SAGE Podcast

Author Steven F. Spina discusses his June 2013 article with SLGR Social Media Editor Beverly Bunch and panelists William "Billy" Poe and Ron Carlee.

A Conversation with Dr. Twite and Dr. Ing on the Anesthetic Considerations in Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Editor J. Peter Burgess discusses the article 'Analogical reasoning and cyber security' with authors David J. Betz and Tim Stevens. This article is an attempt to interrogate some of the predominant forms of analogical reasoning within current cyber-security discourse, with a view to clarifying their unstated premises, major strengths and, vitally, points of conceptual failure. It seeks to improve dialogue between and across the various epistemic communities involved with cyber-security policy. As we seek to adapt to the new security realities of the information age, it is incumbent upon scholars and strategists to address the benefits of connectivity, in all its dimensions, as much as the threats it presents. Current cyber-security discourse channels us into a winner-takes-all modality that is neither desirable nor necessary in the current strategic reality.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Kelly A. Tappenden, PhD, RD, interviews Nilesh M. Mehta, MD about his article Defining Pediatric Malnutrition: A Paradigm Shift Toward Etiology-Related Definitions published in the July 2013 issue of JPEN.

This podcast features Dr. J. Philip Kaiser discussing his recent paper "Putative Mechanisms of Environmental Chemical-Induced Steatosis", published in vol. 31(6) of International Journal of Toxicology". Steatosis, also known as fatty liver, can progress to a form of hepatitis, and eventually to fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver. While alcohol consumption, metabolic syndrome, and hepatitis are common causes of liver disease, this study examined environmental chemicals in the US EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) that induce steatosis, and investigated possible cellular and subcellular mechanisms by which the chemicals could be acting.

Author Christine Horne discusses her article from the June 2013 issue of American Sociological Review, The Shadow of Indebtedness: Bridewealth and Norms Constraining Female Reproductive Autonomy. Bridewealth is fundamental to marriage in Africa. Anthropological research provides substantial information regarding characteristics of the bridewealth transaction, but scholars and policymakers know little about its consequences for women in contemporary Africa. We argue that the payment of bridewealth strengthens normative constraints on women’s autonomy in the reproductive domain. We test and find support for our argument using a unique vignette experiment conducted with rural women in the Volta Region of Ghana. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/3/503.abstract

Author Andrew Papachristos discusses his article from the June 2013 issue of American Sociological Review, The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence. Nearly a century of empirical research examines how neighborhood properties influence a host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and economic inequality. Theoretically bundled within these neighborhood effects are institutions’ and actors’ social networks that are the foundation of other neighborhood-level processes such as social control, mobilization, and cultural assimilation. Yet, despite such long-standing theoretical links between neighborhoods and social networks, empirical research rarely considers or measures dimensions of geography and social network mechanisms simultaneously. The present study seeks to fill this gap by analyzing how both geography and social networks influence an important social problem in urban America: gang violence. Using detailed data on fatal and non-fatal shootings, we examine effects of geographic proximity, organizational memory, and additional group processes (e.g., reciprocity, transitivity, and status seeking) on gang violence in Chicago and Boston. Results show adjacency of gang turf and prior conflict between gangs are strong predictors of subsequent gang violence. Furthermore, important network processes, including reciprocity and status seeking, also contribute to observed patterns of gang violence. In fact, we find that these spatial and network processes mediate racial effects, suggesting the primacy of place and the group in generating gang violence. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/3/417.abstract

This podcast features discussion of the article Frontline leisure: Securitizing tourism in the War on Terror, by Debbie Lisle. The article argues that the terrorist bombings of hotels, pubs and nightclubs in Bali in October 2002, and in Mombasa one month later, were inaugural moments in the post-9/11 securitization of the tourism industry. Although practices of tourism and terrorism seem antithetical – one devoted to travel and leisure, the other to political violence – this article argues that their entanglement is revealed most clearly in the counter-terrorism responses that brought the everyday lives of tourists and tourism workers, as well as the material infrastructure of the tourism industry, within the orbit of a global security apparatus waging a 'war on terror'.

Author David Purcell discusses his article from the January 2013 issue of Teaching Sociology, Sociology, Teaching, and Reflective Practice: Using Writing to Improve. The scholarly literature on teaching sociology contains relatively little about improving courses from one semester to the next. In this article, I describe a method for continual teaching improvement that is based on writing, the well-established practice of teacher reflection, and classical sociological principles. This method was developed through the analysis of nine semesters of autoethnographic data that I collected in the form of daily reflective notes. The benefits of this sociologically informed reflective practice include grounding evaluations of individual class periods and entire courses in empirical data, becoming more efficient with course preparation, providing one with a stronger sense of mastery as a teacher, and developing as a sociologist by using the classroom as a key site for engaging in praxis. This practice can help teachers refine individual courses, improve as an instructor in an overall sense and more deeply connect sociology to the scholarship of teaching and learning. http://tso.sagepub.com/content/41/1/5.abstract

Is nepotism good or bad? Peter Jaskiewicz joins the Family Business Review podcast to discuss.

Author Janet Yang discusses her article, co-authored with LeeAnn Kahlor, What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance from the April 2013 issue of Science Communication.

IJPP Editor Silvio Waisbord talks to Gadi Wolfsfeld about his article, co-authored with Elad Segev and Tamir Sheafer, 'Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First', published in the April 2013 issue of the journal.

Author Sonya Wanklyn discusses her article, co-authored with David M. Day, Trevor A. Hart, and Todd A. Girard, Cumulative Childhood Maltreatment and Depression Among Incarcerated Youth: Impulsivity and Hopelessness as Potential Intervening Variables.

The authors discuss how family enterprise advisors work on complex and unique problems.

Dr Jennifer Marie Tomlinson at Stony Brook University, USA talks about how to overcome the risks of increasing closeness in relationships.