Sociology and Anthropology
Drawing on the expertise and commitment of our research-active faculty, the MSU Sociology and Anthropology provide excellent educational experiences to undergraduate majors, minors and MSU as a whole. The unifying theme of the department is the study of societies – past and present – embedded in the tradition of the liberal arts.
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Drivelines, hunting blinds, effigies and intercept hunting strategies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA
(Liverpool University Press, 2022)This paper shares a description of cairn lines and hunting blinds in association with an ice patch in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Until now no definitive stone features, including drivelines and hunting blinds, have ... -
Developing a Response to Secondary Trauma for American Indian and Rural Service Providers
(The Ohio State University Libraries, 2022-05)How can victim service providers, the organizations they work for, and the communities they serve help respond to the issue of occupation-based secondary trauma? Over the last few years, federal agencies in the United ... -
Determinants of Poor Health Among Workers in Criminal Justice, Community and Social Services, and Healthcare: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Workplace Trauma Exposure, and Gender Differences
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-12)Adverse childhood experiences and workplace trauma exposure are associated with poor health. However, their differential impacts by gender are difficult to assess in studies of organizations with gender imbalances (e.g., ... -
Secondary Trauma in the Workplace: Tools for Awareness, Self-Care, and Organizational Responses in Montana
(Montana State University, 2018)This book is written for Montana’s victim service providers—the people who have chosen to dedicate their professional lives to helping the survivors of trauma. As providers, we are the ones working day in and day out with ... -
Operational efficiency, patient composition and regional context of U.S. health centers: Associations with access to early prenatal care and low birth weight
(2019-04)Community health centers (CHCs) provide comprehensive medical services to medically under-served Americans, helping to reduce health disparities. This study aimed to identify the unique compositions and contexts of CHCs ... -
Disruptions, Dislocations, and Inequalities: Latino Families Surviving the Global Economy
(2010-06)This Article draws on field research with Honduran and Mexican transnational families and the transnational family literature to explore how global inequality is influencing gender and class relations within poor migrant ... -
Advancing a Model of Secondary Trauma: Consequences for Victim Service Providers
(2018-05)A burgeoning body of scholarship is attempting to understand, normalize, and ameliorate the emotional strain of victim service provision. The literature, however, has yet to fully theorize the hazardous process of empathetic ... -
Vulnerability of dryland agricultural regimes to economic and climatic change
(2018)Large-scale agricultural systems are central to food production in North America, but their ubiquity could be threatened by vulnerability to economic and climatic stressors during the 21st century. Prior research has focused ... -
School Context and American Indian Substance Use
(2017-12)The present study extends prior research exploring the role of school contextual factors in predicting individual adolescent substance use by examining how a school's racial composition is associated with American Indian ... -
Microcores and microliths in Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountain front lithic assemblages
(2016-07)Microcores and microliths have been identified in archaeological sites in Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota. While clearly the product of patterned reduction yielding flakes with roughly parallel sides, the cores seldom ... -
Hydraulic fracturing: Assessing self-reported familiarity and the contributions of selected sources to self-reported knowledge
(2017-01)Data collected from a random sample of individuals in two counties in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas to examine (a) respondents’ self-reported familiarity with the process of hydraulic fracturing and (b) the ... -
Explaining the Association between Gender and Substance Use among American Indian Adolescents: An Application of Power-control Theory
(2015-12)This study evaluates the utility of Hagan's power-control theory for explaining substance use behaviors for a sample of American Indian (AI) adolescent males and females. Consistent with the theory, we found that patriarchal ... -
Revisiting the Time Trade-Off Hypothesis: Work, Organized Activities, and Academics During College
(2014-11)How adolescents spend their time has long-term implications for their educational, health, and labor market outcomes, yet surprisingly little research has explored the time use of students across days and semesters. The ... -
Adult social roles and alcohol use among American Indians
(2014-09)American Indians are disproportionately burdened by alcohol-related problems. Yet, research exploring predictors of alcohol use among American Indians has been limited by cross-sectional designs and reservation-based ...
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