Arthur G Cosby
Biographic Data
| ID | 361487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur G Cosby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosby |
| SIGNATURE | COSBY A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0527-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A structural equation modeling approach to leveraging the power of extant sentiment analysis tools
Machine-derived sentiment analysis has become a pervasive and useful tool to address a wide array of issues in natural language processing. Leading technology companies such as Google now provide sentiment analysis tools (SATs) as readily accessible online products. Academic researchers develop and make available SATs to support the research enterprise. One of the major challenges with SATs is the inconsistencies in results among the various SATs…
A multi-modal approach towards mining social media data during natural disasters - A case study of Hurricane Irma
Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States
Objectives. To examine 47 years of US urban and rural mortality trends at the county level, controlling for effects of education, income, poverty, and race. Methods. We obtained (1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) data (1970–2016) on 104 million deaths; (2) US Census data on education, poverty, and race; and (3) Bureau of Economic Analysis data on income. We calculated ordina…
Tweeting rape culture
Social media has become an important aspect of contemporary culture and cultural change; it has accordingly become a valuable resource for informing feminist theory. Social media is a digitized social reality that lends itself to analysis and research. This study examines rape culture in the widely used social media platform, Twitter. We collected tweets from four days surrounding the Torrington and Steubenville Rape Trials and the Rehtaeh Parson…
Cultural Penetration and Punctuated Policy Change
Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) suggests that the policy process is characterized by long periods of incremental change and short periods of punctuated change. The impetus for the latter is usually a focusing event that breaks open policy monopolies, allowing for major changes in legislative decision making. While a burgeoning body of literature, a shortcoming in the PET literature is that it has yet to explain why focusing events and subsequ…
Public support for Hispanic deportation in the United States
The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety
Underlying Causes of the Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty
The nonmetropolitan mortality penalty results in an estimated 40 201 excessive US deaths per year, deaths that would not occur if nonmetropolitan and metropolitan residents died at the same rate. We explored the underlying causes of the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty by examining variation in cause of death. Declines in heart disease and cancer death rates in metropolitan areas drive the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty. Future work should ex…
Reconsidering the Rural–Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research
Preliminary Evidence for an Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty in the United States
We discovered an emerging non-metropolitan mortality penalty by contrasting 37 years of age-adjusted mortality rates for metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan US counties. During the 1980s, annual metropolitan–nonmetropolitan differences averaged 6.2 excess deaths per 100000 nonmetropolitan population, or approximately 3600 excess deaths; however, by 2000 to 2004, the difference had increased more than 10 times to average 71.7 excess deaths, or app…
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Rural‐Urban Differences in the Social Climate Surrounding Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Context: Although previous research has found smoking rates to be higher among residents of rural areas, few studies have investigated rural‐urban differences in exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Objective: This study contrasted the social climate surrounding ETS among Americans who resided in 5 levels of county urbanization. Design: Data were collected via telephone interviews administered to a representative sample of 3,009 civilia…
Mapping high or low mortality places across time in the United States
Legalization of crimes against the moral order
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
MSSA presidential address
Family timing in late adolescence and early adulthood
Education and Work in Rural America
Patterns of Early Adult Status Attainment and Attitudes in the Nonmetropolitan South
Utilizing data from a study of Southern, nonmetropolitan youth, this paper reports the patterns of congruency and deflection in occupational and educational attitudes and attainment. Descriptive comparisons of status aspiration, expectations and attainment were made for 427 white and 268 black males from six Deep South states. Aspirations and expectation levels for future occupational and educational attainment were apparently "unrealistic" in te…
Black-White Differences in Aspirations Among Deep South High School Students
In recent years numerous studies have focused on the occupational aspirations of selected segments of the youth population.1 An area of special concem has been the apparently low levels of aspiration expressed by black youth. This concern has centered around a set of questionable assumptions dealing with the interplay between the aspirations of high school students and their subsequent occupational attainment. These assumptions, which may have de…
Social Origins, Occupational Goals, and Southern Youth
One of the most important decisions the person may make during the adolescent period concerns his future occupational placement. In making a decision to enter a specific occupa-tion, a youth begins an extended social journey that culminates with either attainment of a desired goal or the attainment of some other goal representing occupational compromise or frustration. The role of the external social environment in conditioning the occupational g…
Tweeting rape culture
Social media has become an important aspect of contemporary culture and cultural change; it has accordingly become a valuable resource for informing feminist theory. Social media is a digitized social reality that lends itself to analysis and research. This study examines rape culture in the widely used social media platform, Twitter. We collected tweets from four days surrounding the Torrington and Steubenville Rape Trials and the Rehtaeh Parson…
Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States
Objectives. To examine 47 years of US urban and rural mortality trends at the county level, controlling for effects of education, income, poverty, and race. Methods. We obtained (1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) data (1970–2016) on 104 million deaths; (2) US Census data on education, poverty, and race; and (3) Bureau of Economic Analysis data on income. We calculated ordina…
Legalization of crimes against the moral order
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
Preliminary Evidence for an Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty in the United States
We discovered an emerging non-metropolitan mortality penalty by contrasting 37 years of age-adjusted mortality rates for metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan US counties. During the 1980s, annual metropolitan–nonmetropolitan differences averaged 6.2 excess deaths per 100000 nonmetropolitan population, or approximately 3600 excess deaths; however, by 2000 to 2004, the difference had increased more than 10 times to average 71.7 excess deaths, or app…
Underlying Causes of the Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty
The nonmetropolitan mortality penalty results in an estimated 40 201 excessive US deaths per year, deaths that would not occur if nonmetropolitan and metropolitan residents died at the same rate. We explored the underlying causes of the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty by examining variation in cause of death. Declines in heart disease and cancer death rates in metropolitan areas drive the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty. Future work should ex…
