Volume 22, (1) Winter/Spring Issue, 2023
Special Issue: Racism and Sexism in Virtual Comic and Gaming Environments
Guest Edited by Rhys Hall and David G. Embrick
SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION: Reloading an Old Save File. – Rhys Hall
Research Articles
- “Let’s Play, Zoomers: Cultural Authority and Stereotypical Representations in Video Games.” – Andrea C. Smith & Bhoomi K. Thakore (Equal Authorship)
- “Reexamining Avatars of Whiteness: Changes in Racial Presentation of Video Game Player Characters.” – David R. Dietrich
- “Whiteness as a Social Lounge: The Case of White Supremacy and Discord Communities.” – Joong Won Kim, J. Slade Lellock, & David L. Brunsma
- “The Virtual Geography of Racial Segregation: Exploring Racialization, Stereotypes, and Tropes in World of Warcraft.” – Steven Tuttle & J. Talmadge Wright
- “Gamifying Blackness: A Discussion on Black Gamers and Black Portrayals in Contemporary Videogames.” – Javon Goard
- “The Erasure of Asian Gamers: The Gaming Industry as a Racialized Social Structure .” – Taylor Devereaux
- “‘You Know, We’re Just Having a Good Time’: Masking Racism and Foregrounding Fun in Cosplay.” – Manuel Ramirez
Volume 21, (2) Summer/Fall Issue, 2022
Research Articles
- “Culpable Victims, Good Guys, and Teases: Rape Myth Acceptance and Group Membership at a Small College.” – Denise L. Bissler & Scott B. London
- “‘Turn it up!’: Exploring the Factors that Affect the Acquisition of Hearing Aids.” – Jason Milne & Lissa Power-deFur
- “COVID-19 Photovoice: Creating College Student Peer-to-Peer Support Groups with an Online Active Learning Assignment.” – Anastacia Schulhoff
- “Social Location, Ideology, and Undergraduate Explanations of Social Inequality.” – Nathan Palmer.
Book Reviews
Volume 21, (1) Winter/Spring Issue, 2022
Special Issue: COVID-19, Disability, & the Sociological Imagination
Guest Edited by Tiffany Taylor, Marni Brown, & Samantha Nousak
Introduction to the Special Issue
“COVID-19, Disability, and the Sociological Imagination.” – Samantha Nousak
Research & Review Articles
- “‘Because COVID Ruined Everything’: The Impact of Learning Modalities and Accommodations on Students with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” – Shawna Bendeck
- “The ‘New Normal’ for Disabled Students: Access, Inclusion, and COVID-19.” – Paul DC Bones & Vanessa Ellison
- “Rejecting a Pre-COVID 19 Normal: An Autohistoria-Teoría Exploring (Dis) Ability Justice Reform in Higher Education.” – Chimine Arfuso
- “When a Global Pandemic Makes Life More Accessible to Those with Invisible Disabilities.” – Gretchen Peterson
- “Older Black Workers’ Resilience: Navigating Work and Health Risks with Chronic Conditions.” – Kendra Jason
- “Exploring the Differential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Employees with Disabilities: A Call for Organizational Action.” – Nicole L. Gullekson, Christa Kiersch, Christine Manno, Erica G. Srinivasan, & Jorg Vianden
- “‘It’s a gift…and a curse’ : How COVID Reframed Our Understanding of Disability as an Intersectional Identity.” – Tanya N. Cook
- “The Invisibilities of Disability: Compiling Conversations.” – Heather E. Dillaway, Allison Jendry James, & Amanda J. Horn
- “Hidden Bodies: Queer Variant Ability, Intimacy & COVID-19.” – Emily Stevens & Stella Tarnoff
- “Dys-Feminicide: Conceptualizing the Feminicides of Women and Girls with Disabilities.” – Valérie Grand’Maison and Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente
- “Isolation, Fear, and Anger: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pregnancy and Childbirth.” – Beth Cavalier & Pamela Regus
- “Hawai’i to Hospice: Terminal Illness during a Global Pandemic.” – Sheila M. Katz & Daniel S. Haworth
Podcast- Disability and COVID Conversations
Volume 20, (2) Summer/Fall Issue, 2021
Research Articles
- “Neutralization Theory and the NFL’s Domestic Violence Issues: A Case Study Analysis.” – Danny E. Malone, Jr. & Kelli Smith
