J Sonnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 41413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Sonnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonnett |
| SIGNATURE | SONNETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4091-378X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Musical Relationships: Intersections of Race, Gender, Genre, and Listening Situation
The ways that music creates bridges and boundaries between people has long been of interest in the sociology of music, and a core problem is understanding patterns in relationships between consumers and producers. Survey research details the comparative context of who likes or dislikes various musical genres, but has little to say about what those categories actually mean to listeners. Ethnographic and interview research offers insight into music…
Climate change risks and global warming dangers: A field analysis of online US news media
Studies have shown that contrasting understandings of climate change (CC) and global warming (GW) are associated with political identities in the US, however, less is understood about how these differences are represented in news media. This study examines how the problem names CC and GW are associated with risk-related keywords in a field of online US news media. Results show that the contrast between CC and GW corresponds with a distinction bet…
Remembering the dreams, forgetting the war: Commemoration and narrative in Japanese girls’ culture
Superstorm Sandy: The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore
The Political Economy of Water in the Past, Present, and Future
Richter, Brian. 2014. Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Press. Solomon, Steven. 2010. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. New York: HarperCollins
People Like Us: Dominance-oriented Racial Affiliation Preferences and the White Greek System on a Southern U.S. Campus
Studying in-group affiliation preferences can be a valuable tool for understanding race relations in the contemporary United States. We draw on theories of social dominance and social identity to analyze racial attitudes, as measured by the Social Distance Scale, for a subset of black and white students at the University of Mississippi. While both black and white students expressed strong in-group preference, this preference was stronger for whit…
Ambivalence, indifference, distinction: A comparative netfield analysis of implicit musical boundaries
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
Narratives of Wildfire: Coverage in Four U.S. Newspapers, 1999-2003
The years 1999 through 2003 were marked by intense episodes of wildland fire in the United States and an increased interest in covering fire policy and practice in the media. Analysis of articles published in four newspapers over this time period reveals important differences in reporting emphases, as reflected in the narrative story lines that defined coverage. Identification of how these narratives came to be similarly and differentially consti…
Climates of risk: A field analysis of global climate change in US media discourse, 1997-2004
How are industry and environmentalist discourses of climate risk related to dominant scientific and political discourses? This study operationalizes Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital in order to map dimensions of risk description and prescription onto a journalistic field of industry, environmentalist, scientific, and political media. Results show that conventional definitions of risk mirror an opposition between scientific and political dis…
Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002–2004
Between Complexity and Parsimony: Limited Diversity, Counterfactual Cases, and Comparative Analysis
Counterfactual analysis has a long and distinguished history in comparative research. To some, counterfactual analysis is central to comparative inquiry because such research typically embraces only a handful of empirical cases If there are only a few instances (e.g., of revolution), then researchers, of necessity, must compare empirical cases to hypothetical cases. The affinity between counterfactual analysis and comparative research, however, d…
Musical boundaries: Intersections of Form and Content
The Global 500: Mapping the World Economy at Century's End
Fortune magazine's listing of the largest corporations in the global economy, the Global 500, is used to inquire into the industrial structure of the world economy and to speculate about the rise and fall of hegemonic states. The authors' data show that about half the firms are involved in basic production and the rest split between finance and service industries, with Asia, Europe, and the United States each accounting for one third of the firms…
Musical boundaries: Intersections of Form and Content
Ambivalence, indifference, distinction: A comparative netfield analysis of implicit musical boundaries
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002–2004
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
The Global 500: Mapping the World Economy at Century's End
Fortune magazine's listing of the largest corporations in the global economy, the Global 500, is used to inquire into the industrial structure of the world economy and to speculate about the rise and fall of hegemonic states. The authors' data show that about half the firms are involved in basic production and the rest split between finance and service industries, with Asia, Europe, and the United States each accounting for one third of the firms…
Climate change risks and global warming dangers: A field analysis of online US news media
