scholarly journals Upending “Normal”: Toward an Integrated and Intersectional Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Legal Profession: Comment on Blanck, Hyseni, and Altunkol Wise’s National Study of the Legal Profession

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Angela C. Winfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Study ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) in the workplace is a complex issue at any time and in any organization. However, in this time of great upheaval—COVID-19, a renewed racial reckoning in the United States, and increased climate consciousness and social justice awareness—profound issues about work and the role of organizations are being raised simultaneously. This confluence of systemic issues highlights three critically important broad concepts that can help evolve our approach to addressing workplace inequities.

scholarly journals Rugged Meritocratists: The Role of Overt Bias and the Meritocratic Ideology in Trump Supporters’ Opposition to Social Justice Efforts

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 237802311771239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin A. Cech
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
And Gender

Opposition to social justice efforts plays a key role in reproducing social inequalities in the United States. Focusing on supporters of Donald Trump as a possible exemplar of politically structured resistance to these efforts, the author asks whether and why Trump supporters are more likely than other Americans to oppose social justice efforts. Analysis of a proportionally representative, postelection survey ( n = 1,151) reveals that Trump supporters are indeed more opposed to social justice efforts. They also express greater overt race, class, and gender bias, yet this bias does not explain their opposition. Rather, many Trump supporters are “rugged meritocratists” who oppose these efforts because they believe U.S. society is already fair. To expand support for social justice efforts, rugged meritocratists must first be convinced that systemic inequalities still exist.

scholarly journals The Role of Collaboration in Complying With COVID-19 Health Protective Behaviors: A Cross-National Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 009539972110124
Author(s):  
Donna Sedgwick ◽  
James Hawdon ◽  
Pekka Räsänen ◽  
Aki Koivula
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Study ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Market Regime ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National

On March 11, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. As the virus spread, governments called on citizens to comply with handwashing and social distancing behaviors. We use survey data from Finland and the United States to examine whether collaborative dimensions help predict compliance with health protective behaviors related to combatting COVID-19. We also investigate whether these factors’ influence on compliance varies between a market regime such as the United States and a more statist regime such as Finland. Our findings provide important insight for public administrators in crafting messages to the public that emphasize citizens’ collaborative role in combatting a pandemic.

Advancing Antiracist Policies and Practices in Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Carolyn Curtis ◽  
Tynisha Jointer ◽  
Andrew Brake ◽  
Ashley Bonton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Social Workers ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
New School ◽  
Social Justice Allies ◽  
Equity And Inclusion ◽  
Policies And Practices

As social justice allies and advocates, the top professional priority of school social workers should be to embrace and advance antiracist policies and practices to (re)build schools as institutions of equity, inclusion, and opportunity. This chapter addresses a critical question related to the struggle for diversity, equity, and inclusion in P-12 schools in the United States. It explores how new school social workers in their first three years of practice can establish themselves as leaders in guiding their school to assess the degree of cultural acceptance, while taking steps toward advancing antiracist policies and practices. Finally, the chapter offers an array of tools regarding assessing cultural acceptance and techniques for incorporating them across all tiers of a school community.

Writing a Different Story of Music Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 104837132110124
Author(s):  
Chiao-Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
School Music ◽  
The U.S

Recently, the United States has witnessed an uptick of racially and culturally motivated events that continue to challenge the role of our schools in creating a more socially just nation. In light of these issues, it is important that we consider what role school music education plays in addressing issues related to social justice. In this column, I started by sharing a class conversation on the analogies related to immigrants in the U.S. and then explored the implication of these analogies/stories. Inspired by Chinua Achebe’s analysis on literature and its relation to reality, I ask, not only what stories we tell about music learning at school, whose interest these stories serve, and whose voices/music are privileged? I propose that multiple stories of our students’ music learning may be enacted as forces to counter the dominate narrative. I end with some curriculum ideas for teachers to adapt in their classrooms.

The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita C. Banerjee ◽  
Kathryn Greene ◽  
Marina Krcmar ◽  
Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽  
Dovile Ruginyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

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