David S Kirk,Andrew V Papachristos
David S Kirk
Sociologists have given considerable attention to identifying the neighborhood-level social-interactional mechanisms that influence outcomes such as crime, educational attainment, and health. Yet, cultural mechanisms are often overlooked in...
Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: how girls fare better than boys [0.03%]
青少年搬离高风险社区的成效:女孩比男孩更受益
Susan Clampet-Lundquist,Jeffrey R Kling,Kathryn Edin et al.
Susan Clampet-Lundquist et al.
Moving to Opportunity (MTO) offered public housing residents the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. Several years later, boys in the experimental group fared no better on measures of risk behavior than their control group cou...
Comparative Study
AJS; American journal of sociology. 2011 Jan;116(4):1154-89. DOI:10.1086/657352 2011
Sean F Reardon,Kendra Bischoff
Sean F Reardon
This article investigates how the growth in income inequality from 1970 to 2000 affected patterns of income segregation along three dimensions: the spatial segregation of poverty and affluence, race-specific patterns of income segregation, ...
Children of misfortune: early adversity and cumulative inequality in perceived life trajectories [0.03%]
不幸儿童:早期不利经历与感知生命轨迹的累积不平等
Markus H Schafer,Kenneth F Ferraro,Sarah A Mustillo
Markus H Schafer
Adversity early in life may alter pathways of aging, but what interpretive processes can soften the blow of early insults? Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, the authors analyze trajectories of life evaluations and then consider whe...
When formal laws and informal norms collide: lineage networks versus birth control policy in China [0.03%]
当正式法律与非正式规范冲突时——中国家族网络与计划生育政策之间的博弈
Yusheng Peng
Yusheng Peng
Ancestor worship and bloodline continuation are the core norms of lineage in China. Beginning in the late 1970s, these cultural norms came into direct confrontation with the state birth control policy. Pitched against each other are the ant...
Beyond and below racial homophily: ERG models of a friendship network documented on Facebook [0.03%]
超越种族同质性:基于Facebook记录的一个友谊网络的ERG模型
Andreas Wimmer,Kevin Lewis
Andreas Wimmer
A notable feature of U.S. social networks is their high degree of racial homogeneity, which is often attributed to racial homophily--the preference for associating with individuals of the same racial background. The authors unpack racial ho...
Three worlds of relief: race, immigration, and public and private social welfare spending in American cities, 1929 [0.03%]
美国城市的救济:种族、移民与公共和私人社会福利支出,1929年
Cybelle Fox
Cybelle Fox
Using a data set of public and private relief spending for 295 cities, this article examines the racial and ethnic patterning of social welfare provision in the United States in 1929. On the eve of the Depression, cities with more blacks or...
Falling short of the promise: poverty vulnerability in the United States and Britain, 1993-2003 [0.03%]
美国和英国的贫困脆弱性问题:承诺与现实之间的差距(1993—2003)
Diana Worts,Amanda Sacker,Peggy McDonough
Diana Worts
The welfare state promises to moderate the duration and concentration of poverty. The authors ask how well this promise has been fulfilled in the United States and Britain from 1993 to 2003. They examine two aspects of poverty vulnerability...
Multicenter Study
AJS; American journal of sociology. 2010 Jul;116(1):232-71. DOI:10.1086/653542 2010
Racial boundary formation at the dawn of Jim Crow: the determinants and effects of black/mulatto occupational differences in the United States, 1880 [0.03%]
美国种族分界线的形成:1880年黑白/黑白混血职业差异的影响因素及影响范围
Aaron Gullickson
Aaron Gullickson
This article examines variation in the social position of mixed-race populations by exploiting county-level variation in the degree of occupational differentiation between blacks and mulattoes in the 1880 U.S. census. The role of the mixed-...
Comparative Study
AJS; American journal of sociology. 2010 Jul;116(1):187-231. DOI:10.1086/652136 2010
The civilizing process and its discontents: suicide and crimes against persons in France, 1825-1830 [0.03%]
文明及其不适:1825至1830年的法国自杀与侵犯人身罪案件
Hugh P Whitt
Hugh P Whitt
A spatial analysis of data for French départements assembled in the 1830s by André-Michel Guerry and Adolphe d'Angeville examines the impacts of modernization and resistance to governmental "Frenchification" policies on measures of violen...