Tyler
Flockhart
Assistant Professor, Criminal and Community Justice, Sociology
Director, Core Curriculum
School of Human Behavior
MRC 528
Research Projects
My research centers on how inequalities are reproduced in everyday interactions. I have explored this issue in familial relationships, extremist organizations, and popular media. I also have a line of research that focuses on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Here, I have looked at the utility of sociology as a perspective for enhancing student learning in other academic disciplines, as well as how symbols found in cemeteries (e.g., gravestones) can be a useful tool for teaching students about historical and cultural change in the U.S.
Publications, Presentations, and Performances
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Flockhart, Tyler. 2022. “Preventive Emotion Work: How Inequalities are Reproduced in Parent-LGB Child Relationships.” Pp. 1-22 in The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships, edited by T. Flockhart, A. Reiter, and M. Hassett. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Flockhart, Tyler and Abigail Reiter, eds. 2022. The Reproduction and Maintenance of Inequalities in Interpersonal Relationships. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Flockhart, Tyler. 2021. “Emotion Work as Relationship Management: How LGBs Preserve Parental Social Support in Strained Parent-Child Relationships.” In Health Inequalities: A Sociological Perspective, edited by Miranda Reiter and Abigail Reiter. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt
- Flockhart, Tyler and Sinikka Elliott. 2020. “‘That’s What Google is For!’: How Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Young Adults Use Technology to Navigate Family Relationships.” In Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age, edited by Rachel Kalish. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Flockhart, Tyler and Abby Reiter. 2020. “Representations of ‘Gayness’ in an Era of Incomplete Acceptance.” In Shameless Sociology: The Sociology of a Popular Television Show, edited by Pam Hunt Kirk and Jennifer Weber. New Castle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- McKinney, Kathleen, Maxine Atkinson, and Tyler Flockhart. 2017. “A Sampling of What Psychologists Engaged in SoTL Might Learn from Sociology.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology 3(2): 178-190.
- Brooks, Erinn, Kim Ebert, and Tyler Flockhart. 2017. “Examining the Reach of the Dominant Racial Ideology in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” The Sociological Quarterly 58(2):254-276.