Studies have shown that contrasting understandings of climate change (CC) and global warming (GW) are associated with political identities in the US, however, less is understood about how these differences are represented in news media. This study examines how the problem names CC and GW are associated with risk-related keywords in a field of online US news media. Results show that the contrast between CC and GW corresponds with a distinction bet…
People Like Us: Dominance-oriented Racial Affiliation Preferences and the White Greek System on a Southern U.S. Campus
Studying in-group affiliation preferences can be a valuable tool for understanding race relations in the contemporary United States. We draw on theories of social dominance and social identity to analyze racial attitudes, as measured by the Social Distance Scale, for a subset of black and white students at the University of Mississippi. While both black and white students expressed strong in-group preference, this preference was stronger for whit…
The Global 500: Mapping the World Economy at Century's End
Fortune magazine's listing of the largest corporations in the global economy, the Global 500, is used to inquire into the industrial structure of the world economy and to speculate about the rise and fall of hegemonic states. The authors' data show that about half the firms are involved in basic production and the rest split between finance and service industries, with Asia, Europe, and the United States each accounting for one third of the firms…
Musical boundaries: Intersections of Form and Content
Between Complexity and Parsimony: Limited Diversity, Counterfactual Cases, and Comparative Analysis
Counterfactual analysis has a long and distinguished history in comparative research. To some, counterfactual analysis is central to comparative inquiry because such research typically embraces only a handful of empirical cases If there are only a few instances (e.g., of revolution), then researchers, of necessity, must compare empirical cases to hypothetical cases. The affinity between counterfactual analysis and comparative research, however, d…
Drought and declining reservoirs: Comparing media discourse in Arizona and New Mexico, 2002–2004
Narratives of Wildfire: Coverage in Four U.S. Newspapers, 1999-2003
The years 1999 through 2003 were marked by intense episodes of wildland fire in the United States and an increased interest in covering fire policy and practice in the media. Analysis of articles published in four newspapers over this time period reveals important differences in reporting emphases, as reflected in the narrative story lines that defined coverage. Identification of how these narratives came to be similarly and differentially consti…
Climates of risk: A field analysis of global climate change in US media discourse, 1997-2004
How are industry and environmentalist discourses of climate risk related to dominant scientific and political discourses? This study operationalizes Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital in order to map dimensions of risk description and prescription onto a journalistic field of industry, environmentalist, scientific, and political media. Results show that conventional definitions of risk mirror an opposition between scientific and political dis…
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
The Political Economy of Water in the Past, Present, and Future
Richter, Brian. 2014. Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Press. Solomon, Steven. 2010. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization. New York: HarperCollins
People Like Us: Dominance-oriented Racial Affiliation Preferences and the White Greek System on a Southern U.S. Campus
Studying in-group affiliation preferences can be a valuable tool for understanding race relations in the contemporary United States. We draw on theories of social dominance and social identity to analyze racial attitudes, as measured by the Social Distance Scale, for a subset of black and white students at the University of Mississippi. While both black and white students expressed strong in-group preference, this preference was stronger for whit…
Ambivalence, indifference, distinction: A comparative netfield analysis of implicit musical boundaries
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media discourse. The authors analyze the global field of media climate change discourse using 17 diverse cases and 131 frames. They find four main conflicting dimensions of difference: validity of climate science, scale of ecological risk, scale of climate politics, and support for m…
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
Superstorm Sandy: The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore
Musical Relationships: Intersections of Race, Gender, Genre, and Listening Situation
The ways that music creates bridges and boundaries between people has long been of interest in the sociology of music, and a core problem is understanding patterns in relationships between consumers and producers. Survey research details the comparative context of who likes or dislikes various musical genres, but has little to say about what those categories actually mean to listeners. Ethnographic and interview research offers insight into music…
Climate change risks and global warming dangers: A field analysis of online US news media
Studies have shown that contrasting understandings of climate change (CC) and global warming (GW) are associated with political identities in the US, however, less is understood about how these differences are represented in news media. This study examines how the problem names CC and GW are associated with risk-related keywords in a field of online US news media. Results show that the contrast between CC and GW corresponds with a distinction bet…
Remembering the dreams, forgetting the war: Commemoration and narrative in Japanese girls’ culture
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works)