SAGE Podcast

Author Shabnam Javdani discusses her article from the March 2011 issue of Violence Against Women, entitled, Examining Systems Change in the Response to Domestic Violence: Innovative Applications of Multilevel Modeling. Facilitating systems change in the response to domestic violence has been touted as a central goal in the effort to hold systems accountable and create a coordinated response for survivors. However, examination of systems change and whether particular social change efforts (e.g., coordinating councils) contribute to such change is a notoriously difficult research endeavor due in large part to methodological barriers, including those that stem from nonexperimental designs and complex data that are characterized as nested and measured in proportions. This article describes important methodological challenges and proposes innovative techniques to address these challenges. Specifically, multilevel modeling is applied to examine two key systems markers, including protection order and domestic violence program referral rates over time in one state. For each marker, the methodological approach is highlighted and innovations in employing multilevel modeling are discussed. http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/17/3/359.abstract

Author Long Doan discusses his article from the September 2012 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, entitled, A Social Model of Persistent Mood States. Researchers have used moods to explain a variety of phenomena, yet the social causes of a mood are unknown. In this article, I present a social model of persistent mood states that argues that interactional characteristics such as the status differences between actors, the perceived responsibility of the other actor, and the reason for an emotional response influence the persistence of an emotional response to a situation. The mechanisms through which these factors cause an emotion to become a mood are the intensity of the emotional reaction and how much the actor reflects on the situation as a result of the interaction. I use data from the 1996 General Social Survey to test this model for anger; the results of the analyses provide support for many aspects of the model. The proposed model is a first step in explaining social factors that cause persistent mood states, and I discuss possible directions for future scholarship. http://spq.sagepub.com/content/75/3/198.abstract

Author Alexandra Killewald discusses her article from the February 2013 issue of American Sociological Review, A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium: Marriage, Coresidence, Biology, and Fathers' Wages. Past research that asserts a fatherhood wage premium often ignores the heterogeneity of fathering contexts. I expect fatherhood to produce wage gains for men if it prompts them to alter their behavior in ways that increase labor-market productivity. Identity theory predicts a larger productivity-based fatherhood premium when ties of biology, coresidence with the child, and marriage to the child's mother reinforce one another, making fatherhood, and the role of financial provider in particular, salient, high in commitment, and clear. Employer discrimination against fathers in less normative family structures may also contribute to variation in the fatherhood premium. Using fixed-effects models and data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), I find that married, residential, biological fatherhood is associated with wage gains of about 4 percent, but unmarried residential fathers, nonresidential fathers, and stepfathers do not receive a fatherhood premium. Married residential fathers also receive no statistically significant wage premium when their wives work full-time. About 15 percent of the wage premium for married residential fathers can be explained by changes in human capital and job traits. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/1/96.abstract

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

Dr. Stephen C. Weber discusses his article from the February 2013 issue of AJSM, Platelet-Rich Fibrin Matrix in the Management of Arthroscopic Repair of the Rotator Cuff: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded Study. Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair has a high rate of patient satisfaction. However, multiple studies have shown significant rates of anatomic failure. Biological augmentation would seem to be a reasonable technique to improve clinical outcomes and healing rates. http://ajs.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/11/30/0363546512467621.abstract

Author Matthew Desmond discusses his article from the February 2013 issue of American Sociological Review, UNPOLICING THE URBAN POOR: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women. Recent decades have witnessed a double movement within the field of crime control characterized by the prison boom and intensive policing, on the one hand, and widespread implementation of new approaches that assign policing responsibilities to non-police actors, on the other. The latter development has been accomplished by expansion of third-party policing policies; nuisance property ordinances, which sanction landlords for their tenants' behavior, are among the most popular. This study, an analysis of every nuisance citation distributed in Milwaukee over a two-year period, is among the first to evaluate empirically the impact of coercive third-party policing on the urban poor. Properties in black neighborhoods disproportionately received citations, and those located in more integrated black neighborhoods had the highest likelihood of being deemed nuisances. Nearly a third of all citations were generated by domestic violence; most property owners abated this "nuisance" by evicting battered women. Landlords also took steps to discourage tenants from calling 911; overrepresented among callers, women were disproportionately affected by these measures. By looking beyond traditional policing, this study reveals previously unforeseen consequences of new crime control strategies for women from inner-city neighborhoods. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/78/1/117.abstract

Dr. Ann Welsh on design thinking in management education.

Ryan Sheals introduces the special issue on Reinventing Retirement, published in Human Relations, volume 66 issue 1. Co-guest editor Leisa Sargent explores critical perspectives on international and European policy on work and retirement with one of the special issue contributors, Simon Biggs.

Dmitry Khanin on "How to Increase Job Satisfaction and Reduce Turnover Intentions in the Family Firm."

Joseph Bartolotta, Editorial Assistant for Written Communication, interviews John R. Hayes, Carnegie Mellon University, about his article "Modeling and Remodeling Writing" published in the July 2012 special issue in his honor.

This podcast features a discussion between Hew Strachan and Edward Madigan about the themes of courage and cowardice throughout history as covered by volume 20, issue 1 of War in History.

Paul Shrivastava and Debra Comer discuss the JME Special Issue on Crisis Management Education.

Author Emily Wright discusses her article from the December 2012 issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior, Gender-Responsive Lessons Learned and Policy Implications for Women in Prison: A Review. The authors review evidence of gender-responsive factors for women in prisons. Some gender-responsive needs function as risk factors in prison settings and contribute to women's maladjustment to prison; guided by these findings, the authors outline ways in which prison management, staff members, and programming can better serve female prisoners by being more gender informed. The authors suggest that prisons provide treatment and programming services aimed at reducing women's criminogenic need factors, use gendered assessments to place women into appropriate interventions and to appropriately plan for women's successful reentry into the community, and train staff members to be gender responsive. http://cjb.sagepub.com/content/39/12/1612.abstract

Author Holly Johnson discusses her article from the November 2012 issue of Homicide Studies, "When Feminism Meets Evolutionary Psychology: The Enduring Legacy of Margo Wilson.""Social science research demonstrates that the many manifestations of sexual proprietariness are among the most important predictors of male partner violence cross-culturally. However, evolutionary explanations for this manifestly male behavior continue to trouble many feminists. This article reflects on the enduring influence of Margo Wilson's pioneering work with Martin Daly on the evolutionary origins of male partner violence with specific attention to large-scale population surveys. One of Margo Wilson’s many lasting contributions is an empirically based theoretical explanation for male sexual ownership over women that, it is argued, is not in opposition to feminist structural analysis or feminist political aims. http://hsx.sagepub.com/content/16/4/332.abstract

Dr. Braden C. Fleming discusses his article from the January 2013 issue of AJSM, ""The Effect of Initial Graft Tension After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Randomized Clinical Trial With 36-Month Follow-up.""The initial graft tension applied at the time of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction alters joint contact and may influence cartilage health. The objective was to compare outcomes between 2 commonly used “laxity-based” initial graft tension protocols."