SAGE Podcast

Author Maria Paino discusses her article from the April 2013 issue of Sociology of Education, Digital Dimension of Cultural Capital: The (In)Visible Advantages for Students Who Exhibit Computer Skills. We update theories of teacher expectancy and cultural capital by linking them to discussions of technology. We argue for broadening the span of culturally important forms of capital by including the digital dimension of cultural capital. Based on data from the third-grade and fifth-grade waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey–Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), results suggest a comprehensive model where teachers play a prominent, mediating role in the effects of computer proficiency on academic achievement. These findings have practical applications within classrooms, which can lead to a reduction in stratification. Our findings modernize and renew theoretical tools for understanding teacher and student interactions and the effects on achievement outcomes http://soe.sagepub.com/content/86/2/124.abstract

School Psychology International has been at the forefront of publishing resilience-oriented research applicable to educational practitioners across national boundaries. A collection of 13 articles from the journal have been selected and assembled to enhance psychological service providers’ knowledge of underlying resilience processes and capacity for resilience-promoting intervention. This podcast introduces that collection.

Dr. Barry P. Boden discusses his article from the May 2013 issue of AJSM, Fatalities in High School and College Football Players. Background: Fatalities in football are rare but tragic events. Purpose: The purpose was to describe the causes of fatalities in high school and college football players and potentially provide preventive strategies. http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/11/0363546513478572.abstract

Dr. Brett Owens discusses 5 articles from the May 2013 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine in 5 minutes.

Author Rachael Pierotti discusses her article from the April 2013 issue of American Sociological Review, Increasing Rejection of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence of Global Cultural Diffusion. This study extends existing world society research on ideational diffusion by going beyond examinations of national policy change to investigate the spread of ideas among nonelite individuals. Specifically, I test whether recent trends in women’s attitudes about intimate partner violence are converging toward global cultural scripts. Results suggest that global norms regarding violence against women are reaching citizens worldwide, including in some of the least privileged parts of the globe. During the first decade of the 2000s, women in 23 of the 26 countries studied became more likely to reject intimate partner violence. Structural socioeconomic or demographic changes, such as urbanization, rising educational attainment, increasing media access, and cohort replacement, fail to explain the majority of the observed trend. Rather, women of all ages and social locations became less likely to accept justifications for intimate partner violence. The near uniformity of the trend and speed of the change in attitudes about intimate partner violence suggest that global cultural diffusion has played an important role. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/2/240.abstract

The extraction of specific analytes from biological samples is a ubiquitous process spanning many areas within the life sciences.  Advances have enabled high-throughput analysis of these analytes, but analogous advances in analyte purification (sample preparation) have lagged behind, creating a potential processing bottleneck. Although some robotic sample preparation processes have been developed, they are typically automated versions of the traditional solid-phase extraction (SPE) process, which is inherently difficult to implement as a high-throughput system due to the large number of washing steps required. The authors address this by demonstrating the compatibility of a fundamentally different sample preparation technique, immiscible phase filtration, with high-throughput infrastructure.

This podcast features a discussion between Sandra Ward and Allan Foster about the Business Information Survey 2013, which is published in volume 30, issue 1 of Business Information Review.

Casey Totenhagen at the University of Arizona talks about whether personal sacrifices improve the quality of long-term relationships.

Alex Kirlik talks with Robert Earl Patterson, lead author of the article, System Dynamics Modeling of Sensory-Driven Decision Priming, which was published in the March 2013 issue of JCEDM.

Author Josh Packard discusses his article from the April 2013 issue of Teaching Sociology, The Impact of Racial Diversity in the Classroom: Activating the Sociological Imagination. Diverse college campuses have been conclusively associated with a variety of positive outcomes for all students. However, we still know very little empirically about how student diversity directly impacts the core task of the university: classroom learning. While students vary based on race along a broad spectrum of experiences and backgrounds, we have yet to establish how those varying backgrounds might impact the ways students engage with course material. In this study, I examined student journals in order to understand how race influenced the ways students engaged with course material and found that black students are much more likely than their white student peers to find connections between course material and daily life, a central task of the sociological imagination. The results of these findings are important for sociologists in particular and educators in general as we seek to maximize the effects of increasingly diverse educational settings. http://tso.sagepub.com/content/41/2/144.abstract

Author Laura Hatcher discusses her article from the September 2012 issue of Journal of Applied Social Science, The USACE and Post-Katrina New Orleans: Demolitions and Disaster Clean-Up. In this article, we present demolition data to explore the way the patterns of demolition carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) were constituted as a social problem by residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and members of the broader New Orleans community. Through a study of newspaper stories and press interviews about the implementation process, we find evidence of a gap that exists between the interpretation of the demolitions by residents of the Lower Ninth, and the need to carry out disaster clean-up among city officials and the USACE. This gap, we suggest, is constitutive of an implementation problem that may best be dealt with in policymaking processes focused on planning for disasters. http://jax.sagepub.com/content/6/2/176.abstract

Author Michael Salter discusses his article from the February 2013 issue of Violence Against Women, Grace's Story: Prolonged Incestuous Abuse From Childhood Into Adulthood. Some sexually abused women in mental health settings are reporting prolonged incest and yet little is known about the circumstances that enable fathers to sexually abuse their daughters over a period of decades. This article draws from the life history of Grace, a woman who survived prolonged incest, in order to document and analyze the interplay of familial, social, and political factors that entrap girls and women within prolonged incestuous abuse. http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/19/2/146.abstract

Author Joanna White discusses her article from the January 2013 issue of Journal of Drug Studies, Monstrous Fears: Experiences of Pregnancy and Opiate Use in Vietnam, and Strategies for Support. Maternity for opiate users in Vietnam is challenging due to the criminalization of drug use, stigmatization, and poor specialist knowledge among health providers. This article outlines action research conducted among Vietnamese women who had experienced pregnancy while opiate-dependent. Misguided fears that their baby would be a “monstrosity” drove some women to seek out abortion. For those who chose to continue with their pregnancy, communication with health professionals was poor and misinformation concerning advised maternal practices and newborn care was common. Often women made intuitive decisions; few attempted to go “cold turkey” and withdrew suddenly from opiates while pregnant, and most new mothers chose to breastfeed—a healthy choice—despite being advised against this. The study revealed the importance of support provided outside of state services and culminated in new information for female drug users and training materials for peer counselors. The participatory process by which these outputs were developed is outlined. http://jod.sagepub.com/content/43/1/4.abstract

Bonnie M. Le at the University of Toronto talks about her research on the benefits of being friendly to other people.

Author Patrizia Romito discusses her article from the January 2013 issue of Violence Against Women, Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health Among Italian Adolescents: Gender Similarities and Differences. Only a few studies have analyzed the health impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on male and female adolescents, taking into account other kinds of violence that can affect their health. In this study, 43.7% of female adolescents and 34.8% of males reported IPV; females reported more psychological and sexual IPV, with no differences for physical IPV. Controlling for family and sexual violence and other confounding factors, female adolescents exposed to IPV had significantly higher adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for depression, panic attacks, eating problems, and suicidal ideation. For male adolescents, only the OR of eating problems almost reached statistical significance. http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/19/1/89.abstract