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Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016 Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Neema Langa
While neonatal mortality is a critical measure of national health and well-being, efforts to reduce it in post-colonial, global south national contexts continue to yield unsatisfactory (sometimes w...
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The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Maria Amuchastegui, Kean Birch, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner
This paper charts the changing intersections between sociology and science and technology studies (STS) using computational textual analysis. We characterize this “quali-quantitative” approach as a...
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Environing Innovation: Toward an Ecological Pragmatism of Scientific Practice Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Natalie B. Aviles
Studies of scientific innovation that theorize the complex social and material influences on scientific inquiry and innovation can benefit from explicit theoretical attention to meso-level practice...
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The American Public’s Views about Legal Immigration: The Case of the Diversity Visa Lottery Program Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Daniel K. Pryce, Joselyne L. Chenane
This study assesses contemporary attitudes toward the Diversity Visa Lottery program. Specifically, we examine the public’s views about the Diversity Visa Lottery, an immigrant visa program that wa...
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Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Bethany J. Nichols
How do the economic and cultural components of social class separately contribute to social class–based inequality? I argue that one approach to disentangle the effects of economic and cultural mar...
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Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Rana Abulbasal, Christy Glass, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, Marisela Martinez-Cola
While existing approaches to workplace stratification illuminate how relational and demographic processes impact workplace inequalities, little research has sought to disaggregate the experiences o...
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Pride and Protest: Horizontal and Vertical Emotional Response in the Aftermath of the 2019 Chilean Spring Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Francisco Olivos, Cristián Ayala, Alex Leyton
A large body of literature has shown that emotions can motivate collective action. Nevertheless, the effect that collective actions could have on emotion has been less researched. This study examin...
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Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Alexander Scott
Under what conditions do Latinx communities mobilize in response to threats of repressive policing? This article addresses this question by comparing three cases of community organizing against civ...
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Motherhood and Mentoring Networks: The Unequal Impact of Overwork on Women’s Workplace Mentoring Networks Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Hwajin Shin, Soohan Kim
Using longitudinal data on 1,711 female managers in South Korean firms, this study examines how time, culture, and workplace structure affect women’s mentoring networks. Our analyses demonstrate th...
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“There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing”: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of “Black Don’t Crack” and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Alicia Smith-Tran
This article problematizes the concept of “Black Don’t Crack” and challenges the universal desirability of youthfulness. This study is driven by two research questions: (1) How does the perceived y...
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Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Sadie O. Ridgeway
This research investigates the association between body size and key indicators of well-being for adolescents (i.e., self-rated health, mental health, and life satisfaction), and simultaneously tes...
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Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Kirsten Hextrum
Researchers critique athletic admissions, claiming that lower academic standards for athletes lead to disengagement, retention issues, and mission-drift. Yet few studies scrutinize the athletic sta...
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Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Arman Azedi
In recent decades, social scientists have devoted increased attention to job insecurity, a highly prominent stressor for workers today. Although social movements literature has examined other econo...
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Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Yolanda Wiggins, Blair Harrington, Naomi Gerstel
Although many recognize that families shape the likelihood of getting into college, few examine variation in families’ involvement during college or its implications for sustaining inequalities. Us...
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The Role of Institutional Trust in Industry, Government, and Regulators in Shaping Perceptions of Risk Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing in the United Kingdom Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Paul B. Stretesky, Damien Short, Laurence Stamford
This study draws upon concepts of institutional trust and expendability to examine perceptions of risk associated with hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” To study trust and risk, we collected data...
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Collective Social Capital, Outgroup Threat, and Americans’ Preference for Restrictive Immigration Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Harris Hyun-soo Kim
Throughout parts of the Western world, populist nationalism has gained increasing momentum. Despite cross-national differences in populist leaders and parties, one common feature stands out: xenoph...
