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Megan Steele is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her primary research interests include the Family, Life Course, and Aging; Crime, Law, and Deviance; and Advanced Quantitative Methods. Her dissertation is tentatively titled, “A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence.” In this work, she examines how factors associated with six theories of criminal behavior relate to intimate partner…

"A Test of Competing Pathways to Young Adulthood Violence"
Sociology is at the top of the list of academic underappreciated academic disciplines. As a consequence, sociologists, and their expertise, are overlooked in the development of strategic plans and crises mitigation doomed to fail if the people part of the model is not properly scoped or specified. Examples are many as human behavior, especially contingent, interactive, and aggregate human behavior, the focus of sociology, over and over again,…

"Presentation of Soc in the Wider World"
Trigger warning: slavery, human remains, anti-Black discrimination As a new annual tradition, we will view the documentary "Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University’s Legacy of Slavery" together, followed by a discussion led by Dr. Vanessa Gonlin and Dr. Sarah Shannon. On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers uncovered human remains on the site. DNA…

"Discussion: Below Baldwin - A Student Documentary"
This project examines the methods used to test status characteristics and expectation states theory (SC-EST). Specifically, this project examines two things: (1) if the classic SC-EST laboratory experiment can be moved online; (2) if the tasks used in SC-EST experiments are equivalent at measuring gender-based discrimination. We find that the SC-EST education manipulation produces equivalent results in the online and laboratory environment,…

"Behavioral Experiments in the Online Setting and Studying Gender as a Status Characteristic"

“The End of College Football: On Harm and Exploitation in Big-Time College Sports.”
*This talk is part of a series on the Black image that is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for African American Studies.

“Diversity Capital: Race and Corporate Support for the Arts.”

“The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes.”
*Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

“Drug War Capitalism, Disappearance & Community Resistance to Violence in Mexico.”

“Celebrity Culture During COVID-19: A Sociological Framework for Pandemic Times..”
*Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

“Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing.”
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