SICOVERfinal_Rev.pdf 5/18/09 9:50:53 AM Sociological Insight Volume 1 May 2009 1 May 2009 Volume The Effects of Religious Switching at Marriage on Marital Stability and Happiness Collin Payne Sociological A Tale of Two Townships: Political Opportunity and Violent and Non-Violent Local Control in South Africa Insight Volume 1 May 2009 Alex Park C M Sex Offender Recidivism in Minnesota and the Importance of Law and News Coverage Y Ashley Leyda CM Sociological Insight MY “Been There, Done That:” A Case Study of Structural Violence and Bureaucratic Barriers CY in an HIV Outreach Organization CMY Dayna Fondell K Style and Consumption among East African Muslim Immigrant Women: The Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, and Minority Status Jennifer Barnes Pretty Dresses and Privilege: Gender and Heteronormativity in Weddings Alissa Tombaugh “That Synergy of People:” The Significance of Collective Identity and Framing in a Gay-Straight Coalition Tristine Baccam Research Note: Technological Prospects for Social Transformation: Sociology and the Freedom of Information Samuel J. 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PAYNE 31 A Tale of Two Townships: Political Opportunity and Violent and Non-Violent Local Control in South Africa ALEX PARK 52 Sex Offender Recidivism in Minnesota and the Importance of Law and News Coverage ASHLEY LEYDA 67 “Been There, Done That”: A Case Study of Structural Violence and Bureaucratic Barriers in an HIV Outreach Organization DAYNA FONDELL 85 Style and Consumption among East African Muslim Immigrant Women: The Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, and Minority Sta- tus JENNIFER BARNES 106 Pretty Dresses and Privilege: Gender and Heteronormativity in Weddings ALISSA TOMBAUGH 124 “That Synergy of People”: The Significance of Collective Identity and Framing in a Gay-Straight Coalition TRISTINE BAccAM RESEARCH NOTE 141 Technological Prospects for Social Transformation: Sociology and the Freedom of Information SAMUEL J. TAYLOR BOOK REVIEWS 148 Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures by Rob- in Leichenko and Karen O’Brien RYAN MASTERS 150 Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases by Adina Nack MEREDITH G. F. WORTHEN 153 Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Argu- ment of Public Life by Steven M. Tipton MIEKE BETH THOMEER 155 Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home by Pa- mela Stone BETSABETH MONICA LUGO 158 Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt DANIEL RITTER 160 Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neigh- borhoods by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski LISSETTE ALIAGA-LINARES 162 Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality by Jessica Fields AMY LODGE CONTRIBUTORS COLLIN F. PAYNE Collin Payne graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2008, major- ing in Sociology with an Analysis and Research concentration. His pri- mary research interests are demography and sociology of religion. Mr. Payne participated in the 2007 NSF-REU program in Minority Group De- mography at the University of Texas, and was confirmed as a junior fel- low at the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences in 2007. A previous version of Mr. Payne’s paper on religious switching received the Best Undergraduate Paper award at the Southern Demographic Associa- tion in 2007. He was a varsity athlete in men’s rowing and a Big-10 scholar athlete from 2005-2007. Mr. Payne currently works as a research assistant at MDRC, a non-profit social policy analysis firm in New York City. ALEX PARK Alex Park graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2009 where he was a Sociology major with a concentration in African Studies. Having studied abroad twice in South Africa and traveled exten- sively in neighboring countries, his research interests are largely focused on Southern Africa and include immigration processes and immigrant communities, international development, and intra-regional coopera- tion. Mr. Park’s paper “A Tale of Two Townships” concerns events that oc- curred during his last study abroad experience in South Africa and won first place in the Midwest Sociological Society’s Student Paper Competi- tion in 2009. ASHLEY LEYDA Ashley Leyda graduated from the University of Iowa receiving a B.A. with honors in Sociology in May of 2008. While there, Ms. Leyda’s interests in- cluded crime, the criminal justice system, and law. Her interest in these areas culminated in her honors thesis on sex offender recidivism. Ms. Leyda has presented her work at Research in the Iowa Capitol and at the University of Iowa’s Spring Undergraduate Research Forum. Ms. Leyda is currently studying law at Drake University Law School. DAYNA FONDELL Dayna Fondell is an undergraduate at Rice University. She works for the Center on Race Religion and Urban Life (CORRUL). Her research interests include gender, sexuality, health, and specifically issues surrounding sex work. Ms. Fondell has conducted research as a Center for Civic Engage- ment Fellow, and was the 2008 Walter Hall Scholar for the Sociology De- partment. JENNIFER BARNES Jennifer Barnes is a Sociology and Physics double major at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Her research interests include consumption and consumer culture, immigration and assimilation, and the sociology of gender and sexuality. She presented “Consumption and Identity among East African Muslim Immigrant Women” at the 2009 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, where it won second place in the Undergradu- ate Paper Competition. It was also accepted as an Honors Project at Ma- calester College. Ms. Barnes will graduate from Macalester in May 2009, after which she hopes to pursue graduate studies in physics. ALISSA TOMBAUGH Alissa Tombaugh graduated from American University in December 2008 with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Spanish. Throughout her under- graduate career, she focused on critical sociology