Recently added articles from Social Forces:
Power and relation in the world polity: the INGO Network Country Score, 1978-1998.(international nongovernmental organizations)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Numerous scholars have argued that states are increasingly connected to each other through international non-governmental organizations (e.g., Boll and Thomas 1997, 1999). Their arguments are based largely on the impressive growth in INGOs over the past century. Since the mid-19th century, ...
Organizations and local development: economic and demographic growth among southern counties during reconstruction.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... In the years leading up to the American Civil War, Irwinsville and Hawkinsville, Georgia--two hamlets separated by 50 miles in the state's Wiregrass region--shared a pastoral and pre-industrial existence. The South Georgia piney woods around Irwinsville were populated primarily by ...
Drive-bys and trade-ups: examining the directionality of the crime and residential instability relationship.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Given the numerous studies demonstrating that neighborhood characteristics influence a variety of behaviors and outcomes at the individual level (for a review, see Sampson et al. 2002), social scientists have expended considerable effort in trying to understand the social processes ...
Adolescent identities and sexual behavior: an examination of Anderson's player hypothesis.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Rosenberg (1981) famously argued that the self is both a "social product" and a "social force," general observations that have received more systematic treatment within structurally oriented versions of the symbolic interactionist perspective (Burke 1980; Hunt 2003; Stryker 1980). In this ...
Gender inequality in interaction--an evolutionary account.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... There is much experimental evidence from both sociological and non-sociological studies that gender is a potent differentiating factor in small group interactions. Controlled laboratory experiments with mixed-sex groups of college students show how women defer to men, while men do not ...