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Welcome back! This week we’ve got new pieces on how consumers interpret ancestry DNA test results, how green space may help reduce crime rates, and the surprising way social support matters for cancer treatment.<\/p>\nWelcome back! This week we’ve got new pieces on how consumers interpret ancestry DNA test results, how green space may help reduce crime rates, and the surprising way social support matters for cancer treatment.<\/p>\n
“Greener Grass, Fewer Crimes?<\/a>” by\u00a0Isabel Arriagada<\/a>.\u00a0Green areas, like parks, are widely recognized as an indicator of development and social wellbeing. In light of this, we examine social science research on how natural spaces might contribute to social well-being by reducing crime rates.<\/p>\n “Substance Use, Violence, and Risk-Taking Among Male Athletes<\/a>,” by Jean Marie Maier<\/a>. During his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh talked about high school sports as a beneficial, wholesome activity for youth. However,\u00a0research shows that sport participation is often associated with substance use, violence, and risk-taking among boys and young men in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n “Determining Identity through DNA<\/a>,” by\u00a0Brooke Chambers<\/a>. New research in the\u00a0American Journal of Sociology\u00a0<\/em>finds that personal experiences and social expectations help determine how consumers respond to ancestry test results.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s Not All Emotional Labor<\/a>,” by\u00a0Jean Marie Maier<\/a>.\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>talks with\u00a0Arlie Hochschild<\/a>\u00a0about how the term she coined, “emotional labor,” has been used far more broadly than she originally intended.<\/p>\n “Can Marriage Cure Cancer?<\/a>” by Allison Nobles<\/a>.\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>consults\u00a0Linda Waite<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Susan Brown<\/a>\u00a0about the relationship between social support and the type of cancer treatment doctors recommend.<\/p>\n “The Stuff of Holidays: How Holiday Objects Tell a Sociological Story about Today\u2019s Families<\/a>,” by Michelle Janning<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin<\/a>,” by\u00a0Rosanna Hertz<\/a> and Barbara Risman<\/a>.<\/p>\n Welcome back! This week we’ve got new pieces on how consumers interpret ancestry DNA test results, how green space may help reduce crime rates, and the surprising way social support matters for cancer treatment. There\u2019s Research on That!: “Greener Grass, Fewer Crimes?” by\u00a0Isabel Arriagada.\u00a0Green areas, like parks, are widely recognized as an indicator of development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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