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A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Max Besbris, John N. Robinson, Hillary Angelo
Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy, state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational insights about the novelty of commodified, emplaced private property from theorists like Du Bois and Polanyi, these disparate threads have not been tied together into a coherent field of study. Here, we review three areas
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Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Jacob William Faber, Jocelyn Pak Drummond
In the thirty years since Massey and Denton's American Apartheid, sociological scholarship on segregation has proliferated, calling attention to the ways in which the social geography of the United States both drives and is shaped by racial and economic inequality. More recent work has focused on the role that institutional actors play in the reproduction of residential segregation and its disparate
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Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other) Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Craig M. Rawlings, Edgar V. Cook, Kiersten Hasenour, E.K. Maloney, Lynn Smith-Lovin
Derogation of the victim refers to the tendency of an observer to negatively evaluate someone hurt by the action of another. Victim derogation has been a core feature of social psychology for decades, but evidence suggests this phenomenon is weakening. It may even be reversing into a valorization of victims. Is this empirical pattern due to methodological changes and shifts in theoretical framing of
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The Plot Thickens: A Sociology of Conspiracy Theories Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hayagreeva Rao, Henrich R. Greve
Conspiracy theories are a constant feature of human society but have recently risen in prominence with the flurry of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and their public display in social media. Conspiracy theories should be studied not only because of their potential harm but also because they are related to other sources of misinformation such as folk theories, rumors, and fake news. Recent understanding
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Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jennifer Lee, Kimberly Goyette, Xi Song, Yu Xie
Presumed competent, Asian Americans exhibit the highest level of education and median household income of all major US ethnoracial groups. On average, they outpace all groups in the domain of education, yet they do not maintain their advantage in the labor market. The question of bias against Asian Americans has taken center stage in the most recent SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action, but the attention
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Social Ecological Systems in Flux Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Raul P. Lejano, Daniel Stokols
A world in flux confronts the present generation, raising fears of systems gone awry. Whether it is the prospect of runaway climate change or the dangers of unbridled artificial intelligence, these dilemmas suggest that scientific and technological remedies have not been matched by progress in harnessing social and political capacities for collective action. Part of this impasse stems from a gap between
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Serendipitous Sociologist: Transitions and Turning Points in My Journey Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Marta Tienda
Serendipity, curiosity, and lived experience shaped my career as a social demographer and my interests in social policy. I transitioned from the humanities to sociology and demography as a graduate student the University of Texas at Austin, where I discovered my affinity for quantitative research. My interest in Latin American demography gave way to domestic concerns as new opportunities arose at each
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Critical Race Theory: Confronting, Challenging, and Rethinking White Privilege Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Kalwant Bhopal
The term “White privilege” has been used to denote specific privileges that White groups possess due to their Whiteness and White identity. In this article, firstly, I outline how, as a conceptual tool, White privilege can only be understood in relation to Critical Race Theory, specifically the notion that racism is central and endemic, through Whiteness as property and interest convergence. Secondly
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Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Megan Tobias Neely, Patrick Sheehan, Christine L. Williams
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics
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The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Jason Beckfield, Daniel Alain Evrard
From the earliest studies examining the impacts of the coal-powered Industrial Revolution, the field of sociology has possessed an intimate, if often implicit, interest in the interconnectedness of fossil fuels and modernity. With the looming climate crisis, the world must rapidly wean itself from these resources in favor of others that emit little to no greenhouse gasses. And while this energy transition
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Life's Work: History, Biography, and Ideas Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Ann Swidler
Part personal autobiography, part intellectual history, this article offers lessons from a long career, reflections on my sociological contributions, and an account of how major social changes shaped my trajectory and made me the sociologist I am. I also offer an assessment of some of my central ideas and some new suggestions about how to understand culture.
