Articles

Select recent articles by UNT sociologists:

2012

Gabe Ignatow, Sarah Webb, Michelle Poulin, Ramesh Parajuli, Peter Fleming, Shikha Batra, and Diptee Neupane. "Public Libraries and Democratization in Three Developing Countries: Exploring the Role of Social Capital." Libri (forthcoming)

Gabe Ignatow and and Jessica Lynn Schuett. “Inter-organizational Digital Divide: Civic Groups’ Media Strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project.” First Monday 16(11)

Michelle Poulin (with Iddo Tavory). "Sex Work and the Construction of Intimacies: Meanings and Work Pragmatics in Rural Malawi." Theory and Society.

2011

Gabe Ignatow and Alexander T. Williams. 2011. "New Media and the 'Anchor Baby' Boom." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Gabe Ignatow. 2011. "What Has Globalization Done to Developing Countries’ Public Libraries?” International Sociology 26(6): 746-768.

----------------. 2011. "National Identity and the Informational Welfare State: Turkey and Malaysia Compared.” The Information Society 27(3): 158-171.

Stanley Ingman and Jesmin. 2011. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Sustainable Senior Living." Educational Gerontology 37(6): 441-449.

Syeda Jesmin, Amin and Stanley Ingman. 2011. "Aging and the Caregiving Crisis in Low- and Middle-income Countries." Indian Journal of Gerontology 25(3): 309-328.

Syeda Jesmin and Stanley Ingman. 2011. "Sustainability of Seniors in Low- and Middle-income Countries." Educational Gerontology 37(6): 548-557.

Michelle Poulin and Adamson Muula. 2011. "An Inquiry into the Uneven Distribution of Women's HIV Infection in Rural Malawi." Demographic Research 25(28): 869-902.

Zafirovski, Milan. "Weber’s Sociological Elements in Mises’ Economics of Human Action." Social Epistemology 24, 2, 75-98.

2010

Tianji Cai (with Guong Guo et al.) 2010. "The Dopamine Transporter Gene, A Spectrum of Most Common Risky Behaviors, and the Legal Status of the Behaviors." PLoS ONE.

Michelle Poulin. 2010. "Reporting on First Sexual Experience: The Importance of Interviewer-Respondent Interaction." Demographic Research 23(11): 237-288.

James Swan, Keith W. Turner (with A. Gray-Graves). 2010. “Sustainability of Seniors: Disaster Risk Reduction Management .” Journal of Aging in Emerging Economies 2(2): 41-55.

James Swan, Keith W. Turner (with S. Shashidhara, D. Sanders ). 2010. “Physical Activity and Senior Centers in Texas.” Texas Public Health Journal 62(2): 16-8.

George Yancey. "Who Has Religious Prejudice? Differing Sources of Anti-religious Animosity in the United States." Review of Religious Research.

Dale Yeatts, Cynthia Cready, and James Swan. 2010. “The Perception of ‘Training Availability’ among Certified Nurse Aides: Relationship to CNA Performance, Turnover, Attitudes, Burnout, and Empowerment.” Gerontology & Geriatrics Education 31(2): 115-32.

Milan Zafirovski. 2010. "Weber's Sociological Elements in Mises' Economics of Human Action." Social Epistemology 24(2):75-98.

------------------. 2010. "The Merton Theorem Revisited and Restated: Conservatism and Fascism as Functional Analogues." The American Sociologist 41(2):142-173.

------------------. 2010. "Protestantism and Authoritarianism: Weber's Secondary Problem." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40(2):162-189.

------------------. 2010. "'All in the Extended Family': The Pandora's Box of Conservatism and Fascism Reopened." International Review of Sociology 20(2):189-213.

2009 

Tianji Cai (with Guong Guo, Glen Elder, and Nathan Hamilton). 2009. "Gene-environment Interactions: Peers' Alcohol Use Moderates Genetic Contribution to Adolescent Drinking Behavior." Social Science Research 38(1): 213-224.

Gabe Ignatow. 2009. "Culture and Embodied Cognition: Moral Discourses in Internet Support Groups for Overeaters." Social Forces 88(2): 643-669.

----------------. 2009. "Why the Sociology of Morality Needs Bourdieu’s Habitus." Sociological Inquiry 79(1): 98-114.

Ami Moore et al. 2009. "Earnings Attainment of Immigrants in the U.S.: The Effects of Race, Gender, and Place of Birth." Equal Opportunities International 28 (6): 500-512.

Ami Moore and Amey Foster. 2009. Induced Abortion: The Experiences of Women in Lomé, Togo.  International Review of Comparative Sociology 1:63-77.

Michelle Poulin (with Shelley Clark, Michelle Poulin, and Hans-Peter Kohler). 2009. Marriage aspirations and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi. 
Journal of Marriage and the Family

Michelle Poulin (with Catherine Boilea, Shelley Clark, Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Michelle Poulin, Georges Reniers, Susan C. Watkins, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jody Heymann). "Sexual and marital trajectories and HIV infection among ever-married women in rural Malawi, 2001-2004." Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Michelle Poulin (with Obare, Francis, Peter Fleming, Philip Anglewicz, Rebecca Thornton, Francis Martinson, Agatha Kapatuka, Susan Watkins, and H-P Kohler). "Acceptance of repeat population-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV and socio-demographic variations in HIV incidence in rural Malawi." Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Daniel Rodeheaver. 2009. "The Sociopolitical Ecology of a Post-American World." International Review of Modern Sociology 35(2): 231-240.

James Swan (with M. Kitchener, C. Harrington). “Medicaid nursing facility rates, capacity, and utilization: A structural model analysis.” Social Work in Public Health 24(5): 380-400.

George Yancey. 2009. "Crossracial Differences in the Racial Preferences of Potential Dating Partners." Sociological Quarterly 50: 121-143.

Milan Zafirovski and Daniel Rodeheaver. 2009. "The Mannheim Problem Revisited." Journal of Classical Sociology 9(3): 319-335.

Milan Zafirovski. 2009. "From the 'Most Fateful' to the 'Most Fatal' Social Force?" International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 29(7/8).

2008

Tianji Cai (with Guon Guo and Yuying Tong). 2008. "Gene by Social Context Interactions." American Journal of Sociology 114: S36-S66.

Tianji Cai (with Guong Guo and Michael E. Roettger). 2008. "The Integration of Genetic Propensities into Social-control Models of Delinquency." American Sociological Review 73(4): 543-568

Gabe Ignatow. 2008. "Transnational Environmentalism at Europe’s Boundaries." Current Sociology 56(6): 845-864.

Gabe Ignatow. 2008. "Globalizations and the Transformation of Environmental Activism: Turkey since the 1980s." Globalizations 5(3): 433-447.

Ami Moore et al. 2008. "To Disclose or Not to Disclose." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 28: 351-364.

Ami Moore. 2008. "Types of Violence against Women and Factors Influencing Intimate Partner Violence." Journal of Family Violence 23(8): 777-783.

Rudy Seward and Rudolf Richter. "International Research on Fathering: An Expanding Horizon." Fathering 6: 87-91.

James Swan. 2008. "Getting Tougher for the Fourth Quarter: Boomers and Physical Activity." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 16(3): 261-279.

Dale Yeatts, Cynthia Cready et al. 2008. "Impacts of NurseAide Empowerment on Job Performance." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 34(3): 26-35.

Milan Zafirovski. 2008. "Classical and Neoclassical Economic and Sociological Conceptions of Rationality." Journal of Socio-Economics 37(2): 789-820.