Recently added articles from Social Forces:
Toward a sociology of racial conceptualization for the 21st century.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The color line, "problem of the twentieth century" as Du Bois (1986[1903]) famously put it, has long been a prominent concern of American sociologists (Calhoun 2007). The ways in which they have engaged the topic of race, however, reflect the preoccupations of their times. Early work on ...
Paradise lost: age-dependent mortality of American communes, 1609-1965.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Seven decades of research have examined temporal patterns of organizational mortality. Most theorists posit that the risk of organizational failure is not constant over time, but changes as organizations age. However, they have variously argued that the risk of failure falls, rises or ...
Relative deprivation and adolescent outcomes in Iceland: a multilevel test.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The theory of relative deprivation combines enduring sociological themes that cut across levels of analysis. The theory focuses on the effects of deprivation on individual behavior, attitude and well-being. It emphasizes that the social context specifies the effects of deprivation on ...
The nones: social characteristics of the religiously unaffiliated.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Recent national surveys in the United States suggest that approximately 14 percent of Americans claim no religious preference (2001 American Religious Identification Survey; 2004 General Social Survey). Even assuming the lowest estimates, more than 10 percent of Americans fall into this ...
Preparing for public life: school sector and the educational context of lasting citizen formation.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Education is socialization. That is how Durkheim, at least, understood the primary purpose of education for cultural and societal transmission to future generations. (1) In democratic societies, education is thought to play an important role in socializing for citizenship and civic ...
Birth weight, math and reading achievement growth: a multilevel between-sibling, between-families approach.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The adverse impact of infant health on development is one of the many mechanisms through which childhood disadvantage is thought to influence later socioeconomic attainment (Conley, Strully and Bennett 2003). Children by social class and racial/ethnic background are not at equal risk for ...
National incorporation of global human rights: worldwide expansion of national human rights institutions, 1966-2004.(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The rise and expansion of the international human rights regime is a recent focus of sociological theory and research. Much theorizing revolves around the question of what such a regime implies for state sovereignty and national citizenship, and has accordingly centered on issues of treaty ...
Government stance and internal diversity of protest: a comparative study of protest against the war in Iraq in eight countries.
Mar 01, 2009; ... To what extent is the composition of a protest event determined by the stance of the government? This basic question has not received a clear answer. To be sure, social movement scholars have tackled the question whether and how social movements and protest events are affected by the ...
The trajectory of perpetrators' trauma: mnemonic politics around the Asia-Pacific War in Japan.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Recent anti-Japan demonstrations in China have highlighted the deep-seated sentiments about the Asia-Pacific War that continue to haunt international relations in Asia. While past Japanese administrations have offered apologies and compensation for Japan's transgressions in Asia during the ...
Correlates of national-level homicide variation in post-communist East-Central Europe.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Not long after the historic revolutions of 1989 that ended communism in Eastern Europe, social scientists were documenting the consequences of the rapid political and economic post-communist transformations, including heightened concerns over personal safety. On a macro-level, citizens of ...
Race differences in cohort effects on non-marital fertility in the United States.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... One of the most striking demographic changes in recent decades has been a sharp upturn in the United States and a number of other countries in non-marital fertility ratios (i.e., the percentage of births occurring to unmarried women, for simplicity NFRs). In 1940, only 3.8 percent of all ...
Comment: distinguishing cohort effects from age*period effects on non-marital fertility.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the article "Cohort Effects on Non-marital Fertility," in this issue of Social Forces, Jean Stockard employs a novel strategy for disentangling cohort, period and age effects on the non-marital fertility ratio. In a model with fixed-effect controls for age and for time period, the ...
Race differences in cohort effects on non-marital fertility in the United States: reply to Martin.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... We appreciate the opportunity to clarify and provide additional tests of the key elements of our age-period-cohort analysis of non-marital birth rates in this March 2009 issue of Social Forces. Where Steve Martin, in his commentary, has suggested specific alternative specifications or ...
An organizational approach to understanding sex and race segregation in U.S. workplaces.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Most explanations of inequality focus on the attributes of either individuals or employment positions. Scholars have occasionally considered the site of inequality: the workplace, Still fewer situate workplace inequality within the context of organizational environments. This relative ...
Parties, unions, policies and occupational sex segregation in the United States.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Occupational sex segregation is an important component of gender inequality because segregation leads to a devaluation of work roles, lower incomes for men and women, job insecurity, and unequal opportunities for mobility and authority (Cohen and Huffman 2003; England 1984; England et al ....
Supervisory bullying, status inequalities and organizational context.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The experience of bullying in employment can be devastating. Estimates of prevalence vary from a few percent to as many as half of all workers, although most research suggests that 10 to 20 percent of workers are subjected to workplace bullying each year (Einarsen et al. 2003; Rayner, Hoel ...
Stay in the game: gender, family formation and alternative trajectories in the academic life course.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Introduction One of the most visible trends in higher education is the proliferation of temporary adjunct faculty. (1) In 1975, instructors off the tenure track composed 43 percent of American faculty. By 2005, more than two-thirds were neither tenured nor tenure track (AAUP ...
Status valued goal objects and performance expectations.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Sociologists have long recognized that status characteristics can powerfully affect social interaction. Personal attributes like gender, skin color, height, attractiveness and occupation, for example, are not merely descriptive labels. They are socially meaningful because they can evoke ...
Ideologically illogical? Why do the lower-educated Dutch display so little value coherence?(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In trying to find validation for the ideological dyad between "left" and "right," or in his words "liberals" and "conservatives," Kerr found in 1952 that, much like personal excellence, political values do not always go together in a logical and coherent fashion. "[I]n short, the liberal ...
The spatial concentration of Southern whites and argument-based lethal violence.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... During the 1970s and 80s, research on regional differences in homicide was integral to the sociological study of crime in the United States. Hackney (1969), a historian, forcefully argued that Southern violence was a product of cultural values and norms specific to Southern residents and ...