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Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-12
Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park, Nan FengWhat is the relationship between inequality and social ties? Do personal networks, group memberships, and connections to social resources help level the playing field, or do they reinforce economic disparities? We examine two core empirical issues: the degree of inequality in social ties and their consolidation with income. Using 142,000 person-wave observations from 15 high-quality U.S. data sets
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Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-06
Christina Pao, Christopher A. Julian, D’Lane Compton, Danya Lagos, Lawrence StaceyStrategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273)
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What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-05-02
Turgut Keskintürk, Kevin Kiley, Stephen VaiseySocial science surveys regularly ask respondents to generate opinions or positions on issues deemed to be of political and social importance, such as confidence in government officials or federal spending priorities. Many theories assume that interpersonal deliberation is a primary mechanism through which people develop positions on such issues, but it is unclear how often the issues captured by such
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Do Employers Care about Past Mobility? A Field Experiment Examining Hiring Preferences in Technology and Non-Technology Jobs Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-04-28
Matissa Hollister, Nicole Denier, Xavier St-DenisResearch in previous decades found that employers imposed penalties on job applicants with a past history of frequent moves across employers, and yet mobility across employers is more common in today’s economy and perhaps even a valuable career strategy. While popular discourse and some academic literature has portrayed highly mobile careers as widespread and broadly accepted, other studies have suggested
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The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-03-20
Jeremy Senn, J?rg StolzIn his seminal work 'Ordaining Women,' Mark Chaves (1997b) highlighted the phenomenon of 'loose coupling' regarding female religious leadership: congregations often display inconsistencies between their stated policies and actual practices. Some congregations declare openness to female leadership but do not practice it, whereas others officially forbid female leadership yet have women in leadership
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Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-03-14
Silvia AvramWomen tend to commute shorter distances and earn lower wages. The theory suggests that more mobile workers are likely to command higher wages, in part because they have access to more job opportunities. We show how information on employment concentration and commuting patterns can be linked to build an index of labor market opportunities, using linked administrative and household survey data from the
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Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-05
Trenton D. Mize, Bing HanMany of the topics most central to the social sciences involve nominal groupings or ordinal rankings. There are many cases in which a summary of a nominal or ordinal independent variable's effect, or the effect on a nominal or ordinal outcome, is needed and useful for interpretation. For example, for nominal or ordinal independent variables, a single summary measure is useful to compare the effect
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Invalidating Factorial Survey Experiments Using Invalid Comparisons Is Bad Practice: Learning from Forster and Neugebauer (2024) Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-27
Justin T. PickettForster and Neugebauer's (2024) invalidation study is invalid. Their conclusion that factorial survey (FS) experiments 'are not suited for studying hiring behavior' (P. 901) is unjustified, because their claim that they conducted a field experiment (FE) and FS with 'nearly identical' designs is false (P. 891). The two experiments included: (1) different factor levels (for three factors), (2) different
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Validating Factorial Survey Experiments: Response to Comment Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-27
Andrea G. Forster, Martin NeugebauerIn Forster and Neugebauer (2024), we examine to what extent a factorial survey (FS) on invitations of fictitious applicants can replicate the findings of a nearly identical field experiment conducted with the same employers. In addition to exploring the conditions under which FSs provide valid behavioral predictions, we varied the topic sensitivity and tested whether behavioral predictions were more
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The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-20
Ruth Eva J?rgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild Hovde LyngstadThere is a genetic component to divorce risk, but little is known about which and how genetically influenced traits are involved. This study makes three major contributions to address these gaps. First, we link genetic data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to population register data and estimate the total influence of common genetic variants on partnership dissolution
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Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-15
Yue Qian, Yang HuThe quality and stability of couple relationships have far-reaching consequences for the well-being of individual partners and patterns of family change. Although much research has compared the quality and stability of same-sex and different-sex relationships, the multidimensional nature of sexuality has received insufficient attention in this scholarship. Individuals in same-sex (different-sex) partnerships
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Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-09
So Yun Park, Eunsil OhFor the past three decades, scholars have conducted field experiments to examine gender-based hiring discrimination in the United States. However, these studies have produced mixed results. To further interpret these findings, we performed a meta-analysis of 37 audit studies conducted between 1990 and 2022. Using an aggregated sample of 243,202 fictitious job applications, the study finds no evidence
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The Risk Creates the Reward: Reputational Returns to Legal and Quality Risks in Online Illegal Drug Trade Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-06
