Silvia J Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 138743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia J Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia J |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Dominguez Hills |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9300-7452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes
Mass media mediate different publics, thus being crucial in constructing political reality. By selecting which topics are covered (agenda), which voices are heard, or how social and political issues/actors/dynamics are represented (priming and framing), mass media impacts how political conversations and processes unfold. Acknowledging the increasing mediatisation of politics, this article zooms into media texts of the Portuguese media during a co…
The (In)visibility of Racialized Border Violence? A Ukrainian Killed in Lisbon Airport
On March 12, 2020, the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homenyuk died, having been abused and tortured while in the custody of the Foreigners and Borders Office in Lisbon airport. This crime exposed what several NGOs and institutional reports had long denounced: the climate of impunity that enabled the denial of basic human rights to immigrants in closed spaces at the Portuguese border. Understanding the media as a pivotal place of both reflection and prod…
The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: Popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
Feminist activism has always promoted informal learning opportunities for men and women. Internet, along with ICTs have expanded these opportunities by affording large-scale feminist mobilising and connection. Yet the digital environment is not only enhancing feminist campaigning but also facilitating the contexts to abusive behaviours flourish. Departing from the concept of social movement learning, in this article, we examine the significance t…
A space to resist rape myths? Journalism, patriarchy and sexual violence
In September 2018, a controversial judicial sentence concerning sexual violence caused a public outcry in Portugal. The court decision invoked the alleged environment of mutual seduction, the use of much alcohol consumption, and the lack of serious injuries to justify the suspended penalty. Stemming from the idea that understandings of what journalism is and what it should be are profoundly ideological and that notions of what it means to be and …
Ball, James. Post-Truth: How bullshit conquered the world, London: Biteback Publishing: 2017
De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape
This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with othe…
Obesity-Related Dietary Patterns and Health Status of Diabetes Among At-Risk Latino College Students
This study examined within-group differences in obesity-related dietary behaviors and the health status of 156 Latino students at risk for diabetes due to family history. Approximately 58% of students were overweight and/or obese, with female students reporting a greater risk for diabetes. Consumption of meats, fried potatoes, breads, and tortillas was associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and diabetes risk indices. Differences in dietary …
Social Capital and Socio-demographic Changes: From Non-differentiation to Multifocalisation
This article examines how different socio-demographic trends interrelate with alterations in the traditional forms of social and interpersonal relationships. We will focus on two Portuguese municipalities using the concept of rural community as an analytic starting point for framing and examining the different dimensions of social capital. The survey's data shows that the generalised nature of mutual knowledge and trust, that used to characterise…
Título da página electrónica: The Communication Initiative Network
A Communication Initiative Network é uma plataforma electrónica, apoiada por diversas instituições internacionais (UNDP, FAO, BBC, entre outras), que tem como objectivo aproximar e promover a partilha de experiências e, sobretudo, de conhecimento entre todos aqueles que vêem a comunicação, quer de massas quer interpessoal, como um veículo crucial na mudança e no desenvolvimento económico e social. Para isso, disponibiliza na sua página uma ampla …
Illness Beliefs Regarding the Causes of Diabetes Among Latino College Students: An Exploratory Factor Analysis
This study examined the validity of the Klonoff and Landrine Illness-Belief Scale when applied to Latino college students ( n = 156; 34% male, 66% female) at high risk for future diabetes onset. Principal factor analysis yielded four significant factors—emotional, folk beliefs, punitive, gene/hereditary— which accounted for 64.5% of variance and provided a culturally relevant Latino perspective of the causes of diabetes. Additional analyses by ag…
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
Latinos in Higher Education: An Evaluation of a University Faculty Mentoring Program
The purpose of this study was to understand the student-faculty mentoring process and how mentoring facilitates Latino students' adjustment to college. Thirty-two Latino students participating in a university Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP) were surveyed. The findings showed that (a) students experienced an increase in college self-efficacy and academic goal definition as a result of participating in the FMP; (b) students with same-ethnic mentors…
Childhood family relationships, marital and work conflict, and mental health distress in Mexican immigrants
The present study examined the associations among childhood family relationships, adult conflict in marriage and work relationships, and mental health distress in Mexican immigrants. The sample consisted of 135 married Mexican immigrants recruited from an ESL program in Southern California. Structural equation modeling was used to test theoretical hypotheses. The model revealed that dysfunctional childhood family relationships predicted dissatisf…
Status Differentials, Status Stability, and Interethnic Social Competition in Anglo-Americans and Mexican Americans
A 2 x 2 x 2 between-subjects design was employed to examine the relationship among status differentials, status stability, and intergroup social competition. The three independent variables were the ethnic background of subjects (Anglo-American/Mexican American), manipulated status rank (high status/low status), and status stability (stable status/unstable status). The dependent variable was social competition defined as in-group bias/out-group d…
