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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Sociology

Sociology

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Kirkpatrick Johnson
Christine Horne.
Horne

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, was invited to present at RC34’s session on “Youth in North America” at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto, Canada. While there, Kirkpatrick Johnson also presented “Work Value Transmission from Parents to Children: Seeds That Sprout in Adolescence and Bear Fruit in Adulthood.” She also presented on behalf of herself, professor Christine Horne, and a colleague “The Conditionality of Adolescent Pregnancy Norms” at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Minneapolis.

Sociology

Jennifer Schwartz.
Schwartz
Erik Johnson.
Johnson

Jennifer Schwartz and Erik Johnson, associate professors, sociology, presented “Sex Stratification in the Criminal Enterprise: Crimes Against the Environment” at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Leiden University, Netherlands.

Schwartz and Johnson were also invited to present “Women’s and Men’s Participation in Business-related Crimes Against the Environment: Sex-stratification in the Criminal Enterprise” at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sociology

Jennifer ShermanJennifer Sherman, professor, sociology, authored “‘Not Allowed to Inherit My Kingdom’: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West” in Rural Sociology; and “‘Stress I don’t Need’: Gender Expectations and Relationship Struggles amongst the Poor” in Journal of Marriage and Family. She also coedited Rural Poverty in the United States (Columbia University Press).

Sociology

Christine Horne
Horne
Kennedy

Christine Horne, professor, and Emily Huddart Kennedy, assistant professor, sociology, coauthored “The Power of Social Norms for Reducing and Shifting Energy Use” in Energy Policy.

Horne coauthored three additional publications with other colleagues: “Toward a Sociology of Privacy” in Annual Review of Sociology; “Unequal Resilience: The Duration of Electricity Outages” in Energy Policy; and “Field of Visions: Inter-Organizational Challenges to the Smart Energy Transition in Washington State” in Brooklyn Law Review.

Kennedy also coauthored three additional publications with other colleagues: “Gendered citizenship and the individualization of environmental responsibility: Evaluating a campus common reading program” in Environmental Education Research; “Social change at the nexus of consumption and politics: A case study of eat-local movements” in Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society (Routledge); and “Small-p politics: How pleasurable, convivial, and pragmatic political ideals influence engagement in eat-local initiatives” in British Journal of Sociology (forthcoming).

Sociology

Monica Kirkpatrick JohnsonMonica Kirkpatrick Johnson, professor and chair, sociology, coauthored “Adolescent Agentic Orientations: Contemporaneous Family Influence, Parental Biography and Intergenerational Development” in Journal of Youth and Adolescence; and “Work Intensity and Dropout” forthcoming in Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Springer).

Sociology

Justin T. Denney.Justin T. Denney, associate professor, sociology, Pullman & Spokane, and colleagues coauthored “Neighborhood Concentrated Disadvantage and Adult Mortality: Insights for Racial and Ethnic Differences,” Population Research and Policy Review. Denney and colleagues also coauthored “Families in Context: Food Insecurity among Hispanic Immigrant and non-Immigrant Households with Children” in Family & Community Health and “Does Sexual Orientation Complicate the Relationship Between Marital Status and Gender with Self-Rated Health and Cardiovascular Disease?” accepted for publication in Demography.

Sociology

Justin DenneyJustin Denney, associate professor, sociology, coauthored three articles: “Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit?” in Journal of Marriage and Family; “Racial Disparities in Health and Health Behaviors Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Men and Women in the BRFSS-SOP” in Ethnicity and Health; and “Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children: A Disadvantage Paradox?” in Social Problems.