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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
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Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Cihan Tuğal
Studies of populism have shifted from substantive to discursive/performative and institutional perspectives in recent decades. This shift resolved some long-standing problems but insulated the analysis of populism from theoretical and methodological debates in the social sciences. Theoretical restrictions have gone hand in hand with geographical neglect: The near-exclusive focus on the United States
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The (Un)Managed Heart: Racial Contours of Emotion Work in Gendered Occupations Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Adia Harvey Wingfield
The concept of emotional labor has been very useful for elucidating how the expansion of a service economy perpetuated new forms of work that maintained gender divisions and inequalities. Research has been slower to catch up to the ways that emotional labor has racial implications as well, but recent studies are making important contributions and moving the literature in this direction. In this review
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Gender, Power, and Harassment: Sociology in the #MeToo Era Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Abigail C. Saguy,Mallory E. Rees
This article examines what sociological research teaches us about gender, power, and harassment in the #MeToo era, showing how the sociological literature on harassment has both shaped and been shaped by legal definitions and scholarship. For instance, like case law, sociological research has tended to focus on the workplace to the exclusion of harassment in other spheres such as housing, as well as
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The Influence of Simmel on American Sociology Since 1975 Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Miloš Broćić,Daniel Silver
Recent decades have seen Georg Simmel's canonical status in American sociology solidify and his impact on research expand. A broad understanding of his influence, however, remains elusive. This review remedies this situation by evaluating Simmel's legacy in American sociology since 1975. We articulate Simmel's sociological orientation by elaborating the concepts of form, interaction, and dualism. Employing
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The “Burden” of Oppositional Culture Among Black Youth in America Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Karolyn Tyson,Amanda E. Lewis
For decades, any scholarly conversation about the academic achievement of youth of color, and especially Black youth, required at least a nod to the widely discussed topic of oppositional culture. In this review, we explore whether Black youth are burdened by a peer culture oppositional to dominant institutions and achievement norms. We begin by focusing on recent research addressing oppositional culture
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Black Men and Black Masculinity Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Alford A. Young
In recent decades, sociological studies of black males and of black masculinity in America unfolded with great rapidity. In the 1960s, sociological studies of black males gained currency. Much of their focus has been on the problematic state of black males in education, employment, family life, peer and social relations, and within criminal justice systems. That tradition moved from employing a social
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New Directions in the Study of Institutional Logics: From Tools to Phenomena Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Michael Lounsbury,Christopher W.J. Steele,Milo Shaoqing Wang,Madeline Toubiana
In this article, we take stock of the institutional logics perspective and highlight opportunities for new scholarship. While we celebrate the growth and generativity of the literature on institutional logics, we also note that there has been a troubling tendency in recent work to use logics as analytical tools, feeding disquiet about reification and reductionism. Seeding a broader scholarly agenda
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The Sociology of Emotions in Latin America Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Marina Ariza
This article discusses how the sociology of emotions in Latin America, a recently established field of knowledge still in the process of institutionalization, first developed between 2000 and 2019. Research in this period focused on six wide-ranging and heterogeneous thematic areas: ( a) social change, sociability and emotions; ( b) social movements and feelings; ( c) gender, generations, affectivity
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New Destinations and the Changing Geography of Immigrant Incorporation. Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Chenoa Flippen,Dylan Farrell-Bryan
While nearly three decades of "new immigrant destination" research has vastly enriched our understanding of diversity in contexts of reception within the United States, there is a striking lack of consensus as to the implications of geographic dispersion for immigrant incorporation. We review the literature on new destinations as they relate to ongoing debates regarding spatial assimilation and segmented
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A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature, and goals for the future. Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Sean A P Clouston,Bruce G Link
Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) was originally proposed to explain how socioeconomic inequalities in health emerged and persisted over time. The concept was that higher socioeconomic status helped some people to avoid risks and adopt protective strategies using flexible resources - knowledge, money, power, prestige and beneficial social connections. As a sociological theory, FCT addressed this issue
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Social Inequality and the Future of U.S. Life Expectancy. Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Iliya Gutin,Robert A Hummer
Despite decades of progress, the future of life expectancy in the United States is uncertain due to widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality, continued disparities in mortality across racial/ethnic groups, and an increase in extrinsic causes of death. These trends prompt us to scrutinize life expectancy in a high-income but enormously unequal society like the United States, where social factors
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Why Sociology Matters to Race and Biosocial Science Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Dorothy E. Roberts,Oliver Rollins
Recent developments in genetics and neuroscience have led to increasing interest in biosocial approaches to social life. While today's biosocial paradigms seek to examine more fully the inextricable relationships between the biological and the social, they have also renewed concerns about the scientific study of race. Our review describes the innovative ways sociologists have designed biosocial models
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Black Immigrants and the Changing Portrait of Black America Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Tod G. Hamilton
I review the literature on the social integration of black immigrants residing in the United States between 1910 and 2018, with the goal of highlighting how the growth of the black immigrant population has complicated the scholarly understanding of the causes and consequences of both intraracial disparities among blacks and disparities between blacks and whites in the United States. The article comprises
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Violence in Latin America: An Overview of Research and Issues Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Carlos Vilalta
In this review of violence in Latin America, I have attempted to organize the region's scholarly literature around the most influential and leading research issues. Three main lines of research have materialized from this overview. First, one line of research is concerned with the difference between the old patterns of violence and the so-called new violence. Second, a line of research focuses on the
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Return Migration Around the World: An Integrated Agenda for Future Research Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Joshua Thomas Wassink
Currently, two distinct bodies of scholarship address the increased volume and diversity of global return migration since the mid-1990s. The economic sociology of return, which assumes that return ...
