SAGE Podcast

Undocumented immigrant women who are abused and living in the United States are isolated in a foreign country, in constant fear of deportation, and feel at the mercy of their spouse to gain legal status. To ensure that immigration law does not trap women in abusive relationships, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA, 1994) enabled immigrant women to self-petition for legal status. Qualitative research methods were used in this participatory action research to investigate the experiences of Mexican immigrant women filing VAWA self-petitions. Emotional, financial, and logistic barriers in applying are identified, and recommendations for practice research and policy are provided.

In 1992 and 1995, data were collected from 29 Navajo Native American adolescent mothers. In 2007 and 2008, data were collected from 21 of the original 29 (72%). Guided by feminist family theory, this investigation sought to (a) examine Navajo adolescent mothers' intimate partner relationships during the transition to parenthood, (b) identify themes in the young mothers' intimate partnerships across time, and (c) assess participants' psychosocial well-being in adulthood. Four themes emerged in the women's long-term intimate relationships: limited support, substance abuse, infidelity, and intimate partner violence. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Zella King discusses contested terrain, based on an article in the January 2011 special issue of Human Relations on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Career Studies

Jens Brockmeier discusses a fundamental change in our understanding of memory and puts it into a cultural context.

Kathleen Kane talks to James Davis, University of Notre Dame and Jack Ruhe, St. Mary's College, about their article "Character Development in Business Education: A Comparison of Coeducational and Single-Sex Environments.

Mary Ann Hazen talks to Diana Bilimoria, Delaney Kirk and Rita Durant, about their recent articles in JME.

Raymond Miles and Charles Snow reflect on their long-time professional collaboration in the new section of Journal of Management Inquiry, Six Degrees.

Editor Clemencon talks to Professor Alonso about the recent Brazilian elections.

The authors talk about their article on teaching philosophies.

This article describes the official protocol and unexpected contingencies that motored data collection for a large scale study of transgender inmates in California prisons for men. The focus is on gender and sexuality as methodological confounds that, surprisingly and productively, ultimately served to shed insight into basic sociological questions as well address the policy questions that originally motivated the research. Drawing on serendipitously collected ethnographic data from a plethora of exchanges with experts, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials, researchers, and transgender inmates, this article reveals the categorization commitments and processes that permeate the lives of "the girls among men" in prisons for men. In light of these findings, the author argues for the value of adopting what she calls a "soft mixed methods" approach when doing non-ethnographic work designed to inform policy. To do so stimulates sociological imagination and ultimately provides more nuanced, layered, and complicated answers to policy questions while also providing insights into more basic research questions.

Community College Review

This study examines the skills and conceptual knowledge that employers require for marketing positions at different levels ranging from entry- or lower-level jobs to middle- and senior-level positions.

Professor Jean Schoenen interviews Dr Sheena Aurora on the results from PREEMPT Trials 1 and 2

Using a sample of eighty-four food and beverage (F-B) manager groups from forty Asian hotel properties owned and managed by a single multinational hotel chain, we examine the effect of job satisfaction, and contrast this effect with that of group service climate, on supervisor ratings of group job performance behaviors (group task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors).

Dr Jim Purpura is interviewed about the place of grammar in language testing, the importance of grammar in predicting language ability, and the relationship of grammar to meaning.