Emotions and Affect as Source, Outcome and Resistance to Inequality

While sociologists usually focus on the material aspects of inequality, its emotional outcomes are one of the reasons we care about it. People who occupy the lower positions in unequal social structures experience negative, impotent, and unengaged feelings that depress their quality of life. This chapter explores how affective meanings, transmitted by cultural systems and individual interactional experiences, help to create and re-create patterns of inequality. We first explore how affective meanings translate cultural sentiments into local interactions, creating inequality as it is experienced in everyday life. Self-identities and emotional responses of the stigmatized often reinforce these cultural responses, leading the disadvantaged to self-destructive responses. After discussing how affect and emotion create inequality, we discuss the related topic of how people experience structural emotions as a result of occupying a disadvantaged social position. We document the stress of not being able to verify valued identities or control life circumstances. Finally, we discuss the ways in which emotions can motivate people to resist inequality, by forming coalitions through affective commitments, by recognizing solidarity with other like-minded people in social movements, and by forming subcultures where affective meanings can generate positive structural emotions

Purchase Intent and Product Appeal of Velo Nicotine Pouches Among Current Tobacco Users and Nonusers of Tobacco

Oral nicotine pouches is a rapidly growing product category that potentially offers less risk than combustible tobacco products. Nicotine pouches may provide harm reduction for smokers because they contain no tobacco and have reduced harmful constituents compared to traditional tobacco product categories. Any potential public health benefit must weigh the likelihood that current tobacco users will switch to the lower-risk product against the likelihood that nonusers will start using tobacco products. To our knowledge, no existing studies provide population-level estimates of purchase intent or product appeal across tobacco user groups or how product characteristics might affect those variables

Effects of Stabilizers and Water Chemistry on Arsenate Sorption by Polysaccharide-Stabilized Magnetite Nanoparticles

Magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized with starch and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as a stabilizer, and tested for enhanced arsenate removal. Starch at ≥0.04 wt % or CMC at ≥0.005 wt % stabilized 0.1 g/L (as Fe) of the nanoparticles. While CMC-stabilized magnetite displays a highly negative zeta (ζ) potential, starch-stabilized magnetite shows a nearly neutral surface. Increasing the starch concentration from 0 to 0.04 wt % doubles the arsenate uptake, yet the nanoparticles remain settleable by gravity. Further increasing the starch concentration to 0.1 wt % results in fully dispersed nanoparticles and increases the arsenate uptake by 14%. Starch-stabilized magnetite offers a much faster sorption rate and greater capacity than CMC-stabilized magnetite. The sorption kinetics can be modeled using an intraparticle-diffusion model. The sorption capacity increases with decreasing pH. Dissolved organic matter at 20 mg/L as TOC decreases the arsenate uptake by 19.1%. When aged for >1.5 years, the nanoparticles did not show any arsenate leaching or particle dissolution

sj-pptx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725241228529 – Supplemental material for Meaning Change in U.S. Occupational Identities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Was It Temporary or Durable?

Supplemental material, sj-pptx-1-spq-10.1177_01902725241228529 for Meaning Change in U.S. Occupational Identities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Was It Temporary or Durable? by Joseph M. Quinn, Robert E. Freeland, E. K. Maloney, Kimberly B. Rogers and Lynn Smith-Lovin in Social Psychology Quarterly</p

R codes and data files for analysis and data presentation for all data analysed on the study

R codes for the linear and generalized linear mixed model analyses presented in the study "Self-fertilization does not lead to inbreeding depression in Typha parent species or hybrids" by Rock, Whitehead et al.   Y prefix for each data file corresponds with the year the data was collected (Y1 = first year of the study, 2020; Y2 = 2021) Column info: Mating_Type = Cross: the type of hand pollination conducted: Outbred = hand outcross; Inbred = hand self-pollination * Taxonomic_Group = Taxa: Taxonomic ID for the maternal parent used in the hand pollination   Sample_Name = ID: code for the plant ID; leading numbers refer to the population/site of origin; first letter in the code refers to the taxon (A = anguistifolia etc.); "1M" refers to hand outcross*; "0Z" refers to hand self pollinations*; numbers following the dash is the maternal parent plant used in the hand pollination) Box: the wooden frame in which plants were grown Number: location of the transplanted plant in the wetland   Row: the row in which plants were transplanted Seed_Set_Count = Seedset: the number of seeds per 0.5 g fruit tissue Germination_Count = Germination: the number of germinated seeds following 10 days of immersion in water Weight: mass (in g) of the sample of seeds used for the estimation of Seedset Height: the height (cm) of tallest leaf per genet Biomass: above-ground dry mass of the genet (all ramets combined) Ramet: the number of ramets per genet * For the file Y2_CommonGarden.csv the association between the ID codes and the cross type were mixed up and Cross:Inbred actually refers to a hand outcross pollinationsl Cross:Outbred actually refers to hand self pollinations</p

Photo Elicitation Study 2018-2019

Photographer and researcher John Collier first named photo elicitation in a paper published in 1957. Photo elicitation involves a qualitative interview stimulated and guided by participant photographs. This method can help break down barriers between researchers and participants and can promote rich and collaborative discussions (Harper, 1994). Student Perspectives on Work-Life Balance: A Photo Elicitation Study Each student in Qualitative Research Methods (PBH 512, Summer 2018) recruited a study participant (n=12) from across the colleges of Thomas Jefferson University. Students trained participants in the appropriate and ethical use of this method. Study participants were asked to define and explore the meaning of work-life balance in their daily lives and were instructed to use their phones to document their exploration over the course of one week. Using the participant-generated photographs to guide a conversation, each member of the research team then conducted an interview with a participant. Healthy Eating: Student Perspectives on Food and Diet Each student in the Qualitative Research Methods class (PBH 512, Summer 2019) recruited a Thomas Jefferson Student who lives on campus (n=12). Students trained participants in the appropriate and ethical use of this method. Study participants were asked to reflect on their experiences of food and eating in their daily lives. They were instructed to use their phones to document their exploration for one week. Using the participant-generated photographs to guide a conversation, each member of the research team then conducted an interview with a participant