[{"id": "csf-3707", "words": "6669", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Voisard, Victor", "title": "Employee Empowerment and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace", "date": "2023", "keywords": "employee; employee satisfaction; empowerment; job; management; satisfaction; sociology; survey; variables; work; workers", "summary": "Other Research Hypotheses: \u201cAge\u201d would have a positive effect on employee satisfaction (i.e. older employees would display higher employee satisfaction). \u201cJob Rank\u201d would have a positive effect on employee job satisfaction (i.e. the higher an employee\u2019s rank in the organizational hierarchy would lead to higher employee satisfaction).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3709", "words": "1585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ok, Kevin", "title": "Residential Patterns of Chinese and Korean Americans in Greater Los Angeles", "date": "2023", "keywords": "allen; americans; area; chinese", "summary": "Ethnic Los Angeles. The Chinese, on the other hand, already have a significantly large area of concentration in the San Gabriel Valley that was well established by intense investment from overseas as well as local economic activity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3710", "words": "2062", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Martinez, Alex", "title": "Prison Size and Inmate Rule Violation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "inmate; number; prisons; regression", "summary": "In this study we look at a data set collected by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation to analyze any possible connections between prison size and inmate rule violation. With the recent media coverage on the over- crowding of prisons and prison riots, the question arises: Is there a relationship between prison size and rate of inmate rule violation?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3711", "words": "3175", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Inzunza, Gerardo", "title": "A Review and Analysis of Eviatar Zerubavel\u2019s Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology", "date": "2023", "keywords": "review; society; sociology; thought; time; world; zerubavel", "summary": "To illustrate the scope and agenda of cognitive sociology, Zerubavel discusses six particular cognitive elements to reveal the relevance of inter-subjective and normative thinking which are: social optics, social consciousness, the social division of the world, social meanings, social memory, and standard time. These divisions are separated by perceiving (social optics), attending (the social gates of consciousness), classifying (the social division of the world), assigning meaning (social meanings), remembering (social memories), and reckoning time (standard time).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3712", "words": "2903", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Perry, Charity", "title": "Factors Influencing Changing Religions for Marriage and The Impact Of Such a Change.", "date": "2023", "keywords": "children; interfaith; marriage; religion; study", "summary": "In Sherkat\u2019s article, cohort differences were measured in pattern of interfaith mar- riages; the author found that by determining the impact of birth cohorts, educational attainment, educational factors, geographic mobility, and re- ligion of origin on the probability of religious intermarriage and the distance of intermarriage: the data would lead to answer why specific patterns of inter- faith marriages are followed. The key in this classification system is the under- standing that in the United States the religious market is quite distinctive in the South, and that opportunities for religious intermarriage are limited both in the homogeneous South and in rural communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3713", "words": "1993", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Orrante, Johanna", "title": "Religion Generates Individual and Social Control: Focusing On Values, Beliefs, Morals, Sex, and Marriage", "date": "2023", "keywords": "individual; people; religion; social", "summary": "Religion Generates Individual & Social Control: Religion Generates Individual and Social Control: Focusing On Values, Beliefs, Morals, Sex, and Marriage Johanna Orrante Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles In today\u2019s society one must ask if religion is used for individual and social control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3714", "words": "848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Marroquin, David", "title": "South Park Social Reality", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; society", "summary": "South Park shows us how American egocentric values and culture depicts minorities in America with the realistic view of American society. Given this, South Park demonstrates the minimal values and virtues white American society has towards minorities and how they are endured.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3715", "words": "2025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Cosper, Todd", "title": "The Little Blue Pill and the Rise in STI\u2019s among the Elderly", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aids; education; hiv; risk; sti", "summary": "Yes, this means we need to include the elderly in such risk factors as CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2008, VOL. 1 Today, newly single or widowed men/women in their older years still carry the mentality that they are immune and untouchable when it comes to contracting sexually transmitted diseases.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3716", "words": "3807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Banh, Jennifer", "title": "Language Maintenance in Children", "date": "2023", "keywords": "children; education; english; language; maintenance; parents", "summary": "On the other hand, if a parent believes that acquiring both languages is beneficial to the child, they may encourage cultural exploration and associate positive feelings such as pride with their ethic identity (Mills 2001).The positive outlook of one\u2019s own culture will help nurture language development in children and increase the likelihood of language maintenance. Language Maintenance in Children Language Maintenance in Children Jennifer Banh Child and Family Studies & Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles The purpose of this paper aims to explore the different areas of language maintenance and the pressures for a child to abandon their native tongue and adopt the dominant language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3717", "words": "2753", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Barrios, Danielle", "title": "A Dissection of Grey\u2019s Anatomy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "characters; grey; men; women", "summary": "Women, Men, and Society also report that female characters are more likely to be thin or physically attractive; specifically, 46% of women compared with just 16% of men are thin or very thin (Renzetti &. Two-thirds of female characters are in their twenties and thirties, while 12% are in their forties; 22% of male characters are in their forties for prime-time television CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2008, VOL. 1", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3722", "words": "6348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Holt, Terry", "title": "The Effect of Race on Poverty and the Equality of Minorities", "date": "2023", "keywords": "hypothesis; income; poverty; race; religion; respondents; total; variable", "summary": "The distinction of racial differences gives way to the belief of an inherent superiority of a particular race while simultaneously ordering other races in a hierarchy. The key independent variable \u201cRACE\u201d was dichotomized as follows: 1) Black or not, and 2) Other race or not.