- “’Standing Up For What She Believes In’: U.S. Women’s Soccer Fan Responses to the Interplay of Sport and Politics.” – Elizabeth S. Cavalier & Rachel Allison
- Parental Cross-Nativity and Intermarriage among Second-Generation Mexican Americans in Metropolitan Los Angeles.” – Rosalío Cedillo
- “Exploring Rural Food Insecurity in North Carolina: Debunking an Urban Myth.” – Timothy Mulrooney, Erica Mulrooney, & Christopher McGinn
Scholar Spotlight
American Poverty is Poorly Understood.” – Mark R. Rank & Lawrence M. Eppard
Volume 20, (1) Winter/Spring Issue, 2021
Research Articles
- “A Case Study Accessing the Feasibility of a Local Food Label among Producers and Consumers.” – Julia F. Waity, Mitchell A. Farrell, & Von R. Eaton
- “Investigating Human Trafficking Within the United States: A State-Level Analysis of Prevalence and Correlates.” – Lisa A. Eargle & Jessica M. Doucet
- “Little Free Libraries: Creativity and Altruism as a Self-Healing Aid in the Time of COVID-19.” – Will M. Williams
Book Review
Book Review: Think Again.- Troy Okum & Lawrence M. Eppard
Scholar Spotlight
Social Mobility in the United States – B. Mazumder, M. Corak, & L.M. Eppard
Volume 19, (2) Summer/Fall Issue, 2020
Research Articles
- “Explaining Collegiate Sexual Assault Offending and Victimization Using a Feminized Routine Activities Framework.” – Kristen Bethune & Cindy Brooks Dollar
- “The Significance of Social Bonds for Asian Americans: Investigating the Relationship between Sex/Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Immigrant Generation, and Educational Attainment.” – Joong Won Kim, Anthony A. Peguero, & Jennifer M. Bondy
- “The Relationship between Global Perceptions of Police in the United States and Citizen Satisfaction with Local Police.” – Candace E. Griffith & Allison J. Foley
- “Concealed Carry on Campus as an Expression of Racialized Vulnerability.” – Todd C. Couch
- “Misperceptions of Racial and Ethnic Student Organizations on a Predominantly White Campus.” – Kaylee Gramly
Book Reviews
Book Review: Post-Truth. – Lawrence M. Eppard
Scholar Spotlight
Saving the Future – Noam Chomsky & Lawrence Eppard
Volume 19, (1) Winter/Spring Issue, 2020
Research Articles
- “Accessible Rations: Food Environment and Race – The Case of Forsyth County, North Carolina.” – Tangela Towns & Richard G. Moye
- “The Great Divide: The Impact of Political and Religious Conservatism on Attitudes toward Rape-Related Abortions.” – Ketty Fernandez, Madelyn Diaz, & J. Scott Carter
- “Microagressions, Intersectional Assumptions, and Unnoticed Burdens of Racialized College Life for Brown and Black Students at a PWI.” – Abigail B. Reiter & Elizabeth M. Reiter
Book Reviews
Scholar Spotlight
Volume 18, (2) Summer/Fall Issue, 2019
Research Articles
- “The Effects of Polarizing Elite Messaging on Nationalism, Patriotism, and Views of Immigration.” – John Graeber, Nick McRee, & Mark Setzler
- “Gateway or Cul de Sac?: Using Big Data to Assess Legal Recreational Marijuana and Changes in the Use of ‘Hard’ Drugs.” – Robert Todd Perdue & James Hawdon
- “Ending America’s War with Itself: A Conversation with Henry Giroux.” – Lawrence M. Eppard & Henry A. Giroux
- “Flawed Measurement of Hiring Discrimination against African Americans.” – Raj Ghoshal
Book Review
Volume 18, (1) Winter/Spring Issue, 2019
Research Articles
- “You can go fuck yourself!”: Precarious Masculinity, Emasculation, Sexuality, and Violence in Breaking Bad. – Jamie Pond.
- “Subjective Patriotism: A Cross-section Comparison of the Millenial, Generation X. Baby Boom, and Silent Generation Birth Cohorts” – Jared M. Adams & David A. Gay
- “It’s Just Art”: Experiences of K-12 Visual Arts Teachers in the Era of Neoliberalism, Assessment, and Accountability. – Shelley M. Kimelberg, Robert M. Adelman, Watoii Rabii, & Joanne Tompkins.
- Something Old or Something New?: Complexity Theory and Sociology – Daniel J. Davis.
- “Because I Learn!”: An Exploratory Note on the Academic Identity of African American Children – Matthew Sheptoski & Janice Tucker.