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Wed, 02/03/2016 - 2:44pm
Presenter: Patti Giuffre*, Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas State University Abstract: The world of elite chefs is almost exclusively male. How is it that being a chef—a job based on the feminized skill of cooking—is considered a masculine occupation? This book combines content analysis of food media with interviews with 33 women chefs in Texas to address how the chef occupation became and remains male-dominated. We found that…
"Where are the Great Women Chefs? Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen"
Wed, 02/03/2016 - 2:36pm
Presenter: Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Georgia State University Abstract: “Intentional neighbors” are middle class Christians who seek to achieve spatial solidarity with people living in impoverished and marginalized inner city neighborhoods. This large and growing movement in U.S. cities follows a model for achieving social justice that was laid out and practiced by an African-American veteran of the Civil…
“The spatial solidarity of intentional neighboring”
Wed, 02/03/2016 - 2:31pm
Presenter: Ron Simons, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia Abstract: Unprecedented growth in the proportion of older adults in the U.S. has placed inequalities in healthy aging at the forefront of the public health agenda. Individuals often differ dramatically in their speed of aging. Some demonstrate accelerated aging and suffer early onset of chronic illness whereas others manifest decelerated aging…
“How the social environment becomes biologically embedded and influences aging: Sociology and the fountain of youth”
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