Graduate Program

SOME RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Patricia Snell. Forthcoming 2010. “Parental Involvement in Defining Parental Involvement.” In Cathy Compton-Lilly, Cathy and Stuart Greene (Eds.). Connecting Home and School:Complexities, Concerns, and Considerations in Fostering Parent Involvement and Family Literacy. Teachers College Press.

Patricia Snell. “Civic and Political Disengagement.” In Christian Smith, Understanding Emerging Adult Culture.

Collett, Jessica L. and Ellen Childs. 2009. “Meaningful Performances: Considering the Contributions of the Dramaturgical Approach to Studying Family." Sociology Compass 3:689-706.

McVeigh, Rory and Maria-Elena D. Diaz. 2009. “Traditional Gender Roles, Traditional Family
Structure, and Weak Community Cohesion: Identifying the Structure of Opposition to
Same-Sex Marriage.” American Sociological Review (December issue, in press).

Patricia Snell. 2009. “What Difference Does Youth Group Make?: A Longitudinal Analysis of Religious Youth Group Participation and Religious and Life Outcomes.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 48(3): 572-587.

Covay, Elizabeth & William Carbonaro. Forthcoming.“After the Bell: Participation in Extracurricular Activities, Classroom Behavior, and Academic Achievement.” Sociology of Education.

Somma, Nicolás M. 2009. "How Strong are Strong Ties? The Conditional Effectiveness of Strong Ties in Protest Recruitment Attempts." Sociological Perspectives, Vol.52, Issue 3, pp.289-308.

Price, Heather. (In Press). “Does No Child Left Behind really capture school quality? Evidence from an urban school district” Educational Policy.

Kelly, Sean and Heather Price. (In Press). “ Education: A Clean-Slate for Disengaged Students? Social Science Research, 38, 810-825.

Stephen Armet. (forth.). "Intrinsic Religion:  The Relationship between Religious Socialization and Identity Formation in Adolescents of High Tension Religion."  Review of Religious Research.

Samuel J.Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, and Nicolas Somma. (forth.). "The enduring presence of religion in Chilean ideological positionings and voter options". Journal of Comparative Politics.

Michael Welch, Charles Tittle, Jennifer Yonkoski, Nicole Meidinger, and Harold Grasmick. (forth.). “Self-control, social integration, and conformity”. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Christian Smith, with Patricia Snell. 2009. Souls in Transition: The Religious Lives of Emerging Adults in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jessica L. Collett and Ellen Childs. 2009. “Does Major Matter? The Implications of Collecting Vignette Data from our Students.” Current Research in Social Psychology.

Patricia Snell. 2010. “From Durkheim to the Chicago School: Against the 'Variables Sociology' Paradigm.” Journal of Classical Sociology 10(1). (forthcoming February 2010).

Patricia Snell, Christian Smith, Carlos Tavares, and Kari Christoffersen. 2009. “Denominational Differences in Congregational Youth Ministry Programming and Empirical Evidence of Systematic Non-Response Biases in Surveys.” Review of Religious Research, 51(1): 21-38.

Patricia Snell, Nola Miguel, and Jean East. 2009. “Changing Directions: Participatory Action Research as a Parent Involvement Strategy.” Educational Action Research, 17(2): 239-258.

Omar Lizardo and Sara Skiles. 2009. “Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen:  Cultural industry systems and patterns of cultural choice in Europe.” Poetics.

Sara Skiles. 2009. “Review:  Engaging Art:  The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life”. Cultural Trends.

Sean Kelly and Elizabeth Covay. 2008. “Curriculum tracking: Reviewing the evidence on a controversial but resilient educational policy.” In 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook.

Omar Lizardo and Sara Skiles. 2008. “The consumption of culture in the fine and popular arts realms.” Sociology Compass.

Christian Smith and Michael Emerson, with Patricia Snell. 2008. Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money. Oxford University Press.

Eduardo Valenzuela, Simón Schwartzman, J. Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, Nicolás M. Somma, and Andrés Biehl. 2008. “Vínculos, Creencias e Ilusiones. La Cohesión Social de los Latinoamericanos.” Uqbar Editores, Santiago de Chile, Colección CIEPLAN. (Links, Beliefs, and Hopes. The Social Cohesion of Latin Americans).

Elizabeth E. Martinez. 2007. “Review of religion, media, and the marketplace”, edited by Lynn Schofield Clark. Journal for the Social Scientific Study of Religion: 46(3).

R.A. Cnaan. w/ S. C. Boddie, J. J. Kang, and C. C. McGrew. 2006. “The other Philadelphia story: How local congregations support quality of life in urban America.” University of Pennsylvania Press.

Maureen Hallinan and Brandy Ellison. 2006. “The Ability Group Debate: Historical Roots, Contemporary Practices, Empirical Findings.”  The American High School: An Encylopedia.

Maureen Hallinan and Brandy Ellison. 2006. “The Practice of Ability Grouping: Sector Differences in Implementation.”  School Sector and Student Outcomes.

Yuting Wang and Fenggang Yang. 2006. “More than Evangelical and Ethnic: The Ecological Factor in Chinese Conversion to Christianity in the United States.” Sociology of Religion.

Rory McVeigh, Carl Neblett, and Sarah Shafiq. 2006. “Explaining Social Movement Outcomes: Multiorganizational Fields and Hate Crime Reporting.” Mobilization.

Stephen Armet. 2005. "Controlling the Means of Production: The Urban Poor in an Age of Globalization." Culture and Religion.

R.A. Cnaan, S. C. Boddie, and J. J. Kang. 2005. "Religious Congregations as a Support System for Older Adults". Journal of Gerontological Social Work 45 (1/2): 105-130.

Michael Welch, Roberto Rivera, Brian Conway, Jennifer Yonkoski, Paul Lupton, and Russell Giancola. 2005. “Determinants and Consequences of Social Trust”. Social Inquiry.

 David Ortiz, Daniel Myers, N. Eugene Walls, and Maria-Elena Diaz. 2005. “Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data?”  Mobilization