Mark C. Pachucki

Associate Professor of Sociology

Food choices and peer relationships

Examining 'a taste for necessity' in a network context

Abstract: The knowledge of how our taste preferences in food are shaped by our social lives has largely developed without attention to the roles played by relationships with other …

Posted by Mark C. Pachucki on Wed, Jan 1, 2014

Within-Family Obesity Associations

Evaluation of Parent, Child, and Sibling Relationships

Abstract: BACKGROUND. How parent and sibling obesity status comparatively shape a child’s obesity is unknown. PURPOSE. To investigate how the obesity status of different …

Posted by Mark C. Pachucki on Wed, Jan 1, 2014

The sincerest form of flattery

Innovation, repetition, and status in an art movement

Abstract: How does art influence the status of the artists that make it? Sociologists argue that the shared use of artistic conventions produces status arrays, but we have not …

Posted by Mark C. Pachucki on Fri, Apr 19, 2013