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Sociology for Beginners Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Jeff Manza
This article examines the teaching of the introductory course in sociology. The first section sets the context of the teaching of introductory sociology in American higher education. The second turns to an examination of the written materials of introductory sociology: the textbooks used in the vast majority of these courses. Their widespread use provides a window into how introductory sociology has
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Ethnomethodology's Legacies and Prospects Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Douglas W. Maynard, John Heritage
This article considers the large range of empirical research that has emerged under the broad aegis of ethnomethodology, in the period between the publication of Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967) and the present day. Starting with a brief overview of Garfinkel's intellectual career, we discuss the relation of ethnomethodology to Schütz's phenomenology, Parsons's systems theory, and Weber's concern
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The Social Construction of Age: Concepts and Measurement Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Sasha Johfre, Aliya Saperstein
Age as an individual characteristic is ubiquitous in social science research because it has important associations with numerous outcomes of interest. Yet age is rarely treated as a phenomenon that requires explanation or theoretical attention. To advance research in sociology and beyond, we bring together previously siloed literatures on the conceptualization and measurement of age. Our framework
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Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Jennie E. Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie
This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification and estimation in general, causal effect heterogeneity, causal effect mediation, and temporal and spatial interference. We describe how machine learning, as an estimation strategy, can be effectively combined with
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Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Terence E. McDonnell
The study of cultural objects and their materiality has moved to the center of cultural sociology. This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology, demonstrating how insights from the study of cultural objects and their mechanisms of meaning-making deepen our theories of culture in action, culture and cognition, and the production and reception of culture. After placing this
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Social Consequences of Forced and Refugee Migration Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Ellen Percy Kraly, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Lorraine Lizbeth Torres Colón, Holly E. Reed
This review considers sociological perspectives and research on the outcomes and implications of forced and refugee migration for migrants and communities of settlement. Analytic constraints and opportunities posed by concepts of forced and refugee migration and migrants for empirical research are underscored. The tendencies for research on forced and refugee migration to serve policy and programs
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The Legitimacy of Science Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Gordon W. Gauchat
The ongoing pandemic and quickening climate crisis make it difficult to overstate the significance of science and science policy to our world. These global catastrophes have laid bare the fragility of science's legitimacy and its dependence on broader cultural understandings and institutional norms. Challenges to science's legitimacy are numerous and daunting in the early twenty-first century but also
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Social Isolation: An Unequally Distributed Health Hazard Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Debra Umberson, Rachel Donnelly
Social isolation is a potent predictor of poor health, mortality, and dementia risk. A great deal of research across national contexts provides causal evidence for these linkages and identifies key explanatory mechanisms through which isolation affects health. Research on social isolation recognizes that some people are more likely than others to be isolated, but over the past several decades, researchers
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Neighborhood–School Structures: A New Approach to the Joint Study of Social Contexts Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Peter Rich, Ann Owens
Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing body of research acknowledges that both contexts matter and considers neighborhoods and schools jointly. In this review, we synthesize the array of results that emerge from these studies and critique the tendency for researchers
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Expanding Notions of LGBTQ+ Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Stephen T. Russell, Meg D. Bishop, Jessica N. Fish
Sexual identity labels and meanings have been expanding. We explore how sexual identities are taking shape, intertwining, and emerging in new forms among a growing number of LGBTQ+ people (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning, or people whose identities are outside the historically privileged or dominant groups of heterosexual sexual identities). We situate contemporary
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What Makes Weak Ties Strong? Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Minjae Kim, Roberto M. Fernandez
We raise two challenges concerning the validity of arguments underlying Granovetter's strength of weak ties (SWT) thesis: ( a) whether weak ties are actually bridges, i.e., they help reach more socially distant actors than strong ties, and ( b) whether weak ties transmit information effectively enough so that weak ties’ alleged structural properties make them more useful than strong ties. In the course
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Land Inequalities in the United States Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Debbie Becher
Outside of Indigenous studies, sociologists tend to treat land in the United States as governed exclusively by an entrenched private-property regime: Land is a commodity and an object for individual control. This review presents land in the United States as more complicated and contingent. State law and related ideas comprise a dominant, hegemonic power that often appears unitary, coherent, and all-powerful
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Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Jessica T. Simes, Brenden Beck, John M. Eason
Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how community conditions contribute to variation in criminal justice outcomes and how multiple criminal justice exposures (e.g., policing and punishment) vary together in places. In this article, we identify spatial-contextual analyses
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Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Roger Waldinger, Tahseen Shams
The global dimensions of diasporic politics and state response have generated a large, interdisciplinary literature. Yet, scholars struggle to find the most productive conceptual tools, as one literature, at point of origin, studies emigration and the other, at point of destination, studies immigration. The transnational turn in the social sciences four decades ago propelled scholars to study cross-border
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Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Wendy D. Roth, Elena G. van Stee, Alejandra Regla-Vargas
Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences. These conceptualizations have crucial consequences for intergroup attitudes, support for social policies, and structures of inequality, all of which are key sociological concerns; yet
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Food and Inequality Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Sara Shostak
The production, consumption, materiality, and meanings of food are critical topics for sociological research on inequality, although they have not always been recognized as such. This article describes how food is implicated in the production of inequalities across scales and sites. It begins by considering how the global food system is inextricably imbricated with structures of power that create and
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Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Albert Esteve, Teresa Castro-Martín, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres
We review demographic and sociological literature on family dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and systematize major trends in union formation and fertility in recent decades. We also highlight the singularities that distinguish family patterns and trends in LAC from those in other world regions and discuss the contextual factors underlying these singularities. Latin American families
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Gender in the Elite Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Lisa A. Keister, Sarah Thébaud, Jill E. Yavorsky
Research on elites experienced a resurgence in sociology over a decade ago, but this work was largely gender neutral. Recently, a body of work on elite women and gender dynamics in elite families emerged and is growing rapidly. We propose here that gendered processes are critical for understanding the reproduction of elite privilege and inequality and highlight three subjects that dominate contemporary
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Women's Health: Population Patterns and Social Determinants Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Susan E. Short, Meghan Zacher
Women's health, and what we know about it, is influenced by social factors. From the exclusion of women's bodies in medical research, to the silence and stigma of menstruation and menopause, to the racism reflected in maternal mortality, the relevance of social factors is paramount. After a brief history of research on women's health, we review selected patterns, trends, and inequalities in US women's
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Accounting for Credit Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Frederick F. Wherry, Parijat Chakrabarti
This article examines differing accounts of how and why consumers use credit as well as the consequences of credit for inequality and social solidarity. We articulate these explanations as ( a) political economy, ( b) racialized, ( c) relational, and ( d) ranked accounts. The first account looks to the political economy to understand what drives credit use and its consequences. In the second, access
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Housing Insecurity Among the Poor Today Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Stefanie DeLuca, Eva Rosen
Recent events have brought attention to the millions of Americans who struggle to find and pay for housing. Housing has historically been of interest to sociologists, but it has long been subsumed within research on crime, residential mobility, and neighborhoods. In the past decade, there has been a surge of scholarship in an emerging sociology of housing that focuses on housing insecurity, forced
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Reproducibility in the Social Sciences Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 James W. Moody, Lisa A. Keister, Maria C. Ramos
Concern over social scientists’ inability to reproduce empirical research has spawned a vast and rapidly growing literature. The size and growth of this literature make it difficult for newly interested academics to come up to speed. Here, we provide a formal text modeling approach to characterize the entirety of the field, which allows us to summarize the breadth of this literature and identify core
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in the Global South Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Sonalde Desai, Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy, Amy McLaughlin
Over the past two decades, we have seen an explosion in research on the topic of women's empowerment and its related dimensions, yet there remains much to be done in terms of clarifying conceptual pathways and best practices in measurement. This review traces the intellectual and historic context in which women's status and empowerment in lower- and middle-income countries have been measured, the conceptual
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Measuring Ethnic Diversity Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Liza G. Steele, Amie Bostic, Scott M. Lynch, Lamis Abdelaaty
Researchers have investigated the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on a range of socioeconomic and political outcomes. However, approaches to measuring ethnic diversity vary not only across fields of study but even within subfields. In this review, we systematically dissect the computational approaches of prominent measures of diversity, including polarization, and discuss where and how differences
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Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Anne E. Barrett
The construct of age occupies a curious position in mainstream sociology: It is omnipresent but theoretically underdeveloped. The most prevalent approaches—age as control variable and age as life course—elide the aspect of age most relevant to the discipline, namely its operation as a system of inequality. Building on the foundation laid by scholars of life course sociology, age studies, and gerontology
