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Professor Hoop's research and interests spans a number
of areas in Sociology: social movements and language, youth culture,
religion and the immigrant experience.
Her recent work focuses on the dynamics of social movements, culture
and language. In particular, she studies the "strange bedfellow
phenomenon," or "how groups of people whom we would not expect
to work together, do work together," such as in the anti-gambling/casino,
the anti-USA PATRIOT Act legislation, and the anti-human/sexual trafficking
movements.
She has carried out qualitative research ranging from how break-dancers
learn to dance, to religious conflict in a Unitarian church. In Belfast,
Northern Ireland, she interviewed high school drop-outs to understand
how they made sense of the influences that led to their decision to
drop out. Currently, she is working on a research project looking at
the experiences of recent immigrants to Portland, Maine.
She also studies the problems in teaching Sociology and how to incorporate
Service Learning.
She has presented her work at the American Sociological Association,
the Eastern Sociological Society, the Association for General and Liberal
Studies, and is actively involved in the New England Sociological Association.
She is the Maine representative to the New England Sociological Association.
Recently Professor Hoop presented "The Anti-Gambling/Casino Movement:
The Discursive Strategies of an Unlikely Coalition" at the American
Sociological Association and "Liberal Learning, Identity, and Self:
Integrative Liberal Arts as the Imaginative Experiment" at the
Association for Integrative Studies Conference.
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