sheikh, Johannes Siebert, Peter Simi, Lee Slusher, Anne Speckhard, Jason Spitaletta, Laura Steckman, Shalini Venturelli, Jeff Weyers, Lydia Wilson, and Detlof von Winterfeldt

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Who Cares? Caregiver Well-being in Europe, Leah Ruppanner and Georgiana Bostean

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Review of Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan, Peter Simi

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Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950, Stephanie Takaragawa

Submissions from 2013

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Does Selective Migration Explain the Hispanic Paradox?: A Comparative Analysis of Mexicans in the U.S. and Mexico, Georgiana Bostean

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Associations Among Family History of Cancer, Cancer Screening and Lifestyle Behaviors: A Population-based Study, Georgiana Bostean, Catherine M. Crespi, and William J. McCarthy

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Cardiovascular Health: Associations with Race-ethnicity, Nativity, and Education in a Diverse, Population-based Sample of Californians, Georgiana Bostean, Christian K. Roberts, Catherine M. Crespi, Michael Prelip, Anne Peters, Thomas R. Belin, and William J. McCarthy

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Leveraging Family Values to Decrease Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Aging Latino Day Laborers, Homero E. del Pino, Carolyn Méndez-Luck, Georgiana Bostean, Karina Ramírez, Marlom Portillo, and Alison A. Moore

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The True Citizens of the City of God: The Cult of Saints, the Catholic Social Order, and the Urban Reformation in Germany, Steven Pfaff

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Framing Invisibility: Why We Continue to Ignore the White Supremacist Movement, Peter Simi

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Should START Researchers Embrace the Brain?, Peter Simi and Gina Sott Ligon

Submissions from 2012

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The Sound of Hate, Robert Futrell and Peter Simi

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The 2008 US Presidential Election and New Digital Technologies: Political Campaigns as Social Movements and the Significance of Collective Identity, Stephanie Takaragawa and Victoria Carty

Submissions from 2011

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Practicing What They Preach? Lynching and Religion in the American South 1890 - 1929, Amy Kate Bailey and Karen A. Snedker

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The Coalition of the Unwilling: Contentious Politics, Political Opportunity Structures, and Challenges for the Contemporary Peace Movement, Victoria Carty

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Suicide Risk at Young Adulthood: Continuities and Discontinuities From Adolescence, Carole Hooven, Karen A. Snedker, and Elaine Adams Thompson

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Oppositional Identities: The Military Peace Movement’s Challenge to Pro-Iraq War Frames, Lisa A. Leitz

Submissions from 2010

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An Examination of the Relationship Between Family and U.S. Latinos’ Physical Health, Georgiana Bostean

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Long-term Outcomes for the Promoting CARE Suicide Prevention Program, Carole Hooven, Jerald R. Herting, and Karen A. Snedker

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Review of “Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners, by Jodie Michelle Lawston”, Lisa A. Leitz

Submissions from 2009

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In God We Trust: Images of God and Trust in the United States among the Highly Religious, F. Carson Mencken, Christoper Bader, and Elizabeth Embry

Submissions from 2008

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Arab Feminist Union, Lisa A. Leitz

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General Union of Palestinian Women, Lisa A. Leitz

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Military Families, Lisa A. Leitz

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Woman's Peace Party, Lisa A. Leitz

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Lisa A. Leitz

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Women's Peace Society, Lisa A. Leitz

Submissions from 2007

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The Lives of Others: East Germany Revisited?, Steven Pfaff

Submissions from 2006

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Labor Struggles, New Social Movements, and America's Favorite Pastime: New York Workers Take On New Era Cap Company, Victoria Carty

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A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for the War in Iraq, edited by Thomas Cushman, Lisa A. Leitz

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White Power Cyberculture: Building a Movement, Peter Simi and Robert Futrell

Submissions from 2005

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Images of God: The Effect of Personal Theologies on Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, and Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader and Paul Froese

Submissions from 2004

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Organizing in the Garment Industry in Mexico: Implications for New Social Movement Theory, Victoria Carty

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Transnational Labor Mobilizing in Two Mexican Maquiladoras: The Struggle for Democratic Globalization, Victoria Carty

Submissions from 2003

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New Social Movements and the Struggle for Worker’s Rights in the Maquila Industry, Victoria Carty

Submissions from 2001

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The Internet and Grassroots Politics: Nike, the Athletic Apparel Industry and the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign, Victoria Carty

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Double-edged Rituals and the Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Political Commemorations and the Mobilization of Protest in 1989, Steven Pfaff and Guobin Yang

Submissions from 1995

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The UFO Contact Movement from the 1950's to the Present, Christoper Bader