Bethany Bryson
Biographic Data
| ID | 227857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany Bryson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryson |
| SIGNATURE | BRYSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6352-7585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 858 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Whose Rights are Civil Rights? Evaluating Group Threat as an Explanation for Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Sexuality
The alleged prevalence of anti-gay bias among Black communities in the United States has received ample popular and academic attention in recent decades. But just how consistent is the purported relationship between race and homophobia? In this paper, we use the American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey to show that public claims about "Black homophobia" have been dangerously overstated. Moreover, where racial differences i…
Polarizing the middle
Purpose Research on opinion polarization in the USA repeatedly finds more divergence among politically privileged groups: respondents who are college educated, politically interested, party identified or have a liberal/conservative orientation. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether their excluded counterparts can be polarized by exposure to political information on the internet. Design/methodology/approach Quantile regression and visual…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Own It! Constructions of Masculinity and Heterosexuality on Reality Makeover Television
Makeover television shows are notorious for presenting oppressive and unrealistic images of women, but a sizable portion of makeover contestants are men. What does this mean for the impact of such shows on gender culture? Using data collected from transcripts of five different programs, we find that gender, power, and heterosexuality intertwine within makeover plots in three ways. First, makeover shows link the promise of personal transformation …
Conquering Stereotypes in Research on Race and Gender
In responding to Epstein’s essay “On Boundaries,” we argue that the stereotypes that Epstein identifies as an ongoing component of racism served as the foundation of sociological scholarship a mere century ago. Today, we argue, it is the continued use of the term stereotype that serves as our “car window” and can hold us back from truly understanding race and gender. The use of the term stereotype is not (nor has it ever been) a useful analytic t…
Working definitions
Draws on interviews with 76 English professors in 4 US universities to document emerging definitions of multiculturalism and connect them to organizational conditions in each department. Suggests that findings showed that the professors assigned meaning to the ambiguous and contested word, multiculturalism, according to the principles of organizational convenience rather than poligical conviction. Emphasizes the power of institutional routines fo…
American Conversations
Opinion Polarization
larized? ” (AJS 102 [3]: 690–755) we addressed the substantive question of whether or not polarization on 18 morally charged social issues had increased over a period of approximately two decades. That article ex-amined all of the then-available years of data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and the National Election Study (NES). The approach was necessarily broad, entailing more than 200 separate analyses of polari-zation within the populati…
What about the univores? Musical dislikes and group-based identity construction among Americans with low levels of education
Selling Radio
Anything But Heavy Metal
The author provides quantitative evidence of a cultural phenomenon. Using data on musical dislikes from the 1993 General Social Survey, He links literatures on taste, racism, and democratic liberalism by showing that people use cultural taste to reinforce symbolic boundaries between themselves and categories of people they dislike. Contrary to Bourdieu's (1984) prediction, musical exclusiveness decreases with education. Also, political tolerance …
Have American's Social Attitudes Become More Polarized
Many observers have asserted with little evidence that Americans' social opinions have become polarized. Using General Social Survey and National Election Survey social attitude items that have been repeated regularly over 20 years, the authors ask (1) Have Americans' opinions become more dispersed (higher variance)? (2) Have distributions become flatter or more bimodal (declining kurtosis)? (3) Have opinions become more ideologically constrained…
A Man's Town
Anything But Heavy Metal
The author provides quantitative evidence of a cultural phenomenon. Using data on musical dislikes from the 1993 General Social Survey, He links literatures on taste, racism, and democratic liberalism by showing that people use cultural taste to reinforce symbolic boundaries between themselves and categories of people they dislike. Contrary to Bourdieu's (1984) prediction, musical exclusiveness decreases with education. Also, political tolerance …
Have American's Social Attitudes Become More Polarized
Many observers have asserted with little evidence that Americans' social opinions have become polarized. Using General Social Survey and National Election Survey social attitude items that have been repeated regularly over 20 years, the authors ask (1) Have Americans' opinions become more dispersed (higher variance)? (2) Have distributions become flatter or more bimodal (declining kurtosis)? (3) Have opinions become more ideologically constrained…
What about the univores? Musical dislikes and group-based identity construction among Americans with low levels of education
Opinion Polarization
larized? ” (AJS 102 [3]: 690–755) we addressed the substantive question of whether or not polarization on 18 morally charged social issues had increased over a period of approximately two decades. That article ex-amined all of the then-available years of data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and the National Election Study (NES). The approach was necessarily broad, entailing more than 200 separate analyses of polari-zation within the populati…
Whose Rights are Civil Rights? Evaluating Group Threat as an Explanation for Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Sexuality
