Temporal Misalignment and Unequal Agency: What Terminal Cancer Patients Teach Us about Time and Inequality [0.03%]
Zhuofan Li,Daniel Dohan,Corey M Abramson
Zhuofan Li
This article examines how time both exacerbates and destabilizes existing inequality by stratifying agency. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in nine cancer clinics and 196 in-depth interviews with 96 patients navigating a terminal cancer ...
Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters [0.03%]
抗衡的力量：劳工联合会对抗沃尔玛超级购物中心的买方力量
Joshua Choper,Lukas Lehner,Zachary Parolin
Joshua Choper
Power is central to sociological accounts of economic inequality; however, buyer power-market conditions in which one or a few dominant employers can limit workers' outside options for employment-has received little attention relative to wo...
Alec P Rhodes,Davon Norris,Jason Houle et al.
Alec P Rhodes et al.
Low-income households in the United States draw on public and private resources to manage economic risk. Cross-national scholars describe a "credit-welfare state tradeoff" where credit markets become particularly important when state benefi...
Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns [0.03%]
与鬼共存：过去物理痕迹如何影响唐人街的文化创伤
Matt Patterson,Henry Tsang,Bryan Kuk et al.
Matt Patterson et al.
Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community's shared identity, potentially generating feelings of solidarity and providing communities with a sense of common purpose. This article examines ...
Redefining Relationships: Explaining the Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting [0.03%]
重塑关系：解释父亲服刑对育儿正反两面的影响
Kristin Turney,Christopher Wildeman
Kristin Turney
In response to dramatic increases in imprisonment, a burgeoning literature considers the consequences of incarceration for family life, almost always documenting negative consequences. But the effects of incarceration may be more complicate...
Letícia J Marteleto,Sneha Kumar,Luiz Gustavo Fernandes Sereno et al.
Letícia J Marteleto et al.
Childbearing norms and discourse influence social interactions and policy priorities, reflecting and reinforcing social stratification. We propose a theoretical framework that systematically explains stratification and discrimination in chi...
Christine R Schwartz,Michael D King
Christine R Schwartz
Despite vast changes in women's status in society and in the home, we have little understanding of the changing role of mothers in shaping children's life chances. Mothers' contributions may have grown given their increased status-measured ...
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights [0.03%]
同胞效应与认知及社会行为发展：争论与新见解
Wei-Hsin Yu,Hope Xu Yan
Wei-Hsin Yu
Despite social scientists' long-standing interest in the influences of siblings, previous research has not settled the debates on how relevant sibship size is to child development and whether growing up with more siblings could be beneficia...
The "Dark Side" of Community Ties: Collective Action and Lynching in Mexico [0.03%]
“黑暗面”的社区联系：墨西哥的集体行动与私刑事件
Enzo Nussio
Enzo Nussio
Lynching remains a common form of collective punishment for alleged wrongdoers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia today. Unlike other kinds of collective violence, lynching is usually not carried out by standing organizations. How do lynch ...
Eva Jaspers,Deni Mazrekaj,Weverthon Machado
Eva Jaspers
Partnered men and women show consistently gendered patterns of labor market behavior. We test whether not only a person's own gender, but also their partner's gender shapes hours worked. We use Dutch administrative population data on almost...