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Honor among Crooks: The Role of Trust in Obfuscated Disreputable Exchange American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Oliver Schilke, Gabriel Rossman
When people want to conduct a transaction, but doing so would be morally disreputable, they can obfuscate the fact that they are engaging in an exchange while still arranging for a set of transfers that are effectively equivalent to an exchange. Obfuscation through structures such as gift-giving and brokerage is pervasive across a wide range of disreputable exchanges, such as bribery and sex work.
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A Hidden Barrier to Diversification? Performance Recognition Penalties for Incumbent Workers in Male-Dominated Occupations American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jirs Meuris, Jennifer Merluzzi
Responding to persistent gender inequity, organizations have adopted diversity initiatives to promote women’s representation in traditionally male-dominated occupations. Although studies have identified challenges to these initiatives for women entering occupations, we uncover a performance recognition penalty for incumbent workers originating from the process of occupational diversification. As women
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Learning to Think Like an Economist without Becoming One: Ambivalent Reproduction and Policy Couplings in a Masters of Public Affairs Program American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Tim Hallett, Matthew Gougherty
In recent years, sociologists have labored to understand how economists have gained influence over policymaking. We extend this research by shifting focus from the matter of influence to the matter of policy training. Granted that economists already have influence, how do future policy professionals learn economic rationales? How is this mindset transmitted to hesitant students? By asking these questions
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Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Walker Nelson Kahn
The financialization of the U.S. economy has had important implications for household well-being, but the mechanisms connecting financialization and precarity have not been fully identified. This research identifies mortgage foreclosure as a nexus connecting macro-level financialization to an array of downstream consequences for homeowners and asks (1) how mortgage securitization, a key technology
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Cultural Tariffing: Appropriation and the Right to Cross Cultural Boundaries American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Abraham Oshotse, Yael Berda, Amir Goldberg
Why are some acts of cultural boundary-crossing considered permissible whereas others are repudiated as cultural appropriation? We argue that perceptions of cultural appropriation formed in response to the emergence of cultural omnivorousness as a dominant form of high-status consumption, making boundary-crossing a source of cultural capital. Consequently, the right to adopt a practice from a culture
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Understanding Competition in Social Space: Religious Congregations in Manhattan, 1949 to 1999 American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Casey P. Homan
Competition between social units has long been central to sociological theories of change. Understanding it has become particularly important in the sociology of religion with the theory of religious economies, a market model of religious change. Existing empirical tests of the theory are limited by (1) ambiguity regarding which religious groups are expected to compete with which other groups, and/or
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From Hard Labor to Market Discipline: The Political Economy of Prison Work, 1974 to 2022 American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Adam Reich
A long sociological tradition has examined how state coercion undergirds the “free market” for labor. In the contemporary prison, however, there are signs this relationship has been turned on its head. Whereas in the past, state coercion helped prisons generate profit for private markets, today market ideas are increasingly used within prisons to facilitate state control. I draw on an analysis of seven
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Threats to Blue Networks: The Effect of Partner Injuries on Police Misconduct American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Linda Zhao, Andrew V. Papachristos
Police culture creates an “us versus them” dynamic, which, at its worst, treats threats to the “thin blue line” as worthy of group response. Prior research documents such a group threat process as a possible mechanism for police misconduct, but few studies have analyzed the precise network relationships that serve as the conduit for a misconduct response. Using data on misconduct, officer injuries
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What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive? American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Erin Leahey, Jina Lee, Russell J. Funk
Novelty and impact are key characteristics of the scientific enterprise. Classic theories of scientific change distinguish among different types of novelty and emphasize how a new idea interacts wi...
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“Everyone Thinks They’re Special”: How Schools Teach Children Their Social Station American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Peter Francis Harvey
Sociologists have identified many ways that childhood inequalities promote social reproduction. These inequalities are not always explicitly linked to what children are taught about their position ...
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Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark, Ryan P. Thombs, Jeffrey Kentor, Jennifer E. Givens, Xiaorui Huang, Hassan El Tinay, Daniel Auerbach, Matthew C. Mahutga
Building on cornerstone traditions in historical sociology, as well as work in environmental sociology and political-economic sociology, we theorize and investigate with moderation analysis how and...
