Stephen C Poulson

Biographic Data

ID321590
NAMEStephen C Poulson
GIVEN NAMESStephen C
FAMILY NAMEPoulson
SIGNATUREPOULSON S C
AFFILIATIONSJames Madison University
ORCID0000-0003-2042-7629
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Racism on Campus

    Stephen C PoulsonBOOKRacism on Campus2021

  • Racism on Campus: Yearbook Pictures From Prominent Virginia Colleges (1890-1930)

    Open AccessStephen C Poulson, H Mcgee et al.ARTICLEContexts2020

    For this photo essay, the authors discovered thousands of pictures that depict racism published by prominent colleges throughout the state of Virginia. They present a small amount of this yearbook content as evidence that racism has long dominated campus life at Virginia colleges

  • Levels of combatant control and the patterns of non-incumbent/insurgent violence experienced by civilians living in Sunni–Arab communities in Iraq (2004–2009)

    Stephen C Poulson, Kelly Burke et al.ARTICLEMedicine Conflict & Survival2018

    This study explores how one social-structural variable, control over Sunni-Arab communities during the Iraq civil war, affected the types of violence used by insurgent/non-government actors that killed and injured civilians in these communities from January 2004 to December 2009. The study classifies three levels of control: (1) incumbent (government-supported) control, (2) insurgent control and (3) actively contested control. It uses Iraq Body C…

  • Cooperative Accounts: Avoiding Conflict and Repairing Social Relations

    Open AccessStephen C Poulson, Timothy J Carter et al.ARTICLESymbolic Interaction2018Cited by: 1References: 24

    The analytical concept of accounts has long presented sociologists with an excellent tool for the study of talk. Nonetheless, studies of accounts often neglect the fact that cooperation is common when an account for untoward behavior is constructed. Many studies tend to flatten the process of how accounts are created by routinely describing them as being 'offered' by offenders and then 'evaluated' by reproachers. We assume that accounts are often…

  • Isomorphism, Institutional Parochialism, and the Study of Social Movements

    Stephen C Poulson, Cory P Caswell et al.ARTICLESocial movement studies2014Cited by: 4References: 26

    This study investigates whether the field of social movements is occupied by parochial concerns. Using a content analysis of two prominent journals that study social movements – Mobilization: An International Journal and Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social and Political Protest – it was found that the field is dominated by the study of Western movements, but is also relatively ‘worldly’ when compared to other academic sub-disciplines. Much…

  • Parochialism in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: A Response to Cornwall

    Open AccessStephen C PoulsonARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2011

  • Isomorphism, Institutional Parochialism, and the Sociology of Religion

    Open AccessStephen C Poulson, Colin CampbellARTICLEThe American Sociologist2010Cited by: 11References: 39

  • Nested Institutions, Political Opportunity, and the Decline of the Iranian Reform Movement Post 9/11

    Open AccessStephen C PoulsonARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2009References: 15

    Using the recent Iranian reform movement (1997-2003) as an example, this article demonstrates how social movement activism in the Middle East is often constrained by U.S. foreign policy and rhetoric. Directly after the 9/11 attacks, there was a remarkable confluence of shared interests between Iranian reformers and U.S. policy makers. Despite common goals and interests-and an explicit desire by many in the Iranian reform movement to normalize rel…