Tag: sociology

• November 4, 2015

  Article: Style and the Value of Gay Nightlife: Homonormative Placemaking in San Francisco

  Another of my journal articles on San Francisco gay bars appears in the current edition of Urban Studies. My very simple point is not all gay neighborhoods are (or were) the same. The point was so simple it languished in 4 journals for 7 years, going through 9 revisions. But now it’s out – complete…
• June 2, 2015

  The Four U’s: Latent Classes of Hookup Motivations among College Students

  College students’ “hookups” have been the subject of a great deal of research in recent years. Motivations for hooking up have been linked to differences in well-being after the hookup, but studies detailing college students’ motivations for engaging in hookups focus on single motivations. Using data from the 2010 Duke Hookup Survey, we consider how…
• January 22, 2015

  Bar Districts as Subcultural Amenities

  Finally my bar research sees the light of day in City, Cuture and Society 6(1). Bar districts, agglomerations of drinking establishments, are important to urban economies by nurturing urban subcultures. Their vernacular nature presents important contrasts to planned urban entertainment districts (UEDs). Unlike UEDs, bar districts are not necessarily amenities for middle- and upper-class consumption…
• January 1, 2015

  Social Context and Sexual Intercourse among First-Year Students at Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States

  Most examinations of sexual behavior ignore social context. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen, a panel study of 3924 students at 28 selective colleges and universities, I examine how institutional and peer-group characteristics influence the incidence of sexual intercourse among students during their freshman year. Students who enter college as virgins…
• October 15, 2014

  Article: The Gender Gap in Reported Homosexuality

  An article of mine in the International Journal Advances in Social Science and Humanities 2(10) 20-26. Men consistently report higher rates of homosexual behavior and identity than women in national population surveys of sexuality, a gender gap that has received little attention. Though women express similar levels of same-sex desire, they are far less likely…
• April 4, 2014

  Nation-State Science: Lappology and Sweden’s Ethnoracial Purity

  My article on Lappology and Swedish nationalism just came out in Comparative Studies in Society and History. It covers 900 years of shifting classifications of the Sámi/Saami, linking those shifts to the geopolitical fortunes of Sweden in Europe. The image is of Carl Linnaeus in Lapp drag, his preferred self-presentation in paintings and engravings. This…
• April 6, 2009

  Article: Is America fragmenting?

  Published in the Annual Review of Sociology in 2009, it was cited in The New York Times in 2010. “The view that America is fragmenting is popular among both pundits and academics and may well be endemic to American culture. We review claims that between 1970 and 2005 American society fragmented along lines of cultural…
• June 25, 2007

  Article: Urban ethnography’s “saloon problem” and its challenge to public sociology

  This was my first article which presaged my interest in bars. And, given that the Anti-Saloon League was founded there, it presaged my interest in Oberlin, Ohio. “This essay assesses the legacy of urban ethnography’s (UE) early engagement with the “saloon problem.” Early sociologists (1880–1915) intervened in the national debate on alcohol on the basis…