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The Knowledge-Based Economy and the Global South Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Nitsan Chorev, Amanda C. Ball
Research on knowledge-based economies and innovation tends to focus on the highest-ranked knowledge-advanced countries in the Global North and on high-growth countries in the Global South. In this article, we review the research on knowledge-based economies in the Global South and identify two important analytical shortcomings: the tendency to conflate upgrading with innovation and the tendency to
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Democracy in the Global South Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Patrick Heller
Given the legacies of colonialism and the inequities of the global capitalist system, consolidated democracies in the Global South were the exception prior to the third wave of democratization in the 1970s. As democratization in the Global South grew, a first generation of work by sociologists challenged mainstream political science's preoccupation with electoral and liberal democracy and brought popular
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Sociology of Whiteness Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Monica McDermott, Annie Ferguson
The past 20 years have witnessed a tremendous accumulation of research in whiteness studies in general, and in the sociology of whiteness in particular. In contrast to the earliest days of research in this subfield, much recent work has moved beyond preoccupations with whiteness as a seemingly invisible, default racial category to instead consider whiteness as a complex identity and basis of structural
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Culture and Durable Inequality Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Lauren Valentino, Stephen Vaisey
In recent decades, sociologists have generally avoided explicitly discussing the role of culture in processes of social inequality. We argue that the prevailing disciplinary theory of inequality, the framework laid out in Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality, necessarily relies on cognitive processes and cultural concepts. The four primary mechanisms driving inequality—exploitation, opportunity hoarding
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Causal Network Analysis Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Weihua An, Roberson Beauvile, Benjamin Rosche
Fueled by recent advances in statistical modeling and the rapid growth of network data, social network analysis has become increasingly popular in sociology and related disciplines. However, a significant amount of work in the field has been descriptive and correlational, which prevents the findings from being more rigorously translated into practices and policies. This article provides a review of
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Criminal Governance and the Crisis of Contemporary Latin American States Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Andreas E. Feldmann, Juan Pablo Luna
Across Latin America, societies are confronting the rise of novel orders in which state officials and political authorities share power with criminal organizations. Criminal governance (i.e., the creation of rules regulating behavior by criminal entities often with the collaboration of state actors), as these arrangements have come to be known, poses significant challenges for democracy and the rule
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Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Lawrence King, Gábor Scheiring, Elias Nosrati
A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm at the bottom of the class structure. In the present review, we compare this population health crisis to that which ravaged Eastern Europe at the tail end of the previous century. We chart their common upstream
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Racialized Reshuffling: Urban Change and the Persistence of Segregation in the Twenty-First Century Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Jackelyn Hwang, Tyler W. McDaniel
The literature on the persistence of racial residential segregation in the United States has made significant progress by moving beyond traditional explanations—socioeconomic differences, preferences, and discrimination—to focus on the complex ways in which these factors interact with the multistage process of residential sorting. Dramatic changes in metropolitan landscapes over the past two decades
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Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Jens Beckert
Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions, mechanisms and practices through which families at the very top of the wealth distribution protect and enlarge their wealth. Opportunity hoarding is based on legal institutions, most importantly inheritance law, trust law, advantageous
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Poor People's Survival Strategies: Two Decades of Research in the Americas Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Faith M. Deckard, Javier Auyero
Nearly a half-century ago, two scholars north and south of the US border called attention to the role played by reciprocity networks in poor peoples’ survival strategies. This article provides a synthetic picture of the qualitative research on those strategies, focusing not only on mutual aid networks but also on clientelist politics and popular protest. These are, we argue, oftentimes complementary
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The Role of Doubt in Conceiving Research: Reflections from a Career Shaped by a Dissertation Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Stanley Presser
The doctoral dissertation often shapes the career that follows it, influencing both opportunities encountered and research conducted. This article describes the ways this has been true for me and then argues that, given the dissertation's importance, graduate programs do not focus sufficiently on strategies for conceiving research. As a result, many students flounder at the dissertation proposal stage
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The Legacy of Shareholder Value Capitalism Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Neil Fligstein, Adam Goldstein
American society has now been living in the wake of shareholder value capitalism for four decades. The shareholder value movement began as an invasion of the market for corporate control by financially oriented investors who critiqued sitting managers as not paying sufficient attention to the interests of shareholders during the economic crisis of the 1970s. It altered the relationship between financial