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Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Jennifer Ashlock, Miodrag Stojnic, Zeynep Tufekci
Informed by evidence that computing attitudes may be uniquely constructed in informal contexts and that the early teens are a key period for academic decision-making, we investigate lines of practi...
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Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio
The Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage laws provide important protections for workers. However, it still permits employers to pay subminimum wages to youth under age 20, student-vocational lea...
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The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Chadwick K. Campbell
HIV stigma negatively affects the social experiences of people living with HIV (PLWH) and remains a challenge to HIV prevention, treatment, and care. Research has overwhelmingly focused on individu...
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Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Daniel Mackin Freeman, Dara Shifrer
Math achievement in U.S. high schools is a consistent predictor of educational attainment. While emphasis on raising math achievement continues, school-level interventions often come at the expense...
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PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Sharon Kantorowski Davis
There are three major social issues that are identified and discussed as major contributors to the new normal and the redefinition of deviance. They include: 1) the political rise of the extreme ri...
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Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Dennis J. Downey
Our divided democracy—characterized by partisan polarization and moralized opposition—presents significant challenges to sociologists who would use our discipline to create a more just society. I f...
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Durable Disadvantage: Gender and the Mark of Unauthorized Status in Immigrants’ Occupational Trajectories Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 A. Nicole Kreisberg, Margot Jackson
Adverse life course events associated with unemployment can negatively affect individuals’ future labor market prospects. Unauthorized status, and subsequent unauthorized employment, may operate si...
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Walking That Fine Line: Doulas as Overseers of Evidence-based Practice Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Megan M. Henley
Doulas provide individualized support during labor and childbirth. Research has consistently shown that having doulas support increases positive physical and psychological outcomes. Professional me...
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Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology* Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Paul Joseph McLaughlin
The philosophical underpinnings of Durkheim’s failed Darwinian encounter have been neglected by environmental and mainstream sociologists. Although he claimed to employ Darwinian insights, Durkheim...
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Intersectional Criminalization: How Chicanas Experience and Navigate Criminalization through Interpersonal Relationships with Latino Men and Boys Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Veronica Lerma
Recent work has begun to investigate how criminalization is mediated through interpersonal relationships. While this research emphasizes the importance of gender dynamics and cross-gender intimate ...
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Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 David Michael Ramey, Brittany N. Freelin
U.S. schools suspend 2.5 million children each school year. Although states mandate suspensions for serious offenses, most students are suspended for minor transgressions, such as “willful defiance...
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Returning Biology to Evolutionary Sociology: Reflections on the Conceptual Hiatuses of “New Evolutionary Sociology” as a Vantage Point Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Wing Chung Ho
Decades of scholarly efforts to reignite the theoretical integration between sociology and biology have come to partial fruition in the birth of evolutionary sociology at the turn of the twentieth-...
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Primed for Backlash: Among Whom Does Demographic Change Provoke Anti-Immigration Attitudes? Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Christopher Maggio
Past research has explored which factors are important in understanding immigration attitudes, incorporating economic, cultural, and political components, among others. Simultaneously, a literature...
