Shift-and-Persist” Strategies: Why Low Socioeconomic Status Isn’t Always Bad for Health
Some individuals, despite facing recurrent, severe adversities in life such as low socioeconomic status (SES), are nonetheless able to maintain good physical health. This article explores why these individuals deviate from the expected association of low SES and poor health and outlines a “shift-and-persist” model to explain the psychobiological mechanisms involved.
Research on language and literacy socialization at Canadian universities
This article highlights the changing theoretical understandings of language/literacy socialization processes based on a number of studies, in terms of students’ trajectories, the interplay of students’ (multiple) languages in their learning and performance, the various agents and directions of their socialization, acts of resistance versus compliance with established norms, and the role of peer support and social networks in their academic and social experiences, and ways of tracking these.