Mattias Smångs
Biographic Data
| ID | 76231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattias Smångs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattias |
| FAMILY NAME | Smångs |
| SIGNATURE | SMÅNGS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6050-9066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The White Working Class and the Legacy of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan in the 2016 Presidential Election
This is a theoretical and empirical exploration of how the presence of the Ku Klux Klan across southern communities in the 1960s mediated electoral support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The analysis is prompted by divergent perspectives on the impact of working-class whites' economic grievances and cultural identities in Trump's victory, and by conjectures of a relationship between past white ethno-racial mobilization and su…
Race, Gender, and the Rape-Lynching Nexus in the U.S. South, 1881-1930
Scholarship has long recognized the centrality of white racial sexual fears in the rhetoric and practice surrounding the lynching of African Americans in the U.S. South in the decades around 1900. The topic has not previously been taken up for systematic study beyond event-level analyses. This article presents theoretical and empirical evidence that whites’ intersecting racial and gender concerns converging in racial sexual fears were conducive t…
A Match Made in Heaven? Southern Evangelicalism and the Rise and Fall of Agrarian Populism in the 1890s
The agrarian populist movement of the late nineteenth century remains among the largest social movement and third-party revolts in American history. It embodied a full-scale critique and mobilization against the inequities of the Gilded Age, and its influence stretched well into the Progressive and New Deal eras. While most accounts of the movement and party’s emergence and rapid demise have centered on economic conditions and interests, we link …
Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882–1930
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures. By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical methodology to analzye newer and more detailed data, Doing Violence, Making Race offers an innovative contribution to our understanding of this grim subj…
The lynching of African Americans in the U.S. South: A review of sociological and historical perspectives
Research in sociology and history on the lynching of African Americans by White mobs in the U.S. South around 1900 has in recent decades grown and matured into a substantive research area in its own right. This article has four purposes. The first purpose is to review dominant sociological and historical approaches in the lynching literature. One key feature of this literature is its bifurcation into one strand of social scientific sociological l…
Flows: A Network Approach to Social Inequality
Modernization and Lynching in the New South
This article evaluates an emerging body of historical scholarship that challenges prevailing views of the primacy of rural conditions in southern lynching by positing that it was symbiotically associated with the processes of modernization underway in the region in the decades around 1900. Statistical analyses of lynching data that differentiate among events according to communal participation, support, and ceremony in Georgia and Louisiana from …
Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
In 1995, Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck published the landmark study A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930. Based on a painstaking data-collection effort, including manually sifting through contemporary newspapers in various archives to find articles with information about lynchings, Tolnay and Beck constructed an inventory of lynching events in ten southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Loui…
Doing Violence, Making Race: Southern Lynching and White Racial Group Formation
This article presents a theoretical framework of how intergroup violence may figure into the activation and maintenance of group categories, boundaries, and identities, as well as the mediating role played by organizations in such processes. The framework's analytical advantages are demonstrated in an application to southern lynchings. Findings from event- and community-level analyses suggest that "public" lynchings, carried out by larger mobs wi…
Interracial status competition and southern lynching, 1882-1930
This article provides theoretical grounds and empirical evidence that different types of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South were driven by social processes at different levels of analysis. County-level analyses based upon new detailed data on lynchings in Georgia and Louisiana from 1882 to 1930 reveal that 'private' lynchings, perpetrated by small groups outside the public purview without manifest ritual, were related to whites' interracia…
Delinquency, Social Skills and the Structure of Peer Relations: Assessing Criminological Theories by Social Network Theory
This article explores the plausibility of the conflicting theoretical assumptions underlying the main criminological perspectives on juvenile delinquents, their peer relations and social skills: the social ability model, represented by Sutherland's theory of differential associations, and the social disability model, represented by Hirschi's control theory. It does so by applying the principles associated with Granovetter's theory of strong and w…
Business Groups in 20th-Century Swedish Political Economy: A Sociological Perspective
Since the interwar period, the Swedish economy has been dominated by a few business groups that control practically all Swedish industry of any importance. This article provides a sociologically informed account of the existence and lasting dominance of business groups in Sweden. In challenging efficiency-based accounts of business groups in Sweden offered by transaction-cost economists, I adopt a historical and dynamic approach that understands …
Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches
Changing Organizations. Business Networks in the New Political Economy
Doing Violence, Making Race: Southern Lynching and White Racial Group Formation
This article presents a theoretical framework of how intergroup violence may figure into the activation and maintenance of group categories, boundaries, and identities, as well as the mediating role played by organizations in such processes. The framework's analytical advantages are demonstrated in an application to southern lynchings. Findings from event- and community-level analyses suggest that "public" lynchings, carried out by larger mobs wi…
Interracial status competition and southern lynching, 1882-1930
This article provides theoretical grounds and empirical evidence that different types of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South were driven by social processes at different levels of analysis. County-level analyses based upon new detailed data on lynchings in Georgia and Louisiana from 1882 to 1930 reveal that 'private' lynchings, perpetrated by small groups outside the public purview without manifest ritual, were related to whites' interracia…
Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches
The White Working Class and the Legacy of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan in the 2016 Presidential Election
