Journal for Social Thought

A peer-reviewed academic journal run by graduate students in the department of sociology @WesternU. Bluesky:

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#SexualAssault #GenderBias

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Do male and female judges differ in how they sentence sexual offenders? Does gender make a difference? Explore this question further in Soudouk's (2022) "Sexual Assault Sentencing: A Game of Diverging Interests Among Male and Female Judges?" https://t.co/CsTf6IEIup

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You can access the full paper at: https://t.co/p47ANMbcA7

#Consent #SexualAssault #Bystander

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Does Education on Consent Predict Prosocial Bystander Attitudes? Thiessen and Buchanan's (2022) quantitative research found that it is important for young people to receive education on consent from parents to promote prosocial bystander attitudes regarding sexual assault.

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Thiessen and Buchanan's paper "Preventing Sexual Assaults on University Campuses" offers insights into the effectiveness of consent education. https://t.co/byEFHrnsF0

#Consent #SexualAssault #Bystander

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"Sexual assault victims are more likely to be young, women, and students (Statistics Canada, 2017). Therefore, high school and university settings are where intervention methods are most needed to prevent sexual assault."

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"Thus, this paper exemplifies how domestic abuse occurs both through the propagation of explicit acts of violence against women, and through persistent inferential microaggressions in the form of disciplinary power." — MacMillan

Access the full article: https://t.co/abalzEN7FQ

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"To date, few scholars have illustrated the detrimental and subversive day-to-day disciplinary tactics perpetrators implement in the absence of overt recognizable violence."

#IntimatePartnerViolence #CoerciveControl #HegemonicMasculinity

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Read the paper at: https://t.co/abalzEN7FQ

#IntimatePartnerViolence #CoerciveControl #HegemonicMasculinity

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Acts of domestic abuse can remain unnoticed by the public and are often masked from the
stigmatizing gaze of society.

How was this control concealed? Check out MacMillan's work, "An Omnipresent Gaze: Men’s Enactment of Coercive Control in the Private Sphere."

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"More than the eradication of racism, racial harmony exists when a positive multicultural ethos is at the foundation of political and social life."

The article by Haas (2022) can be read at: https://t.co/OlXDV8OI4A

#Hawaii #Race #Racism #AffirmativeAction

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"Diverse racial coexistence is insufficient to solve problems of racism. Multiracial mobilization by civil society along simultaneous multi-issue dimensions is the roadway."

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Based on the operationalization, Haas (2022) used a mixed method approach to argue that Hawai’i achieved high levels of racial harmony on the five pathways of cultural, political, economic, environmental, and institutional.

To read Haas' arguments, see: https://t.co/OlXDV8OI4A

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Operationalizing “racial harmony” involves two components:
(1) attitudinally, when members of dis-tinct racial groups confess that they are happy about living together (Thomas 2002) and

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(2) behaviorally, when groups live in a non-discriminatory environment, recognizing the dignity of individuals of all ethnic and racial groups as well as their distinct contributions and insights (Banton 1985).

#Hawaii #Race #Racism #AffirmativeAction

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Image sources:
1. Elijah Vardo. https://t.co/tT3csBBFdS
2. Starline. https://t.co/e2WK8GIuHY

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"During the Brexit campaign period, the presentation of the Traveller Community in the British media contributed to the further racialization and othering of the community."

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"The negative stereotypes of the Traveller Community as a danger to society have been further normalized."

Read Eby's (2022) full article at: https://t.co/tOvfY1mj4v

#Romani #Brexit #Antiziganism #Racism

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Image sources:
1. Elijah Vardo. https://t.co/tT3csBBFdS
2. Starline. https://t.co/e2WK8GIuHY

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What critical component of the Brexit campaign's migration control focus has nearly all research overlooked? It is Antiziganism.

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Eby's institutional ethnography, which redresses this oversight by analyzing antiziganism from the British press and pro-Brexit government's anti-Roma policy proposals, can be accessed here: https://t.co/tOvfY1mj4v

#Romani #Brexit #Antiziganism #Racism