Sociology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Educational Assortative Mating: The Importance of Context
(Springer Verlag, 2015)Modernization theory predicts rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors such as ... -
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
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Review of "From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage"
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Confronting the Material Convoy in Later Life
(Wiley, 2011-08-01)We adapt a metaphor from life course studies to designate the whole of one’s possessions, across time, as a convoy of material support. This dynamic collection of things supports daily life and the self, but it can also ... -
Possession Divestment by Sales in Later Life
(Elsevier, 2015-08)Residential relocation in later life is almost always a downsizing, with many possessions to be divested in a short period of time. This article examines older movers’ capacities for selling things, and ways that selling ... -
Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
(Springer Verlag, 2015-08)Differences in lifetime earnings by educational attainment have been of great research and policy interest. Although a large literature examines earnings differences by educational attainment, research on lifetime ... -
The Effect of Wealth Inequality on Higher Education Outcomes: A Critical Review
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-10)American society reflects considerable class immobility, much of which may be explained by the wide gaps in college completion rates between economically advantaged and disadvantaged groups of students. First, we discuss ... -
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth-Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05)Existing evidence of educational effects on intergenerational mobility is associational. This study employs early compulsory schooling laws to approach a causal estimate of the relationship between education and mobility ... -
WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN A SUB-SAHARAN SETTING Dialectics of Empowerment and Dependency
(SAGE Publications, 2016-03-21)Western scholarship on religion and gender has devoted considerable attention to women’s entry into leadership roles across various religious traditions and denominations. However, very little is known about the dynamics ... -
Field of Study in College and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
(SAGE Publications, 2015-10)Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that matches respondents in the Survey of Income and Program Participation to ... -
Contraception and Abortion in a Low-Fertility Setting: The Role of Seasonal Migration
(Guttmacher Institute, 2013-09)CONTEXT: Seasonal labor migration is common among men in many former Soviet republics. Little research has examined contraceptive use and induced abortion among women in such low-fertility, high-migration settings, according ... -
Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States
(University of Chicago Press, 2006-01)This article examines the effects of an uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept ... -
Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
(University of Chicago Press, 2012-03)This article analyzes how Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws. Based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009 with immigrants ... -
Men’s Migration, Women’s Personal Networks, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Mozambique
(MDPI, 2013-03)This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope ... -
Teens’ social media use and collective action
(Sage, 2014-09)This research examined how social self-efficacy, collective self-esteem, and need to belong can be used to predict teens’ use of social media. The particular focus was on how these social psychological variables together ... -
Ethnic differences in medicinal plant use among University students: a cross-sectional survey of self-reported medicinal plant use at two Midwest Universities
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background Numerous surveys of medicinal plant use among college students abound, but none compare use between students enrolled in two different Universities with significantly different ethnic compositions. The objective ... -
The Alternative Genealogy of Civil Society and Its Implications for Africa: Notes for Further Research
(CODESRIA, 2004-01-01)Despite its ubiquity in popular and academic discourses, consensus about the epistemological status of the idea of civil society remains elusive. In Africa, the literature is circumscribed by doubts about, first, its ... -
Critical Theory and Public Life: Response to Brante and Chung
(American Journal of Sociology, 1990-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Comparing the Canadian and US Systems of Health Care in an Era of Healthcare Reform
(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2012-10)The purpose of this article is to provide an informed comparison of health care in the United States and Canada along multiple dimensions, Specifically this article looks at coverage, access, cost, health outcomes, ... -
Toward a Structural Perspective on Gender Bias in the Juvenile Court
(University of California Press, 1984-07)A number of hypotheses about the effect of gender on the likelihood of incarceration in the juvenile court are tested. A purposive sample of 3911 delinquent (nonstatus) offending youths from 19 juristictions throughout the ...