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3723", "words": "5045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Joseph, Tajia", "title": "The Hair Issue: Political Attitude and Self-Esteem as Determinants of Hairstyle Choices Among African American Women", "date": "2023", "keywords": "esteem; hair; hairstyle; issue; self; variables; women", "summary": "Therefore, African American women are surveyed about the following two types of hairstyle choices: Natural hair can be defined as not having been unaltered by chemicals and, therefore, does not have a straight look but is tightly coiled in appearance or braided. African American hair was so different that some scholars actually said they were from a different species because the hair was like wool, not like silk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3724", "words": "2725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wang, Lin", "title": "Women\u2019s Liberation Movement: The Second Wave", "date": "2023", "keywords": "feminists; liberation; movement; states; wave; women", "summary": "Radical feminists began acknowledging that their extreme protests led to few long-lasting results. At times, it THE SECOND WAVE by Lin Wang 34 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2010, VOL. 2 (ISSUE 1: 31-36) simply appeared that the efforts of liberal feminists were a joke to the entire political system, and radical feminists would tolerate none of it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3725", "words": "2659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Reyes, Antonia", "title": "Change in Progress", "date": "2023", "keywords": "community; gay; glbt; individuals; lesbian; movement", "summary": "The GLBT struggles are not a modern phenomenon, and the increase of GLBT individuals that are out and open about their identity has increased as a result of a new found perspective. The Civil Rights movement (CRM) took full stage in the 1960\u2019s, and many GLBT organizations decided to support Civil Rights organizations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3726", "words": "4421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Martiryan, Iveta", "title": "Gender and Division of Household Labor", "date": "2023", "keywords": "division; gender; household; housework; labor; time; women", "summary": "A GENDER AND DIVISION OF HOUSEHOLD LABOR by Iveta Martiryan 49 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2010, VOL. 2 (ISSUE 1: 43-52) wife\u2019s dissatisfaction regarding household labor division plays a vital role in the emergence of conflict between spouses. Researchers have become more and more interested in studying household labor division especially because female work participation reduces the amount of time women have to perform housework, placing more demands on men to pick up the slack (Batalova & Cohen 2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3727", "words": "5685", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bouvet, Michael", "title": "An Exploratory Look at Solidarity and Support between Siblings in Young and Middle Adulthood", "date": "2023", "keywords": "family; journal; life; relationships; research; siblings; solidarity; support; vol", "summary": "For example, growing up with both parents predicted more interactions among adult siblings, whereas those raised in single parent families had significantly more diminished contact in later life (White and Riedmann 1992). This is evident in both research of adolescent siblings and older adult siblings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3728", "words": "3379", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Yang, Yi", "title": "Religion and Stress in Daily Life", "date": "2023", "keywords": "education; level; people; religion; score; stress", "summary": "Therefore, I hypothesize that religious beliefs will have a negative effect on stress level. \u201cEducation\u201d may have a negative effect on stress level.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3729", "words": "2579", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Rasmussen, Linda", "title": "The Sins of Society", "date": "2023", "keywords": "evil; lyman; sins; society", "summary": "The social sciences do not refer to deadly sins such as gluttony in research; rather, it is termed as addiction. In this manner, sociologists claim to eliminate the pressures to determine morality; they are neutral in the manner of sin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3730", "words": "4142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Macias, Eugenia Nicole", "title": "Divorce Caused by Domestic Abuse: How it Affects the Children", "date": "2023", "keywords": "abuse; children; divorce; journal; problems; relationship; violence", "summary": "Child abuse trauma: Theory and treatment of the lasting effects. She also emphasizes that battered women\u2019s shelters did not spring up because there was an upsurge in abused women; child protective services did not develop because more children were being abused and neglected.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3731", "words": "2468", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ibale, Annielynn", "title": "The Central Issues of the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement", "date": "2023", "keywords": "feminism; issues; movement; rights; wave; women", "summary": "The Central Issues of the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement Annielynn Ibale Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles This paper examines the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement, the generalized construct of women in society, and the underlying grievances of the Women\u2019s Movement. As a result, women have been considered inferior and naturally incompetent, both physically and intellectually, compared to men.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3736", "words": "4752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Salas, Jimena", "title": "Tijuana\u2019s Art Scene, Artist\u2019s Migration", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; artists; california; cities; city; cultural; san; scene; sociology; tijuana", "summary": "According to Cadena, the social fragmentation that Tijuana presents is associated to the fact that it is a city of migrants whose demographic composition is heterogeneous (2010:68). Tijuana\u2019s Art Scene, Artist\u2019s Migration CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2011, VOL. 3 (ISSUE 1: 1-11) Tijuana\u2019s Art Scene, Artist\u2019s Migration Jimena Salas Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles This paper is a research proposal aimed at answering the question of why artists from other Mexican cities or from abroad decides to move to Tijuana, a city that despite offering one of the most attractive artistic scenes in M\u00e9xico, is also one of the most dangerous ones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3737", "words": "8755", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Campos, Jesus", "title": "Residential Segregation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "-.0; -.1; -.2; generation; issue; job; level; race; segregation; status; variables; vol; white", "summary": "The bivariate analyses between the dependant variable and the three dichotomous variables constituting the [immigrant] Generation variable yielded results that can be said to be expected in RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION by Jesus Campos 22 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2011, VOL. 3 (ISSUE 1: 12-32) regards to the relationship between the two factors. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on what exactly constitutes socioeconomic status.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3741", "words": "14489", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Light, Angelica", "title": "Money and Power over Concern for Humanity: Delaying Justice for Special Interests in the Armenian Genocide Case", "date": "2023", "keywords": "alexander; angelica; armenians; california; genocide; genocide convention; government; international; issue; journal; justice; law; lemkin; light; power; rights; sociology; turkey; turks; vol; war", "summary": "Many Armenians did not even attempt to escape or seek aid or protection because they feared punishment by Turkish authorities (International League 1984:11). Delaying Justice for Special Interests in the Armenian Genocide Case Angelica Light Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles In the case of the Armenian Genocide, action and inaction and the weighing of costs and benefits led to the massive destruction of Armenians during WWI.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3742", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Huynh, Kathy", "title": "For the Love of Music", "date": "2023", "keywords": "music; people", "summary": "1Think of the biggest gathering of people listening to the best electronically charged music, people dazed and confused on drugs, people dancing around, some jumping with their hands in the air, lights flashing everywhere, girls scantily dressed, and people just acting free. It was surprising to know that there were people just like me who were not on drugs; we were there for the music and entertainment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3743", "words": "8056", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Acevedo, Lisett", "title": "Physical Attractiveness and Career Success", "date": "2023", "keywords": "attractiveness; california; career; importance; issue; respondents; sociology; success; vol", "summary": "However, if the career importance of physical attractiveness is measured relatively by pitting it against other career determinants, self-perceived Physical Attractiveness fails to have a statistically significance relationship with the Career Importance of Physical Attractiveness(relative). Occupational stereotypes about the importance of image and physical attractiveness for career success in certain occupations may become the basis for image