Recently added articles from Social Forces:
Structure and stress: trajectories of depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... For nearly three decades, the social determinants of depression have remained a dominant theme in the mental health literature. During this period, studies providing greater conceptual clarity and more nuanced statistical models have substantially advanced our understanding of social ...
Multiracial self-identification and adolescent outcomes: a social psychological approach to the marginal man theory.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Despite its pejorative and seemingly outdated connotations, the marginal man theory (Park 1928, 1931; Stonequist 1935) remains one of the most common theoretical frames for research on the experiences of multiracial individuals (e.g., Bracey et al. 2004; Campbell and Eggerling-Boeck 2006; ...
The transformative role of religious experience: the case of short-term missions.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Sociologists have long sought to understand the relationship between collective experiences and individual commitments. An early attempt at such understanding can be found in Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1902/2001), which argued that the social organization of religious ...
Disability and the transition to adulthood.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 51 million people, or 18 percent of the 283 million people residing in the United States in 2002, had a disability (Steinmetz 2006)--"a physical or mental impairment [that] ... results in a 'substantial limitation of one or more major life activities.'" ...
Maternal education, early child care and the reproduction of advantage.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Rates of educational attainment among American women are increasing dramatically, with women now more likely than men to graduate from high school and college and pursue advanced degrees (Buchmann and DiPrete 2006; Nevill and Chen 2007). The intergenerational implications of this trend are ...