Sage Sociology

Author Jen-Hao Chen discusses his article "Marriage, Relationship Quality, and Sleep among U.S. Older Adults," which was coauthored with Linda J. Waite, and Diane S. Lauderdale, and appears in the September 2015 of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Abstract:

Sleep is a restorative behavior essential for health. Poor sleep has been linked to adverse health outcomes among older adults; however, we know little about the social processes that affect sleep. Using innovative actigraphy data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (N = 727), we considered the role of marriage, positive marital relationship support, and negative marital relationship strain on older adults’ (ages 62–90) self-reported and actigraph-measured sleep characteristics. We found that married older adults had better actigraph-estimated but not self-reported sleep characteristics than the unmarried. However, among the married, those who reported more negative aspects of their marital relationship reported more insomnia symptoms, with the association reduced when psychosocial characteristics were added to the model. The married who reported more positive aspects of their marital relationship showed better actigraph-estimated sleep characteristics; taking characteristics of the physical and mental health and home environment into account reduced this association.

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Author Elnur Gajiev discusses his poem, "Men of Mountains," which was published in the August 2015 issue of Humanity & Society.

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Author William Pridemore discusses his article "The Mortality Penalty of Incarceration: Evidence from a Population-based Case-control Study of Working-age Males" which was published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Abstract:

There is a growing body of research on the effects of incarceration on health, though there are few studies in the sociological literature of the association between incarceration and premature mortality. This study examined the risk of male premature mortality associated with incarceration. Data came from the Izhevsk (Russia) Family Study, a large-scale population-based case-control design. Cases (n = 1,750) were male deaths aged 25 to 54 in Izhevsk between October 2003 and October 2005. Controls (n = 1,750) were selected at random from a city population register. The key independent variable was lifetime prevalence of incarceration. I used logistic regression to estimate mortality odds ratios, controlling for age, hazardous drinking, smoking status, marital status, and education. Seventeen percent of cases and 5 percent of controls had been incarcerated. Men who had been incarcerated were more than twice as likely as those who had not to experience premature mortality (odds ratio = 2.2, 95 percent confidence interval: 1.6–3.0). Relative to cases with no prior incarceration, cases who had been incarcerated were more likely to die from infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, non–alcohol-related accidental poisonings, and homicide. Taken together with other recent research, these results from a rigorous case-control design reveal not only that incarceration has durable effects on illness, but that its consequences extend to a greater risk of early death. I draw on the sociology of health literature on exposure, stress, and social integration to speculate about the reasons for this mortality penalty of incarceration.

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Author Amanda Gengler discusses her article "“I Want You to Save My Kid!” Illness Management Strategies, Access, and Inequality at an Elite University Research Hospital" which was published in the August 2014 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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Authors Shannon Wooden and Ken Gillam discuss book Pixar's Boy Stories: Masculinity in a Postmodern Age, which was reviewed by Tristan S. Bridges in the August 2015 issue of Gender & Society.

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Judith Levine discusses her book, "Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters," which was reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Gender & Society.

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Author Liberty Barnes discusses her book "Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity," which was reviewed in the August 2015 issue of Gender and Society.

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Author Richard Miech talks about his article "The Sequencing of a College Degree during the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Obesity" which was published in the June 2015 issue of JHSB.

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Author Eileen Otis discusses her book "Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China" which was reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Gender & Society

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Race & Class Radio         Program no. 6                    3 December 2014

On Wednesday 3 December 2014 No Alibis hosted Race & Class Radio, a quarterly program featuring highlights of the current issue of the internationally known journal Race & Class published by SAGE and produced by the Institute of Race Relations in London.  The October – December 2014 issue is a Special Issue on “Memory and hope: new perspectives on the Kashmir conflict.”  We spoke with Guest Editor Shubh Mathur and contributors Gowhar Geelani and Noor Ahmad Baba.

Gowhar Geelani is a journalist, columnist and former editor of Voice of Germany, Deutsche Welle (00—7:55)

Noor Admad Baba is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar and former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (7:56 – 16:34)

Shubh Mathur is an Indian anthropologist and the author of The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism (16:35—24:24)

Race & Class Radio is produced by Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson for No Alibis, a public affairs radio program that airs weekly on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara California from 9-11 am PST and webcasts at www.kcsb.org.

Posted May 2015