Editorial Board:
Editor:
George H. Conklin,
 North Carolina
 Central University

Board:
Rebecca Adams,
 UNC-Greensboro

Bob Davis,
 North Carolina
 Agricultural and
 Technical State
 University

Catherine Harris,
 Wake Forest
 University

Ella Keller,
 Fayetteville
 State University

Ken Land,
 Duke University

Miles Simpson,
 North Carolina
 Central University

Ron Wimberley,
 N.C. State University

Robert Wortham,
 North Carolina
 Central University

Editorial Assistants

John W.M. Russell,
 Technical
 Consultant

Austin W. Ashe,
 Duke University

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Volume 8, Number 1

Spring/Summer 2010

Outline of Articles

1. An Unwed Mother's Own Story
   by Joseph S. Himes
   In a paper not previously published, the founding president of the North Carolina Sociological Association explores how among low income groups, newcomers and certain ethnic minorities, birth and wedlock and marriage are important values, but, in any given instance, both or either might be preempted by another important value, or the realization of them might be thwarted by practical considerations.
2. New Orleans: The Long-Term Demographic Trends 
   by Carl L. Bankston III
   The City of New Orleans is frequently portrayed as an urban center that underwent great changes following the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and much of the attention given to the city has dealt with its revival and reconstruction following the storm.  But what has been ignored has been the long-term decline in the population of New Orleans.  If this view is taken, New Orleans is currently about where the population would have been expected to be even without Hurricane Katrina's damages to the community. 
3. Du Bois and Frazier:  A Sociological Look at the Quality of Life in the Black Family in America 
   by Cassandra Walston 
   Du Bois and Frazier studied the Black family from a perspective that integrated sociological and historical analysis. Du Bois and Frazier analyzed the progression of the Black family from slavery to emancipation to the Jim Crow era. In the late 1890's Du Bois looked at the social structure of the Black community and painted a picture of a group of people who were uneducated and poverty stricken.  Frazier provided a more positive spin.  He documented a change  in the 1920's -1930's that showed upward mobility, more educational attainment,  property ownership, better jobs, better living conditions, and a less segregated environment in the North.
4. Does Culture Have Inertia?  A Cross-National Analysis of the Relationship Between Inertia of Sexual Conservatism and HIV/AIDS As A Social Episode 
   by Shyamal Das, Lisa Eargle and Asraf Esmail
   Using data from over 60 nations, the authors show that the spread of HIV/AIDS has led to the continuation of conservative social values about homosexuality, prostitution, abortion and divorce.  When there is a massive spread of HIV/AIDS, the young and the educated women are more likely to hold conservative values about homosexuality and prostitution, while they oppose these views about divorce and abortion. 
5. A  Study of Relationship Between Socio-economic Factors and Satisfaction with Family Planning Services in Iran
   by M. T. Iman and Shafieh Ghodrati
   The aim of this research is to study those factors which are related to women’s satisfaction of family planning services in the Shiraz city as a south capital city of Iran. Using survey method and questionnaire technique, 384 married women as the clients of Family Planning Centers, were interviewed. Results show that there are positive and significant relationships between independent variables including occupation rank, duration of using services, degree of expectations fulfillment, as well as degree of knowledge about contraceptives, and clients’ satisfaction (dependent variable). Furthermore there are significant and negative relationships between variables such as number of children ever born, number of unintended pregnancies, as well as degree of side effects, and dependent variable. The Path analysis model, explained 54.9 percent of the variation of women's satisfaction of services provided by Family Planning Centers as dependent variable.
6. Book Review of W.E.B. Du Bois and the Sociological Imagination: A Reader, 1897-1914 
   by Robert Davis 
   This insightful collection of essays and excerpts by Robert Wortham describes and analyzes African American quality of life and racial etiquette that pervaded the political, economic and social arrangements of the day. Du Bois early on believed that racial prejudice and discrimination were functions of ignorance and that once presented with verifiable facts a basis for social change could be provided. 
7. Book Review of Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle 
   by Korstanje Maximiliano 
   September 11 represents for United States, as well as the world, the start of a new era. Even though many countries cope with terrorists in their own soil (such as Spain, United Kingdom even part of Latin America), the World Trade Center attacks signified a large psychological impact on security for citizens of the United States. With the passing of years, Americans saw how their day-to-day style of life substantially changed.  Under such a context, Sunstein presents a striking but polemic work entitled Laws of Fear.  
    
    
   
    
    

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