Intensifying the Countryside: A Sociological Study of Cropland Lost to the Built Environment in the United States, 2001–2006

Social Forces ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 815-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Thomas Clement ◽  
Elizabeth Podowski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociological Study

The Built Environment, Physical Activity, and Aging in the United States: A State of the Science Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Haselwandter ◽  
Michael P. Corcoran ◽  
Sara C. Folta ◽  
Raymond Hyatt ◽  
Mark Fenton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
United States ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Review ◽  
State Of The Science

scholarly journals Power, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Light ◽  
Vincent J. Roscigno
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Subordinate Resistance

In this article, we build on prior sociological theory pertaining to power as well as historical research on antebellum slavery to offer an integrated framework of subordinate resistance – a framework that incorporates a matrix of potential responses ranging from collective action, to symbolic resistance, to projective agency, and even quiescence. Using text networks as an index, we then analyze a rich collection of antebellum slave narratives (n=128) to investigate such response possibilities. These thematic networks, consistent with a large body of historical research on American slavery, demonstrate central domains of enslavement in the United States and the diverse resistance strategies that the enslaved employed. Moreover, our more qualitative immersion into these thematic patterns and the narratives themselves—narratives that have been largely overlooked by sociologists—uniquely highlight how particular resistance strategies are deployed in specific everyday contexts and sometimes resolve into what seem, at first glance, to be quiescence. We discuss these findings, and conclude more broadly by highlighting how the sociological study of inequality and power would benefit from attention to the variety of resistance strategies subordinate actors in their everyday lives and in the uneven and sometimes dangerous contexts they traverse.

Laura Limonic, Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019. 264 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-298
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
Wayne State University

This chapter assesses Laura Limonic's Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States (2019). This sociological study focuses on Latinx Jews who have migrated to the United States since 1965, largely from Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. Limonic establishes that the earlier migration of Cuban Jews to Miami in the early 1960s created a precedent for other Latin American Jews to search for a new home and a new sense of identity as “Latino Jews” in the United States. Fleeing the turn to Communism after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, thousands of Cuban Jews arrived in Miami hoping to be welcomed into the American Jewish communal and religious institutions of the day. Instead, they discovered that their Cubanness made their Jewishness suspect at a time when multiculturalism was not yet in vogue. As a result, they had to build their own religious and social spaces, constructing an Ashkenazi synagogue, the Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami, and a Sephardic synagogue, Temple Moses.

scholarly journals Municipal Officials' Participation in Built Environment Policy Development in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephenie C. Lemon ◽  
Karin Valentine Goins ◽  
Kristin L. Schneider ◽  
Ross C. Brownson ◽  
Cheryl A. Valko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environment Policy

scholarly journals RESHAPING THE HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY OF MIDDLE-AGED GAY MEN IN AMERICA: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF IDENTITY PROCESS ON ANDREW SEAN GREER’S LESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Fairuz Su'da ◽  
Muh Arif Rokhman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Internalized Homonegativity ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Identity Process Theory ◽  
Homosexual Identity

The detrimental effects caused by the LGBT victimization in America are directly felt by middle-aged homosexuals nowadays and is internalized into their identity, creating problems that continuously affect them even after LGBT acceptance in the United States. The shift of homosexual identity in middle-aged American homosexuals is thus inevitable in order to regain their identity balance. Andrew Sean Greer’s Less depicts this issue through the internal conflicts of Arthur Less —a character struggling to accept his identity as an aging homosexual man. Arthur’s process in assimilating new experiences around him and accommodating his conceptionabout his homosexual identity become the highlights of this study. The writer utilizes Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s Identity Process Theory that deals with identity assimilation, identity accommodation, and identity balance. The result shows that past LGBT victimization has caused (1) HIV/AIDS trauma, (2) hyper-sexualized image, (3) cynicism towards marriage, and (4) internalized homonegativity, all of which creating the balance disruption on identity. When identity assimilation fails and identity accommodation occurs, middle-aged American homosexuals are encouraged to acknowledge that (1) homosexual identity exists beyond stereotyped sexual context, (2) there are no standardized attitudes that they must adopt, and (3) they are allowed to desire the same sense of comfort and intimacy through committed relationship or marriage, like their heterosexual counterparts.

scholarly journals Chronic Disease, the Built Environment, and Unequal Health Risks in the 500 Largest U.S. Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2961
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Don Willis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Census Tracts ◽  
Cardiometabolic Diseases ◽  
The U.S

Health is increasingly subject to the complex interplay between the built environment, population composition, and the structured inequity in access to health-related resources across communities. The primary objective of this paper was to examine cardiometabolic disease (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke) markers and their prevalence across relatively small geographic units in the 500 largest cities in the United States. Using data from the American Community Survey and the 500 Cities Project, the current study examined cardiometabolic diseases across 27,000+ census tracts in the 500 largest cities in the United States. Earlier works clearly show cardiometabolic diseases are not randomly distributed across the geography of the U.S., but rather concentrated primarily in Southern and Eastern regions of the U.S. Our results confirm that chronic disease is correlated with social and built environment factors. Specifically, racial concentration (%, Black), age concentration (% 65+), housing stock age, median home value, structural inequality (Gini index), and weight status (% overweight/obese) were consistent correlates (p < 0.01) of cardiometabolic diseases in the sample of census tracts. The paper examines policy-related features of the built and social environment and how they might play a role in shaping the health and well-being of America’s metropolises.

scholarly journals Walking toward Metro Stations: the Contribution of Distance, Attitudes, and Perceived Built Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10291
Author(s):  
Mohammad Paydar ◽  
Asal Kamani Fard ◽  
Mohammad Mehdi Khaghani
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
United States ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Walking Behavior ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Walking as an active means of travel is important as a sustainable mode of transport. Moreover, the level of walking in the surrounding areas of metro stations would contribute to maintaining the minimum rate of physical activity and, therefore, inhabitants’ general health. This study examined the impacts of walking attitude, walking distance, and perceived built environment on walking behavior for reaching the metro stations in Shiraz, Iran. Three metro stations were selected and a quantitative approach was used to examine the objectives. It was found that the average walking distance is less than the average in developed countries, such as the United States. People walked more when there was a shorter distance between their starting points and the metro stations. The contribution of walking attitudes and several built environment attributes to walking behavior was demonstrated. Finding the contribution of aesthetic attributes, such as accessibility to parks and housing types of the starting points of the walking trips, to walking for transport are taken into account as the novelties of this study. Policy makers of this city may apply the findings of this study—especially around the metro stations—to improve the average walking distance as well as walking behavior.

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