Social context and sexual intercourse among first-year students at selective colleges and universities in the United States

Uecker, Jeremy E.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.01.005

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“…Other scholars who question the pervasiveness of the hookup note that any examination of student sexual histories and experiences should consider culture and context as mechanisms informing student sexual decisions (Eaton et al, ; Holman & Sillars, ; Reid, Webber, & Elliott, ). These factors include the diversity and size of racial, class, and sexual minority groups on campus, the influence of peer groups, and university housing options as conduits for forging social and potential sexual contact on college campuses (Armstrong & Hamilton, ; Uecker, ).…”

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Beyond hookup culture: Current trends in the study of college student sex and where to next

Pham

2017

Sociology Compass

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A prominent body of sexuality research on college-enrolled students in the twenty-first century focuses on "hookup" culture, marked by the prevalence of sexual encounters between students with no expectation for a relationship to develop. This article will review and respond to current themes in the literature on hookup culture on college campuses. I argue that this literature privileges the White, middle-class heterosexual experience, although less is known about how students who cannot or choose not to participate in this culture experience sexual relationships on college campuses. I place studies of hookup culture in conversation with those attentive to the effects of race, class, gender, and sexuality on access to, and experience of, hookup culture. I conclude with suggestions for future research, to include a renewed interest in sexual relationships forged outside of hookup cultures.

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Beyond hookup culture: Current trends in the study of college student sex and where to next

Pham

2017

Sociology Compass

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“…An inhabited approach to the study of women's sexual decision making as students adopts a new angle for understanding the variability of actor responses within similar organizational environments, and acknowledges the cultivation of unique campus cultures across the thousands of four-year universities in the United States. An inhabited approach to the study of campus sexual life also contributes to the broader literature on hookup cultures, which finds differences in sexual behavior and experience of hookups across individual identities (Ahrold and Meston 2010;Barrios and Lundquist 2012;Berntson et al 2014;Eaton et al 2015;Kuperberg and Padgett 2015;Owen et al 2010;Rupp et al 2014;Spell 2016), as well as in response to university structures, such as the size, racial and gendered composition of its undergraduate population, or the availability of on-campus housing (Adkins et al 2015;Allison and Risman 2014;Uecker 2015). The present study adds a different dimension to this literature in its finding that, in addition to negotiating sexual relationships in response to individual identities and structural constraints, women also frame their decisions to seek out or engage in particular sexual relationships in ways that are consistent with, or adaptive to, the broader organizational culture of a given school.…”

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“…Additional studies find student engagement in dating and relationships at rates similar to that of hooking up (Bradshaw et al 2010;England et al 2003;Kuperberg and Padgett 2015), and that student desire for more committed relationships has not been fully supplanted by the perceived predominance of hookups (England and Bearak 2014;Freitas 2008). While peer networks (Berntson et al 2014;Uecker 2015) and structural arrangements, such as the gendered or racial demographics of a campus (Kuperberg and Padgett 2015;Ray and Rosow 2010), are cited as variables influencing the sexual decisions of undergraduates, less is known about how organizational cultures specific to a university become implicated in student negotiation of sexual relationships, be it hookups or relationships. Campus sexual cultures are not monolithic but are developed in local context and negotiated in varied ways by organizational actors.…”

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Campus Sex in Context: Organizational Cultures and Women's Engagement in Sexual Relationships on Two American College Campuses

Pham

2019

Sociological Forum

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An "inhabited" approach to the study of institutions examines how organizational actors produce locally distinctive meaning in response to similar institutional forces. Adopting inhabited institutionalism to the study of campus sexual life, this study draws on interviews with 54 undergraduate women at two four-year universities in the United States-Ivy U and State U-to show campus cultures unique to a university inform women's decisions to engage in hookups and/or relationships. For women attending Ivy U, an elite institution where pressure to succeed is palpable, both hookups and long-distance relationships alike are posited as advantageous for the time-crunched, preprofessional student. At State U, a public school with a party reputation, women explain their engagement in hookups as part of the "fun" of college life, while women seeking or involved in committed relationships are obligated to negotiate the effects of the party culture in their partnerships. This study challenges the notion of a monolithic sexual culture across university settings by showing how campus cultures cultivated at the local level create unique organizational conditions within which undergraduate women forge and explain their engagement in hookups and relationships alike.

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“…Relationships influence a person’s behavior above and beyond the influence of individual attributes [ 2 ]. This is particularly true of health behaviors—smoking, eating, and sex are all socially shaped behaviors [ 3 – 5 ]. Diffusion of information and innovation often occurs through personal networks, which are shaped by geographic, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors [ 6 , 7 ].…”

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Social Network Interventions for HIV Transmission Elimination

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Purpose of Review Network interventions for HIV prevention represent a potential area for growth in a globalizing world, where persons are more easily connected to one another through social media and networking applications. The basic tenets of network interventions such as (1) selection of a change agent, (2) segmentation, (3) induction, and (4) alteration represent myriad ways to structure network interventions for HIV prevention with the potential for large public health impact. Recent Findings Recent studies have employed the use of social networking websites such as Facebook to identify key persons to recruit others and disseminate information aimed at decreasing HIV transmission and improving safe sex practices among groups who are more vulnerable to HIV acquisition. Many of these interventions have successfully decreased HIV risk behaviors as well as decreased the spread of HIV among intervention cohorts. Summary Network interventions for HIV prevention provide more opportunities to reach populations who have not been reached through typical efforts employed in clinical and public health settings, though they are not currently widely employed by the public health community and other stakeholders.

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Social context and sexual intercourse among first-year students at selective colleges and universities in the United States

Cited by 22 publications

References 37 publications

Beyond hookup culture: Current trends in the study of college student sex and where to next

Beyond hookup culture: Current trends in the study of college student sex and where to next

Campus Sex in Context: Organizational Cultures and Women's Engagement in Sexual Relationships on Two American College Campuses

Social Network Interventions for HIV Transmission Elimination

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