Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in New York City (NYC). Black churches in NYC have a history of engaging in community mobilisation; however, research suggests that churches play a role in promoting stigma against Black MSM, which impedes prevention efforts. The goal of this study was to explore church ideologies surrounding sexuality and hea...

In the authors' 2-dimensional model of prejudice, explicit and implicit attitudes are used to create 4 profiles: truly low prejudiced (TLP: double lows), aversive racists (AR: low explicit modern racism/high implicit prejudice), principled conservatives (PC: high explicit modern racism/low implicit prejudice), and modern racists (MR: double highs). Students completed an Asian Modern Racism Scal...

Abstract Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study investigate this, with focus on Twitter representations of Spanish heritage language the USA. analysed two corpora (one English one Spanish—over 30 million words), examining frequencies, collocations, concordance ...

Collective identity, or a sense of ‘we-ness’ in relation contrast with one another, is crucial feature social activism. Especially considering the rise intersectional movements today’s era, it important to look into role collective identity shaping online movements. This article intends unravel relations Twitter activism #PapuanLivesMatter that emerged wake #BlackLivesMatter. Thirteen tweets ca...

The article focuses on three representative literary works for children between 9 and 12 by Christos Boulotis, a renowned contemporary Greek writer of children’s literature. His which are exemplary broader tendency historical literature revolve around the concepts personal public past collective memory. We show that specific Boulotis tend not only to make public/historical an issue but also str...

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...