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How New Ideas Diffuse in Science American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith, Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions enable novel intellectual contributions to diffuse and become integrated into later scientific work? Prior work tends to focus on whole cultural products, such as patents and articl...
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Individual Empowerment, Institutional Confidence, and Vaccination Rates in Cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018 American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Wade M. Cole, Evan Schofer, Kristopher Velasco
In the past decade, before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, rates of childhood vaccination against diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus declined worldwide. An extensive l...
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Clarity from Violence? Intragroup Aggression and the Structure of Status Hierarchies American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 James Chu
Status hierarchies are fundamental forms of social order that structure peer interactions like intragroup aggression. The reciprocal relationship, however, remains unclear. Does intragroup aggressi...
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Contested by the State: Institutional Offloading in the Case of Crossover Youth American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Catherine Sirois
How do people become the responsibility of one state institution over another? Prevailing theory suggests that marginalized groups are funneled toward increasingly coercive control over the life co...
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They Can’t All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Cumulative Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Elections American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Thomas Biegert, Michael Kühhirt, Wim Van Lancker
This study investigates the extent to and mechanisms through which Matthew effects create persistent status hierarchies. We propose a model that highlights the role of cumulative status bias in the...
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Racial Inequality in Work Environments American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Letian Zhang
This article explores racial stratification in work environments. Inequality scholars have long identified racial disparities in wage and occupational attainment, but workers’ careers and well-bein...
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Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Philipp M. Lersch
Prior literature finds stability in personal culture, such as attitudes and values, in individuals’ life courses using short-running panel data. This work has concluded that lasting change in perso...
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“Born for a Storm”: Hard-Right Social Media and Civil Unrest American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Daniel Karell, Andrew Linke, Edward Holland, Edward Hendrickson
Does activity on hard-right social media lead to hard-right civil unrest? If so, why? We created a spatial panel dataset comprising hard-right social media use and incidents of unrest across the Un...
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Not in My Schoolyard: Disability Discrimination in Educational Access American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Lauren A. Rivera, András Tilcsik
Disabled people constitute the largest minority group in the United States, and disability discrimination is prohibited under federal law. Nevertheless, disability has received limited attention in...
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Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Xiang Zhou, Guanghui Pan
How does higher education shape the Black-White earnings gap? It may help close the gap if Black youth benefit more from attending and completing college than do White youth. On the other hand, Bla...
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Hierarchies in the Decentralized Welfare State: Prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher Program American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Simone Zhang, Rebecca A. Johnson
Social provision in the United States is highly decentralized. Significant federal and state funding flows to local organizational actors, who are granted discretion over how to allocate resources ...
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State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Cecilia Menjívar
In this presidential address, I argue for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classificat...
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Embracing Market Liberalism? Community Structure, Embeddedness, and Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions to Stock Corporations American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Marc Schneiberg, Adam Goldstein, Matthew S. Kraatz
Integrating research on communities with economic and organizational sociology, we analyze how organizations’ responses to marketization are shaped by their embeddedness in communities and the soci...
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Party, Race, and Neutrality: Investigating the Interdependence of Attitudes toward Social Groups American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Jordan Brensinger, Ramina Sotoudeh
Recent public and scholarly discourse suggests that partisanship informs how people feel about social groups in the United States by organizing those groups into camps of political friends and enem...
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Double Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jayanti Owens
Bridging research in social psychology with scholarship on racialized organizations, this article shows how individual bias and organizational demographic composition can operate together to shape ...
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Homicide and State History American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen
We argue that cross-national variability in homicide rates is strongly influenced by state history. Populations living within a state are habituated, over time, to settling conflicts through regula...
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Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Brian J. McCabe
Sociological studies of poverty governance investigate how state actors manage marginalized populations, regulate their participation in social institutions, and reform their behavior through syste...
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Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents’ Economic Decisions American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Aliya Hamid Rao
How do parents decide what goods, experiences, and activities they can afford for their children during times of economic insecurity? This article draws on 72 in-depth interviews with U.S. professi...
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Collaborating in Class: Social Class Context and Peer Help-Seeking and Help-Giving in an Elite Engineering School American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Anthony M. Johnson
Scholars have extensively documented social class differences in students’ relationships with educational institutions through their interactions with authority figures and the unequal institutiona...