norms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3744", "words": "12553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Bouvet, Michael", "title": "The Role of Resocialization in the Disposition of California College Students toward the Legalization of Marijuana", "date": "2023", "keywords": "answer; california; college; legalization; marijuana; respondents; sociology; students; support; variable", "summary": "The data on student marijuana usage at any given campus in the United States can range from 5% to 40%. As one might expect, college students use marijuana at higher rates than the U.S. population generally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3745", "words": "6307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Parada, Nestor", "title": "Authority and Conformity: Does it Deter or Motivate Deviance in a Work Setting?", "date": "2023", "keywords": "authority; behavior; conformity; figures; people; status; variable; work", "summary": "The pressure of conforming convinces people that acknowledging people of authoritative status such as parents, employers, or even people with higher status automatically gains compliance from subordinates. However, in some cases authoritative people promote criminal behaviors in others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3746", "words": "4793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gutierrez, Leticia", "title": "The Freedom to Breathe: African Americans and Political Participation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "campaign; children; environmental; freedom; hours; participation; research; respondents", "summary": "Past research about environmental participation is rare and when it does apply, it seems to lack insight about the reasons people do or do not participate toward the betterment of their communities. The Freedom to Breathe: CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY JOURNAL, 2011, VOL. 3 (ISSUE 1: 133-152) The Freedom to Breathe: African Americans and Political Participation Leticia M. Gutierrez Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles Objective: This research assesses political efficacy, religion, affluence, educational attainment, network social ties, extended work hours, and number of children to determine political participation in the Freedom to Breathe campaign.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3747", "words": "5757", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Sanchez, Tatiana", "title": "The Mexican American Epic: Historical Dislocation, Hybridized Identity, and Perpetuated Inequality", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; california; census; hispanic; identity; mexican; mexican americans; population; race; states; u.s", "summary": "In essence, Mexican American identity finds itself within a constant state of cyclical flux: increasing numbers of \u2018foreigners\u2019 renew dormant hostilities within the American population (regardless of race), social pressures inflame racial stereotypes which quickly target both native- and foreign-born ethnic groups, and finally Americanized ethnicities such as Mexican Americans must consequentially reorient themselves to combat the renewed threat to their social identity. The author provides a detailed history of Mexican Americans and their experiences with American society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3748", "words": "2904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Leach de Amante, Krystal", "title": "American Attitudes toward Mexican Immigration", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; california; immigration; mexico; states; u.s", "summary": "But when the U.S. went to war again in 1942 (WWII), it conveniently relaxed its border laws, letting in Mexican workers by the droves in order to support the war effort. It is interesting to note here that regardless of the historical fact that Mexican workers helped sustain the U.S. economy during its time of need, many of the states who benefited most still feel no obligation toward these laborers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3812", "words": "6320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rodriguez, Eglys", "title": "Elite Course-Taking and Racial Disparities in STEM", "date": "2023", "keywords": "course; education; math; odds; research; school; stem; students; taking", "summary": "Thus, this thesis examines the racial disparities in STEM elite math courses taken in high school, high school graduation, postsecondary attendance, and STEM degree attainment. Highest elite math course taken was statistically significant (\u03b2 = 0.4; p < 0.00).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3813", "words": "4397", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Glenn, Lami", "title": "Introspection: An Expository Analysis of Police Brutality Against Unarmed Black Men", "date": "2023", "keywords": "americans; brutality; enforcement; jeffries; law; media; men; people; police; sociology", "summary": "Glenn 1 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 5 Introspection: An Expository Analysis of Police Brutality Against Unarmed Black Men Lami J. Glenn Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles INTRODUCTION With this sociological analysis endeavor, I am fervently interested in the social phenomenon of police brutality against unarmed Black men and the role that Critical Race Theory (CRT) factors into this conundrum. Prior research on this topic has contextualized the social construct of race and race relations here in the United States, examined marginalized communities and their lack of trust and collaboration with law enforcement (Braga, Brunson, and Drakulich 2019), the history of this nation and subsequent colonization & enslavement of Black people, cultural and familial influences including racism and anti-Blackness and the effects of such (Alexander 2010), as well as the ways in which popular media, including music, television, radio, or social media depictions and stereotypes have attributed to the negative portrayals of African American men in ways that impact people\u2019s views on police brutality against unarmed Black men (Jeffries and Jeffries 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3814", "words": "5622", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sanchez, Olivia", "title": "First Generation Students in Higher Education", "date": "2023", "keywords": "california; college; education; experiences; generation; odds; percent; probation; status; students; transfer; year", "summary": "5 CONCLUSION Despite the prevalence of academic probation among first-generation students, there are few studies that examine the additional academic challenges faced by first generation students who tend to transfer from two-year colleges into four-year universities. I examine the association between first-generation students or transfer students and academic challenges such as academic probation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3815", "words": "5252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Rivera, Marie", "title": "Difference of Receipt of Gratitude: A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm Veterans", "date": "2023", "keywords": "california; experiences; gratitude; military; ods; sociology; veterans; vietnam; vol; war", "summary": "The meaning of gratitude is thus perceived differently when comparing Vietnam veterans with ODS veterans. Contrarily, Vietnam veterans experienced hostility in society, which led to different interpretations of gratitude by veterans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3816", "words": "691", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Cunanan, Darron", "title": "\u201cNow What?\u201d: Drowning in the American Dream Mural", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; mural", "summary": "5 \u201cNow What?\u201d: Drowning in the American Dream Mural Darron Cunanan Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles \u201cDrowning in the American Dream\u201d is a mural produced at Cal State LA, painted by Claudio Talavera-Ball\u00f3n, a Peruvian artist based in the Bay Area, depicting the challenges of migrant border crossings. Motomura's ideas and Talavera-Ball\u00f3n's work reflect the lives of Dreamers and other immigrant students from different parts of the world here at Cal State LA.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3817", "words": "1458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bates, Taryn", "title": "Social Constructs Creatively Deconstructed: A Collection of Six Poems", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bates; california sociology; forum vol; sociology forum", "summary": "Cost of Living My currency Is energy Charged by the second My peace of mind A piece not mine Claimed by every fear My balance is overdrawn Ideals of saving-up forgone Checks constantly voided My daily wage lump sum Of living income Comes in with no proper credit Poetry | Bates 2 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. Poetry | Bates 3 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3818", "words": "3895", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Garcia III, Sammy", "title": "How The Devil Influenced Rock and Metal", "date": "2023", "keywords": "blues; devil; johnson; metal; music; robert; rock; roll", "summary": "From the satanic imagery in metal, the legendary fiddle duel in \u201cThe Devil Went Down to Georgia,\u201d to the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the Devil at a crossroads. One anonymous critic said, \u201clisten to heavy metal music and the devil will make you kill your mom.