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Information-Seeking 2.0:The Effects Of Informational Advantage, Laura Robinson

Sociology

This article begins to shed light on the use of new media for information acquisition and assessment. Drawing on the subject of a high school diploma for high school students, the article examines high achievers committed to academic excellence in preparation for college. However, while they share the same educational goals, they do not have access to the same informational resources. Information on advancing access to new media, traditional media, and social networks. Examination reveals how these disparities in the field of information are important Students with positive credentials adopt autonomous strategies vis-à-vis the assessment of information for both schoolwork …

In The Wake Of The Spill: Environmental Views Along The Gulf Coast, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Thomas G. Safford, Jessica D. Ulrich

Sociology

Abstract

Objectives

We analyze patterns in environmental views of Gulf Coast residents, in the wake of the 2010 oil spill. To what extent do spill-related and other environmental views vary with individual characteristics, personal experience with the spill, or characteristics of place?

Methods

About 2,000 residents of selected coastal regions in Louisiana and Florida were interviewed by telephone in late summer 2010.

Results

One-quarter of the respondents said that their environmental views had changed as a result of the spill. Despite reporting more change, more spill effects, and greater threats from climate-induced sea-level rise, Louisiana respondents were less likely to …

Soup, Justice And Workplace Democracy: The Columbia Conserve Company, 1917-1943, Kenneth Colburn

Sociology

No abstract provided.

Did The Arctic Ice Recover? Demographics Of True And False Climate Facts, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Sociology

Abstract

Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated orinformed respondents are more likelytoalign with their partiesonclimate change. This information-elite polarization resembles a process of biased assimilation first described in psychological experiments. In nonexperimental settings, college graduates could be prone to biased assimilation if they more effectively acquire information that supports their beliefs. Recent national and statewide survey data show response patterns consistent with biased assimilation (and biased guessing) contributing to the correlation observed between climate beliefs and knowledge. The survey knowledge questions involve key, uncontroversial observations …

Unhitched: Love, Marriage, And Family Values From West Hollywood To Western China By Judith Stacey, Kimberly Richman

Sociology

No abstract provided.

Feminism And The (Trans)Gender Entrapment Of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners, Julia Oparah

Sociology

No abstract provided.

Maintaining Friendships In Early Stage Dementia: Factors To Consider, Phyllis Braudy Harris

Sociology

Friendships and the importance of social connectiveness play a critical role in aging well, regardless of gender, race, social class, or impairment. Yet, dementia takes its toll on social relationships, and many friends withdraw and ‘disappear’, because they can no longer bear to see the changes that are taking place in their diagnosed friend. The dementia care literature documents this abandonment; however, this study examines the opposite occurrence. In order to understand more clearly the role of long-term friendships and how such friendships remain and continue, despite the diagnosis of dementia, this qualitative study examines in depth eight people in …