Brian Soller
Biographic Data
| ID | 81211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Soller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Soller |
| SIGNATURE | SOLLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1713-9933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Expanding Social Network Conceptualization, Measurement, and Theory: Lessons from Transnational Refugee Populations
With forcible displacement at unprecedented levels and only expected to increase as conflict, economic inequities, and climate change escalate, it is critical to understand the ways in which social networks of migrants are disrupted and reconstituted in new contexts. This requires critical examination and expansion of existing social network conceptualization, measurement, and theory that considers transnational movement and experiences to ensure…
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures
Since the inception of urban sociology, the "neighborhood" has served as the dominant context to capture developmentally significant youth experiences beyond the home. Yet no large-scale study has examined patterns of exposure to the most commonly used operationalization of neighborhood-the census tract-among urban youth. Using smartphone GPS data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study ( N = 1,405), we estimate the amount of …
Adolescent Dating Violence Victimization and Relationship Dissolution
We integrate literature on gender and adolescent friendships to examine the association between adolescent dating violence victimization (ADVV) and relationship dissolution. In particular, we test whether ADVV increases the hazard of relationship dissolution among adolescent romances, and whether a number of friendship dynamics alter the association between ADVV and relationship dissolution. Using discrete time event history models from 5,787 rom…
Sharing's More Fun for Everyone? Gender Attitudes, Sexual Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Frequency
ObjectiveThe authors tested competing hypotheses and examined the underlying processes linking gender attitudes to sexual activity.BackgroundSome studies suggest gender conventions increase heterosexual couples' sexual frequency by enacting sexual scripts, but others indicate egalitarianism increases sex by enhancing communication. This study addresses the debate surrounding the association of gender egalitarianism and traditionalism with couples…
Ecological Networks and Community Attachment and Support Among Recently Resettled Refugees
Interventions aimed at enhancing mental health are increasingly centered around promoting community attachment and support. However, few have examined and tested the specific ecological factors that give rise to these key community processes. Drawing from insights from the ecological network perspective, we tested whether spatial and social overlap in routine activity settings (e.g., work, school, childcare) with fellow ethnic community members i…
Girls' self-efficacy in the context of neighborhood gender stratification
The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder
Research links neighborhood social disorder with poorer health. But factors beyond observed disorder may influence perceptions that social disorder is problematic. This study investigates whether women's aggregate socioeconomic resources relative to men's in the broader neighborhood context attenuate the extent to which more prevalent observed social disorder within the immediate residential neighborhood contributes to perceptions of more problem…
Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization
Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in space more frequently as a result of routine activities will exhibit higher levels of collective efficacy, intergenerational closure, and social network interaction and exchange. They develop this approach employing the concept of ecological networks—two-mode networ…
Sexual intercourse, romantic relationship inauthenticity, and adolescent mental health
Violent Peers and Street Efficacy in Legally Cynical Neighborhoods
Neighborhood scholars increasingly focus on legal cynicism—a frame through which the law and its enforcement agents are viewed as illegitimate and ineffective. We investigate how legal cynicism within the residential neighborhood and violent peers jointly inform youths’ perceived ability to safely navigate their neighborhoods—that is, their street efficacy. We propose that youth in neighborhoods with pervasive legal cynicism exhibit diminished st…
Variation in Sexual Double Standards across Schools: How Do They Matter for Adolescent Sexual Behavior
The sexual double standard—a condition in which sexual activity is perceived to entail more social benefits for boys and men than for girls and women—has implications for adolescent sexual behavior. We employ an innovative assessment of the sexual double standard, measuring the strength of it across 75 high schools with Add Health data ( N = 8,458). Drawing on theories of culture and gender, we test the association between school-based sexual dou…
Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach
I Did Not Do It My Way: The Peer Context of Inauthentic Romantic Relationships
The links between culture, social networks, and adolescent romantic relationships are not well understood. This article integrates cultural sociology and network perspectives to explain how cultural features of adolescent peer groups influence adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-the extent of incongruence between one's thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Using National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Heal…
Anticipating Early Fatality: Friends’, Schoolmates’ and Individual Perceptions of Fatality on Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Gender, Friendship Networks, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Network Approach
Researchers have examined selection and influence processes in shaping delinquency similarity among friends, but little is known about the role of gender in moderating these relationships. Our objective is to examine differences between adolescent boys and girls regarding delinquency‐based selection and influence processes. Using longitudinal network data from adolescents attending two large schools in AddHealth (N = 1,857) and stochastic actor‐o…
Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence
Research suggests that legal cynicism-a cultural frame in which the law is viewed as illegitimate and ineffective-encourages violence to maintain personal safety when legal recourse is unreliable. But no study has tested the impact of legal cynicism on appraisals of violence. Drawing from symbolic interaction theory and cultural sociology, we tested whether neighbourhood legal cynicism alters the extent to which parents appraise their children's …
