“The book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplished reality.” Rock on Anna!

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 themselves in racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter.

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 explain qualitative differences in the user bases of social media platforms as a function of different technical affordances.

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

violence (IPV) and violent crime among a sample of 512 Black young adults. Specifically, she

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, proves to be the point of failure in models in cybersecurity, pandemic relief and mitigation of global warming trends, among others.

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.