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One and Many Asian America: Intra-Asian Ethnic Boundaries and Intermarriage Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Jess Lee
As a racialized pan-ethnic group, Asian Americans exhibit ethnically heterogeneous structural and cultural characteristics, but such heterogeneity and its implications for Asian Americans’ pan-ethnic groupness were seldom explored empirically. Using the American Community Survey and the 2016 National Asian American Survey datasets, this paper examines intra-Asian symbolic and socioeconomic boundaries
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“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims” Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Kenneth Vaughan, Jerry Z. Park, Joshua Christopher Tom, Murat Yilmaz
Muslim Americans are a fast-growing minority group within the United States, both demographically and in the public consciousness. National surveys place them among the least liked groups in the U.S. cultural landscape, and throughout the twenty-first century they have often been the target of both high-profile vitriol and common daily abuses. We use logistic regression analyses of nationally representative
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“Maladies of Infinite Aspiration”: Smartphones, Meaning-Seeking, and Anomigenesis Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Justin J. Nelson, Christopher M. Pieper
Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life, and attachment to these devices is a felt reality for many Americans. This paper describes the link between smartphone attachment and the pursuit of meaning and purpose in life. Analyses reveal meaning-seeking as a positive correlate of smartphone attachment. However, while interaction effects suggest that meaning-seeking through heavy social
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Critical Consciousness of Gender Inequality: Considering the Viewpoints of Racially Diverse High School Girls with Engineering Aspirations Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Tatiane Russo-Tait, Katherine Doerr, Ursula Nguyen
This study utilizes interviews with 33 racially diverse high school girls who have expressed interest in engineering careers. Using the framework of critical consciousness and informed by intersectional theories, the authors examine their views about gender inequality in engineering. Results revealed that while most articulated systemic understandings of inequality, Black participants were particularly
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“We’re Not All Anti-Choices”: How Controlling Images Shapes Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Rocío R. García
Reproductive politics and Latinxs’ politics demonstrate a preoccupation with representations and discourses across time and space. Intersectional feminists theorize how controlling images function as mechanisms of social control by distorting holistic perceptions of marginalized people. While social movement research documents the importance of culture in collective action, little research applies
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Intergroup Contact and White Racial Apathy: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Tony N. Brown, Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul S. Casarez, Horace J. Duffy, III
Scholars theorize racial apathy is one form contemporary white racial prejudice takes. Racial apathy signals not caring about racial inequality. Invoking intergroup contact theory, we hypothesize interracial contact would predict less racial apathy among whites. To test our hypothesis, we analyze survey data from white teenagers participating in the 2003 National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR)
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Gender Gap in Newly Created Domains of Household Labor Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Jurgita Abromaviciute, Emily K. Carian
In this study, we draw on interview data from 62 matched different-sex, dual-career spouses raising young children to examine the mechanisms behind the gender gap in household labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the pandemic represents a unique case of social uncertainty and an opportunity to observe how structural conditions shape the gendered division of household labor. We find that
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Policy Relay: How Affirmative Consent Went from Controversy to Convention Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Katelyn Rose Malae
This article analyzes how a formerly mocked policy idea became a widespread solution. Through content analysis of newspaper articles and legal documents, I develop a framework that extends timelines of social movement influence, expands the range of actors and locations of mobilization, and traces how activists frame policy ideas over time: the policy relay. This framework allows for an analysis of
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homework Time among U.S. Teens Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Allison Dunatchik, Hyunjoon Park
Along with intensified competition for college admissions, U.S. teens increasingly spend more time on educational activities. Homework can be a particularly important component of educational time for economically disadvantaged and racial/ethnic minority students who have limited access to private sources of learning beyond the classroom. This study uses data from the American Time Use Survey and the
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Pharmaceuticalization to Opioid Pharmacovigilance: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of Opioid-related Policy Changes and the Perspectives of Residents and Chronic Non-cancer Pain Patients Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Zachary Simoni, Philip Day, David Schneider, Chance Strenth, Neelima Kale
As a result of the pharmaceuticalization of chronic pain over the past three decades, opioid therapy became a common form of treatment for chronic pain patients. However, the overprescribing of opioids led to the opioid overdose epidemic in the United States. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implemented guidelines reducing the number of opioid prescriptions—better known as
