Recently added articles from Social Forces:
Objectivity and its discontents: knowledge advocacy in the Sally Hemings controversy.
Jun 01, 2008; Whooley, Owen ... In 2000, after two centuries of debate culminating in a DNA test, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the organization that oversees Monticello, accepted that there was a "high probability" that Jefferson fathered at least one child with his slave, Sally Hemings (Thomas Jefferson Foundation ...
The civil rights movement and the right to vote: black protest, segregationist violence and the audience.
Jun 01, 2008; Santoro, Wayne A. ... The most widely cited finding in William Gamson's ([1975]1990) research on the outcomes of social movements is that the use of violence by one of the combatants often works. By noting the instrumental value of violence, Gamson challenged the pluralist notion that violence is ...
Places as recovery machines: vulnerability and neighborhood change after major hurricanes.
Jun 01, 2008; Pais, Jeremy F. ... Early sociological research on disasters treated them as "strategic research sites" in which to study social dynamics (Merton 1969). The idea was that the veil of everyday life makes it difficult to see the normal operation of social phenomena, but extreme disruption caused by disasters ...
Immigrants, English ability and the digital divide.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Ono, Hiroshi ... Access to a computer and the Internet and the ability to use those resources are widespread in the United States and perhaps even taken for granted by many individuals, yet sizable disparities in information technology access and use persist along racial and ethnic lines. The gap between ...
For better or for worse? The consequences of marriage and cohabitation for single mothers.
Jun 01, 2008; Williams, Kristi ... Decades of research suggest that marriage offers a range of socio-emotional and economic resources that enhance health and well-being (see Waite and Gallagher 2000 for a review). Cohabitation appears to offer some, but not all of the benefits of marriage (Ross 1995). The average ...
Family structure and voter turnout.
Jun 01, 2008; Wolfinger, Nicholas H. ... Soccer moms and NASCAR dads, staple characters in journalists' stories about past and future elections, are not even bit players when social scientists describe who is likely to vote. Analyzing citizens one by one, researchers have concluded that who votes is explained largely by a triad ...
Gender-based employment and income differences in Urban China: considering the contributions of marriage and parenthood.
Jun 01, 2008; Zhang, Yuping ... Introduction Market reforms in China have brought important changes to employment, most notably replacement of the socialist job placement system with a competitive labor market, the emergence of a private sector and privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the wholesale ...
Future directions in the sociology of religion.
Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Christian ... The past 20 years have seen major developments in theoretical and empirical scholarship in the sociological study of religion. Most of the European founders of sociology, of course, engaged religion as an important dimension of understanding social order and transformation. The 20th ...
Faith, morality and mortality: the ecological impact of religion on population health.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Blanchard, Troy C. ... Introduction Over the past four decades, researchers have recognized the importance of religion as a key covariate of individual-level mortality risk in the United States. Early studies of the religion-mortality link examined the role of denominational membership (see Goldstein ...
Social and genetic influences on adolescent religious attitudes and practices.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Eaves, Lindon J. ... Introduction It has been claimed that the social sciences are embedded in a paradigm that assumes social differences are purely socially determined (Alford, Funk and Hibbing 2005; Wilson 2002; Wozniak 1984), and that humans have long transcended their genetic history. Lumsden ...
Scripture, sin and salvation: theological conservatism reconsidered.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Hempel, Lynn M. ... Introduction The rise of the New Christian Right in the 1980s and the continued vitality of conservative Protestantism to this day has prompted a great deal of scholarship about religious conservatism in the United States (see Woodberry and Smith 1998 for a review of much of ...
Religious fundamentalism among young Muslims in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Moaddel, Mansoor ... Late adolescence and young adulthood is considered the period of highest susceptibility to the social and political forces individuals encounter (Mannheim 1952; Alwin, Cohen and Newcomb 1991; Sears 1981; Schuman and Rieger 1992; Schuman and Rodgers 2004; Schuman and Scott 1989; Pennebaker ...
Islamic fatalism and the clash of civilizations: an appraisal of a contentious and dubious theory.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Acevedo, Gabriel A. ... Islamic Fatalism and the "Clash of Civilizations" Thesis Samuel Huntington places a major emphasis on Islamic beliefs as a source of cultural strain in the modern world. Few essays have generated the volume of scholarly and public debate that Huntington's controversial argument ...
Embodying the faith: religious practice and the making of a Muslim moral habitus.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Winchester, Daniel ... What does it mean to be a good person in the modern world? How is one to lead a good life among competing moral claims? What social forces constitute (or fail to constitute) the moral orientations and sensibilities of modern social actors? While many theorists have framed such ...
Envisioning the nation: women activists, religion and the public sphere in Indonesia.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Rinaldo, Rachel ... Forty young women wearing long white headscarves march down a sidewalk in Jakarta, Indonesia. They reach a concrete roundabout in front of the Grand Hyatt, joining a larger group holding banners protesting pornography. Speakers yell into a megaphone, as protesters wave signs and chant ...
Secularization and religious change among elite scientists.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Ecklund, Elaine Howard ... Introduction Secularization is the most prominent theory for explaining religious change in the face of modernity (Bruce 2002; Chaves 1994; Yamane 1997). The connection between religion and science is a central aspect of secularization theories, with the academy being one of the ...
Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men.(and "Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement")(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Cadge, Wendy ... Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men By Michelle Wolkomir Rutgers University Press. 2006. 225 pages. $65 cloth, $23.95 paper. and Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay ...
The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Ben-Yehuda, Nachman ... The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts By Gary Jensen Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 281 pages. $75 cloth, $26.95 paper. Many Europeans in the years 1450-1750 suspected that thousands of women conspired with the devil to become witches. Cases ...
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Reitz, Jeffrey G. ... Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada By Irene Bloemraad University of California Press, 2006. 370 pages. $55 cloth, $21.95 paper. Since 1970, a significant citizenship gap has opened between immigrants ...
Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Illouz, Eva ... Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life By Micki McGee Oxford University Press, 2005. $29.96 cloth. The culture of self-help has grown so tightly interwoven with American society that it defies conventional sociological analysis. Some have tried ...