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3819", "words": "2640", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Rivera, Marie", "title": "My Postpartum Depression Consumed Self", "date": "2023", "keywords": "depression; experience; mother; postpartum", "summary": "Postpartum depression can suck the life out of a new mother. Developing postpartum depression is something deemed deviant to the social world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3821", "words": "620", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Cunanan, Darron", "title": "Book Review: Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh", "date": "2023", "keywords": "hersh; politics", "summary": "Book Review | Cunanan 1 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 5 Book Review: Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh Darron Cunanan Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles What does politics mean to you? In his book Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, Hersh argues that politics should be about seeking power and influence to make meaningful change, rather than for expressing one\u2019s values and for one\u2019s self-gratification.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3822", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Bates, Taryn", "title": "Film Review: Women Talking by Sarah Polley", "date": "2023", "keywords": "colony; film; women", "summary": "Women Talking is a passionate and raw depiction of women advocating for safety and body autonomy while also recoiling from realizing they have been living in a barely veiled toxic patriarchy. Women Talking by Sarah Polley Taryn Bates Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3823", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Bates, Taryn; Cunanan, Darron", "title": "Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert", "date": "2023", "keywords": "evelyn; film; joy; waymond", "summary": "Alpha Waymond explains that their Evelyn discovered how to cross between parallel universes through \u201cverse-jumping\u201d into the bodies of counterparts by engaging in strange actions that the individual normally would never do. Alpha Waymond has a realization that this Evelyn is the greatest failure out of every Evelyn in the multiverse, which means she actually has the most pathway connections to verse-jump into other versions of herself who succeeded in specific talents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3824", "words": "1383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bates, Taryn; Glenn, Lami", "title": "Book Review: Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict (Studies in Transgression) by Robert D. Weide", "date": "2023", "keywords": "book; gang; race; weide", "summary": "Such portrayals become in fact dehumanizing by reinforcing a narrative of depravity instead of recognizing the reality that gang members are among \u201cthe most marginalized, demonized, and criminalized population in America and throughout much of the capitalist world\u201d (Weide 2022:7-8). Gang members represent not just the lower class, but, moreover, the permanent underclass of American society \u2013 what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called the lumpenproletariat, unable to identify the cause of their material deprivation and therefore unable to focus their rage against those whose unimaginable wealth is possible only at their expense.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3826", "words": "194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "California Sociology Forum", "date": "2023", "keywords": "california", "summary": "California Sociology Forum Student Journal of Sociology Volume 5 Spring 2023 Support for the publication of California Sociology Forum (CSF) came from the Instructionally Related Activities budget of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles. Special thanks to Victor Mojica (NSS Communications Specialist) and Kirstie Genzel (Electronic Resources and Digital Publishing Librarian) at California State University, Los Angeles Cover Image: Photograph by Victor Mojica.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3828", "words": "207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-32", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bates; taryn", "summary": "Drowning in the American Dream Mural Darron Cunanan\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u202688 Poetry Social Constructs Creatively Deconstructed: A Collection of Six Poems Taryn Bates\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.91 Op-eds How the Devil Influenced Rock and Metal Sammy Garcia III\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u202698 My Postpartum Depression Consumed Self Marie Rivera\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..109 Book Reviews Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict (Studies in Transgression) by Robert D. Weide Taryn Bates and Lami J. Glenn\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026116 Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh Darron Cunanan\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026120 Film Reviews Women Talking by Sarah Polley Taryn Bates\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026122 Everything Everywhere All At Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Taryn Bates and Darron Cunanan\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...12 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM Student Journal CONTENTS VOLUME V SPRING 2023 Letter from the Editors\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026vi About the Editors\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..viii Recognition of the 2023 Graduating Class at Cal State LA\u2026..xiv Articles First Generation Students in Higher Education Olivia Sanchez\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..15 Elite Course Taking and Racial Disparities in STEM Eglys Rodriguez\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...35 Introspection: An Expository Analysis of Police Brutality Against Unarmed Black Men Lami J. Glenn\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...59 Difference in Receipt of Gratitude: A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm Veterans Marie Rivera\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u202672 Creative Works Art \u201cNow What?\u201d:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3829", "words": "459", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "About", "date": "2023", "keywords": "csf; sociology", "summary": "Managing Editors Sarra BenGhorbal | Marie Rivera Brittany Kalaj Margulieux Managing Copy Editor Taryn Bates Book and Film Review Editor Darron Cunanan Modernization Leaders Sarra BenGhorbal | Brittany Kalaj Margulieux Madeline Bourdeau Public Relations Leaders Darron Cunanan | Andrea Dominguez | Lami J. Glenn Board Members Victor Amador | Taryn Bates | Sarra BenGhorbal Madeline Bourdeau | Darron Cunanan | Andrea Dominguez John Eleby | Sammy Garcia III | Lami J. Glenn Brittany Kalaj Margulieux | Angela Norman Jennifer C. Perez | Marie Rivera Faculty Editors-in-Chief Dr. Luoman Bao (Fall 2022) It is committed to cultivating student research, supporting intellectual exchange, and featuring diverse perspectives on various issues of our society and world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3830", "words": "484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2023", "keywords": "csf; sociology", "summary": "Dr. Hyojoung Kim introducing CSF to KBBQ California Sociology Forum vii Dr. Kim illustrated the character language for family\u2014eating together under one roof. It was fitting that Dr. Hyojoung Kim, CSF's founding Faculty Editor and Director of the Center for Korean-American and Korean Studies, hosted our coming together around a traditional barbecue.