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Mapping high or low mortality places across time in the United States
Public support for Hispanic deportation in the United States
Cultural Penetration and Punctuated Policy Change
Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) suggests that the policy process is characterized by long periods of incremental change and short periods of punctuated change. The impetus for the latter is usually a focusing event that breaks open policy monopolies, allowing for major changes in legislative decision making. While a burgeoning body of literature, a shortcoming in the PET literature is that it has yet to explain why focusing events and subsequ…
Reconsidering the Rural–Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research
The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety
MSSA presidential address
Black-White Differences in Aspirations Among Deep South High School Students
In recent years numerous studies have focused on the occupational aspirations of selected segments of the youth population.1 An area of special concem has been the apparently low levels of aspiration expressed by black youth. This concern has centered around a set of questionable assumptions dealing with the interplay between the aspirations of high school students and their subsequent occupational attainment. These assumptions, which may have de…
Social Origins, Occupational Goals, and Southern Youth
One of the most important decisions the person may make during the adolescent period concerns his future occupational placement. In making a decision to enter a specific occupa-tion, a youth begins an extended social journey that culminates with either attainment of a desired goal or the attainment of some other goal representing occupational compromise or frustration. The role of the external social environment in conditioning the occupational g…
Black-White Differences in Aspirations Among Deep South High School Students
In recent years numerous studies have focused on the occupational aspirations of selected segments of the youth population.1 An area of special concem has been the apparently low levels of aspiration expressed by black youth. This concern has centered around a set of questionable assumptions dealing with the interplay between the aspirations of high school students and their subsequent occupational attainment. These assumptions, which may have de…
Social Origins, Occupational Goals, and Southern Youth
One of the most important decisions the person may make during the adolescent period concerns his future occupational placement. In making a decision to enter a specific occupa-tion, a youth begins an extended social journey that culminates with either attainment of a desired goal or the attainment of some other goal representing occupational compromise or frustration. The role of the external social environment in conditioning the occupational g…
Patterns of Early Adult Status Attainment and Attitudes in the Nonmetropolitan South
Utilizing data from a study of Southern, nonmetropolitan youth, this paper reports the patterns of congruency and deflection in occupational and educational attitudes and attainment. Descriptive comparisons of status aspiration, expectations and attainment were made for 427 white and 268 black males from six Deep South states. Aspirations and expectation levels for future occupational and educational attainment were apparently "unrealistic" in te…
Family timing in late adolescence and early adulthood
Education and Work in Rural America
MSSA presidential address
Legalization of crimes against the moral order
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
Mapping high or low mortality places across time in the United States
Rural‐Urban Differences in the Social Climate Surrounding Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Context: Although previous research has found smoking rates to be higher among residents of rural areas, few studies have investigated rural‐urban differences in exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Objective: This study contrasted the social climate surrounding ETS among Americans who resided in 5 levels of county urbanization. Design: Data were collected via telephone interviews administered to a representative sample of 3,009 civilia…
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
We explored how place shapes mortality by examining 35 consecutive years of US mortality data. Mapping age-adjusted county mortality rates showed both persistent temporal and spatial clustering of high and low mortality rates. Counties with high mortality rates and counties with low mortality rates both experienced younger population out-migration, had economic decline, and were predominantly rural. These mortality patterns have important implica…
Reconsidering the Rural–Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research
Preliminary Evidence for an Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty in the United States
We discovered an emerging non-metropolitan mortality penalty by contrasting 37 years of age-adjusted mortality rates for metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan US counties. During the 1980s, annual metropolitan–nonmetropolitan differences averaged 6.2 excess deaths per 100000 nonmetropolitan population, or approximately 3600 excess deaths; however, by 2000 to 2004, the difference had increased more than 10 times to average 71.7 excess deaths, or app…
Underlying Causes of the Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty
The nonmetropolitan mortality penalty results in an estimated 40 201 excessive US deaths per year, deaths that would not occur if nonmetropolitan and metropolitan residents died at the same rate. We explored the underlying causes of the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty by examining variation in cause of death. Declines in heart disease and cancer death rates in metropolitan areas drive the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty. Future work should ex…
Public support for Hispanic deportation in the United States
The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety
Cultural Penetration and Punctuated Policy Change
Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) suggests that the policy process is characterized by long periods of incremental change and short periods of punctuated change. The impetus for the latter is usually a focusing event that breaks open policy monopolies, allowing for major changes in legislative decision making. While a burgeoning body of literature, a shortcoming in the PET literature is that it has yet to explain why focusing events and subsequ…
Tweeting rape culture
Social media has become an important aspect of contemporary culture and cultural change; it has accordingly become a valuable resource for informing feminist theory. Social media is a digitized social reality that lends itself to analysis and research. This study examines rape culture in the widely used social media platform, Twitter. We collected tweets from four days surrounding the Torrington and Steubenville Rape Trials and the Rehtaeh Parson…
Growth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States
Objectives. To examine 47 years of US urban and rural mortality trends at the county level, controlling for effects of education, income, poverty, and race. Methods. We obtained (1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER (Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research) data (1970–2016) on 104 million deaths; (2) US Census data on education, poverty, and race; and (3) Bureau of Economic Analysis data on income. We calculated ordina…
A multi-modal approach towards mining social media data during natural disasters - A case study of Hurricane Irma
A structural equation modeling approach to leveraging the power of extant sentiment analysis tools
Machine-derived sentiment analysis has become a pervasive and useful tool to address a wide array of issues in natural language processing. Leading technology companies such as Google now provide sentiment analysis tools (SATs) as readily accessible online products. Academic researchers develop and make available SATs to support the research enterprise. One of the major challenges with SATs is the inconsistencies in results among the various SATs…
Sociology (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Political science (5 works)