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Caught between Frontstage and Backstage: The Failure of the Federal Reserve to Halt Rule Evasion in the Financial Crisis of 1974 American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Pierre-Christian Fink
Rule evasion by companies is a major driver of change in contemporary market societies. Recent research holds that periods of market instability offer opportunities to bring rule evasion under cont...
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Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Henrich R. Greve, Hayagreeva Rao, Paul Vicinanza, Echo Yan Zhou
Conspiracies are consequential and social, yet online conspiracy groups that consist of individuals (and bots) seeking to explain events or a system have been neglected in sociology. We extract con...
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Modernizing Leviathan: Carceral Reform and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Brazil’s Espírito Santo State American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Maria-Fátima Santos
Incarceration has become naturalized as a primary mode of punishment within the penal systems of modern states across the globe. This study examines how states develop the capacity to execute incar...
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Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants? American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Emilio J. Castilla, Ethan J. Poskanzer
When screening candidates, organizations often give preference to certain applicants on the basis of their familial ties. This “legacy preference,” particularly widespread in college admissions, ha...
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Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Wendy D. Roth, Patricio Solís, Christina A. Sue
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people’s socioeconomic status. In both Latin Ameri...
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Relational Risk: How Relationships Shape Personal Assessments of Risk and Mitigation American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Anthony Urena
Objects of risk mitigation are typically viewed as neutral items that limit exposure to an established hazard. However, people may refuse to adopt such tools, even when they feel vulnerable. This a...
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To Punish, Parent, or Palliate: Governing Urban Poverty through Institutional Failure American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Anthony DiMario
Studies of poverty governance typically emphasize the punitive subjugation or paternalistic disciplining of the poor. Much work combines elements of these approaches, and recent studies depict rela...
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Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Jaime Kucinskas, Evan Stewart
Churches have long been sites of local charity work as well as national political movements. What happens when people engage in more individualistic forms of spirituality, like mindfulness meditati...
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Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for U.S. Servicewomen American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Stephanie Bonnes
This article draws on in-depth interviews with 50 U.S. servicewomen to advance sociological understandings of gender, femininity, and harassment. Recognizing that women are targeted with harassment...
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Judges as Party Animals: Retirement Timing by Federal Judges and Party Control of Judicial Appointments American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Ross M. Stolzenberg, James Lindgren
Long-standing debate over the Politicized Departure Hypothesis (PDH) asserts that federal judges tend to arrange to retire under presidents of the same political party as the president who first ap...
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What’s Next? Artists’ Music after Grammy Awards American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Giacomo Negro, Balázs Kovács, Glenn R. Carroll
Do the cultural works artists produce after receiving major awards change in character? As awards lessen the constraints artists typically face, we argue that award winners receive more opportuniti...
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The Agrarian Roots of Divergent Development: A Case Study of Twentieth-Century Brazil American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Chris Carlson
The literature on development has long highlighted the role of international trade and developmental states as key factors in explaining divergent processes of economic development. A country’s position in the world economy and its state’s capacity to promote industrialization are seen as fundamental to understanding its development path. Yet, these approaches are often inadequate for explaining the
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Commitment through Sacrifice: How Longer Ramadan Fasting Strengthens Religiosity and Political Islam American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Ozan Aksoy, Diego Gambetta
Religions seem to defy the law-of-demand, which suggests that all else equal, an increase in the cost of an activity will induce individuals to decrease the resources they spend on that activity. Rather than weakening religious organizations, evidence shows that the sacrifices exacted by religious practices are positively associated with the success of those organizations. We present the first strong
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Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention: Perceptions of Distant Labor and Environmental Problems American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Matthew Amengual, Tim Bartley
Collective perceptions of harm and impropriety channel the evolution of capitalism, as shown by research on the moral boundaries of markets. But how are boundaries perceived when harms are distant and observers face competing claims from advocacy organizations and corporations? These conditions are particularly salient in global supply chains, where private voluntary initiatives have been formed to
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Who Counts as Family? How Standards Stratify Lives American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Stefan Timmermans, Pamela J. Prickett
Building on Max Weber’s observation that the state’s reliance on formal tools leads to governance for some and dehumanization for others, we investigate administrative standards as a social mechanism of stratification that sorts people into categories and allocates symbolic and financial resources. Specifically, we examine how at a time of increased family diversity, the state’s use of family standards
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Gender in the Markets for Expertise American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Mathijs de Vaan, Toby Stuart
Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in client-expert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences
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Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nathan Wilmers, Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial employers often turn out to be no more generous with low-wage workers than are other employers. In this article, we argue that prosocial commitments
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Correction American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-03-15
Kiley, Kevin, and Stephen Vaisey. 2020. “Measuring Stability and Change in Personal Culture Using Panel Data.” American Sociological Review 85(3):477–506 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420921538).
