Sarah Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“An inner core feeling”: Nationalism, Western capitalism, and Bengali women's class‐based mothering ideologies
Volunteer motivations in civilian volunteer search and rescue organizations
Most scholarship on volunteer motivation examines everyday scenarios rather than disaster or emergency contexts. Environmental hazards and their devastating social impacts continue to grow in severity and frequency, creating an increased opportunity for disaster-related volunteerism. Disaster volunteerism diverges from traditional volunteerism in location, timing, activities, and risk. Thus, examining what motivates people to volunteer during dis…
Death Anxiety in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Objective: Death anxiety has long been attributed a role as a psychopathologically decisive factor in the development of mental illnesses such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). For example, patients with washing compulsions associate their behavior with a fear of life-threatening diseases or patients with control compulsions report that the constant checking is driven by the fear of fatal or deadly consequences for the occupants. Method: Th…
Mechanisms mediating the relation between reading self-concept and reading comprehension
Reading self-concept is an important predictor of reading comprehension and vice versa. However, the mechanisms that are at work in this relation have yet to be identified. In line with the self-enhancement approach, we propose that in the reading domain, amount of reading, book choice (text difficulty and book length), and intrinsic reading motivation should function as mediating variables in the relation between reading self-concept and reading…
Families Coping With Financial Loss Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Objective This study examines family strategies for coping and adaptation to social disruption from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS) in south Louisiana. Background The DHOS is a technological disaster of unprecedented scale and ongoing impact, including the socioeconomic disruption of families. Method Using data from focus groups, grounded‐theory methods informed a thematic analysis of spill‐related economic loss and coping mechanisms …
What Would I Look Like: How Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage Shapes Hip-Hop Artists' Connections to Community
Hip-hop has deep historical ties to disadvantaged communities. Resounding success in mainstream and global music markets potentially disrupts those connections. The authors use in-depth interviews with 25 self-defined rap/hip-hop artists to explore the significance of place in modern hip-hop. Bringing together historical studies of hip-hop and sociological neighborhood studies, the authors examine hip-hop artists' community connections. Findings …
Rape Myths and Hookup Culture: An Exploratory Study of U.S. College Students' Perceptions
"People Are Enemies to What They Don't Know" Managing Stigma and Anti-Muslim Stereotypes in a Turkish Community Center
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, anti-Muslim discourse and sentiment has become pervasive in the West. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we observe how participants at a Turkish Community Center (TCC) cultivate stigma management strategies against the cultural backdrop of post-9/11 anti-Muslim stereotypes. In our analysis, we use Goffman's work on stigma and critical race theory to explore the social…
Kind of Natural, Kind of Wrong”: Young People's Beliefs about the Morality, Legality, and Normalcy of Sexual Aggression in Public Drinking Settings
Unwelcome touching, groping, and kissing are illegal, but widely tolerated in public drinking settings. This contingency in the law's response means that patrons routinely negotiate the moral boundaries of nonconsensual sexual contact. We use 197 interviews with college-age individuals to examine the discursive strategies young people employ when negotiating those boundaries. We find that most interviewees have experiences with sexual aggression,…
Post-feminism for children: Feminism ‘repackaged’ in the Bratz films
After their release in 2001, Bratz dolls carved into Barbie’s previously monopolistic share of teen doll sales. Amidst their growing popularity, cultural critics expressed a host of concerns about Bratz dolls, especially over how they sexualize youth, but the line grew to include a host of products like costumes, makeup kits, games, books, clothing, and movies. It also inspired new, similar doll lines from other toy companies. In this article, we…
Neither Fair nor Unchangeable But Part of the Natural Order: Orientations Towards Inequality in the Face of Criticism of the Economic System
The magnitude of climate change threats to life on the planet is not matched by the level of current mitigation strategies. To contribute to our understanding of inaction in the face of climate change, the reported study draws upon the pro status quo motivations encapsulated within System Justification Theory. In an online questionnaire study, participants (N = 136) initially completed a measure of General System Justification. Participants in a …
It Didn’t Seem Like Race Mattered”: Exploring the Implications of Service-learning Pedagogy for Reproducing or Challenging Color-blind Racism
Prior research measuring service-learning program successes reveals the approach can positively affect students’ attitudes toward community service, can increase students’ motivation to learn and ability to internalize class material, and can change their view of social issues. Studies also suggest that college students sometimes enter and leave a field site in ways that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. In this paper, we draw on thre…
The Communal Idea in the 21st Century
The transformation of pro-violence norms: An integrative review of the literature
Because That’s What Justice Is to Us: Exploring the Racialized Collateral Consequences of New Parochialism
The continuum of complicity: “Studying up”/studying power as a feminist, anti-racist, or social justice venture