William Holtkamp, Scott Duxbury, Dana L. HaynieAlthough buyers in unregulated markets depend heavily on reputational information in the absence of state oversight, few studies examine how the riskiness of a good may condition reputational effects on prices. We capitalize on novel data on 10,465 illegal drug exchanges on one online 'darknet' illegal drug market and computational text analysis to evaluate how distinct types of legal and quality risks
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New OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Standards Will Affect How Americans Self-Identify Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-16
René D. Flores, Edward Telles, Ilana M. VenturaIn March 2024, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved major changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau. These modifications include merging the separate race and Hispanic ethnicity questions into a single combined question and adding a Middle Eastern and North African category. Government officials and
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The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook During the U.S. 2020 Election Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-11
Sandra González-Bailón, David Lazer, Pablo Barberá, William Godel, Hunt Allcott, Taylor Brown, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Deen Freelon, Matthew Gentzkow, Andrew M. Guess, Shanto Iyengar, Young Mie Kim, Neil Malhotra, Devra Moehler, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Arjun Wilkins, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Annie Franco,Social media creates the possibility for rapid, viral spread of content, but how many posts actually reach millions? And is misinformation special in how it propagates? We answer these questions by analyzing the virality of and exposure to information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 presidential election. We examine the diffusion trees of the approximately 1 B posts that were re-shared at least once
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The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-03
Paul Starr, Christina PaoThe Census Bureau set off reports of a 'multiracial boom' when it announced that, according to the 2020 census, multiracial people accounted for 10.2 percent of the U.S. population. Only the year before, the bureau's American Community Survey had estimated their share as 3.4 percent. We provide evidence that the multiracial boom was largely a statistical illusion resulting from methodological changes
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Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-26
Mana Nakagawa, Christine Min Wotipka, Elizabeth BucknerDrawing on a unique data set of almost 12,000 faculty members from 52 globally ranked universities in four fields (sociology, biology, history, and engineering), this study describes and explains gender differences in tenure among faculty across 13 countries. In our sample, women comprise roughly one-third of all faculty and only 23 percent of tenured faculty, with significant variation across fields
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Some Birds Have Mixed Feathers: Bringing the Multiracial Population into the Study of Race Homophily Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-12
David R. Schaefer, Sara I. Villalta, Victoria Vezaldenos, Adriana J. Uma?a-TaylorResearch on race homophily in the United States has yet to meaningfully include the growing multiracial population. The present study confronts this challenge by drawing upon recent conceptualizations of race as a multidimensional construct. In aligning this insight with current understandings of homophily, we identify and address several open questions about the origins of race homophily—namely regarding
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Gender Segregation and Decision-Making in Undergraduate Course-Taking Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-11-08
Marissa E. Thompson, Tobias Dalberg, Elizabeth E. BruchGender segregation across fields of study is a persistent problem in higher education. Although a large body of literature has illustrated both gendered patterns in major choice as well as overall gender segregation across academic majors, comparatively less attention has been paid to an important building block for gender inequality: college courses. In this study, we examine the process of how students
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Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-29
Patrick Schenk, Vanessa A. Müller, Luca KeiserThe morality of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a contentious topic in academic and public debates. We argue that AIs moral acceptance depends not only on its ability to accomplish a task in line with moral norms but also on the social status attributed to AI. Agent type (AI vs. computer program vs. human), gender, and organizational membership impact moral permissibility. In a factorial survey
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Hunkering Down or Catching Up? No Long-Term Effect of Ethnic Minority Share on Neighborhood Contacts Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-18
Stephan Dochow-Sondershaus Sociological Science October 18, 2024 10.15195/v11.a35 Abstract This study reexamines the relationship between the coexistence of distinct ethno-cultural groups and social connectedness. Although previous research suggests a negative association between neighborhood-level ethnic diversity or ethnic minority shares and individual integration, alternative theoretical perspectives
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The Surprising Decline of Workplace Sexual Harassment Incidence in the U.S. Federal Workforce Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-07
Michael J. Rosenfeld Sociological Science October 7, 2024 10.15195/v11.a34 Abstract U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency
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Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-27
Turgut Keskintürk Sociological Science September 27, 2024 10.15195/v11.a33 Abstract Do life-course transitions in adulthood shape political orientations? One framework suggests that life events expose people to new information, allowing actors to assess their political beliefs and preferences in response to these social experiences. An alternative framework suggests that the link between one’s life-course
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Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-24
