Atheists As “Other”: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society
- Penny A Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, Douglas Hartmann
- Sociology
- 1 April 2006
Despite the declining salience of divisions among religious groups, the boundary between believers and nonbelievers in America remains strong. This article examines the limits of Americans'…
Ethnicity and race : making identities in a changing world
- Stephen Cornell, Douglas Hartmann
- Sociology
- 2007
About the Authors Foreword Preface to the 2nd Edition Preface 1. The Puzzles Of Ethnicity And Race An Unexpected Persistence and Power A Puzzling Diversity of Forms Ethnicity and Race as Sociological…
Sport and Development
- Douglas Hartmann, Christina T. Kwauk
- Education
- 29 July 2011
“Development” has become both a watchword and a fascination in sporting circles worldwide. Yet sport officials, policy makers, and advocates often have relatively unsophisticated understandings of…
Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of “Happy Talk”
- Joyce M. Bell, Douglas Hartmann
- Sociology
- 1 December 2007
Few words in the current American lexicon are as ubiquitous and ostensibly uplifting as diversity. The actual meanings and functions of the term, however, are difficult to pinpoint. In this article…
Theorizing Sport as Social Intervention: A View From the Grassroots
- Douglas Hartmann
- Education
- 1 May 2003
Sport and recreation-based approaches to the social problems of “at-risk” urban youth have become very popular in recent years. Yet the lack of a proper theoretical understanding of these initiatives…
Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms*
- Douglas Hartmann, Joseph Gerteis
- Sociology
- 1 June 2005
Since the 1960s, a variety of new ways of addressing the challenges of diversity in American society have coalesced around the term “multiculturalism.” In this article, we impose some clarity on the…
Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain
- Douglas Hartmann
- Education
- 1 September 2000
This article proposes a new way of thinking about the relationships between sport and race in the U.S. It is critical of sport’s racial form and function but does not overlook its unique and…
Notes on Midnight Basketball and the Cultural Politics of Recreation, Race, and At-Risk Urban Youth
- Douglas Hartmann
- Education
- 1 November 2001
A decade ago, dozens of American cities began to organize late-night basketball leagues for young men in mostly minority, inner-city neighborhoods. These so-called midnight basketball leagues…
Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
- Penny Edgell, Douglas Hartmann, Evan Stewart, Joseph Gerteis
- Sociology
- 28 November 2016
Abstract:We use data from a nationally representative survey to analyze anti-atheist sentiment in the United States in 2014, replicating analyses from a decade earlier and extending them to consider…
Critical Whiteness Theories and the Evangelical "Race Problem": Extending Emerson and Smith's Divided by Faith
- E. Tranby, Douglas Hartmann
- Philosophy
- 1 September 2008
In their 2000 book, Divided by Faith, Michael Emerson and Christian Smith use the case of evangelical Christians to demonstrate how uncompromising individualist ideals get in the way of clear…
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