Learning to Liberate: Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
An Intersectional Analysis of Differential Opportunity Structures for Community-Based Anticrime Efforts
Numerous studies document the positive ramifications of locally based crime prevention efforts, but also reveal that neighborhoods are not equally positioned to engage in such efforts. The same social-structural correlates of high crime rates also make locally based initiatives less likely to emerge and more difficult to sustain. Opportunities for organized anticrime work are therefore unequally allocated across neighborhoods. In this article, I …
"Badder than "Just a Bunch of SPEDs: Alternative Schooling and Student Resistance to Special Education Rhetoric
This study of a Northeastern alternative high school examines the salience of two discourses-one focused on students who have problems, the other on students who are problems-in the alternative schooling process. At Cromwell Alternative North (CAN), teachers and staff promoted a view of students as youth with "special needs." In the students' social world, having "special needs" was not awarded status like being a troublemaker was. Students at CA…
Rape Myths and Hookup Culture: An Exploratory Study of U.S. College Students' Perceptions
The continuum of complicity: “Studying up”/studying power as a feminist, anti-racist, or social justice venture
It Didn’t Seem Like Race Mattered”: Exploring the Implications of Service-learning Pedagogy for Reproducing or Challenging Color-blind Racism
Prior research measuring service-learning program successes reveals the approach can positively affect students’ attitudes toward community service, can increase students’ motivation to learn and ability to internalize class material, and can change their view of social issues. Studies also suggest that college students sometimes enter and leave a field site in ways that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. In this paper, we draw on thre…
Kind of Natural, Kind of Wrong”: Young People's Beliefs about the Morality, Legality, and Normalcy of Sexual Aggression in Public Drinking Settings
Unwelcome touching, groping, and kissing are illegal, but widely tolerated in public drinking settings. This contingency in the law's response means that patrons routinely negotiate the moral boundaries of nonconsensual sexual contact. We use 197 interviews with college-age individuals to examine the discursive strategies young people employ when negotiating those boundaries. We find that most interviewees have experiences with sexual aggression,…
"People Are Enemies to What They Don't Know" Managing Stigma and Anti-Muslim Stereotypes in a Turkish Community Center
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, anti-Muslim discourse and sentiment has become pervasive in the West. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we observe how participants at a Turkish Community Center (TCC) cultivate stigma management strategies against the cultural backdrop of post-9/11 anti-Muslim stereotypes. In our analysis, we use Goffman's work on stigma and critical race theory to explore the social…
Because That’s What Justice Is to Us: Exploring the Racialized Collateral Consequences of New Parochialism
An Intersectional Analysis of Differential Opportunity Structures for Community-Based Anticrime Efforts
Numerous studies document the positive ramifications of locally based crime prevention efforts, but also reveal that neighborhoods are not equally positioned to engage in such efforts. The same social-structural correlates of high crime rates also make locally based initiatives less likely to emerge and more difficult to sustain. Opportunities for organized anticrime work are therefore unequally allocated across neighborhoods. In this article, I …
The transformation of pro-violence norms: An integrative review of the literature
"Badder than "Just a Bunch of SPEDs: Alternative Schooling and Student Resistance to Special Education Rhetoric
This study of a Northeastern alternative high school examines the salience of two discourses-one focused on students who have problems, the other on students who are problems-in the alternative schooling process. At Cromwell Alternative North (CAN), teachers and staff promoted a view of students as youth with "special needs." In the students' social world, having "special needs" was not awarded status like being a troublemaker was. Students at CA…
Post-feminism for children: Feminism ‘repackaged’ in the Bratz films
After their release in 2001, Bratz dolls carved into Barbie’s previously monopolistic share of teen doll sales. Amidst their growing popularity, cultural critics expressed a host of concerns about Bratz dolls, especially over how they sexualize youth, but the line grew to include a host of products like costumes, makeup kits, games, books, clothing, and movies. It also inspired new, similar doll lines from other toy companies. In this article, we…
"Badder than "Just a Bunch of SPEDs: Alternative Schooling and Student Resistance to Special Education Rhetoric
This study of a Northeastern alternative high school examines the salience of two discourses-one focused on students who have problems, the other on students who are problems-in the alternative schooling process. At Cromwell Alternative North (CAN), teachers and staff promoted a view of students as youth with "special needs." In the students' social world, having "special needs" was not awarded status like being a troublemaker was. Students at CA…
The continuum of complicity: “Studying up”/studying power as a feminist, anti-racist, or social justice venture
Learning to Liberate: Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
An Intersectional Analysis of Differential Opportunity Structures for Community-Based Anticrime Efforts
Numerous studies document the positive ramifications of locally based crime prevention efforts, but also reveal that neighborhoods are not equally positioned to engage in such efforts. The same social-structural correlates of high crime rates also make locally based initiatives less likely to emerge and more difficult to sustain. Opportunities for organized anticrime work are therefore unequally allocated across neighborhoods. In this article, I …