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Sociology and the Climate Crisis Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Eric Klinenberg, Malcolm Araos, Liz Koslov
What would it mean for sociology to make climate change a core disciplinary concern? This article reviews research on a selection of trends brought on by the climate crisis: (a) compounding and cum...
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Organizations and the Governance of Urban Poverty Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Nicole P. Marwell, Shannon L. Morrissey
Many recent sociological studies of urban poverty have drawn inspiration from the Chicago School model of social disorganization. Studies of urban poverty and formal organizations have been profoun...
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Computational Social Science and Sociology Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Achim Edelmann, Tom Wolff, Danielle Montagne, Christopher A. Bail
The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sour...
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The Longitudinal Revolution: Sociological Research at the 50-Year Milestone of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Fabian T. Pfeffer, Paula Fomby, Noura Insolera
The US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. Initially designed to assess the nation's progress in combatting poverty, PSID's scope broadened quickly to a v...
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What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Steven Vallas, Juliet B. Schor
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform wor...
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Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Arvid Lindh, Leslie McCall
In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and candidates, a...
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The Comparative Politics of Collective Memory Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Geneviève Zubrzycki, Anna Woźny
This article examines the theoretical and empirical contributions of the interdisciplinary field of memory studies for a comparative sociology of collective memory and politics. We identify three m...
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Relational Work in the Economy Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Nina Bandelj
In her groundbreaking scholarship on intimacy and economy, Viviana Zelizer coined the concept of relational work, or efforts in matching social relations with economic transactions and media of exc...
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Employer Decision Making Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Lauren A. Rivera
The decisions employers make are of critical importance to sociological understandings of labor market stratification. While contemporary research documents employment outcomes with ever-growing pr...
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Multiracial Categorization, Identity, and Policy in (Mixed) Racial Formations Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Kimberly A. DaCosta
This article examines recent developments in the literature on multiracial categorization, policy, and identity—one that has grown as data on multiracial populations have become widely available, p...
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Immigrant Selectivity Effects on Health, Labor Market, and Educational Outcomes Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Cynthia Feliciano
Over the past two decades, a growing body of research has focused on immigrant selectivity and its effects on immigrant health, immigrant labor market outcomes, and children of immigrants’ educatio...
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The Sociology of Creativity: Elements, Structures, and Audiences Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Frédéric Godart, Sorah Seong, Damon J. Phillips
This review integrates diverse characterizations of creativity from a sociological perspective with the goal of reinvigorating discussion of the sociology of creativity. We start by exploring relev...
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The Social Consequences of Disasters: Individual and Community Change Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Mariana Arcaya, Ethan J. Raker, Mary C. Waters
We review findings from the last decade of research on the effects of disasters, concentrating on three important themes: the differences between the recovery of places versus people, the need to d...
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Urban Mobility and Activity Space Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Kathleen A. Cagney, Erin York Cornwell, Alyssa W. Goldman, Liang Cai
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social ...
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Social Networks and Cognition Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Edward Bishop Smith, Raina A. Brands, Matthew E. Brashears, Adam M. Kleinbaum
Social network analysis, now often thought of simply as network science, has penetrated nearly every scientific and many scholarly fields and has become an indispensable resource. Yet, social netwo...
