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Submissions from 2015
Student Journals: A Means of Assessing Transformative Learning in Aging Related Courses, Adrienne L. Cohen, Pamela Pitman Brown, and Justin P. Morales
Violence and warfare in the European Mesolithic and Paleolithic, Virginia Estabrook
Pharmaceutical Autonomy: Technology, Alliances, and Norms, Matthew B. Flynn
A Survey of Texas HIV, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Tuberculosis, and Viral Hepatitis Providers’ Billing and Reimbursement Capabilities, Matthew B. Flynn, Robin Atwood, Jennifer B. Greenberg, Tara Ray, and Karol Kaye Harris
Barriers to Interracial Marriage? Examining Policy Issues Concerning U.S. Citizens Married to Undocumented Latino/a Immigrants, April M. Schueths
Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: Mixed-Status Couples in the U.S., April M. Schueths
Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy, April M. Schueths and Jodie Lawston
Review Essay: Advances in Hutterian Scholarship, William L. Smith
Assessing the Relationship between Divergent Drinking and Perceptions of Friendship Quality between Students, John Stogner, John H. Boman, and Bryan Lee Miller
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of 6.43-Acres of the Savannah State University Italian Club Tract, Chatham County, Georgia, Kara Bridgman Sweeney, Charlie Phillips, and Alexander Y. Sweeney
Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Update, United States Army Garrison, Okinawa, Japan, 2015-2019, Kara Bridgman Sweeney and Alexander Y. Sweeney
Closely-Spaced Administrative Centers and the Organization of Mississippian Chiefdoms, M. Jared Wood
The Transition from High School to College: Parents’ and Students’ Perceptions of Parents’ Helpfulness, Pidi Zhang and William L. Smith
Submissions from 2014
Who Benefits from Honors: An Empirical Analysis of Honors and Non-Honors Students’ Backgrounds, Academic Attitudes, and Behaviors, Ted Brimeyer, April M. Schueths, and William Smith
Conservative Protestant College Students and Their Peers: Similarities and Differences, Ted Brimeyer and William L. Smith
Assessing the Factors Associated with the Possession of an Academic Ethic in College, Kyong Hee Chee, Nathan W. Pino, and William L. Smith
Review of DIY the Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century by Kevin Wehr, Adrienne L. Cohen
‘It's almost like white supremacy’: Interracial mixed-status couples facing racist nativism, April M. Schueths
Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (SCCPSS) Islands Sports Complex, Chatham County. Georgia, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
U.S. Army Reserve Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Update, 81st Regional Support Command, Florida, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
Mapping and Documentation of the Montezuma Well Smokehouse, Montezuma Castle National Monument, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2013
Family Assistance and Autonomy in the Lives of Rural Elders, Adrienne L. Cohen
The Power of Names: Place-Making and People-Making in the Riojan Wine Region, Barbara A. Hendry
Trinidad and Religious Pluralism: Sociology and Faith in a Caribbean Island, Ned Rinalducci
Online teaching communities within sociology: A counter trend to the marketization of higher education, April M. Schueths
Passionate Pedagogy and Emotional Labor: Students’ Responses to Learning Diversity From Diverse Instructors, April M. Schueths, Tanya Gladney, Devan Crawford, Katherine L. Bass, and Helen A. Moore
Continuity and Change in a Southern Beachy Amish-Mennonite Congregation, William L. Smith
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
Sokkia CX-105 Total Station User-Friendly User’s Manual, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2012
History, Language, and Globalization in the North Carolina Cherokee Communities, Heidi M. Altman
Research Note: Religious Affiliation and Poverty Explanations: Individual, Structural, and Divine Causes, Ted Brimeyer
Longitudinal Modeling of Frame Changing and Media Salience: Coverage of Worker Displacement, 1980–2007, Ted Brimeyer, Glenn W. Muschert, and Stephen Lippmann
Religion, Race, Social Class, and Gender Differences in Dating and Hooking Up among College Students, Ted Brimeyer and William L. Smith
Sports and Social Class in the South, Nancy L. Malcom
Latinos, the Academic Ethic, and the Transition to College, Nathan W. Pino, Gloria P. Martinez- Ramos, and William L. Smith
Navigating around educational road blocks: Mentoring for Pre-K to 20+ Latino/a students, April M. Schueths
The Human-Environment Dialog in Award-winning Children’s Picture Books, J. Allen Williams Jr., Christopher Podeschi, and Nathan S. Palmer
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
Editor’s Introduction, M. Jared Wood
The Lewis Larson Collection from Long Swamp, 9CK1, M. Jared Wood
Submissions from 2011
Moving Around the Room: Cherokee Language, Worldview and Memory, Heidi M. Altman and Thomas N. Belt
Images of Heaven and the Spiritual Afterlife: Qualitative Analysis of Children’s Storybooks About Death, Dying, Grief, and Bereavement, Nancy L. Malcom
Using Facebook to Teach Visual Sociology, Nancy L. Malcom
Teaching Religion in the Deep South, William L. Smith
A Spiritual Getaway: The Motivations, Experiences, And Benefits Of A Silent Retreat, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Religiousness and Spirituality: An Analysis of a Practice-Oriented Retreat, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