The transformation of pro-violence norms: An integrative review of the literature
Because That’s What Justice Is to Us: Exploring the Racialized Collateral Consequences of New Parochialism
It Didn’t Seem Like Race Mattered”: Exploring the Implications of Service-learning Pedagogy for Reproducing or Challenging Color-blind Racism
Prior research measuring service-learning program successes reveals the approach can positively affect students’ attitudes toward community service, can increase students’ motivation to learn and ability to internalize class material, and can change their view of social issues. Studies also suggest that college students sometimes enter and leave a field site in ways that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. In this paper, we draw on thre…
The Communal Idea in the 21st Century
Kind of Natural, Kind of Wrong”: Young People's Beliefs about the Morality, Legality, and Normalcy of Sexual Aggression in Public Drinking Settings
Unwelcome touching, groping, and kissing are illegal, but widely tolerated in public drinking settings. This contingency in the law's response means that patrons routinely negotiate the moral boundaries of nonconsensual sexual contact. We use 197 interviews with college-age individuals to examine the discursive strategies young people employ when negotiating those boundaries. We find that most interviewees have experiences with sexual aggression,…
Post-feminism for children: Feminism ‘repackaged’ in the Bratz films
After their release in 2001, Bratz dolls carved into Barbie’s previously monopolistic share of teen doll sales. Amidst their growing popularity, cultural critics expressed a host of concerns about Bratz dolls, especially over how they sexualize youth, but the line grew to include a host of products like costumes, makeup kits, games, books, clothing, and movies. It also inspired new, similar doll lines from other toy companies. In this article, we…
Neither Fair nor Unchangeable But Part of the Natural Order: Orientations Towards Inequality in the Face of Criticism of the Economic System
The magnitude of climate change threats to life on the planet is not matched by the level of current mitigation strategies. To contribute to our understanding of inaction in the face of climate change, the reported study draws upon the pro status quo motivations encapsulated within System Justification Theory. In an online questionnaire study, participants (N = 136) initially completed a measure of General System Justification. Participants in a …
Rape Myths and Hookup Culture: An Exploratory Study of U.S. College Students' Perceptions
"People Are Enemies to What They Don't Know" Managing Stigma and Anti-Muslim Stereotypes in a Turkish Community Center
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, anti-Muslim discourse and sentiment has become pervasive in the West. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we observe how participants at a Turkish Community Center (TCC) cultivate stigma management strategies against the cultural backdrop of post-9/11 anti-Muslim stereotypes. In our analysis, we use Goffman's work on stigma and critical race theory to explore the social…
Families Coping With Financial Loss Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Objective This study examines family strategies for coping and adaptation to social disruption from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS) in south Louisiana. Background The DHOS is a technological disaster of unprecedented scale and ongoing impact, including the socioeconomic disruption of families. Method Using data from focus groups, grounded‐theory methods informed a thematic analysis of spill‐related economic loss and coping mechanisms …
What Would I Look Like: How Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage Shapes Hip-Hop Artists' Connections to Community
Hip-hop has deep historical ties to disadvantaged communities. Resounding success in mainstream and global music markets potentially disrupts those connections. The authors use in-depth interviews with 25 self-defined rap/hip-hop artists to explore the significance of place in modern hip-hop. Bringing together historical studies of hip-hop and sociological neighborhood studies, the authors examine hip-hop artists' community connections. Findings …
Mechanisms mediating the relation between reading self-concept and reading comprehension
Reading self-concept is an important predictor of reading comprehension and vice versa. However, the mechanisms that are at work in this relation have yet to be identified. In line with the self-enhancement approach, we propose that in the reading domain, amount of reading, book choice (text difficulty and book length), and intrinsic reading motivation should function as mediating variables in the relation between reading self-concept and reading…
Death Anxiety in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Objective: Death anxiety has long been attributed a role as a psychopathologically decisive factor in the development of mental illnesses such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). For example, patients with washing compulsions associate their behavior with a fear of life-threatening diseases or patients with control compulsions report that the constant checking is driven by the fear of fatal or deadly consequences for the occupants. Method: Th…
Volunteer motivations in civilian volunteer search and rescue organizations
Most scholarship on volunteer motivation examines everyday scenarios rather than disaster or emergency contexts. Environmental hazards and their devastating social impacts continue to grow in severity and frequency, creating an increased opportunity for disaster-related volunteerism. Disaster volunteerism diverges from traditional volunteerism in location, timing, activities, and risk. Thus, examining what motivates people to volunteer during dis…
“An inner core feeling”: Nationalism, Western capitalism, and Bengali women's class‐based mothering ideologies
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)