Andrea G. Forster, Martin Neugebauer Sociological Science September 24, 2024 10.15195/v11.a32 Abstract Factorial surveys (FSs) are increasingly used to predict real-world decisions. However, there is a paucity of research assessing whether these predictions are valid and, if so, under what conditions. In this preregistered study, we sent out N = 3,002 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured
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Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-10
Adriano S. Senkevics, Rogério J. Barbosa, Flavio Carvalhaes, Carlos A. Costa Ribeiro Sociological Science September 10, 2024 10.15195/v11.a31 Abstract Access to higher education depends on the interaction between social origins and academic performance: background resources boost academic skills; but even when controlling for performance, privileged students are more likely to make ambitious choices
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Prosociality Beyond In-Group Boundaries: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Selection and Intergroup Interactions in a Multiethnic European Metropolis Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-06
Delia Baldassarri, Johanna Gereke, Max Schaub Sociological Science September 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a30 Abstract How does prosocial behavior extend beyond in-group boundaries in multiethnic societies? The differentiation of Western societies presents an opportunity to understand the tension between societal pressures that push people outside the comfort zones of their familiar networks to constructively
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Housework as a Woman's Job? What Looks Like Gender Ideologies Could Also Be Stereotypes Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-03
Katrin Auspurg, Sabine Düval Sociological Science September 3, 2024 10.15195/v11.a29 Abstract We question the validity of standard measures of gender ideology. When asked about “men” and “women” in general, respondents may imagine women (men) with lower (higher) labor market resources. Therefore, standard measures may conflate gender ideologies (injunctive norms) with stereotypical beliefs (descriptive
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Examining Attitudes toward Asians throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic with Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Experiments Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-30
Yao Lu, Neeraj Kaushal, Xiaoning Huang, S. Michael Gaddis, Ariela Schachter Sociological Science August 30, 2024 10.15195/v11.a28 Abstract This study examines how COVID-induced and general attitudes toward Asians have changed over the course of the pandemic using nationally representative survey experiments in 2020 and 2022. First, we measured COVID-induced anti-Asian attitudes as the effect of a treatment
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Teacher Bias in Assessments by Student Ascribed Status: A Factorial Experiment on Discrimination in Education Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-27
Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Irene Pa?eda-Fernández, Leire Salazar, Jonatan Casta?o Mu?oz Sociological Science August 27, 2024 10.15195/v11.a27 Abstract Teachers are the evaluators of academic merit. Identifying if their assessments are fair or biased by student-ascribed status is critical for equal opportunity but empirically challenging, with mixed previous findings. We test status characteristics beliefs
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Status Ambiguity and Multiplicity in the Selection of NBA Awards Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-20
Peter McMahan, Eran Shor Sociological Science August 20, 2024 10.15195/v11.a25 Abstract Sociologists of culture have long noted that contrasting cultural frames can lead to status ambiguity and status multiplicity. We explore these phenomena in the domain of professional sports by first replicating and then extending and challenging recently published findings on selections for the National Basketball
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Unemployment Insurance and the Family: Heterogeneous Effects of Benefit Generosity on Reemployment and Economic Precarity Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-16
Ursina Kuhn, Debra Hevenstone, Leen Vandecasteele, Samin Sepahniya, Dorian Kessler Sociological Science August 16, 2024 10.15195/v11.a24 Abstract We investigate how unemployment insurance generosity impacts reemployment and economic precarity by family type. With Swiss longitudinal administrative data and a regression discontinuity design using potential benefit duration, we examine differences between
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Disparate Impact? Career Disruptions and COVID-19 Impact Statements in Tenure Evaluations Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-13
Lauren A. Rivera, Katherine Weisshaar, András Tilcsik Sociological Science August 13, 2024 10.15195/v11.a23 Abstract Extensive research reveals employer biases against workers with career disruptions, particularly those related to caregiving. However, the effectiveness of organizational practices intended to mitigate such biases is less well understood. This study examines the use of COVID-19 impact
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Labor Market Consequences of Grandparenthood Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-09
Won-tak Joo, Felix Elwert, Martin D. Munk Sociological Science August 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a22 Abstract Little is known about the labor market consequences of becoming a grandparent. We estimate grandparenthood effects on labor supply and earnings using detailed multigenerational data from Danish population registers. Results show that the consequences of grandparenthood are unequally distributed and
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Three Lions or Three Scapegoats: Racial Hate Crime in the Wake of the Euro 2020 Final in London Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-06
Christof N?gel, Mathijs Kros, Ryan Davenport Sociological Science August 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a21 Abstract Does (under-)performance of athletes from stigmatized racial groups influence the incidence of racial hate crimes? We consider the case of the English national football team during the 2020 European Football Championship and analyze whether the performance of black players during the final at
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Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-02
Patrick Sharkey Sociological Science August 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a20 Abstract The changes in daily life induced by the COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to longstanding concerns about social isolation in the United States. Despite the links between the physical setting for individuals’ daily lives and their connections with family, friends, and the various institutions of collective life
