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The Gates Foundation, Ebola, and Global Health Imperialism
American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador
American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Street Violence against Women in India: Mapping Prevention Strategies
Asian Social Work and Policy Review

Caregiver Stress and Related Factors in Korean Households Utilizing Childcare Support by Grandmothers
Asian Social Work and Policy Review

The mobility problem in Britain: new findings from the analysis of birth cohort data
The British Journal of Sociology

Education effects on authoritarian-libertarian values: a question of socialization
The British Journal of Sociology

The US Role in the 1964 Coup in Brazil: A Reassessment
Bulletin of Latin American Research

Politicians without Parties and Parties without Politicians: The Foibles of the Peruvian Political Class, 2000-2006
Bulletin of Latin American Research

“More Normal than Welfare”: The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

Stigma and employ ability: discrimination by sex and sexual orientation in the Ontario legal profession*
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie

Precious, Pure, Uncivilised, Vulnerable: Infant Embodiment in Australian Popular Media
Children & Society

Youth Participation in U.S. Contexts: Student Voice Without a National Mandate
Children & Society

Why is Helping Behavior Declining in the United States But Not in Canada?: Ethnic Diversity, New Technologies, and Other Explanations
City & Community

Parkour, The Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic
City & Community

Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence
Criminology

Demonstrating the Validity of Twin Research in Criminology
Criminology

TASER ® Exposure and Cognitive Impairment
Criminology & Public Policy

The Reverse Racism Effect
Criminology & Public Policy

Global Environmental Governance and the Challenge of Shadow States: The Impact of Illicit Sapphire Mining in Madagascar
Development and Change

Hybrid Uptakes of Neoliberal Conservation in Namibian Tourism-based Development
Development and Change

100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda
Development Policy Review

Developmental States in Africa? A Review of Ongoing Debates and Buzzwords
Development Policy Review

Homeownership Among Millennials: The Deferred American Dream?
Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

The Effect of Clothing Size on Self-Esteem and Body Image
Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Creating a Participant Text: Writing, Multiple Voices, Narrative Multiplicity
Family Process

Relationship Quality, Commitment, and Stability in Long-Distance Relationships
Family Process

“But It's Your Job To Be Friendly”: Employees Coping With and Contesting Sexual Harassment from Customers in the Service Sector
Gender, Work & Organization

Re-Writing Corporate Environmentalism: Ecofeminism, Corporeality and the Language of Feeling
Gender, Work & Organization

The transnational Zapatista solidarity network: an infrastructure analysis
Global Networks

How social media transform migrant networks and facilitate migration
Global Networks

Cute Masquerade and the Pimping of Japan
International Journal of Japanese Sociology

The Nuclear Power Plant as God
International Journal of Japanese Sociology

Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Struggling with the Creative Class
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

The Migration and Development Pendulum: A Critical View on Research and Policy
International Migration

Homeland (dis)integrations: Educational Experience, Children and Return Migration to Albania
International Migration

Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010
International Migration Review

The Globalization of Migration: Has the World Become More Migratory?
International Migration Review

Physiology and Faith: Addressing the "Universal" Gender Difference in Religious Commitment
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Do People Who Believe in God Report More Meaning in Their Lives? The Existential Effects of Belief
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Four Concepts of Social Structure DOUGLAS V. PORPORA
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil
Journal of Agrarian Change

Knowledge and Control in the Contemporary Land Rush: Making Local Land Legible and Corporate Power Applicable in Rural Sierra Leone
Journal of Agrarian Change

Feeling Like Feminist Frauds: Theorizing Feminist Accountability in Feminist Family Studies Research in a Neoliberal, Postfeminist Context
Journal of Family Theory & Review

Theorizing Family-Based Nature Activities and Family Functioning: The Integration of Attention Restoration Theory With a Family Routines and Rituals Perspective
Journal of Family Theory & Review

An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn: “Ontology” Is Just Another Word For Colonialism

Degrees of (Self-)Exploitation: Learning to Labour in the Neoliberal University
Journal of Historical Sociology

Review of outcome research on marital and family therapy in treatment for alcoholism.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

The role of mindfulness in romantic relationship satisfaction and responses to relationship stress
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well-being in Later Life
Journal of Marriage and Family

The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples' Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination
Journal of Marriage and Family

Environmental Degradation, Reparations, and the Moral Significance of History
Journal of Social Philosophy

Making Sense of Miscarriage Online
Journal of Social Philosophy

Who Seeks Abortions at or After 20 Weeks?
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Abortion Incidence and Service Availability In the United States, 2011
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Advanced Maternal Age and Offspring Outcomes: Reproductive Aging and Counterbalancing Period Trends
Population and Development Review

More Deaths Than Births: Subnational Natural Decrease in Europe and the United States
Population and Development Review

Immigration and the New Racial Diversity in Rural America
Rural Sociology

Values and Vegetarianism: An Exploratory Analysis
Rural Sociology

The Social Costs of Gender Nonconformity for Transgender Adults: Implications for Discrimination and Health
Sociological Forum

The Moral Effects of Economic Teaching
Sociological Forum

Black-White Earnings Gap among Restaurant Servers: A Replication, Extension, and Exploration of Consumer Racial Discrimination in Tipping
Sociological Inquiry

Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly
Sociological Inquiry

Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation and the Policing of Protest Since the 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Sociology Compass

The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality
Sociology Compass

Macro-level gender equality and depression in men and women in Europe.
Sociology of Health & Illness

Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism: contradictory class locations and the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the USA
Sociology of Health & Illness

China's Family Planning Policies: Recent Reforms and Future Prospects
Studies in Family Planning

Intended and Unintended Pregnancies Worldwide in 2012 and Recent Trends
Studies in Family Planning

“I'm the Next American Idol”: Cooling Out, Accounts, and Perseverance at Reality Talent Show Auditions
Symbolic Interaction

Nonsocial Transient Behavior: Social Disengagement on the Greyhound Bus
Symbolic Interaction

Brokered Pathways to Justice and Cracks in the Law: A Closer Look at the Claims-Making Experiences of Low-Wage Workers
WorkingUSA

Labor on the Internet
WorkingUSA



Social Welfare and Policy

“In a perfect world it would be great if they didn't exist”: How Australians experience payday loans
International Journal of Social Welfare

The impact of child benefits on single mother poverty: Exploring the role of targeting in 15 European countries
International Journal of Social Welfare

Reshaping the social security agency around improved human capital and technology
International Social Security Review

The digital nudge in social security administration
International Social Security Review

Foundations of the Workfare State - Reflections on the Political Transformation of the Welfare State in Britain
Social Policy & Administration

Work Activation Regimes and Well-being of Unemployed People: Rhetoric, Risk and Reality of Quasi-Marketization in the UK Work Programme
Social Policy & Administration