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Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Long Doan, Matthew K. Grace
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment (N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race
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Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Carly Knight, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace, finding that litigation frequently elicits resistance and even retribution from employers. But quantitative studies find that lawsuits can increase workforce diversity. This article develops an account of managerial resistance
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Assessing the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis: An Experimental Test American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Blaine G. Robbins, Aimée Dechter, Sabino Kornrich
This article seeks to experimentally evaluate the thesis that marriage is deinstitutionalized in the United States. To do so, we map the character of the norm about whether different-sex couples ought to marry, and we identify the extent to which the norm is strong or weak along four dimensions: polarity, whether the norm is prescriptive, proscriptive, bipolar (both prescriptive and proscriptive),
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Operationalizing Legitimacy American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Eric W. Schoon
Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy is a persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize existing approaches to conceptualizing legitimacy across the social sciences to identify widely agreed upon definitional properties. I then build on these points of consensus to develop a generalizable approach to operationalization
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From Bat Mitzvah to the Bar: Religious Habitus, Self-Concept, and Women’s Educational Outcomes American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Ilana M. Horwitz, Kaylee T. Matheny, Krystal Laryea, Landon Schnabel
This study considers the role of religious habitus and self-concept in educational stratification. We follow 3,238 adolescents for 13 years by linking the National Study of Youth and Religion to the National Student Clearinghouse. Survey data reveal that girls with a Jewish upbringing have two distinct postsecondary patterns compared to girls with a non-Jewish upbringing, even after controlling for
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Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap: The Education of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual America American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Joel Mittleman
Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality has been largely invisible as a population-level axis of academic inequality. Taking advantage of major recent data expansions, the current study establishes sexuality as a core dimension of educational stratification in the United States. First, I analyze lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults’ college completion
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Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Devah Pager, Rebecca Goldstein, Helen Ho, Bruce Western
Court-related fines and fees are widely levied on criminal defendants who are frequently poor and have little capacity to pay. Such financial obligations may produce a criminalization of poverty, where later court involvement results not from crime but from an inability to meet the financial burdens of the legal process. We test this hypothesis using a randomized controlled trial of court-related fee
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Bloodlines: National Border Crossings and Antisemitism in Weimar Germany American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Robert Braun
This article argues that national border crossings act as focal points for xenophobia. Two mechanisms converge to produce this pattern. First, when the nation-state is under pressure, border crossings make cross-national differences salient, producing a perceived link between international forces and socioeconomic problems of vulnerable social classes. Second, border crossings come to symbolize international
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Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Michaela DeSoucey, Miranda R. Waggoner
This article examines perceptions of health risk when some individuals within a shared space are in heightened danger but anyone, including unaffected others, can be a vector of risk. Using the case of peanut allergy and drawing on qualitative content analysis of the public comments submitted in response to an unsuccessful 2010 U.S. Department of Transportation proposal to prohibit peanuts on airplanes
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Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Margot I. Jackson, Daniel Schneider
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities. Recent research identifies significant class gaps in parental investments that contribute to high levels of inequality by family income and education. State-level public investments in children and families have the potential to reduce class inequality
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Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Jane Pryma
Journalistic accounts of the opioid crisis often paint prescription opioids as the instrument of profit-minded pharmaceutical companies who enlisted pain specialists to overprescribe addictive drugs. Broadening beyond a focus on pharmaceutical power, this article offers a comparative-historical explanation, rooted in inter- and intra-professional dynamics, of the global increase in rates of opioid
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Articulating the Pueblo Cubano: Women’s Politicization and Productivity in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959 to 1969 American Sociological Review (IF 12.444) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Jen Triplett
How do political actors forge social solidarity across preexisting axes of social difference? This article investigates how political elites undertaking projects of political articulation—understood as linking together diverse constituencies to create integrated political blocs—contend with preexisting cultural constraints embedded in the social fabric. I do so by tracing how the post-1959 Cuban regime