From High School to College: The Transition Experiences of Black and White Students, Pidi Zhang and William L. Smith
Submissions from 2010
Age, Tenure, Resources for Control, and Organizational Commitment, Ted Brimeyer, Robert Perucci, and Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
Sociology of Games and Competition Syllabus, Nancy L. Malcom
Using Community Studies to Facilitate “Study in Depth”, William L. Smith
The Impact of Key Factors on the Transition From High School to College Among First-Generation and Second-Generation Students, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2009
Tohi: The Cherokee State of Wellbeing, Heidi M. Altman and Thomas N. Belt
Southerner and Irish? Regional and Ethnic Consciousness in Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith
Academic Dishonesty, Alcohol and Marijuana Use, and the Transition to College, William L. Smith and Nathan W. Pino
Students' Perceptions and Experiences with Key Factors during the Transition from High School to College, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
The Academic Ethic and the Transition to College, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2008
Reading History: Cherokee History Through a Cherokee Lens, Heidi M. Altman and Thomas N. Belt
Teaching the Sociology of Sport: A Collection of Syllabi, Assignments, and Other Resources, Fifth Edition, Nancy L. Malcom
How Does Membership in Irish Organizations Contribute to Ethnic Identity?, William L. Smith
Perceived Factors Facilitating Students’ Transition from High School to College, William L. Smith and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2007
A Postmodern Explanation of Student Consumerism in Higher Education, Michael Delucchi and William L. Smith
The Significance of Shift Work: A Theoretical Model and Research Findings, Robert Perucci, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Ericka King, Chiung-Ya Tang, Ted Brimeyer, Kamala Ramadoss, Sally Jane Kiser, and Jennifer Swanberg
Figurative Language and Political Credibility, Ned Rinalducci and Tracy Henley
The Role of the Family in the Transmission of Ethnic Identity Among the Irish of Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith and Barbara A. Hendry
The Social and Cultural Construction of Ethnic Identity Among Irish Americans in Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith and Barbara A. Hendry
Submissions from 2006
Contemporary Irish, Barbara A. Hendry
Analyzing the News: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in a Writing Intensive Social Problems Course, Nancy L. Malcom
Shaking it Off’ and ‘Toughing it Out’: Socialization to Pain and Injury in Girls’ Softball, Nancy L. Malcom
Religion and Ethnicity Among Irish Americans in Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith and Barbara A. Hendry
Submissions from 2005
Gender Differences in the Academic Ethic and Academic Achievement, Kyong Hee Chee, Nathan W. Pino, and William L. Smith
Rethinking Medicalization: Observations from the Emergence of the Problem of ‘Male Postnatal Depression’, Tricia Noone
Review of "Mapping Yorubá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities", William L. Smith
College Students, the Academic Ethic, and Academic Achievement, William L. Smith and Nathan W. Pino
Submissions from 2004
African American Students, the Academic Ethic, and GPA, Nathan W. Pino and William L. Smith
Submissions from 2003
Constructing Female Athleticism: A Study of Girls’ Recreational Softball, Nancy L. Malcom
Reviewed Work: Paradoxes of Youth and Sport by Margaret Gatz, Michael A. Messner, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Nancy L. Malcom
College Students and Academic Dishonesty, Nathan W. Pino and William L. Smith
Intentional Communities, William L. Smith
Submissions from 2002
President's Column- Teaching in Troubled Times: Anthropologists Deal with September 11, Barbara A. Hendry
Review of "The Riddle of Amish Culture", William L. Smith
Intentional Communities 1990-2000: A Portrait, William L. Smith
In Defense of Realistic Assumptions, Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 2001
President’s Column-Thanks, the Future and a Call for Organization, Barbara A. Hendry
Contemporary Irish Priests in America, William L. Smith
Families in Contemporary Intentional Communities: Diversity and Purpose, William L. Smith
Submissions from 2000
Euntes Docete Omnes Gentes, William L. Smith
Teaching in a Consumeristically Charged Environment, William L. Smith
Family as a Dynamic of Educational Attainment: The Children of Asian Immigrants in America, Meifang Zhang and Pidi Zhang
Submissions from 1999
Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups, William L. Smith
Priests From Ireland, William L. Smith
Extended Stratification: Immigrant and Native Differences in Individual and Family Labor, Pidi Zhang and Jimy Sanders
Submissions from 1998
Irish Priests and American Catholicism: A Match Made in Heaven, William L. Smith
Review of "Disquiet in the Land: Cultural Conflict in American Mennonite Communities ", William L. Smith
Submissions from 1997
Satisfied Customers versus Pedagogic Responsibility: Further Thoughts on Student Consumerism, Michael Delucchi and William L. Smith
A Postmodern Explanation of Student Consumerism in Higher Education, Michael Delucchi and William L. Smith
Constructing Linguistic and Ethnic Boundaries in a Basque Borderland: Negotiating Identity in Rioja Alavesa, Spain, Barbara A. Hendry