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3831", "words": "1641", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "About the Student Editors", "date": "2023", "keywords": "csf; research; sociology; state; student", "summary": "California Sociology Forum x John M. Eleby (He/Him) is an M.A. student in Sociology at Cal State LA. California Sociology Forum ix Madeline \u201cMaddie\u201d Bourdeau (She/Her) is a second-year master\u2019s student with a special interest in labor and the political-economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-3832", "words": "95", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Editors, CSF", "title": "Recognition of the 2023 Graduating Class at Cal State LA", "date": "2023", "keywords": "class", "summary": "May you all continue to uplift sociologically informed scholarship and progress in activism for many years to come. California Sociology Forum xiv Recognition of the 2023 Graduating Class at Cal State LA To the Graduating Class of 2023:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4198", "words": "3232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bates, Taryn", "title": "Technology and Culture: How Predictive Policing Harmfully Profiles Marginalized People Groups ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bates; bias; black; california; data; forum; law; police; policing; technology", "summary": "Predictive police technology is susceptible to human error, due to both the directives from algorithm programmers and the lack of vetting for bias in data collection processes. The lack of field expertise to determine long-term consequences of using predictive police technology is a persistent dilemma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4199", "words": "6392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Moran, Marcia", "title": "Colorism and Its Effects on Self Perception", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; colorism; forum; moran; participants; people; research; self; skin; sociology; vol", "summary": "Race is a social construct that categorizes people into groups based on physical appearance, such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. LITERATURE REVIEW Concepts of Colorism To fully understand the goals and effects of colorism, it is essential to distinguish it from related social constructs such as race and racism and understand how these constructs work simultaneously to sustain the preference for lighter skin tones within societies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4200", "words": "3759", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gaytan, Jasmine", "title": "Ethiopian Jewish Migrants into Israel", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; ethiopia; gaytan; israel; migrants; migration; research; sociology", "summary": "In contrast, Ethiopian Jewish migrants referred to themselves as qey or t\u2019eyem but never black (t\u2019equr). As previously mentioned, Ethiopian Jewish migrants face integration challenges because of the differences in the practice of Judaism in comparison to their Israeli neighbors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4201", "words": "3979", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Glenn, Lami", "title": "As the Days, Months, Years, and \u201cLeap Years\u201d of Our Lives\u2019 Turn", "date": "2024", "keywords": "calendar; day; days; glenn; mcluhan; sociology; time; year", "summary": "HISTORY OF CALENDARS It would also be just to say that calendars and its structures and constraints can push people to the limits of not following important dates, events, and engagements that may have been scheduled on one\u2019s calendar in an act of defiance and deviation from the norm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4202", "words": "5389", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bates, Taryn; Huerta, Rub\u00e9n", "title": "Racial Hierarchies Globalized: From Colonialism to Informal Empire", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bates; california; control; domination; empire; globalization; huerta; power; race; sociology; u.s", "summary": "This was due to the U.S. government no \u201clonger relying on an abstract sense of equality across race, the transnational capitalist regime [U.S. informal empire] now required nation-states, businesses, and key social institutions to include multiculturalism as a policy goal\u201d (2021:52). The origins of psychological warfare as a matter of policy for U.S. empire came about during President Eisenhower\u2019s administration at the beginning of the Cold War.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4203", "words": "8576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Eleby, John", "title": "Black College Students\u2019 Hardship in Post-Secondary Education", "date": "2024", "keywords": "black; california; college; college students; education; eleby; institutions; participants; research; sociology; students", "summary": "Some of the barriers related to college access and college environmental settings (which I label \u201cinternal issues\u201d) that have affected Black college students include the cost of higher education, which that can lead to them dropping out due to being unable to afford their education, a lack of spaces of belonging, and difficulty finding helpful mentors for guidance. It can also be challenging for Black college students to feel connected to a particular institution.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4204", "words": "9250", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Toscano Joya, Martha", "title": "Managing Alone: Single Parenthood and Silver Linings in the Time of COVID-19", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; children; covid-19; family; forum; joya; mothers; pandemic; parents; participants; research; school; social; sociology; study; time; toscano; vol; work", "summary": "My study focuses on the implications of the pandemic on single parents, arguably an understudied demographic group. My findings, based on 5 in-depth interviews with single parents suggest that the pandemic has been a double-edged sword \u2013 on the one hand, it has pushed single parents to the brink as they juggled rigorous parenting duties while shouldering work responsibilities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4205", "words": "796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Valentine, Milo", "title": "Land, Resistance, and Radical Care: Additional Exploration and Musings of Cover Image Design", "date": "2024", "keywords": "care; land; sociology", "summary": "The cover piece, Land, Resistance, and Radical Care, for the sixth volume of the California Sociology Forum stems from conversations between myself and the Student Editorial Board in hopes of prompting a discussion around the violent history of colonization and our role in the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty. According to the Indigenous organization NDN Collective (LANDBACK 2021), LandBack is an organizing framework with goals of acquiring sovereignty over stolen lands, as well as language, ceremony, food, education, housing, healthcare, governance, medicine, and kinship which \u201callows us to envision a world where Black, Indigenous & POC liberation co-exists.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4206", "words": "928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Bates, Taryn", "title": "Humanity and Technology Explored Through Poetry", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bates; california; poetry", "summary": "| Bates 135 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. Creative Works | Poetry | Bates 133 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4207", "words": "981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Calderon, Astrid", "title": "Estimado Padre", "date": "2024", "keywords": "calderon; father; padre; que", "summary": "A los 10 a\u00f1os ese ni\u00f1o ya era un adulto Se cuidaba solo Se dec\u00eda que era listo Se sab\u00eda que el ni\u00f1o era muy trabajador El es mi padre, Mi padre el que me dice \u00c9chale ganas Y ponte las pilas Gracias mi padre por ser mi padre Dear Father In the fields where the sun is one with the earth Where the earth produces the fruit that feeds us Where food creates fusions of flavors that touches our palate Where your hands become worn And your clothes torn There you work even though your body tells you to stop You would think I\u2019m talking about an adult", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4209", "words": "5668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Laird, April", "title": "TreePeople: Bringing Sociology, Climate Research, and Community Voices into the Same Room", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; change; climate; community; eds; forum; health; laird; research; sociology; soil; treepeople; urban; works", "summary": "This means that the organization has a unique opportunity to try new approaches to community engagement without jeopardizing its local social capital and municipal partnerships in the grander environmental non-profit sector of Southern California. Behavioral hypotheses are strengthened using this model, by creating an \u201coutcomes framework\u201d which endeavors to determine what nuanced context may most successfully activate participation before community engagement begins.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4210", "words": "2098", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Parsons, Brian", "title": "Opioid Addiction and Overdose in America", "date": "2024", "keywords": "drugs; minhee; opioids; overdose; war", "summary": "Drug addiction and drug overdose is now considered to be a number one threat to the American people (Minhee and Calandrillo 2019). The ways in which drug addiction and overdose have been studied are numerous.