The Effects of Real-World Status and Manipulated Status on the Self-Esteem and Social Competition of Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans
A 2 x 3 factorial design was employed using ethnic background (Anglo-American and Mexican-American) as the blocking variable, and status rank (no status, low status, and high status) as the independent variable. The dependent variables were the components of self-esteem as measured by a factor analysis of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory; and social competition, as measured by Tajfel's matrices. One hundred and thirty-two subjects rated an e…
Ingroup/outgroup balance and interdependent interethnic behavior
Latinos in Higher Education: An Evaluation of a University Faculty Mentoring Program
The purpose of this study was to understand the student-faculty mentoring process and how mentoring facilitates Latino students' adjustment to college. Thirty-two Latino students participating in a university Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP) were surveyed. The findings showed that (a) students experienced an increase in college self-efficacy and academic goal definition as a result of participating in the FMP; (b) students with same-ethnic mentors…
Ingroup/outgroup balance and interdependent interethnic behavior
The Effects of Real-World Status and Manipulated Status on the Self-Esteem and Social Competition of Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans
A 2 x 3 factorial design was employed using ethnic background (Anglo-American and Mexican-American) as the blocking variable, and status rank (no status, low status, and high status) as the independent variable. The dependent variables were the components of self-esteem as measured by a factor analysis of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory; and social competition, as measured by Tajfel's matrices. One hundred and thirty-two subjects rated an e…
De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape
This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with othe…
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
A space to resist rape myths? Journalism, patriarchy and sexual violence
In September 2018, a controversial judicial sentence concerning sexual violence caused a public outcry in Portugal. The court decision invoked the alleged environment of mutual seduction, the use of much alcohol consumption, and the lack of serious injuries to justify the suspended penalty. Stemming from the idea that understandings of what journalism is and what it should be are profoundly ideological and that notions of what it means to be and …
The (In)visibility of Racialized Border Violence? A Ukrainian Killed in Lisbon Airport
On March 12, 2020, the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homenyuk died, having been abused and tortured while in the custody of the Foreigners and Borders Office in Lisbon airport. This crime exposed what several NGOs and institutional reports had long denounced: the climate of impunity that enabled the denial of basic human rights to immigrants in closed spaces at the Portuguese border. Understanding the media as a pivotal place of both reflection and prod…
Social Capital and Socio-demographic Changes: From Non-differentiation to Multifocalisation
This article examines how different socio-demographic trends interrelate with alterations in the traditional forms of social and interpersonal relationships. We will focus on two Portuguese municipalities using the concept of rural community as an analytic starting point for framing and examining the different dimensions of social capital. The survey's data shows that the generalised nature of mutual knowledge and trust, that used to characterise…
Illness Beliefs Regarding the Causes of Diabetes Among Latino College Students: An Exploratory Factor Analysis
This study examined the validity of the Klonoff and Landrine Illness-Belief Scale when applied to Latino college students ( n = 156; 34% male, 66% female) at high risk for future diabetes onset. Principal factor analysis yielded four significant factors—emotional, folk beliefs, punitive, gene/hereditary— which accounted for 64.5% of variance and provided a culturally relevant Latino perspective of the causes of diabetes. Additional analyses by ag…
Status Differentials, Status Stability, and Interethnic Social Competition in Anglo-Americans and Mexican Americans
A 2 x 2 x 2 between-subjects design was employed to examine the relationship among status differentials, status stability, and intergroup social competition. The three independent variables were the ethnic background of subjects (Anglo-American/Mexican American), manipulated status rank (high status/low status), and status stability (stable status/unstable status). The dependent variable was social competition defined as in-group bias/out-group d…
Ingroup/outgroup balance and interdependent interethnic behavior
The Effects of Real-World Status and Manipulated Status on the Self-Esteem and Social Competition of Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans
A 2 x 3 factorial design was employed using ethnic background (Anglo-American and Mexican-American) as the blocking variable, and status rank (no status, low status, and high status) as the independent variable. The dependent variables were the components of self-esteem as measured by a factor analysis of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory; and social competition, as measured by Tajfel's matrices. One hundred and thirty-two subjects rated an e…
Status Differentials, Status Stability, and Interethnic Social Competition in Anglo-Americans and Mexican Americans
A 2 x 2 x 2 between-subjects design was employed to examine the relationship among status differentials, status stability, and intergroup social competition. The three independent variables were the ethnic background of subjects (Anglo-American/Mexican American), manipulated status rank (high status/low status), and status stability (stable status/unstable status). The dependent variable was social competition defined as in-group bias/out-group d…
Childhood family relationships, marital and work conflict, and mental health distress in Mexican immigrants