This is a theoretical and empirical exploration of how the presence of the Ku Klux Klan across southern communities in the 1960s mediated electoral support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The analysis is prompted by divergent perspectives on the impact of working-class whites' economic grievances and cultural identities in Trump's victory, and by conjectures of a relationship between past white ethno-racial mobilization and su…
Modernization and Lynching in the New South
This article evaluates an emerging body of historical scholarship that challenges prevailing views of the primacy of rural conditions in southern lynching by positing that it was symbiotically associated with the processes of modernization underway in the region in the decades around 1900. Statistical analyses of lynching data that differentiate among events according to communal participation, support, and ceremony in Georgia and Louisiana from …
Business Groups in 20th-Century Swedish Political Economy: A Sociological Perspective
Since the interwar period, the Swedish economy has been dominated by a few business groups that control practically all Swedish industry of any importance. This article provides a sociologically informed account of the existence and lasting dominance of business groups in Sweden. In challenging efficiency-based accounts of business groups in Sweden offered by transaction-cost economists, I adopt a historical and dynamic approach that understands …
Changing Organizations. Business Networks in the New Political Economy
Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches
Business Groups in 20th-Century Swedish Political Economy: A Sociological Perspective
Since the interwar period, the Swedish economy has been dominated by a few business groups that control practically all Swedish industry of any importance. This article provides a sociologically informed account of the existence and lasting dominance of business groups in Sweden. In challenging efficiency-based accounts of business groups in Sweden offered by transaction-cost economists, I adopt a historical and dynamic approach that understands …
Delinquency, Social Skills and the Structure of Peer Relations: Assessing Criminological Theories by Social Network Theory
This article explores the plausibility of the conflicting theoretical assumptions underlying the main criminological perspectives on juvenile delinquents, their peer relations and social skills: the social ability model, represented by Sutherland's theory of differential associations, and the social disability model, represented by Hirschi's control theory. It does so by applying the principles associated with Granovetter's theory of strong and w…
Modernization and Lynching in the New South
This article evaluates an emerging body of historical scholarship that challenges prevailing views of the primacy of rural conditions in southern lynching by positing that it was symbiotically associated with the processes of modernization underway in the region in the decades around 1900. Statistical analyses of lynching data that differentiate among events according to communal participation, support, and ceremony in Georgia and Louisiana from …
Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
In 1995, Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck published the landmark study A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930. Based on a painstaking data-collection effort, including manually sifting through contemporary newspapers in various archives to find articles with information about lynchings, Tolnay and Beck constructed an inventory of lynching events in ten southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Loui…
Doing Violence, Making Race: Southern Lynching and White Racial Group Formation
This article presents a theoretical framework of how intergroup violence may figure into the activation and maintenance of group categories, boundaries, and identities, as well as the mediating role played by organizations in such processes. The framework's analytical advantages are demonstrated in an application to southern lynchings. Findings from event- and community-level analyses suggest that "public" lynchings, carried out by larger mobs wi…
Interracial status competition and southern lynching, 1882-1930
This article provides theoretical grounds and empirical evidence that different types of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South were driven by social processes at different levels of analysis. County-level analyses based upon new detailed data on lynchings in Georgia and Louisiana from 1882 to 1930 reveal that 'private' lynchings, perpetrated by small groups outside the public purview without manifest ritual, were related to whites' interracia…
Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the U.S. South, 1882–1930
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures. By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical methodology to analzye newer and more detailed data, Doing Violence, Making Race offers an innovative contribution to our understanding of this grim subj…
The lynching of African Americans in the U.S. South: A review of sociological and historical perspectives
Research in sociology and history on the lynching of African Americans by White mobs in the U.S. South around 1900 has in recent decades grown and matured into a substantive research area in its own right. This article has four purposes. The first purpose is to review dominant sociological and historical approaches in the lynching literature. One key feature of this literature is its bifurcation into one strand of social scientific sociological l…
Flows: A Network Approach to Social Inequality
A Match Made in Heaven? Southern Evangelicalism and the Rise and Fall of Agrarian Populism in the 1890s
The agrarian populist movement of the late nineteenth century remains among the largest social movement and third-party revolts in American history. It embodied a full-scale critique and mobilization against the inequities of the Gilded Age, and its influence stretched well into the Progressive and New Deal eras. While most accounts of the movement and party’s emergence and rapid demise have centered on economic conditions and interests, we link …
Race, Gender, and the Rape-Lynching Nexus in the U.S. South, 1881-1930
Scholarship has long recognized the centrality of white racial sexual fears in the rhetoric and practice surrounding the lynching of African Americans in the U.S. South in the decades around 1900. The topic has not previously been taken up for systematic study beyond event-level analyses. This article presents theoretical and empirical evidence that whites’ intersecting racial and gender concerns converging in racial sexual fears were conducive t…
The White Working Class and the Legacy of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan in the 2016 Presidential Election
This is a theoretical and empirical exploration of how the presence of the Ku Klux Klan across southern communities in the 1960s mediated electoral support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The analysis is prompted by divergent perspectives on the impact of working-class whites' economic grievances and cultural identities in Trump's victory, and by conjectures of a relationship between past white ethno-racial mobilization and su…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · White (mutation) (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)