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Diversity, Disrupted: A Critique of Neoliberal Difference in Tech Organizations Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Lauren M. Alfrey
Since 2014, technology companies have spent an estimated $1.2 billion on diversity efforts. Despite these investments, Black and Latinx Americans remain starkly underrepresented. How is this problem understood by people in tech? Connecting theories of white racial ideologies and research on racialized organizations, I show how understandings of tech’s “diversity problem” paradoxically serve to naturalize
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Repertoire Communities in American Popular Music, 1900–1949 Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 William G. Roy
What are the social factors shaping musical repertoires? This paper analyzes repertoires as social relations among performers, refracted through factors such as the organization of industry, genres, race, and gender. Using data from American popular music recordings, performers and songs are treated as a two-mode network and repertoire communities are operationalized as bicliques. The production of
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The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Will Atkinson
Pierre Bourdieu’s influence on the study of lifestyles in the United States has been profound, yet the vast majority of relevant research operates with methods and assumptions at odds with Bourdieu’s own. His specifically relational or geometric understanding of social structures, and lifestyles, has been overlooked, meaning that no one has yet done for the contemporary United States what Bourdieu
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Unpacking the Influence of Islamic Religious Culture and Individual Religious Affiliation on Testing HIV-positive Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Brittany E. Hayes, Amy Adamczyk
The distribution of HIV cases varies cross-nationally. We separate the influences of Islam at the macro- and micro-levels to understand the role of religion in shaping the spread of HIV. Drawing on biomarker data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we construct a multilevel database (Individual N = 568,476; Country N = 30). We examine a series of national- and individual-level predictors that
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Digitally Mediated Mobilization in South Korea: Women’s March and Collective Identity Building Online Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Minyoung Moon
This paper explores collective identity building in a feminist online community that in 2018 organized the largest women’s march in South Korean history. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative content analyses of the community’s bulletin boards, this study describes the process through which members of the community developed their cognitive boundaries and their interactional and emotional connections
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Reciprocal Support within Intimate Relationships: Examining the Association with Depression and Anxiety Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Stephanie Molinda Hansard
Sociological research has established the importance of social support for mental health. Although social support is exchanged within relationships, most research on the relationship between support and mental health examines the perspective of only one person. This study uses the Actor-partner Interdependence Model (APIM) to examine the relationship between perceived support and depressive and anxiety
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Gun Ownership, Threat, and Gun Attitudes in an Experiment Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Abigail Vegter, Donald P. Haider-Markel
Researchers have considered the role of perceived threat and fear of crime in shaping attitudes about gun regulation. We contribute to this literature by examining whether gun owners, who tend to oppose gun regulations, moderate their gun views when exposed to a gun-related threat. We argue that although exposure to threat can increase the desire to be armed, gun owners primed with a threat may soften
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Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens: Raising or Lowering Earnings? Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Irene Browne, Anne-Kathrin Kronberg, Jenny McDonnell
This paper investigates the question of whether and how restrictive immigration policies affect the earnings of Latinxs who are not the target of these policies—that is, Latinx citizens. Focusing on policies at the state (E-Verify) and county (287(g)) level, we investigate possible spillover on Latinx citizen earnings from 2006 through 2016. We use multiple sources of data, merging policy and census
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Industrial Pollution, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Nationwide Study of the Socioenvironmental Nature of Social Capital Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Phylicia Xin Yi Lee Brown
I conduct a nationwide investigation of the relationship that toxic industrial pollution and the facilities that produce it have with trust and civic engagement within communities. Data on pollution exposure come from the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Geographic Microdata (RSEI-GM) and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data sets for the years 1995 to 1999. Data on trust and civic engagement come
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American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Rebecca Farber, Joseph Harris
COVID-19 has focused global attention on disease spread across borders. But how has research on infectious and noncommunicable disease figured into the sociological imagination historically, and to what degree has American medical sociology examined health problems beyond U.S. borders? Our 35-year content analysis of 2,588 presentations in the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Medical
