• Trading in a Man for The Man: Welfare's Control of Sexuality From Past to Present 

  Sellers, Althea (2021)

  In the 1960s, poor women receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) articulated a series of implicit and explicit constraints to their freedom of sexuality caused by program participation. Their complaints ...
• Two Parties Diverged: Identifying Features of Congressional Cosponsorship Using Network Analysis 

  Weiss, Ethan (2021)

  Across the social sciences there has been rising concern over the level of polarization among American elites and the harmful implications of this trend. However, most approaches to this issue have been limited by their ...
• In Pursuit of Flexibility: U.S. Higher Education and Young Overseas Chinese Elites 

  Jia, Jixin (2021)

  This paper investigates the pursuit of "flexible citizenship" (FC) through U.S higher education system among young overseas Chinese elites and describes its relationship with Berry's (1997) model of acculturation strategies ...
• THE KING'S REVOLUTION: A Prolegomenon on De-Democratization at the Dawn of the 21st Century 

  Benjamini, Jonah (2021)

  The 21st century has seen a global resurgence of right-wing populist movements that challenge extant democratic institutions, making the search for a systematic approach to these ‘democratic-backsliding' events of ...
• "But You Don't Look Sick": Medical Gaslighting and Disability Identity Among Individuals Living with POTS and ME/CFS 

  Evenson, Sarah (2021)

  Some chronic illnesses are routinely screened for, easily recognized by physicians, and have effective treatments or perhaps even acure. Others are less-easily detected. Conditions that have a wide variety of subjective ...
• "Sustainability" and the Consumer: The Ideological and Discursive Limits of Environmentalism 

  Kesterson, Hayden (2020)

  This paper explores what is meant when one says a food is sustainably produced. Conversations with the main food buyer in the households of college professors on the Main Line of Philadelphia are analyzed through the ...
• The De-Legitimation of Evo Morales 

  Provencal-Fogarty, Daniel (2020)

  In 2005, Bolivia elected its first indigenous president, Evo Morales, to office. Morales ran on a radical platform of socialist reform and indigenous empowerment, and in doing so became the first president to earn over 50% ...
• The Economic Foundations of Democratization: The Case of Taiwan and Implications for Mainland China 

  Zhu, Wei (William) (2019)

  Why did democratization occur in Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s? What can Taiwan’s democratization experience tell us about Mainland China’s prospect of democratization? This paper introduces an original version of modernization ...
• Instagram vs. Reality: Conceptions of Authenticity Among Instagrams Micro-Influencers 

  Connors, Noah E. (2019)

  Social media micro-influencer marketing is a booming, multi-billion-dollar industry, and Instagram is, far and away, the platform of choice for marketers. Central to narratives advanced in popular media and advertising ...
• The New War on Drugs : How Biomedicine and Science Have Disguised the Value Conflict Over Harm Reduction 

  Halperin-Goldstein, Gabriel (2019)

  While other countries such as Canada and Portugal have embraced safe injection facilities (SIFs), establishments that permit people to inject drugs under the supervision of medical personnel in order to prevent drug ...
• Restorative Justice Education and Masculinity: Three Interactional Resources Gained in a Prison Context 

  Grolig, Amanda (2019)

  This paper identifies three interactional resources that supported and continue to support four men in enacting non-violent masculinities both during and after a period of incarceration. These include discursive resources, ...
• The Morals of the Market: Implementing Fiduciary Standards in Financial Advising 

  Niesobecki, Stephen Paul (2018)

  In this essay I provide a sociological characterization of the changes that the Department of Labor’s “Fiduciary Rule” proposes for the financial advising industry. The “Fiduciary Rule” would hold financial advisors to ...
• Doctors on Wall Street: A call for corporate responsibility through a sociological reconstruction of corporate law 

  Ferro, Marco (2018)

  “Maximizing short term stock price” has become the watchword of the modern corporation. A law and economic conception of corporate law does not allow for a meaningful characterization of multiple principal – single agent ...
• Limits of Freedom: Exploring the Interplay between Agency and Stigma in Prostitution in India 

  Varma, Saumya (2018)

  Discourse on sex work and prostitution debate the question of choice and agency available to women while engaging in the sex industry. These debates inform laws and policies in countries on regulating and criminalizing the ...
• Americanized Buddhism and the Rise of the Individual-Experiential Religious Consciousness 

  Kaplow, Benjamin J. (2018)

  Drawing upon fieldwork conducted at two Buddhist centers in the Philadelphia area, I characterize the nature of religious commitment within Americanized Buddhism as part of a distinctly American transformation in religious ...
• How to Be Both: Negotiating Professionalism and Activism in the Nonprofit Sector 

  Friedman, Amanda (2018)

  In this paper, I identify a conflict between professionalism and activism in the contemporary U.S. nonprofit sector (NPS). These two dimensions of the sector conflict in that they value and prioritize different facets of ...
• The French Disconnection: Tracing the Expression of French Jewish Identity from Emancipation to Vichy 

  Sax, Daniel Louis (2018)

  In this paper I argue that the militant expression of Jewish identity among youth in Vichy France was not dependent on changes internal to the Jewish community, but rather on political and social constraints imposed by ...
• The Birth of the Clone: The Emergence of Gay Masculinity in the United States, 1900-1980 

  Chalfoun, Andrew J. (2018)

  At the beginning of the twentieth century, the dominant paradigm of gay identity in the United States was the fairy, whose primary distinguishing feature was the adoption of culturally feminine characteristics and mannerisms. ...
• Graduation Rates, A Measure of Student Achievement 

  White, David (2017)

  From the 20th into the 21st century there has been extensive research into student achievement and the factors that bring forth such an accomplishment. Much the literature revolves around student test scores as a measure ...
• Collective Realities: A Durkheimian Analysis of Evolution, Climate Change, and Southern Identity 

  Dwyer, Sarah (2017)

  In this paper, I argue that the positioning of science and religion as necessarily oppositional institutions obscures their historical relationship, as well as the social and political mechanisms that have caused them to ...

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