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Of Modernity and Public Sociology: Reflections on a Career So Far Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Claude S. Fischer
My research so far has followed an interest in the classic concern about the social consequences of modernization, which led me to study urbanism, personal networks, the history of technology, and ...
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Cities of the Global South Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 AbdouMaliq Simone
This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and “Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and where the Global Sou...
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Norms Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Christine Horne, Stefanie Mollborn
Norms are a foundational concept in sociology. Following a period of skepticism about norms as overly deterministic and as paying too little attention to social conflict, inequalities, and agency, ...
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Advances in the Science of Asking Questions Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Nora Cate Schaeffer, Jennifer Dykema
In recent decades, research about survey questions has emphasized decision-based approaches. Current research focuses on identifying and systematizing characteristics of questions that are key in r...
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Migration Patterns in East and Southeast Asia: Causes and Consequences Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya
Our review starts by considering the regional development of East and Southeast Asia. We then address major trends related to international migration within the region. First, we focus on labor mig...
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My Life in Words and Numbers Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Samuel H. Preston
George Orwell reportedly said that “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” I've done my best to eliminate any disgraceful episodes from the following account, t...
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Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Peter V. Marsden, Tom W. Smith, Michael Hout
In the five decades since its inception in 1971, the General Social Survey (GSS) project has prospectively recorded the current characteristics, backgrounds, behaviors, and attitudes of representat...
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Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Neal Caren, Kenneth T. Andrews, Todd Lu
Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms that enable new identit...
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Technologies and Health Inequities Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Stefan Timmermans, Rebecca Kaufman
Health technologies aim to improve individual and population health, but they may also exacerbate health disparities. Focusing on the specific design features of technologies, their availability, a...
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Climate Change and Society Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Thomas Dietz, Rachael L. Shwom, Cameron T. Whitley
Climate change is one of the greatest ecological and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Sociologists have made important contributions to our knowledge of the human drivers of contempor...
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The Impact of Inequality on Intergenerational Mobility Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Thomas A. DiPrete
The extent and causes of trends and cross-national variation in social class and occupational status mobility have been major topics of sociological research for decades. This topic has acquired re...
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Race/Ethnicity and In-School Structural Differentiation in Learning Opportunities in Historical and Life-Course Perspective Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Samuel R. Lucas, Santiago J. Molina, John M. Towey
In the United States, equally performing students of different racial/ethnic groups may have different prospects for enrollment in rigorous curricular positions. Over time, the processes and operat...
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Sociology, Genetics, and the Coming of Age of Sociogenomics Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Melinda C. Mills, Felix C. Tropf
Recent years have seen the birth of sociogenomics via the infusion of molecular genetic data. We chronicle the history of genetics, focusing particularly on post-2005 genome-wide association studie...
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STEM Education. Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2016-01-19 Yu Xie,Michael Fang,Kimberlee Shauman
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 review and discuss current research on STEM education in the U.S., drawing on recent research in sociology and related fields. The reviewed literature shows that different
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Moral Cultures, Reputation Work, and the Politics of Scandal Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Gary Alan Fine
Status has long been a core concept motivating sociology as a discipline. As related to the positioning and valuing of individuals, status often takes the form of reputation. How is an individual t...
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What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Andrea Mennicken, Wendy Nelson Espeland
Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of qua...
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Analyzing Age-Period-Cohort Data: A Review and Critique Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Ethan Fosse, Christopher Winship
Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis has a long, controversial history in sociology and related fields. Despite the existence of hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and dozens of books, there is li...
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Race, Place, and Effective Policing Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Anthony A. Braga, Rod K. Brunson, Kevin M. Drakulich
The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor relationships between the pol...
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Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Kathryn Harker Tillman, Karin L. Brewster, Giuseppina Valle Holway
Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship trajectori...
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Theories of the Causes of Poverty Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 David Brady
There has been a lack of debate between and frameworks for theories of the causes of poverty. This article proposes that most theories of poverty can be productively categorized into three broader ...
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The Social Structure of Time: Emerging Trends and New Directions Annual Review of Sociology (IF 10.5) Pub Date : 2019-07-30 Benjamin Cornwell, Jonathan Gershuny, Oriel Sullivan
Research on time use has seen several major developments in recent years. These include the adoption of exciting new technologies (e.g., smartphones, wearable Global Positioning System devices) tha...