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Immigrant Organizations Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Irene Bloemraad, Ali R. Chaudhary, Shannon Gleeson
We call for incorporating organizations into migration scholarship, and for considering immigrants in organizational research. By centering immigrant organizations (IOs) as a unit of analysis, migration scholars can reconsider whether and how IOs affect well-being, integration, political voice, identities, globalization, and development. Migration scholars must learn from scholars of organizations
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Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Michael C. Lens
Zoning determines what can be built where, and is ubiquitous in the United States. Low-density residential zoning predominates in US cities far more than in other countries, limiting housing opportunities for those who cannot afford large homes. These zoning regulations have racist and classist origins, make housing more expensive, and reinforce segregation patterns. While sociologists study these
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American Religion in the Era of Increasing Polarization Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Samuel L. Perry
Americans are increasingly polarized by a variety of metrics. The dimensions, extent, causes, and consequences of that polarization have been the subject of much debate. Yet despite the centrality of religion to early discussions, the analytical focus on America's divides has largely shifted toward partisan identity, political ideology, race, and class interests. I show that religion remains powerfully
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Ethnography, Data Transparency, and the Information Age Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Alexandra K. Murphy,Colin Jerolmack,DeAnna Smith
The conventions ethnographers follow to gather, write about, and store their data are increasingly out of sync with contemporary research expectations and social life. Despite technological advancements that allow ethnographers to observe their subjects digitally and record interactions, few follow subjects online and many still reconstruct quotes from memory. Amid calls for data transparency, ethnographers
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The Sharing Economy: Rhetoric and Reality Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Juliet B. Schor,Steven P. Vallas
The sharing economy is transforming economies around the world, entering markets for lodging, ride hailing, home services, and other sectors that previously lacked robust person-to-person alternatives. Its expansion has been contentious and its meanings polysemic. It launched with a utopian discourse promising economic, social, and environmental benefits, which critics have questioned. In this review
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Markets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Sarah Babb,Alexander Kentikelenis
The dominance of free markets around the world is the defining feature of contemporary globalization. This current state of affairs is historically linked to the Washington Consensus, a coordinated campaign for the global diffusion of market-oriented policies that started more than 30 years ago. In this article, we review scholarship from multiple fields to assess the origins, evolution, and current
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Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Lincoln Quillian,Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
This article reviews studies of hiring discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups in cross-national perspective. We focus on field experimental studies of hiring discrimination: studies that use fictitious applications from members of different racial and ethnic groups to apply for actual jobs. There are more than 140 field experimental studies of hiring discrimination against ethno-racial
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Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Shira Offer
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in negative ties and the negative aspects of social relationships. Researchers in different fields have studied negative ties and their consequences for various individual outcomes, including health and well-being, social status in schools and other organizations, and job performance and satisfaction, but they have mainly done so in disconnect. The result
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La Sociología de las Emociones en América Latina Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Marina Ariza
Se aborda el desarrollo de la sociología de las emociones en América Latina entre 2000 y 2019, como un campo de conocimiento reciente en proceso de institucionalización. Seis áreas temáticas—diversas y heterogéneas—nuclean la investigación durante el período: ( a) cambio social, sociabilidad y emociones; ( b) movimientos sociales y sentimientos; ( c) género, genera-ciones, afectividad, cuidado; ( d)
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Women's Health in the Era of Mass Incarceration Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Christopher Wildeman,Hedwig Lee
Dramatic increases in criminal justice contact in the United States have rendered prison and jail incarceration common for US men and their loved ones, with possible implications for women's health. This review provides the most expansive critical discussion of research on family member incarceration and women's health in five stages. First, we provide new estimates showing how common family member
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University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspectives Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Christine Musselin
This review explores the two sides of university governance. From a meso perspective, it deals with universities as organized structures where priorities have to be set, decisions made, budgets allocated, teaching programs developed, and research achieved. This perspective relates to the sociology of organizations, and this review first explores the four founding models that aimed to qualify university
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The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Frank Dobbin,Alexandra Kalev
The civil rights and women's movements led to momentous changes in public policy and corporate practice that have made the United States the global paragon of equal opportunity. Yet diversity in the corporate hierarchy has increased incrementally. Lacking clear guidance from policymakers, personnel experts had devised their own arsenal of diversity programs. Firms implicated their own biased managers