Thurston Domina,Andrew Penner,Emily Penner
Thurston Domina
Despite their egalitarian ethos, schools are social sorting machines, creating categories that serve as the foundation of later life inequalities. In this review, we apply the theory of categorical inequality to education, focusing particul...
Robert Crosnoe,Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Robert Crosnoe
Recent methodological advances have allowed empirical research on adolescence to do better justice to theoretical models. Organized by a life course framework, this review covers the state of contemporary research on adolescents' physical, ...
Batool Zaidi,S Philip Morgan
Batool Zaidi
References to the second demographic transition (SDT) concept/theoretical framework have increased dramatically in the last two decades. The SDT predicts unilinear change toward very low fertility and a diversity of union and family types. ...
Alexandra Killewald,Fabian T Pfeffer,Jared N Schachner
Alexandra Killewald
Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. While the field has experienced rapid growth, conceptual and methodological challenges remain. We begi...
Elizabeth Bruch,Fred Feinberg
Elizabeth Bruch
Over the past half-century, scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Judgment and Decision Making have amassed a trove of findings, theories, and prescriptions regarding the processes ordinary people enact when making choices. But this bo...
Healthcare Systems in Comparative Perspective: Classification, Convergence, Institutions, Inequalities, and Five Missed Turns [0.03%]
comparative perspective：分类、趋同、制度、不平等及五大被忽视的视角
Jason Beckfield,Sigrun Olafsdottir,Benjamin Sosnaud
Jason Beckfield
This essay reviews and evaluates recent comparative social science scholarship on healthcare systems. We focus on four of the strongest themes in current research: (1) the development of typologies of healthcare systems, (2) assessment of c...
Elizabeth Fussell
Elizabeth Fussell
Natives' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy are important factors in the context of reception of immigrants since they contribute to a warm or chilly welcome, which potentially shapes immigrant and ethnic identities and inte...
The Stigma Complex [0.03%]
污名复杂性
Bernice A Pescosolido,Jack K Martin
Bernice A Pescosolido
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, research on stigma has continued. Building on conceptual and empirical work, the recent period clarifies new types of stigmas, expansion of measures, identification of new directions, and inc...
STEM Education [0.03%]
STEM教育
Yu Xie,Michael Fang,Kimberlee Shauman
Yu Xie
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the U.S.'s long-term economic growth and security. In this article, we revie...
Race, Ethnicity, and the Changing Context of Childbearing in the United States [0.03%]
美国种族、族裔和不断变化的生育背景
Megan M Sweeney,R Kelly Raley
Megan M Sweeney
In what ways do childbearing patterns in the contemporary United States vary for white, black, and Hispanic women? Why do these differences exist? Although completed family size is currently similar for white and black women, and only modes...