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Colorism Revisited: The Effects of Skin Color on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-10
Mauricio Bucca Sociological Science June 10, 2024 10.15195/v11.a19 Abstract Studies of colorism—the idea that racial hierarchies coexist with gradational inequalities based on skin color—consistently find that darker skin correlates with lower socioeconomic outcomes. Despite the causal nature of this debate, evidence remains predominantly associational. This study revisits the colorism literature by
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Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-03
Mauricio Bucca, Lucas G. Drouhot Sociological Science June 3, 2024 10.15195/v11.a18 Abstract Are Western European countries successfully incorporating their immigrant populations? We approach immigrant incorporation as a process of intergenerational social mobility and argue that mobility trajectories are uniquely suited to gauge the influence of immigrant origins on life chances. We compare trajectories
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The Effects of Social Mobility Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Richard Breen, John Ermisch Sociological Science April 29, 2024 10.15195/v11.a17 Abstract The question of how social mobility affects outcomes, such as political preferences, wellbeing, and fertility, has long been of interest to sociologists. But finding answers to this question has been plagued by, on the one hand, the non-identifiability of “mobility effects” as they are usually conceived in this
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When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17
Jason Greenberg, Christopher C. Liu, Leanne ten Brinke Sociological Science April 17, 2024 10.15195/v11.a16 Abstract In many organizational settings, individuals make evaluations in the context of affect-based negative relationships, in which an evaluator personally dislikes the evaluated individual. However, these dislikes are often held in check by norms of professionalism that preclude the use of
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From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12
Mads Meier J?ger, Mikkel Haderup Larsen Sociological Science April 12, 2024 10.15195/v11.a15 Abstract Theories of cultural stratification argue that a widely shared cultural hierarchy legitimizes status differences and inequality. Yet, we know little about this hierarchy empirically. To address this limitation, we collected survey data in Denmark and asked respondents to rate the implied social rank
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Implicit Terror: A Natural Experiment on How Terror Attacks Affect Implicit Bias Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09
Filip Olsson Sociological Science April 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a14 Abstract Sociology has recently seen a surge of interest in implicit culture, which refers to knowledge, habits, and feelings that are largely automatic and habitual. In this article, I argue that certain expressions of implicit culture may be more contextual and malleable than previously thought. The argument is illustrated by showing
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Every Forest Has Its Shadow: The Demographics of Concealment in the United States Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-05
Maria S. Grigoryeva, Blaine G. Robbins Sociological Science April 5, 2024 10.15195/v11.a13 Abstract This article examines what people conceal, who conceals from whom, and whether there are demographic differences in how much and what people conceal. We map concealment using a two-wave probability survey and behavioral experiment of U.S. adults (N = 1,281). Our survey measures self-reports of 37 different
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Identity from Symbolic Networks: The Rise of New Hollywood Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02
Katharina Burgdorf, Henning Hillmann Sociological Science April 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a12 Abstract To what extent may individual autonomy persist under the constraints of group identity? This dualism is particularly salient in new movements that value individual creativity above all, and yet have to muster community cohesion to establish a new style. Using the case of New Hollywood in the 1960s and
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The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-28
Sofia Avila Sociological Science March 28, 2024 10.15195/v11.a11 Abstract Workplace raids are visible and disruptive immigration enforcement operations that can result in the detention of hundreds of immigrants at one time. Despite concerns about the impact of raids on children’s well-being, there is limited research on how these tactics affect their academic performance. Using school-level testing
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Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
Kristen Harknett, Charlotte O’Herron, Evelyn Bellew Sociological Science March 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a10 Abstract The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and advancement. In this paper, we draw on data from 13,574 hourly service-sector workers to extend the study of intersectional labor market inequalities to workers’
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Bridging the Digital Divide Narrows the Participation Gap: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Vincenz Frey, Delia S. Baldassarri, Francesco C. Billari Sociological Science March 21, 2024 10.15195/v11.a9 Abstract Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American
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Educational Tracking and the Polygenic Prediction of Education Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Hannu Lahtinen, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Tim Morris, Mikko Myrskyl? Sociological Science March 18, 2024 10.15195/v11.a8 Abstract Educational systems that separate students into curriculum tracks later may place less emphasis on socioeconomic family background and allow individuals’ personal skills and interests more time to manifest. We tested whether postponing tracking from age 11 to
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Validating the White Flight Hypothesis: Neighborhood Racial Composition and Out-Migration in Two Longitudinal Surveys Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Peter Mateyka, Matthew Hall Sociological Science March 14, 2024 10.15195/v11.a7 Abstract Empirical research assessing the link between neighborhood racial composition and out-migration has largely relied on a single sample from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). In this article, we validate these models by comparing estimates from the PSID to estimates from identical models based on internal