The present study examined the associations among childhood family relationships, adult conflict in marriage and work relationships, and mental health distress in Mexican immigrants. The sample consisted of 135 married Mexican immigrants recruited from an ESL program in Southern California. Structural equation modeling was used to test theoretical hypotheses. The model revealed that dysfunctional childhood family relationships predicted dissatisf…
Latinos in Higher Education: An Evaluation of a University Faculty Mentoring Program
The purpose of this study was to understand the student-faculty mentoring process and how mentoring facilitates Latino students' adjustment to college. Thirty-two Latino students participating in a university Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP) were surveyed. The findings showed that (a) students experienced an increase in college self-efficacy and academic goal definition as a result of participating in the FMP; (b) students with same-ethnic mentors…
The relationship between campus diversity, students' ethnic identity and college adjustment: A qualitative study
The present study was a qualitative exploration into the meaning of ethnic identity and its association with college adjustment in students attending ethnically diverse university campuses. The sample consisted of 103 participants recruited from 2 ethnically diverse universities in southern California. A constant comparative analysis of the interview data revealed 9 themes as being relevant to students' experiences of ethnicity within a multiethn…
Illness Beliefs Regarding the Causes of Diabetes Among Latino College Students: An Exploratory Factor Analysis
This study examined the validity of the Klonoff and Landrine Illness-Belief Scale when applied to Latino college students ( n = 156; 34% male, 66% female) at high risk for future diabetes onset. Principal factor analysis yielded four significant factors—emotional, folk beliefs, punitive, gene/hereditary— which accounted for 64.5% of variance and provided a culturally relevant Latino perspective of the causes of diabetes. Additional analyses by ag…
Título da página electrónica: The Communication Initiative Network
A Communication Initiative Network é uma plataforma electrónica, apoiada por diversas instituições internacionais (UNDP, FAO, BBC, entre outras), que tem como objectivo aproximar e promover a partilha de experiências e, sobretudo, de conhecimento entre todos aqueles que vêem a comunicação, quer de massas quer interpessoal, como um veículo crucial na mudança e no desenvolvimento económico e social. Para isso, disponibiliza na sua página uma ampla …
Social Capital and Socio-demographic Changes: From Non-differentiation to Multifocalisation
This article examines how different socio-demographic trends interrelate with alterations in the traditional forms of social and interpersonal relationships. We will focus on two Portuguese municipalities using the concept of rural community as an analytic starting point for framing and examining the different dimensions of social capital. The survey's data shows that the generalised nature of mutual knowledge and trust, that used to characterise…
Obesity-Related Dietary Patterns and Health Status of Diabetes Among At-Risk Latino College Students
This study examined within-group differences in obesity-related dietary behaviors and the health status of 156 Latino students at risk for diabetes due to family history. Approximately 58% of students were overweight and/or obese, with female students reporting a greater risk for diabetes. Consumption of meats, fried potatoes, breads, and tortillas was associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and diabetes risk indices. Differences in dietary …
Ball, James. Post-Truth: How bullshit conquered the world, London: Biteback Publishing: 2017
De-securitising ‘the South in the North’? Gendered Narratives on the Refugee Flows in the European Mediascape
This article focuses on media representations of ‘the South in the North’ crosscutting the European mediascape in 2015 and the beginning of 2016. Assuming that both identities and perceptions of in/security are socially constructed, particularly by means of discourse, that security is gendered and gender constructions are in turn built on dynamics of in/security, and that gendered power relations and representations are always entangled with othe…
The new feminist frontier on community-based learning: Popular feminism, online misogyny, and toxic masculinities
Feminist activism has always promoted informal learning opportunities for men and women. Internet, along with ICTs have expanded these opportunities by affording large-scale feminist mobilising and connection. Yet the digital environment is not only enhancing feminist campaigning but also facilitating the contexts to abusive behaviours flourish. Departing from the concept of social movement learning, in this article, we examine the significance t…
A space to resist rape myths? Journalism, patriarchy and sexual violence
In September 2018, a controversial judicial sentence concerning sexual violence caused a public outcry in Portugal. The court decision invoked the alleged environment of mutual seduction, the use of much alcohol consumption, and the lack of serious injuries to justify the suspended penalty. Stemming from the idea that understandings of what journalism is and what it should be are profoundly ideological and that notions of what it means to be and …
The (In)visibility of Racialized Border Violence? A Ukrainian Killed in Lisbon Airport
On March 12, 2020, the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Homenyuk died, having been abused and tortured while in the custody of the Foreigners and Borders Office in Lisbon airport. This crime exposed what several NGOs and institutional reports had long denounced: the climate of impunity that enabled the denial of basic human rights to immigrants in closed spaces at the Portuguese border. Understanding the media as a pivotal place of both reflection and prod…
EU Representations in Portuguese Media and Populism: Embodying Political Antipodes
Mass media mediate different publics, thus being crucial in constructing political reality. By selecting which topics are covered (agenda), which voices are heard, or how social and political issues/actors/dynamics are represented (priming and framing), mass media impacts how political conversations and processes unfold. Acknowledging the increasing mediatisation of politics, this article zooms into media texts of the Portuguese media during a co…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)