Reconstructing race in science and society: biology textbooks, 1952-2002 [0.03%]
科学与社会中的种族重构：生物学教科书的作用（1952—2002）
Ann Morning
Ann Morning
How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewe...
The intergenerational correlation in weight: how genetic resemblance reveals the social role of families [0.03%]
体重的代际相关性：遗传相似性如何揭示家庭的社会作用
Molly A Martin
Molly A Martin
According to behavioral genetics research, the intergenerational correlation in weight derives solely from shared genetic predispositions, but complete genetic determinism contradicts the scientific consensus that social and behavioral chan...
Gene by social context interactions for number of sexual partners among white male youths: genetics-informed sociology [0.03%]
遗传学视角下的社会学：关于白人青年男性性伴侣数量的基因与社会交互作用研究
Guang Guo,Yuying Tong,Tianji Cai
Guang Guo
This study sets out to investigate whether introducing molecular genetic measures into an analysis of sexual partner variety will yield novel sociological insights. The data source is the white male DNA sample in the National Longitudinal S...
Jeremy Freese
Jeremy Freese
Accumulating evidence from behavioral genetics suggests that the vast majority of individual-level outcomes of abiding sociological interest are genetically influenced to a substantial degree. This raises the question of the place of geneti...
Parallel public spheres: distance and discourse in letters to the editor [0.03%]
平行的公共领域——论读者来信中的距离与论述风格
Andrew J Perrin,Stephen Vaisey
Andrew J Perrin
This article examines letters to the editor as one of the ways citizens seek to enact a public sphere using technological mediation. Using a sample of all letters received by a metropolitan newspaper during a three-month period (N = 1,113),...
The transformation of morals in markets: death, benefits, and the exchange of life insurance policies [0.03%]
市场的道德转型：死亡、收益和人寿保险政策的交换
Sarah Quinn
Sarah Quinn
This article adopts an institutional approach to describe the changing secondary market for life insurance in the United States. Since the 1990s, this market, in which investors buy strangers' life insurance policies, has grown in the face ...
Zai Liang,Miao David Chunyu,Guotu Zhuang et al.
Zai Liang et al.
This article reports findings from a recent survey of international migration from China's Fujian Province to the United States. Using the ethnosurvey approach developed in the Mexican Migration Project, the authors conducted surveys in mig...
The ethnic roots of class universalism: rethinking the "Russian" revolutionary elite [0.03%]
东欧革命者的族裔构成：反思“俄罗斯”革命精英分子的概念
Liliana Riga
Liliana Riga
This article retrieves the ethnic roots that underlie a universalist class ideology. Focusing empirically on the emergence of Bolshevism, it provides biographical analysis of the Russian Revolution's elite, finding that two-thirds were ethn...
A preference-opportunity-choice framework with applications to intergroup friendship [0.03%]
一种应用于群体间友谊的偏好-机会-选择框架
Zhen Zeng,Yu Xie
Zhen Zeng
A long-standing objective of friendship research is to identify the effects of personal preference and structural opportunity on intergroup friendship choice. Although past studies have used various methods to separate preference from oppor...
Stanley R Bailey
Stanley R Bailey
This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries. The Brazilian state traditionally embraced mixed-race...