Caught in a Bad Romance: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Mental Health
Integrating insights from cultural sociology and identity theory, I explore the mental health consequences of adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Applying sequence analysis to National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data, I measure relationship inauthenticity by quantifying the extent to which the ordering of events of actual romantic relationships (…
Feeling Disorder' as a Comparative and Contingent Process: Gender, Neighborhood Conditions, and Adolescent Mental Health
We explore the effects of neighborhood social disorder on internalizing symptoms among urban youth by focusing on three questions. First, we ask whether the impact of social disorder on internalizing symptoms results from comparisons with conditions measured locally or across the entire city. Second, we consider whether neighborhood collective efficacy modifies disorder's effect on internalizing symptoms. Finally, we assess whether these effects …
Structuring the Future: Anticipated Life Events, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
While prior research has established associations between individual expectations of future events and risk behavior among adolescents, the potential effects of peers' future perceptions on risk-taking have been overlooked. We extend prior research by testing whether peers' anticipation of college completion is associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking. We also examine whether adolescents' perceptions of the negative consequences of pregnancy…
Thizzin’ – Ecstasy use contexts and emergent social meanings
The drug "Ecstasy" has been most commonly associated with raves, or electronic music dance events, and attributed with sexual disinhibition. In an ethnographic investigation of drug use among second-generation Southeast Asian youth in Northern California (2003), respondents described little use of or interest in using Ecstasy; yet in a second study, Ecstasy was the fourth most commonly-used substance. This paper investigates the social contexts f…
Drug-Intake Methods and Social Identity: The Use of Marijuana in Blunts Among Southeast Asian Adolescents and Emerging Adults
This article examines why Southeast Asian American adolescents and emerging adults in two urban settings prefer to use "blunts," or hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, over other methods of drug intake. Rationales for preferring blunts were both instrumental and social. Blunts allowed users to more easily share marijuana, the preferred drug among their peers, and protected against potential adverse effects associated with the "high." Blunt…
Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization
Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in space more frequently as a result of routine activities will exhibit higher levels of collective efficacy, intergenerational closure, and social network interaction and exchange. They develop this approach employing the concept of ecological networks—two-mode networ…
Gender, Friendship Networks, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Network Approach
Researchers have examined selection and influence processes in shaping delinquency similarity among friends, but little is known about the role of gender in moderating these relationships. Our objective is to examine differences between adolescent boys and girls regarding delinquency‐based selection and influence processes. Using longitudinal network data from adolescents attending two large schools in AddHealth (N = 1,857) and stochastic actor‐o…
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures
Since the inception of urban sociology, the "neighborhood" has served as the dominant context to capture developmentally significant youth experiences beyond the home. Yet no large-scale study has examined patterns of exposure to the most commonly used operationalization of neighborhood-the census tract-among urban youth. Using smartphone GPS data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study ( N = 1,405), we estimate the amount of …
Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach
Feeling Disorder' as a Comparative and Contingent Process: Gender, Neighborhood Conditions, and Adolescent Mental Health
We explore the effects of neighborhood social disorder on internalizing symptoms among urban youth by focusing on three questions. First, we ask whether the impact of social disorder on internalizing symptoms results from comparisons with conditions measured locally or across the entire city. Second, we consider whether neighborhood collective efficacy modifies disorder's effect on internalizing symptoms. Finally, we assess whether these effects …
Caught in a Bad Romance: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Mental Health
Integrating insights from cultural sociology and identity theory, I explore the mental health consequences of adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Applying sequence analysis to National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data, I measure relationship inauthenticity by quantifying the extent to which the ordering of events of actual romantic relationships (…
Ecological Networks and Community Attachment and Support Among Recently Resettled Refugees
Interventions aimed at enhancing mental health are increasingly centered around promoting community attachment and support. However, few have examined and tested the specific ecological factors that give rise to these key community processes. Drawing from insights from the ecological network perspective, we tested whether spatial and social overlap in routine activity settings (e.g., work, school, childcare) with fellow ethnic community members i…
Anticipating Early Fatality: Friends’, Schoolmates’ and Individual Perceptions of Fatality on Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Variation in Sexual Double Standards across Schools: How Do They Matter for Adolescent Sexual Behavior
The sexual double standard—a condition in which sexual activity is perceived to entail more social benefits for boys and men than for girls and women—has implications for adolescent sexual behavior. We employ an innovative assessment of the sexual double standard, measuring the strength of it across 75 high schools with Add Health data ( N = 8,458). Drawing on theories of culture and gender, we test the association between school-based sexual dou…
