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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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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