Jennie E Brand
Jennie E Brand
Job loss is an involuntary disruptive life event with a far-reaching impact on workers' life trajectories. Its incidence among growing segments of the workforce, alongside the recent era of severe economic upheaval, has increased attention ...
Somebody's Children or Nobody's Children? How the Sociological Perspective Could Enliven Research on Foster Care [0.03%]
谁的孩子？社会学视角如何能够使收养研究焕发活力
Christopher Wildeman,Jane Waldfogel
Christopher Wildeman
Social scientists have long been concerned about how the fortunes of parents affect their children, with acute interest in the most marginalized children. Yet little sociological research considers children in foster care. In this review, w...
Jeffrey D Morenoff,David J Harding
Jeffrey D Morenoff
Since the mid-1970s the United States has experienced an enormous rise in incarceration and accompanying increases in returning prisoners and in post-release community correctional supervision. Poor urban communities are disproportionately ...
Judith A Seltzer,Suzanne M Bianchi
Judith A Seltzer
Demographic changes in who becomes a parent, how many children parents have, and the marital statuses of parents and children affect the extent to which parents and adult children provide for each other later in life. We describe these demo...
Kieran Healy,James Moody
Kieran Healy
Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, w...
Barrett A Lee,Kimberly A Tyler,James D Wright
Barrett A Lee
The 'new homelessness' has drawn sustained attention from scholars over the past three decades. Definitional inconsistencies and data limitations rendered early work during this period largely speculative in nature. Thanks to conceptual, th...
Sara McLanahan,Laura Tach,Daniel Schneider
Sara McLanahan
The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We review studies that have responded to this criti...
John R Logan
John R Logan
New technologies and multilevel data sets that include geographic identifiers have heightened sociologists' interest in spatial analysis. I review several of the key concepts, measures, and methods that are brought into play in this work, a...
Steven Ruggles
Steven Ruggles
An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow comparative multilevel analysis of spatial patterns and will support studie...
Debra Umberson,Robert Crosnoe,Corinne Reczek
Debra Umberson
Sociological theory and research point to the importance of social relationships in affecting health behavior. This work tends to focus on specific stages of the life course, with a division between research on childhood/adolescent and adul...