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How Does Actual Inequality Shape People’s Perceptions of Inequality? A Class Perspective Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Edward Haddon, Cary Wu
While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals’ awareness of income inequality is largely unresponsive to actual inequality. In this article, we argue that individuals in different social class positions often respond to the actual levels of income inequality distinctively, and therefore a class
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Family Structure, Gender, and Wages in STEM Work Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Ann M. Beutel, Cyrus Schleifer
Drawing upon work effort and gendered organizations perspectives and using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how family structure types (i.e., combinations of marital and parental statuses) shape within- and between-gender variation in the earnings of highlyeducated men and women working in STEM and non-STEM occupations. We find that STEM and non-STEM women earn premia for marriage
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Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008–2016 Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Daniel Laurison, Hana Brown, Ankit Rastogi
Intersectional analyses are increasingly common in sociology; however, analyses of voting tend to focus on only race, class, or gender, using the others as control variables. We assess whether and how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct patterns of voter engagement in presidential elections 2008–2016. Per existing research, we find income strongly predicts White voting. However, the
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The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Beksahn Jang, Kelsey E. Gonzalez, Liwen Zeng, Daniel E. Martínez
Latinos and Asian-Americans constitute the largest recent immigrant groups in the United States. Upon arrival, immigrants from these groups generally identify with their national origin despite being categorized as “Asian” or “Latino” for state enumeration. While both are racialized and excluded from mainstream identities, they differ in their internal linguistic and religious diversities, socioeconomic
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Introduction: Anselm Strauss's Grounded Theory and the Study of Work Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Roberta Lessor
Anselm Strauss was interested in the sociology of work in every sense and used his grounded theory method to observe and analyze everything he encountered, including his own “medical work.” Drawing on the reflections of his students, this introduction briefly examines Strauss's everyday work mode using grounded theory. The eight articles in this special issue honor Strauss by using his theories and
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Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Rebecca Bonhag, Paul Froese
Social mattering refers to an individual’s perceived sense of significance in the world and is a key aspect of overall mental health. Using data from a representative survey of adult Americans, we test the extent to which societal-level status, community engagement, group memberships, and interpersonal attachments affect men’s and women’s sense of mattering. We find that women gain social significance
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The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Sebastian Weingartner, Patrick Schenk, Jörg Rössel
In times of cultural omnivorousness, authentic products are highly valued by high-status consumers. The article scrutinizes the social and individual preconditions for attributing hedonic and economic value to authentic products. Taking the concept of cultural capital as a starting point, it argues that cues indicating a product’s authenticity affect taste and price evaluations only if individuals
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Special Issue Editors’ Introduction: A Sociology of Firearms for the Twenty-First Century Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Trent Steidley, David Yamane
This special issue of Sociological Perspectives arrives amid a renaissance in the academic study of guns in recent years. In addition to individual books and articles, this collection sits alongside several other recent edited volumes (Carlson, Goss, and Shapira 2019; Fisher and Hovey 2021; Obert, Poe, and Sarat 2019) and special issues of journals (Metzl as editor for Palgrave Communications in 2019
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“Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Laura Napolitano, Patricia Tevington, Patrick J. Carr, Maria Kefalas
While student loans play a large role in the financing of higher education, there has been relatively little qualitative work on how young adults understand their debt burdens and the debt’s perceived future impact. We examine this topic utilizing a sample of 105 young people from working-, middle-, and upper middle-class backgrounds who experienced young adulthood during the Great Recession. While
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Society Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Andrew P. Davis, Simone Rambotti, Terrence D. Hill
Since emerging in late December 2019, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has contributed to over 4.5 million deaths worldwide, and many more “long-haulers” have been left to endure a range of long-term side effects. While impacts on health have been devastating, the COVID-19 pandemic has metastasized through entire societies and nearly every aspect of social life. Indeed, the pandemic has mobilized
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Forms of Group Involvement: Alternatives to the Standard Question Sociological Perspectives (IF 1.78) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Claude Fischer, Xavier Durham
Deciding whether Americans have become decreasingly involved in group life entails a methodological issue: Does the standard question about the associations to which respondents belong, asked for decades by the General Social Survey (GSS) and many others, miss newer and more diverse forms of group involvement? Following on Paxton and Rap, we mine a recent panel survey, UCNets, that provides several