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Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11
Jo?o M. Souto-Maior, Ravi Shroff Sociological Science March 11, 2024 10.15195/v11.a6 Abstract Whether racial disparities in enrollment in advanced high school coursework can be attributed to differences in prior academic preparation is a central question in sociological research and education policy. However, previous investigations face methodological limitations, for they compare race-specific enrollment
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Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Taylor Laemmli Sociological Science March 7, 2024 10.15195/v11.a5 Abstract This paper shows how class shaped service workers’ experiences of administrative burdens during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use the pandemic and pandemic-related shutdowns as a pseudo natural experiment in which job loss was applied to a set of workers from different class backgrounds and with different class locations, workers
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Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01
Julieta Goldenberg, Rogers Brubaker Sociological Science March 1, 2024 10.15195/v11.a4 Abstract We examine emerging practices of pronoun disclosure, discovery, and repair after the procedural turn in pronoun politics, which shifted attention from the substantive question of which pronouns should be used to the procedural question of how preferred pronouns, whatever they might be, could be effectively
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Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25
Filippo Gioachin, Anna Zamberlan Sociological Science February 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a3 Abstract Women and men share comparable levels of intergenerational social mobility in all Western economies, except for Southern European countries, where women’s life chances appear less determined by their family background. This is puzzling given Southern European’s persistent familialism, lack of institutional
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Criminal Record Stigma in the Labor Market for College Graduates: A Mixed Methods Study Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-15
Michael Cerda-Jara, David J. Harding, The Underground Scholars Research Cohort Sociological Science January 15, 2024 10.15195/v11.a2 Abstract One of the primary ways in which contact with the criminal legal system creates and maintains inequality is through the stigma of a criminal record. Although the negative effects of the stigma of a criminal record are well-documented, existing research is limited
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Old World Trade Diasporas Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Lisa Blaydes, Christopher Paik Sociological Science January 8, 2024 10.15195/v11.a1 Abstract What explains worldwide, historical patterns of trade diaspora dispersal? In the premodern period, trade diasporas were among the most important communities facilitating cross-cultural exchange over long distances. We argue that two general principles explain the proliferation of premodern trade diasporas.
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Evolutionary Influences on Assistance to Kin: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-16
Andrew J. Cherlin Sociological Science December 16, 2023 10.15195/v10.a34 Abstract Amid the changes that have diversified family life, studies have shown the continuing importance of attachment to kin through established patterns such as ties among full siblings and newer patterns such as efforts by donor-conceived individuals to find their donor siblings. Sociologists have good explanations for the
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'13 Reasons Why' Probably Increased Emergency Room Visits for Self-Harm among Teenage Girls Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-11
Chris Felton Sociological Science December 11, 2023 10.15195/v10.a33 Abstract I present evidence that the release of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why—a fictional series about the aftermath of a teenage girl’s suicide—caused a temporary spike in emergency room (ER) visits for self-harm among teenage girls in the United States. I conduct an interrupted time series analysis using monthly counts of ER visits obtained
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Subjective Political Polarization Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-27
Hyunku Kwon, John Levi Martin Sociological Science November 27, 2023 10.15195/v10.a32 Abstract Although the political polarization literature has provided important insights in understanding the structure of political attitudes in the United States at the aggregate level, and how this has changed in recent years, few attempts have been made to examine how each individual subjectively perceives political
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Does Schooling Affect Socioeconomic Inequalities in Educational Attainment? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-20
Michael Gr?tz Sociological Science November 20, 2023 10.15195/v10.a31 Abstract Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during
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Life-Course Differences in Occupational Mobility Between Vocationally and Generally Trained Workers in Germany Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Viktor Decker, Thijs Bol, Hanno Kruse Sociological Science November 14, 2023 10.15195/v10.a30 Abstract Vocational education is considered beneficial to young workers entering the labor market but disadvantageous late in their careers. Many studies assume that late-career disadvantages stem from lower levels of occupational mobility, but do not explicitly study this mechanism. This study is the first
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There’s More in the Data! Using Month-Specific Information to Estimate Changes Before and After Major Life Events Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-09
Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob Sociological Science November 9, 2023 10.15195/v10.a29 Abstract Sociological research is increasingly using survey panel data to examine changes in diverse outcomes over life course events. Most of these studies have one striking similarity: they analyze changes between yearly time intervals. In this article, we present a simple but effective method to model such trajectories