Nature 481(7382): 497-501
C.L. Apicella, F.W. Marlowe, J.H. Fowler
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Social networks show striking structural regularities, and both theory and evidence suggest that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans. Here, we characterize the social networks of the...
Polity
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What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outcomes of people who receive the same training from the same place and who have similar grades? Why do national governments issue...
Social Science Research 41:74-91
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This article extends research on the consequences of mass imprisonment and the factors shaping population health and health inequalities by considering the associations between imprisonment and population health-measured as life expectancy at birth and the infant mortality...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Iconic Power is a collection of original articles that explores social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called “linguistic turn,” sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its...
Demography 48(4): 1601-1614
Sheldon H. Danziger
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Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1968 to 2005, we estimate the cumulative probability that young adults in the United States will receive food stamps during adulthood, and examine how that probability varies with an...
Criminology & Public Policy, v13 n1: 1053-1061
Criminologists and politicians walk to the beat of different drummers. The 4-year rhythm of political terms and the 24-hour buzz of the postmodern news cycle disrupt the slow and steady cadence of academic research. Criminologists strive for analytic rigor, sound research design, and...
American Journal of Sociology Vol. 117, No. 3, 2011, pp. 808-43
with Leire Salazar
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This article investigates how changes in educational assortative mating affected the growth in earnings inequality among households in the United States between the late 1970s and early 2000s. The authors find that these changes had a small, negative...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43, pp. 227-249
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Colonial state-building in Protectorate Morocco, particularly the total “pacification” of territory and infrastructural development carried out between 1907 and 1934, dramatically transformed the social and political context in which collective identity was...
PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
D.G. Rand, S. Arbesman
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Human populations are both highly cooperative and highly organized. Human interactions are not random but rather are structured in social networks. Importantly, ties in these networks often are dynamic, changing in response to the behavior of one...
Palgrave/Macmillan
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Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the foundations of collective identity. The theory of cultural trauma is applied in this book to six political assassinations,...
University of California Press
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Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and...
City & Community, v10 n3: 215-240 (lead article)
Chris Smith∗, Mary Scherer∗, and Melissa Fugerio
This study examines the relationship between gentrification and neighborhood crime rates by measuring the growth and geographic spread of one of gentrification’s most prominent symbols: coffee shops. The annual counts of neighbourhood coffee shops...
Criminology and Public Policy, Volume 10, Issue 3, pages 793–817
Sara Wakefield
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The sevenfold increase in the incarceration rate between the early 1970s and 2010 is implicated in race differences in, among others, health (Massoglia, 2008), marriage rates (Western and Wildeman, 2009), earnings (Western, 2006), and civic engagement (Manza...
Stanford University Press
Nina Bandelj
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Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being “Made in America” or “Made in Italy,” for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place offers but also on the symbolic resources embedded in those...
Theory and Society, 40, 2011, 437-473
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This article examines the formative influence of the organizational field of religion on emerging modern forms of popular political mobilization in Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century when a transition towards enduring campaigns of extended...