Structuring the Future: Anticipated Life Events, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
While prior research has established associations between individual expectations of future events and risk behavior among adolescents, the potential effects of peers' future perceptions on risk-taking have been overlooked. We extend prior research by testing whether peers' anticipation of college completion is associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking. We also examine whether adolescents' perceptions of the negative consequences of pregnancy…
Drug-Intake Methods and Social Identity: The Use of Marijuana in Blunts Among Southeast Asian Adolescents and Emerging Adults
This article examines why Southeast Asian American adolescents and emerging adults in two urban settings prefer to use "blunts," or hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, over other methods of drug intake. Rationales for preferring blunts were both instrumental and social. Blunts allowed users to more easily share marijuana, the preferred drug among their peers, and protected against potential adverse effects associated with the "high." Blunt…
Sharing's More Fun for Everyone? Gender Attitudes, Sexual Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Frequency
ObjectiveThe authors tested competing hypotheses and examined the underlying processes linking gender attitudes to sexual activity.BackgroundSome studies suggest gender conventions increase heterosexual couples' sexual frequency by enacting sexual scripts, but others indicate egalitarianism increases sex by enhancing communication. This study addresses the debate surrounding the association of gender egalitarianism and traditionalism with couples…
Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence
Research suggests that legal cynicism-a cultural frame in which the law is viewed as illegitimate and ineffective-encourages violence to maintain personal safety when legal recourse is unreliable. But no study has tested the impact of legal cynicism on appraisals of violence. Drawing from symbolic interaction theory and cultural sociology, we tested whether neighbourhood legal cynicism alters the extent to which parents appraise their children's …
I Did Not Do It My Way: The Peer Context of Inauthentic Romantic Relationships
The links between culture, social networks, and adolescent romantic relationships are not well understood. This article integrates cultural sociology and network perspectives to explain how cultural features of adolescent peer groups influence adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-the extent of incongruence between one's thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Using National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Heal…
Girls' self-efficacy in the context of neighborhood gender stratification
The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder
Research links neighborhood social disorder with poorer health. But factors beyond observed disorder may influence perceptions that social disorder is problematic. This study investigates whether women's aggregate socioeconomic resources relative to men's in the broader neighborhood context attenuate the extent to which more prevalent observed social disorder within the immediate residential neighborhood contributes to perceptions of more problem…
Violent Peers and Street Efficacy in Legally Cynical Neighborhoods
Neighborhood scholars increasingly focus on legal cynicism—a frame through which the law and its enforcement agents are viewed as illegitimate and ineffective. We investigate how legal cynicism within the residential neighborhood and violent peers jointly inform youths’ perceived ability to safely navigate their neighborhoods—that is, their street efficacy. We propose that youth in neighborhoods with pervasive legal cynicism exhibit diminished st…
Drug-Intake Methods and Social Identity: The Use of Marijuana in Blunts Among Southeast Asian Adolescents and Emerging Adults
This article examines why Southeast Asian American adolescents and emerging adults in two urban settings prefer to use "blunts," or hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana, over other methods of drug intake. Rationales for preferring blunts were both instrumental and social. Blunts allowed users to more easily share marijuana, the preferred drug among their peers, and protected against potential adverse effects associated with the "high." Blunt…
Thizzin’ – Ecstasy use contexts and emergent social meanings
The drug "Ecstasy" has been most commonly associated with raves, or electronic music dance events, and attributed with sexual disinhibition. In an ethnographic investigation of drug use among second-generation Southeast Asian youth in Northern California (2003), respondents described little use of or interest in using Ecstasy; yet in a second study, Ecstasy was the fourth most commonly-used substance. This paper investigates the social contexts f…
Feeling Disorder' as a Comparative and Contingent Process: Gender, Neighborhood Conditions, and Adolescent Mental Health
We explore the effects of neighborhood social disorder on internalizing symptoms among urban youth by focusing on three questions. First, we ask whether the impact of social disorder on internalizing symptoms results from comparisons with conditions measured locally or across the entire city. Second, we consider whether neighborhood collective efficacy modifies disorder's effect on internalizing symptoms. Finally, we assess whether these effects …
Structuring the Future: Anticipated Life Events, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
While prior research has established associations between individual expectations of future events and risk behavior among adolescents, the potential effects of peers' future perceptions on risk-taking have been overlooked. We extend prior research by testing whether peers' anticipation of college completion is associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking. We also examine whether adolescents' perceptions of the negative consequences of pregnancy…
Anticipating Early Fatality: Friends’, Schoolmates’ and Individual Perceptions of Fatality on Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Gender, Friendship Networks, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Network Approach
Researchers have examined selection and influence processes in shaping delinquency similarity among friends, but little is known about the role of gender in moderating these relationships. Our objective is to examine differences between adolescent boys and girls regarding delinquency‐based selection and influence processes. Using longitudinal network data from adolescents attending two large schools in AddHealth (N = 1,857) and stochastic actor‐o…
Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence
Research suggests that legal cynicism-a cultural frame in which the law is viewed as illegitimate and ineffective-encourages violence to maintain personal safety when legal recourse is unreliable. But no study has tested the impact of legal cynicism on appraisals of violence. Drawing from symbolic interaction theory and cultural sociology, we tested whether neighbourhood legal cynicism alters the extent to which parents appraise their children's …
Caught in a Bad Romance: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Mental Health
Integrating insights from cultural sociology and identity theory, I explore the mental health consequences of adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-incongruence between thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Applying sequence analysis to National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data, I measure relationship inauthenticity by quantifying the extent to which the ordering of events of actual romantic relationships (…
Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach
I Did Not Do It My Way: The Peer Context of Inauthentic Romantic Relationships
The links between culture, social networks, and adolescent romantic relationships are not well understood. This article integrates cultural sociology and network perspectives to explain how cultural features of adolescent peer groups influence adolescent romantic relationship inauthenticity-the extent of incongruence between one's thoughts/feelings and actions within romantic contexts. Using National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Heal…
Violent Peers and Street Efficacy in Legally Cynical Neighborhoods
Neighborhood scholars increasingly focus on legal cynicism—a frame through which the law and its enforcement agents are viewed as illegitimate and ineffective. We investigate how legal cynicism within the residential neighborhood and violent peers jointly inform youths’ perceived ability to safely navigate their neighborhoods—that is, their street efficacy. We propose that youth in neighborhoods with pervasive legal cynicism exhibit diminished st…
Variation in Sexual Double Standards across Schools: How Do They Matter for Adolescent Sexual Behavior
The sexual double standard—a condition in which sexual activity is perceived to entail more social benefits for boys and men than for girls and women—has implications for adolescent sexual behavior. We employ an innovative assessment of the sexual double standard, measuring the strength of it across 75 high schools with Add Health data ( N = 8,458). Drawing on theories of culture and gender, we test the association between school-based sexual dou…
The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder
Research links neighborhood social disorder with poorer health. But factors beyond observed disorder may influence perceptions that social disorder is problematic. This study investigates whether women's aggregate socioeconomic resources relative to men's in the broader neighborhood context attenuate the extent to which more prevalent observed social disorder within the immediate residential neighborhood contributes to perceptions of more problem…
Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization
Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in space more frequently as a result of routine activities will exhibit higher levels of collective efficacy, intergenerational closure, and social network interaction and exchange. They develop this approach employing the concept of ecological networks—two-mode networ…
Sexual intercourse, romantic relationship inauthenticity, and adolescent mental health
Ecological Networks and Community Attachment and Support Among Recently Resettled Refugees
Interventions aimed at enhancing mental health are increasingly centered around promoting community attachment and support. However, few have examined and tested the specific ecological factors that give rise to these key community processes. Drawing from insights from the ecological network perspective, we tested whether spatial and social overlap in routine activity settings (e.g., work, school, childcare) with fellow ethnic community members i…
Girls' self-efficacy in the context of neighborhood gender stratification
Sharing's More Fun for Everyone? Gender Attitudes, Sexual Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Frequency
ObjectiveThe authors tested competing hypotheses and examined the underlying processes linking gender attitudes to sexual activity.BackgroundSome studies suggest gender conventions increase heterosexual couples' sexual frequency by enacting sexual scripts, but others indicate egalitarianism increases sex by enhancing communication. This study addresses the debate surrounding the association of gender egalitarianism and traditionalism with couples…
Adolescent Dating Violence Victimization and Relationship Dissolution
We integrate literature on gender and adolescent friendships to examine the association between adolescent dating violence victimization (ADVV) and relationship dissolution. In particular, we test whether ADVV increases the hazard of relationship dissolution among adolescent romances, and whether a number of friendship dynamics alter the association between ADVV and relationship dissolution. Using discrete time event history models from 5,787 rom…
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures
Since the inception of urban sociology, the "neighborhood" has served as the dominant context to capture developmentally significant youth experiences beyond the home. Yet no large-scale study has examined patterns of exposure to the most commonly used operationalization of neighborhood-the census tract-among urban youth. Using smartphone GPS data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study ( N = 1,405), we estimate the amount of …
Expanding Social Network Conceptualization, Measurement, and Theory: Lessons from Transnational Refugee Populations
With forcible displacement at unprecedented levels and only expected to increase as conflict, economic inequities, and climate change escalate, it is critical to understand the ways in which social networks of migrants are disrupted and reconstituted in new contexts. This requires critical examination and expansion of existing social network conceptualization, measurement, and theory that considers transnational movement and experiences to ensure…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works)