Polity Press
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In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as...
Washington Monthly, January/February 2013
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Separated by a thousand miles, two state borders, and nearly six decades, two young African Americans, Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin, met tragic fates that seem remarkably similar today: both walked into a small market to buy some candy; both ended up dead. Both murders...
in Stephen L. Morgan (ed.) Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Dordrecht: Springer 2013, pp. 167-87
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Nonlinear probability models, such as logits and probits for binary dependent variables, the ordered logit and ordered probit for ordinal dependent variables and the multinomial logit, together with log-linear models for contingency tables, have become widely used by social...
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The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum for discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime services. The forthright and candid views of the authors are presented for the professional education of the readers. Articles published are related to the...
Journal of School Psychology 50, pp. 593-597
“The Black–White Achievement Gap” poses a persistent, if not an intractable problem for education policy researchers. In the research paper developed by Fantuzzo, LeBoeuf, Rouse, and Chen (2012), urban school students, Black as well as White, are assumed to share certain risks that slow or derail...
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 38, 2012, pp. 463-481
Berkay Ozcan
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We review the relationship between female labor supply and marital instability. Traditionally, the sociological literature has focused on the impact of female labor supply on the likelihood of divorce with specific reference to the independence hypothesis....
Sociological Methodology Vol. 42, 2012, pp. 274-301
Kristian Bernt Karlson, Anders Holm
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Logit and probit models are widely used in empirical sociological research. However, the common practice of comparing the coefficients of a given variable across differently specified models fitted to the same sample does not warrant...
Polity Press
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In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.
Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that...
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
In 2001, the first of a series of ethnographic conferences took place in Los Angeles with an emphasis on fieldwork. Since then the field has gained a much larger disciplinary footprint. While the increase in substantial research in the field has risen dramatically, ethnographic styles of writing...
Journal of Marriage and the Family Vo. 74, No.3, 2012, pp. 601-13
with Julia Cordero-Coma
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Greater use of condoms within marriage would help limit the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP), the authors examined the influence that the fidelity norm and the...
Demography, Vo. 49, No.3, 2012, pp. 867-887
Signe Hald Andersen
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Many writers have expressed a concern that growing educational assortative mating will lead to greater inequality between households in their earnings or income. In this article, we examine the relationship between educational assortative mating and...
The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, v641 n1: 79-98
Kirk, David S., Jeffrey Fagan, and Tom Tyler
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Frustrated by federal inaction on immigration reform, several U.S. states in recent years have proposed or enacted laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. and to facilitate their removal. An...
Social Problems, 59, No.2 :228-257
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This article extends research on the consequences of parental incarceration for child well-being, the effects of mass imprisonment on black-white inequalities in child well-being, and the factors shaping black-white inequalities in infant mortality by considering the...
American Sociological Review 77:216-243
Jason Schnittker, Kristin Turney
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A burgeoning literature considers the consequences of mass imprisonment for the well-being of adult men and—albeit to a lesser degree—their children. Yet virtually no quantitative research considers the consequences of mass imprisonment for...
Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith
Oxford University Press.
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Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology...
