William G Axinn,Dirgha J Ghimire
William G Axinn
A new approach to investigation of human influences on the environment identifies social organization as an influence independent of population size, affluence, and technology. The framework also identifies population events, such as births...
Race and the local politics of punishment in the new world of welfare [0.03%]
_race_and_the_local_politics_of_punishment_in_the_new_world_of_welfare_种族与福利的新世界中的惩罚的当地政治生态
Richard C Fording,Joe Soss,Sanford F Schram
Richard C Fording
To illuminate how race affects the usage of punitive tools in policy implementation settings, we analyze sanctions imposed for noncompliant client behavior under welfare reform. Drawing on a model of racial classification and policy choice,...
Thomas A DiPrete,Andrew Gelman,Tyler McCormick et al.
Thomas A DiPrete et al.
Using 2006 General Social Survey data, the authors compare levels of segregation by race and along other dimensions of potential social cleavage in the contemporary United States. Americans are not as isolated as the most extreme recent est...
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...