Cambridge University Press
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Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama.This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs. Smith and...
Princeton University Press
*Winner, Outstanding Book Award (American Sociological Association AMSS)
“The most original political book of early 2015.” -The Economist
This book project is mixed-methods, combining computational social science strategies on large text corpora with traditional qualitative fieldwork.
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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2015, Vol. 1(1) 10–21 © American Sociological Association 2014 DOI: 10.1177/2332649214561306 sre.sagepub.com
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Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites, though their reception has been mixed. Overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public spaces remain....
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Using a 2011 national survey of urban residents, irrespective of their official hukou status, and the 2000–2009 night-time light data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS), this paper goes beyond the simple dichotomy...
Social Science Research, Volume 48, November 2014, Pages 20–34
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This study extends the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between education and smoking by focusing on the life course links between experiences from adolescence and health outcomes in adulthood. Differences in smoking by completed education are...
The Washington Post
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SWAT teams and angry protesters clashed in a small St. Louis suburb for a third day Tuesday, following the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. The eruption of protests and violence has been a long time coming. While I certainly do not condone rioting, examining the conditions...
Princeton University Press
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Interview on The MacMillan Report, Erikson speaks about her award-winning book, ”Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757.
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring companies in history. This book locates the...
Acta Sociologica
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This is a big book about a big topic – organizational innovation and invention. The work is panoramic, ranging over a vast array of theory, formal models, and case studies involving networks, markets, hier- archies, political systems, and still other complex...
Modern China June 4, 2014, 0097700414536528
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Over the past three decades, a distinctly post-socialist form of marriage with high rates of divorce as well as rising rates of marriage and remarriage has emerged as the result of a “triple turn” by the party-state in regard to the institution of marriage: a “turn toward”...
Comparative Sociology 13 (2014) 185–214. Brill.
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The field of urban sociology has been significantly linked to particular cities, with cities such as Chicago (IL), Los Angeles (CA), and New York City (NY) have become hallmarks reflecting both the possibilities and the limitations of the urban sociological ...
Stanford University Press
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What is the state of intimate romantic relationships and marriage in urban China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan? Since the 1980’s, the character of intimate life in these urban settings has changed dramatically. While many speculate about the 21st century as Asia’s century,...
Daedalus, Spring 2014, Vol. 143, No. 2, Pages 26-38
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Looking into the near future, China faces immense demographic challenges. Prolonged sub-replacement fertility has created irreversible conditions for rapid aging of the population, and massive migration to cities has left many villages populated by elderly farmers...
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092413
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Recent research has focused on the monitoring of global{scale online data for improved detection of
epidemics, mood patterns, movements in the stock market political revolutions, box-oce revenues,
consumer behaviour and many other important phenomena. However,...
Polity Press
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What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012...
International Sociology, January 2014, vol. 29 no. 1 3-21
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This article presents an alternative account of comparative trajectories of secularization and religious change in Europe and America. Building on (1) ‘supply-side,’ (2) neo-orthodox secularization, and (3) historicist schools, the authors develop a synthetic...
