SAGE Podcast

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a behavioral intervention, nonviolent communication (NVC), on the development of empathic coping and communication skills in a sample of male parolees enrolled in substance abuse treatment (SAT; N = 30). At the end of the 8-week intervention, results revealed a significant increase (p = .01) in participants' empathy levels. Findings also revealed the acceptability and utility of NVC training to men on parole. Results suggest that NVC training may (a) be a useful addition to substance abuse treatment programs for parolees, (b) be effective in addressing problematic coping and communication styles resulting from incarceration and criminal behavior, and (c) assist paroled individuals in building and sustaining positive social support networks.

In this podcast, Professor Christine Duffield and Professor Joan Almost discuss the research led by Professor Duffield on the consequences of executive turnover in the health care system. The article is published as part of a focus issue on nursing workforce research published in the Journal of Research in Nursing: 2011, volume 16, number 6.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD, interviews A.S.P.E.N. President, Jay Mirtallo, MS, RPh, BCNSP, FASHP, about key issues arising in the March 2012 PN Safety Supplement in JPEN.

Utilizing a "layered" account that overlies personal experience with feminist, sociological, and pedagogical theory, this article explores the material reality of student mentors assisting in college-level courses offered in a prison site to incarcerated women. The authors present analyses of their developing understandings of theory-in-action as they engaged in symbolic interactions within the carceral environment. The authors offer reflective representations of their experiences mentoring incarcerated women and they explicate a variety of epistemological positions. The article draws attention to structural boundaries and barriers, both physical and emotional; to the construction and maintenance of "safe" classroom space; and to mirror reflections, that is, to seeing self in the "other."

This article documents the activism and applied contributions of select African American social scientists whose applied methods from the mid-1890s to the present made contributions to understanding the black experiences, the achievement of civil rights, and the development of the contemporary Black Studies academic discipline. The resulting historical analysis indicates that black social scientists had initially been, and to some extent continue to be, the progenitors of applied social science methodology. While scholars have recently recognized the marginalization of black social scientists within their respective disciplines, I argue that black social scientists have been the underrecognized intellectual leaders that helped established what is now known as applied social science.

While the tools of civically engaged higher education (service-learning, community-based research, etc.) existed in sociology classes well before the onset of what some call the "civic engagement movement," they have quickly shifted from margin to center as key building blocks for sociology's own trend toward public sociology. While we examine the precarious rise of both civic engagement and public sociology, we argue that lacking strong social movements as shaping forces, the social justice potential for both civic engagement and public sociology must come from practitioners' links to community-based politics and social movement organizing. Such connections still ground teaching and scholarship in the real politics of everyday life: people, institutions, and communities.

SLGR Social Media Editor Beverly Bunch interviews author Bruce J. Perlman and panelists John Thomasian, Jackie Byers, and Chris Hoene about their article from the December 2010 issue of SLGR.

Dr Justin Lehmiller at Harvard University talks about the detrimental effects of being in a relationship that others don't approve of.

"Hooking up," a popular type of sexual behavior among college students, has become a pathway to dating relationships. Based on open-ended narratives written by 273 undergraduates, we analyze how students interpreted a vignette describing a heterosexual hookup followed by a sexless first date. In contrast to the sexual script which holds that women want relationships more than sex and men care about sex more than relationships, students generally accorded women sexual agency and desire in the hookup and validated men's post-hookup relationship interest. However, in explaining the sexless date, students typically reasoned the woman was being chaste and withholding sex to redeem her reputation whereas they often characterized the man's abstinence in terms of a pity date. The findings underscore the tenacity of gendered sexual scripts around heterosexual dates and hookups but also reveal fissures and contradictions that suggest some changes to the sexual double standard.

Speakers Roderick Dunn and Raja Sabapathy discuss the paper 'Long-term results of major upper extremity replantations'; A. Gulgonen and K. Ozer. Published in The Journal of Hand Surgery

Josh Rogen, Editorial Assistant for Urban Education, interviews Kara Jackson, of McGill University, about her article, "Supporting African American Students' Learning of Mathematics: A Problem of Practice."

Josh Rogen, Editorial Assistant for Urban Education, interviews Alfred Tatum, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, about his article, "African American Males and Literacy Development in Contexts that are Characteristically Urban."

The legendary Professor Elaine Hatfield at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa talks about passionate love.

Jennifer Montesi at Temple University talks about sex.

In partnership with Editorial Board Member, Professor Lorraine Culley, Dr Cheryll Adams guest edited the March 2012 edition of the Journal of Research in Nursing, volume 17 number 2. The issue focuses on child and family public health in practice and this podcast is designed to accompany the focus issue which can be read at jrn.sagepub.com. In this podcast Dr Ann McMahon, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Nursing, interviews Dr Cheryll Adams, Independent Adviser for Health Visiting and Community Health Policy and Practice and Professorial fellow at the Royal Society for Public Health.