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4211", "words": "1878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Rivera, Marie; Snyder, Christopher", "title": "Book Review: The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation", "date": "2024", "keywords": "book; nation; people; red; sociology", "summary": "With Indigenous peoples leading this restoration through mass land return, the Red Nation proposes reliance on hydroponics and aquaponics for subsistence. Furthermore, the Red Nation calls for an end to US occupation of Indigenous lands globally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4212", "words": "1257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Gavini, Emely", "title": "Book Review: Just Mercy: A True Story of The Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson", "date": "2024", "keywords": "book; stevenson; story", "summary": "6 Book Review: Just Mercy: A True Story of The Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson Emely Gavini Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles Imagine having to spend 6 years in prison for a crime you did not commit. McMillian\u2019s lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, released over 140 wrongfully convicted prisoners on death row.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4213", "words": "1554", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Garcia, Sammy", "title": "Film Review: Unveiling the Shadows Shadow of the Vampire by E. Elias Merhige", "date": "2024", "keywords": "film; murnau; power; vampire", "summary": "His research interests are in music and film, and he is proud to have an op-ed on music published in the Spring \u201823 CSF Volume 5. John Malkovich delivers a formidable performance as the visionary F.W. Murnau, a morally dubious and tyrannical director.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4214", "words": "997", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "21", "author": "Rivera, Jessica", "title": "Film Review: Breaking Barriers: A Critical Examination of Transgender Representation in Media through Disclosure", "date": "2024", "keywords": "film; transgender", "summary": "Additionally, though Disclosure acknowledges the intersectionality of transgender representation, it could delve deeper into the experiences of transgender individuals from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, Disclosure delves into the intersectionality of transgender representation, highlighting how gender identity intersects with race, class, and other social categories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4215", "words": "961", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ramirez, Christina", "title": "Film Review: Don\u2019t Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde", "date": "2024", "keywords": "film; life; women", "summary": "The film Don\u2019t Worry Darling (2022) depicts unhappiness with married life, toxic masculinity, and the fight for gender equality. 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When she arrives at the village, nostalgia should hit any fan of the games as the opening credits play Animal Crossing: Wild World\u2019s \u201cTitle Screen\u201d song.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4217", "words": "1775", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Garcia, Sammy", "title": "Music Review: A Haunting Sociological Masterpiece in the Song \u201cLeft Behind\u201d by The Plot in You", "date": "2024", "keywords": "marriage; relationships; self; singer", "summary": "Reviews | Music | Garcia 202 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 6 Music Review: A Haunting Sociological Masterpiece in the Song \u201cLeft Behind\u201d by The Plot in You Sammy Garcia III Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles Music has always been a powerful medium for artists to explore and express sociological themes. From their 2015 album Happiness in Self Destruction: A raw and intense track, \u201cDear Old Friend\u201d delves into the darker aspects of personal relationships, addressing betrayal and the emotional toll it takes on individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4219", "words": "223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "California Sociology Forum", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california", "summary": "California Sociology Forum Student Journal of Sociology Volume 6 Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Support for the publication of California Sociology Forum (CSF) came from the Instructionally Related Activities budget of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles. Special thanks to Victor Mojica (Communications Specialist with the College of Natural and Social Sciences) and Milo Valentine (M.A. student with the Department of Sociology\u2019s Graduate Program) at California State University, Los Angeles for their image expertise.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4220", "words": "504", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "About", "date": "2024", "keywords": "csf; sociology", "summary": "Publication Managing Editors Taryn Bates | Marie Rivera Website Specialists Marlonzo Smith | Michael Young Public Relations Leaders Andrea Dominguez | Joram Mugerwa | April D. Laird Media Review & Original Content Creation Leaders Esai Santana | Kandice Vass Board Members Jesse Arceo | Taryn Bates | Andrea Dominguez | Katherine Eason Sammy Garcia III Anthony Jonathan Morales | Joram N. Mugerwa Rachel Natland | Luis Ortiz | Christina Mary Ramirez Jessica Rivera | Marie Rivera | Leticia Romero | Esai Santana Marlonzo Smith | Andrea", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4222", "words": "341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2024", "keywords": "california; forum; sociology", "summary": "California Sociology Forum iv CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM Student Journal CONTENTS VOLUME VI Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Letter from the Editors .............................................................. vii About the Editors ........................................................................ 170 California Sociology Forum vi Reviews Books The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation Marie Rivera and Christopher Snyder ...................", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4223", "words": "608", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2024", "keywords": "csf; students", "summary": "This sense of community felt symbolically relevant to the experiences CSF members were having outside of the journal. Volume 6 continues our goal to expand beyond traditional texts and provide students the opportunity to exhibit creative pieces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-4224", "words": "3140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "About the Editors", "date": "2024", "keywords": "angeles; california; csf; interests; research; sociology; spring; state; student", "summary": "California Sociology Forum xiv Leticia Romero (She/Her/Ella) is a Sociology graduate student working on her Master\u2019s at Cal State University, Los Angeles. California Sociology Forum ix About the Student Editors Jesse Arceo (He/Him) is in his second year of the M.A. program for Sociology program here at California State University of Los Angeles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6179", "words": "164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "California Sociology Forum", "date": "2025", "keywords": "california", "summary": "California Sociology Forum Student Journal of Sociology Volume 7 Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Support for the publication of California Sociology Forum (CSF) came from the Instructionally Related Activities budget of the College of Natural and Social Sciences (NSS) at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA or CSULA). The androgynous angel is set in front of a sky view looking over a section of cityscape in Los Angeles County, buildings and foliage becoming increasingly faded from focus the further in the background they are.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6180", "words": "575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "About", "date": "2025", "keywords": "board; csf; sociology", "summary": "| Ramona Vega Alumni Advisory Board Members Darron Michael Cunanan | Sammy Garcia III Student Managing Editor Taryn Bates Publication Lead Jalene Garcia-Santamarina | Maria Hernandez Original Content Lead Angel Jaimes | Annica Meija Public Relations Lead Shanya A. Olivares Perez | Hilda Gamero Board Members Keila Bailey | Taryn Bates | Kayla Bellipanni | Tenille Blackburn Spidey Canoy | Lorena Escalante | Ian Joaquin Esparza | Hilda Gamero Darinka Luciana Garcia | Jalene Garcia-Santamarina |", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6181", "words": "382", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "Table of Contents", "date": "2025", "keywords": "california; forum; sociology", "summary": "California Sociology Forum iv CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM Student Journal CONTENTS VOLUME VII Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Letter from the Editors.................................................................... vii About the Editors ............................................................................. 