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Thirty years into a purported culture war, evidence for the ideological polarization of popular tastes and lifestyles remains inconclusive. And yet, the degree to which ideological antipathy has spilled over into otherwise mundane realms of social life is central not only for key sociological insights about societal cohesion, but also for the existence of a functioning democratic society. Relying on original survey data on political ideology and…

"The Polarization of American Popular Culture: Scope and Mechanisms"
In the U.S., those who identify as Afro-Latinx, do so at the intersection of a Latinx community that often rejects them and an African American community that often does not understand them. I examine the relationship between Afro-Latinx identity and the #BlackLivesMatter movement via social media. By employing, a combination of Twitter analysis and in-depth interviews with social media users, I provide insight into how Afro-Latinxs understand…

"Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements"
News framing contests are a central feature of Twitter, which is unsurprising given the unique ways that Twitter users engage with news. Twitter users are far more likely to use the platform to follow breaking news stories, directly follow reporters, and to engage with political news than Facebook users. At the same time, news personnel use Twitter as a source of news stories and to connect with interlocutors. Previous research has attempted to…

"Twitter Discourse and the New Digital Newsroom"
Megan Steele is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her primary research interests include the Family, Life Course, and Aging; Crime, Law, and Deviance; and Advanced Quantitative Methods. Her dissertation is tentatively titled, “A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence.” In this work, she examines how factors associated with six theories of criminal behavior relate to intimate partner…

"A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence"
Sociology is at the top of the list of academic underappreciated academic disciplines. As a consequence, sociologists, and their expertise, are overlooked in the development of strategic plans and crises mitigation doomed to fail if the people part of the model is not properly scoped or specified. Examples are many as human behavior, especially contingent, interactive, and aggregate human behavior, the focus of sociology, over and over again,…

"Presentation of Soc in the Wider World"
Trigger warning: slavery, human remains, anti-Black discrimination As a new annual tradition, we will view the documentary "Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University’s Legacy of Slavery" together, followed by a discussion led by Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and Dr. Sarah Shannon. On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers uncovered human remains on the site. DNA…

"Discussion: Below Baldwin - A Student Documentary"
This project examines the methods used to test status characteristics and expectation states theory (SC-EST). Specifically, this project examines two things: (1) if the classic SC-EST laboratory experiment can be moved online; (2) if the tasks used in SC-EST experiments are equivalent at measuring gender-based discrimination. We find that the SC-EST education manipulation produces equivalent results in the online and laboratory environment,…

"Behavioral Experiments in the Online Setting and Studying Gender as a Status Characteristic"

“The End of College Football: On Harm and Exploitation in Big-Time College Sports.”
*This talk is part of a series on the Black image that is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for African American Studies.

“Diversity Capital: Race and Corporate Support for the Arts.”

“The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes.”
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