Kyle Crowder,Jeremy Pais,Scott J South
Kyle Crowder
Focusing on micro-level processes of residential segregation, this analysis combines data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with contextual information from three censuses and several other sources to examine patterns of residential m...
Kenneth F Ferraro,Jessica A Kelley-Moore
Kenneth F Ferraro
Drawing from cumulative disadvantage theory, the health consequences of obesity are considered in light of the accumulation of risk factors over the life course. Two forms of compensation are also examined to determine if the risk due to ob...
Jenny Trinitapoli,Sara Yeatman
Jenny Trinitapoli
Sociologists widely acknowledge that uncertainty matters for decision making, but they rarely measure it directly. In this article, we demonstrate the importance of theorizing about, measuring, and analyzing uncertainty as experienced by in...
Social Environmental Variation, Plasticity Genes, and Aggression: Evidence for the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis [0.03%]
社会环境变化、可塑性基因和攻击行为：差异敏感性的证据
Ronald L Simons,Man Kit Lei,Steven R H Beach et al.
Ronald L Simons et al.
Although G×E studies are typically based on the assumption that some individuals possess genetic variants that enhance their vulnerability to environmental adversity, the differential susceptibility perspective posits that these individual...
Kristi Williams,Sharon Sassler,Adrianne Frech et al.
Kristi Williams et al.
Despite high rates of nonmarital childbearing in the U.S., little is known about the health of women who have nonmarital births. We use data from the NLSY79 to examine differences in age 40 self-assessed health between women who had a prema...
Bringing the Polluters Back In: Environmental Inequality and the Organization of Chemical Production [0.03%]
让污染者进来：环境不平等与化学品生产的组织方式
Don Grant,Mary Nell Trautner,Liam Downey et al.
Don Grant et al.
Environmental justice scholars have suggested that because chemical plants and other hazardous facilities emit more pollutants where they face the least resistance, disadvantaged communities face a special health risk. In trying to determin...
Paula Fomby,Andrew J Cherlin
Paula Fomby
Past research suggests that children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may face worse developmental outcomes than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even children raised in stable, single-parent ...
Uri Shwed,Peter S Bearman
Uri Shwed
This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating...
The Things They Carry: Combat, Disability and Unemployment among US Men [0.03%]
他们所携带的东西：美国男性、战斗、残疾与失业关系探究
Alair Maclean
Alair Maclean
Sociologists have long recognized that historical events, such as wars, depressions, and natural disasters, can affect the trajectories of people's lives and can reproduce or alter social structure. The following paper examines the effect o...
Kyle Crowder,Matthew Hall,Stewart E Tolnay
Kyle Crowder
This study combines data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with data from four censuses to examine the effects of foreign-born populations in the immediate neighborhood of residence and surrounding neighborhoods on the residential mob...