The alleged prevalence of anti-gay bias among Black communities in the United States has received ample popular and academic attention in recent decades. But just how consistent is the purported relationship between race and homophobia? In this paper, we use the American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey to show that public claims about "Black homophobia" have been dangerously overstated. Moreover, where racial differences i…
Polarizing the middle
Purpose Research on opinion polarization in the USA repeatedly finds more divergence among politically privileged groups: respondents who are college educated, politically interested, party identified or have a liberal/conservative orientation. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether their excluded counterparts can be polarized by exposure to political information on the internet. Design/methodology/approach Quantile regression and visual…
Own It! Constructions of Masculinity and Heterosexuality on Reality Makeover Television
Makeover television shows are notorious for presenting oppressive and unrealistic images of women, but a sizable portion of makeover contestants are men. What does this mean for the impact of such shows on gender culture? Using data collected from transcripts of five different programs, we find that gender, power, and heterosexuality intertwine within makeover plots in three ways. First, makeover shows link the promise of personal transformation …
Working definitions
Draws on interviews with 76 English professors in 4 US universities to document emerging definitions of multiculturalism and connect them to organizational conditions in each department. Suggests that findings showed that the professors assigned meaning to the ambiguous and contested word, multiculturalism, according to the principles of organizational convenience rather than poligical conviction. Emphasizes the power of institutional routines fo…
Conquering Stereotypes in Research on Race and Gender
In responding to Epstein’s essay “On Boundaries,” we argue that the stereotypes that Epstein identifies as an ongoing component of racism served as the foundation of sociological scholarship a mere century ago. Today, we argue, it is the continued use of the term stereotype that serves as our “car window” and can hold us back from truly understanding race and gender. The use of the term stereotype is not (nor has it ever been) a useful analytic t…
A Man's Town
Selling Radio
Anything But Heavy Metal
The author provides quantitative evidence of a cultural phenomenon. Using data on musical dislikes from the 1993 General Social Survey, He links literatures on taste, racism, and democratic liberalism by showing that people use cultural taste to reinforce symbolic boundaries between themselves and categories of people they dislike. Contrary to Bourdieu's (1984) prediction, musical exclusiveness decreases with education. Also, political tolerance …
Have American's Social Attitudes Become More Polarized
Many observers have asserted with little evidence that Americans' social opinions have become polarized. Using General Social Survey and National Election Survey social attitude items that have been repeated regularly over 20 years, the authors ask (1) Have Americans' opinions become more dispersed (higher variance)? (2) Have distributions become flatter or more bimodal (declining kurtosis)? (3) Have opinions become more ideologically constrained…
What about the univores? Musical dislikes and group-based identity construction among Americans with low levels of education
American Conversations
Opinion Polarization
larized? ” (AJS 102 [3]: 690–755) we addressed the substantive question of whether or not polarization on 18 morally charged social issues had increased over a period of approximately two decades. That article ex-amined all of the then-available years of data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and the National Election Study (NES). The approach was necessarily broad, entailing more than 200 separate analyses of polari-zation within the populati…
Working definitions
Draws on interviews with 76 English professors in 4 US universities to document emerging definitions of multiculturalism and connect them to organizational conditions in each department. Suggests that findings showed that the professors assigned meaning to the ambiguous and contested word, multiculturalism, according to the principles of organizational convenience rather than poligical conviction. Emphasizes the power of institutional routines fo…
Conquering Stereotypes in Research on Race and Gender
In responding to Epstein’s essay “On Boundaries,” we argue that the stereotypes that Epstein identifies as an ongoing component of racism served as the foundation of sociological scholarship a mere century ago. Today, we argue, it is the continued use of the term stereotype that serves as our “car window” and can hold us back from truly understanding race and gender. The use of the term stereotype is not (nor has it ever been) a useful analytic t…
Own It! Constructions of Masculinity and Heterosexuality on Reality Makeover Television
Makeover television shows are notorious for presenting oppressive and unrealistic images of women, but a sizable portion of makeover contestants are men. What does this mean for the impact of such shows on gender culture? Using data collected from transcripts of five different programs, we find that gender, power, and heterosexuality intertwine within makeover plots in three ways. First, makeover shows link the promise of personal transformation …
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Polarizing the middle
Purpose Research on opinion polarization in the USA repeatedly finds more divergence among politically privileged groups: respondents who are college educated, politically interested, party identified or have a liberal/conservative orientation. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether their excluded counterparts can be polarized by exposure to political information on the internet. Design/methodology/approach Quantile regression and visual…
Whose Rights are Civil Rights? Evaluating Group Threat as an Explanation for Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Sexuality
The alleged prevalence of anti-gay bias among Black communities in the United States has received ample popular and academic attention in recent decades. But just how consistent is the purported relationship between race and homophobia? In this paper, we use the American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey to show that public claims about "Black homophobia" have been dangerously overstated. Moreover, where racial differences i…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works)