125 California Sociology Forum vi Books (cont.)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6182", "words": "602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2025", "keywords": "community; sociology", "summary": "The largest two fires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena burned for 24 days, impacting the homes and communities of many Cal State LA students and staff. The anxiety and uncertainty around immigration raids on educational institutions has been one factor in a noticeable shift California Sociology Forum viii on campus toward less community camaraderie.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6183", "words": "4726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "CSF Editors", "title": "About the Editors", "date": "2025", "keywords": "california; csf; graduate; interests; research; social; sociology; state; student; university", "summary": "At Cal State LA, Victoria is a member of EOP and Project Rebound which empower her as a single mother of two while both working and studying full-time. At Cal State LA, she is part of the International Sociology Honors Society, Alpha Kappa Delta, and the PR Lead for the California Sociology Forum.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6184", "words": "5264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ocampo, Carla", "title": "Proximity and Social Integration", "date": "2025", "keywords": "campus; community; commuter; integration; proximity; research; students", "summary": "The focus of this study is to examine student integration into the campus community among commuter students. The study examined the correlation between proximity and commuter student integration into the campus community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6185", "words": "3550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Yeager, Serena", "title": "The Long-Term Effects of Child Physical Abuse", "date": "2025", "keywords": "abuse; adulthood; childhood; cpa; health; pain; victims", "summary": "| Yeager 22 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 7 mental health services for CPA victims. Additionally, mental health professionals who understand these CPA and mental health correlations can better support CPA victims in addressing their internal challenges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6186", "words": "6761", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Russell, Steven", "title": "Homelessness: How Did We Come to Recognize It as Such a Problem and the Possible Ways to Solve It", "date": "2025", "keywords": "articles; california; forum; health; homelessness; housing; individuals; lgbtq+; living; people; research; russell; sociology; vol; youth", "summary": "A lot of homeless individuals are unable to get a job because applicants need to be able to provide or maintain a Social Security number, an ID, a phone, their own professional work clothes, reliable transportation, good hygiene, and a home address or at least a PO box which costs money; most of these things are unobtainable or missing for many homeless individuals. Furthermore, homeless individuals do not have the best living conditions as they are, for the most part, on the streets and are subject to substance abuse, crime, and sometimes harassment by the public.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6187", "words": "6747", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Chen, Jason; Manley PhD, Theodoric", "title": "Unhoused African Americans and LGBTQIA+ Youth: Disproportionately Overrepresented Groups in the Unhoused Population", "date": "2025", "keywords": "articles; california; chen; forum; homelessness; housing; individuals; lgbtqia+; manley; population; programs; research; sociology; vol; youth", "summary": "Such policies further entrenched racism and discrimination in American social assistance, a characteristic that still affects housing programs today. Fostering acceptance and community should be the main focus of housing programs seeking to address LGBTQIA+ youth, as these are themes that are most critically needed by individuals who have already experienced significant social exclusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6188", "words": "3057", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Whiting, Lauren", "title": "The Denial of Self and Belonging: Exploring Disability Identity and Society Using Classical Sociological Theory", "date": "2025", "keywords": "appelrouth; deaf; disabilities; disability; identity; people; society", "summary": "Exploring Disability Identity and Society Using Classical Sociological Theory Lauren Whiting Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles ABSTRACT Researchers of disability studies define disability identity as intertwining disability with a sense of connection to the disability community. 7 disabled identity and not create a community with other students with disabilities, suggesting the lack of disability identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6189", "words": "3478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Torres, Victoria", "title": "Marx and the Question of Palestine", "date": "2025", "keywords": "class; israel; land; marx; palestine; palestinians; people; sociology", "summary": "In 2025, 77 years later, we are witnessing the mass genocide of the Palestinian people and the destruction of Palestinian land by the Zionist state and their allies\u2013-the United States being one of the most prominent. Before the adoption of the resolution, Jews made up less than one-third of the population in Palestine and owned about 6% of Palestinian land (Said 1980).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6190", "words": "4010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Tran-Nguyen, Lani", "title": "K-pop Fandoms Through Durkheim\u2019s Lens", "date": "2025", "keywords": "durkheim; fandoms; fans; idol; pop; solidarity", "summary": "In recent years, fans have used lightsticks to show the idol they are supporting them in the crowd of other fans. Fans also use these spaces to validate their existence as fans within their fandom (Abd-Rahim 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6191", "words": "929", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "Mejia, Annica; Bates, Taryn", "title": "Cover Image: Further Discussion on A Reflection of Our Time", "date": "2025", "keywords": "community; voices", "summary": "Indigenous voices, immigrant voices, and incarcerated voices all deserve to be represented and protected. After they are stripped from everything, Indigenous communities are pushed into silence, erased from the free exchange of public discourse and media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6192", "words": "971", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Bates, Taryn", "title": "Roles and Impressions within Romantic Relationships and Heartbreak", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bates; sociology", "summary": "Romantic relationships tend to be even more heightened than average interpersonal relationships due to heightened feelings and emotions. Such relationship interactions have become key sociological topics, with several sociological theories offering insight into ways of understanding interpersonal communication and conscious or subconscious negotiations that occur.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6193", "words": "2754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Perez, Nicole", "title": "Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw on Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory", "date": "2025", "keywords": "crenshaw; crt; intersectionality; people; race", "summary": "This is why Crenshaw works so hard and wants people to understand the hardships and disparities that Black people have to go through because they don't have a choice under racism. It has been found that white people really do not have any experience that focuses on \u201cjustice\u201d problems (Piatelli 2009:162), along with almost no interactions working with Black people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6194", "words": "2116", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Jaimes, Angel", "title": "Book Review: Gender Without Identity by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini", "date": "2025", "keywords": "child; gender; pellegrini; saketopoulou", "summary": "when the codes pertain to gender, as gender identity\u201d (57). In their 2023 book Gender Without Identity, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini critique traditional psychoanalytic models that treat gender as an innate, fixed aspect of the self and instead advocate for a psychoanalytic approach that examines how trauma can serve as a resource in the process of gendered self- theorization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6195", "words": "1158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Whitenack, Abigail", "title": "Book Review: Holding it Together: How Women Became America\u2019s Safety Net by Jessica Calarco", "date": "2025", "keywords": "safety; women", "summary": "In Holding It Together: How Women Became America\u2019s Safety Net, Jessica Calarco, a professor of sociology specializing in families, schools, and inequalities, explores how U.S. women are placed in the position of \u201cholding it all together\u201d in the wake of a failed social safety net. | Book | Whitenack 118 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 7 Book Review: Holding it Together: How Women Became America\u2019s Safety Net by Jessica Calarco Abigail Whitenack Department of Anthropology California State University, Los Angeles How did women become America\u2019s safety net?