Glenn Firebaugh,Matthew B Schroeder
Glenn Firebaugh
The relative income or income status hypothesis implies that people should be happier when they live among the poor. Findings on neighborhood effects suggest, however, that living in a poorer neighborhood reduces, not enhances, a person's h...
Invigorating the content in social embeddedness: an ethnography of life insurance transactions in China [0.03%]
扎根社会互动的保险营销与销售——对中国寿险行业的民族志研究
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
Based on more than 14 months' ethnographic research in China, this article brings in culture and symbolic interactionism to understand the social embeddedness of economic transactions. First, an analytic frame linking tie strengths to defin...
Operating room: relational spaces and microinstitutional change in surgery [0.03%]
手术室:外科中的关系空间与微观制度变革
Katherine C Kellogg
Katherine C Kellogg
One of the great paradoxes of institutional change is that even when top managers in organizations provide support for change in response to new regulation, the employees whom new programs are designed to benefit often do not use them. This...
Ann H Kim,Michael J White
Ann H Kim
The theoretical and empirical implications of the structural basis of panethnicity and of the layering of ethnic boundaries in residential patterns are considered while simultaneously evaluating the "panethnic hypothesis," the extent to whi...
Gender inequality in the welfare state: sex segregation in housework, 1965-2003 [0.03%]
福利国家中的性别不平等:家务劳动的性别隔离,1965—2003年
Jennifer L Hook
Jennifer L Hook
National context may influence sex segregation of household tasks through both pragmatic decision making and the normative context in which decision making is embedded. This study utilizes 36 time use surveys from 19 countries (spanning 196...
Migrants' competing commitments: sexual partners in urban Africa and remittances to the rural origin [0.03%]
移民的承诺冲突:非洲城市中的性伴侣与农村发源地的汇款
Nancy Luke
Nancy Luke
Migrants form nonfamilial ties in urban destinations, which could compete with origin families for a share of remittances. A framework of competing commitment predicts that new relationships affect remittances depending on the extent to whi...
Ka-Yuet Liu,Marissa King,Peter S Bearman
Ka-Yuet Liu
Despite a plethora of studies, we do not know why autism incidence has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Using California data, this study shows that children living very close to a child previously diagnosed with autism are more...
Trajectories of Failure: The Educational Careers of Children with Mental Health Problems [0.03%]
失败之路:心理健康问题儿童的教育经历
Jane D McLeod,Danielle L Fettes
Jane D McLeod
The authors draw on developmental psychopathology, life course sociology, and scholarship on educational processes to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the association of children's mental health problems with educational att...
Incest avoidance, the incest taboo, and social cohesion: revisiting Westermarck and the case of the Israeli kibbutzim [0.03%]
近亲避婚、乱伦禁忌与社会凝聚力:兼论韦斯特马克和以色列集体农场的案例
Eran Shor,Dalit Simchai
Eran Shor
During the past 50 years, a consensus has been forming around Edward Westermarck's idea that incest avoidance results from an aversion that develops when individuals are brought up in propinquity. The argument here presented counters this e...
Lauren J Krivo,Ruth D Peterson,Danielle C Kuhl
Lauren J Krivo
Drawing on structural racism and urban disadvantage approaches, this article posits a broad influence of citywide racial residential segregation on levels of violent crime across all urban neighborhoods regardless of their racial/ethnic com...