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6196", "words": "1202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Bellipanni, Kayla", "title": "Book Review: Reconsidering Death: A Sociological Review of Brandi Schillace's Death\u2019s Summer Coat", "date": "2025", "keywords": "death; life; schillace", "summary": "Schillace\u2019s work, overall, provides a compelling sociological critique of contemporary Western death practices, echoing many of the arguments made by classic sociologists of death in their arguments that the modern West has progressively hidden death from public view- a phenomenon has been referred to as the \u201cforbidden death.\u201d | Book | Bellipanni 121 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 7 Book Review: Reconsidering Death: A Sociological Review of Brandi Schillace's Death\u2019s Summer Coat Kayla Bellipanni Department of Anthropology California State University, Los Angeles Brandi Schillace\u2019s Death\u2019s Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life and Living is a unique perspective on the sociology of grieving, death, and dying.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6197", "words": "1163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Olivares Perez, Shanya", "title": "Book Review: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. S\u00e1nchez", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; mexican; s\u00e1nchez", "summary": "Author Erika L. S\u00e1nchez is the daughter of immigrants who, in the search for representation of Mexicans in media, decided to write her own story about the struggles of growing up Mexican in the United States. Reviews | Book | Olivares Perez 125 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 7 Book Review: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. S\u00e1nchez Shanya A. Olivares Perez Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles From a cultural standpoint, there are many roles that one is expected to portray based on their norms and social groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6198", "words": "1024", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Melich, Alicia", "title": "Book Review: Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household by Andrea Laurent-Simpson", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; family; multispecies", "summary": "The concept and definition of family are changing and reflecting these demographics. Her educational background includes a PhD in Sociology from Texas Woman\u2019s University, and her research focus is based on family and fertility, non-human animal interaction, and identity theory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6199", "words": "1218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Esparza, Ian", "title": "Book Review: Dillard\u2019s Promise by Gilbert Leslie", "date": "2025", "keywords": "justice; leslie; story", "summary": "Reviews | Book | Esparza 131 CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGY FORUM VOL. 7 Book Review: Dillard\u2019s Promise by Gilbert Leslie Ian Joaquin Esparza Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles Crime, mystery, and generational justice, Dillard\u2019s Promise by Gilbert Leslie, has it all as a very intriguing read that leaves the reader hooked, wanting to find out more about how the story pans out, which I felt when reading this great work of literature. The sociological relevance that this book provides is easy to spot, while broader elements of criminal justice are also sprinkled in.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6240", "words": "1022", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Garcia-Santamarina, Jalene", "title": "Film Review: Blood Quantum by Jeff Barnaby", "date": "2025", "keywords": "blood; film; quantum", "summary": "Racial boundaries are social constructs that racial groups or others outside of the racial group create to form distinct lines between groups and individuals. GROUP POSITION THEORY Blumer\u2019s (1958) theory of group position can be seen in four basic feelings: \u201c. . .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6241", "words": "1663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Gamero, Hilda", "title": "Film Review: Under the Same Moon by Patricia Riggen", "date": "2025", "keywords": "carlitos; film; moon; work", "summary": "The separation of family shows that many are willing to take the risk of finding better working opportunities to help better assist themselves and their loved ones. This film demonstrates many social issues immigrants face when looking for employment opportunities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6242", "words": "2254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Joaquin Esparza, Ian", "title": "TV Show Review: Birth of a Rebellion \u2013 A Sociological Look at Andor: A Star Wars Story", "date": "2025", "keywords": "andor; cassian; empire; mothma; star", "summary": "Andor strives to create more character depth for Cassian Andor, who was a secondary protagonist in Rogue One, and other smaller characters featured in the film. Andor follows a rogue protagonist named Cassian Andor as he experiences firsthand the oppression nature of the Empire and the birth of a rebellion that he will eventually give his life for.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6243", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Velasco-Quiroz, Nathalie", "title": "Anime TV Show Review: The Human Experience according to Frieren: Beyond Journey's End / S\u014ds\u014d no Fur\u012bren", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anime; frieren; journey", "summary": "Time aids Frieren in getting to know Himmel better through others, as she felt regret not doing so before their past journey ended. This dynamic helps in Frieren\u2019s character development as she learns more about human life and its value while both generations learn from each other.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6244", "words": "3718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Garcia III, Sammy", "title": "Music Review: When Dreams Begin Again: A Reflection on New Order\u2019s \u2018Dreams Never End\u2019", "date": "2025", "keywords": "band; curtis; dreams; end; music; order; song", "summary": "After Curtis\u2019s death Joy Division disbanded, but like a phoenix rising from the ashes came New Order. The band\u2019s transition from Joy Division to New Order represents a societal and emotional rupture, which we can frame within Durkheim\u2019s concept of anomie.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6245", "words": "1986", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "White, Dorcia", "title": "Music Review: Analysis of Kendrick Lamar\u2019s 2016 Grammy Performance", "date": "2025", "keywords": "lamar; people; performance; racism; smedley; white", "summary": "The imagery of Lamar surrounded by jail cells and a chain gang is powerful because it points to systemic racism that perpetuates the disproportionate number of Black people stuck in the industrial prison system (Smith 2012). Lamar understands the industrial prison system as the new slavery for Black people that perpetuates poverty while maintaining the status quo for the wealthy and white through \u201ccheap labor\u201d of \u201cBlack bodies\u201d (Hammad 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "csf-6246", "words": "1959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Blackburn, Tenille", "title": "Music Review: Cavetown\u2019s \u2018Guilty\u2019 Through a Sociological Lens", "date": "2025", "keywords": "identity; narrator; sociology; song", "summary": "The chorus follows in a way that directly speaks to Goffman\u2019s dramaturgical approach to identity management and the different stages one faces. Through his work, one may find that there\u2019s more to love and emotions in one\u2019s everyday life, and the complexity of emotions and identity are creatively expressed through his music.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]