Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Sociology"
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Achieving the Middle Ground in an Age of Concentrated Extremes: Mixed Middle-Income Neighborhoods and Emerging Adulthood
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This paper focuses on stability and change in “mixed middle-income” neighborhoods. We first analyze variation across nearly two decades for all neighborhoods in the U.S. and the Chicago area. We then analyze a new ... -
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi
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Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21)This Presidential Address offers elements for a systematic and cumulative study of destigmatization, or the process by which low-status groups gain recognition and worth. Contemporary sociologists tend to focus on inequality ... -
African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
All-in-one: impact study of an online math game for educational purposes
(Inderscience Publishers, 2016)The purpose of this evaluation study is to address the impact of an educational game in strengthening mathematical skills and knowledge. Within this framework, the study deals with the appropriateness of specific game ... -
Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network
(American Psychological Association, 2009)The discrepancy between an individual’s loneliness and the number of connections in a social network is well documented, yet little is known about the placement of loneliness within, or the spread of loneliness through, ... -
The Architecture of Inclusion: Evidence from Corporate Diversity Programs
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Are Diversity Programs Merely Ceremonial? Evidence-Free Institutionalization
Institutionalists describe large domains of corporate policy and practice as symbolic. The work of entire departments is carried out to convey a firm’s commitment to efficiency (the now dismantled strategic planning unit) ... -
“Are You at Peace?”
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2006)Background Physicians may question their role in probing patients’ spiritual distress and the practicality of addressing such issues in the time-limited clinical encounter. Yet, patients’ spirituality often influences ... -
Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success
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Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges
(Annual Reviews, 2005)This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. ... -
Association Between Widowhood and Risk of Diagnosis With a Sexually Transmitted Infection in Older Adults
(American Public Health Association, 2009)Objectives. We assessed whether widowhood is associated with risk of diagnosis with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) among older adults in the United States and whether the associations observed in men differed before ... -
Associations of Environmental Factors With Elderly Health and Mortality in China
(American Public Health Association, 2010)Objectives. We examined the effects of community socioeconomic conditions, air pollution, and the physical environment on elderly health and survival in China. Methods. We analyzed data from a nationally representative ... -
Attitude and Self-reported Practice Regarding Prognostication in a National Sample of Internists
(American Medical Association (AMA), 1998)Background Since prognostication appears increasingly important in clinical practice, especially in end-of-life care, we examined physicians' experiences and attitudes regarding it. Methods We mailed a survey to a ... -
Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City
(Center for Migration Studies of New York, 2002)Many observers have noted that immigrants to the United States are highly concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas of a relatively few states. Though immigrants diffused into many places that had previously seen ... -
Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Barack Obama was elected president of the United States shortly before this issue of the Du Bois Review went to press. The historic nature of the 2008 presidential campaign was evident early in the process, particularly ... -
Beyond blind faith: overcoming the obstacles to interdisciplinary evaluation
(Beech Tree Publishing, 2006)This paper examines how panelists serving on interdisciplinary funding panels produce evaluations they perceive as fair, drawing on 81 interviews with panelists serving on multidisciplinary fellowship competitions. We ... -
Beyond the Culture of Poverty: Meaning-Making among Low-Income Population around Family, Neighborhood, and Work
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12-19)Meaning-making is an essential feature of social life: as humans make their way through their daily lives, they inevitably interpret themselves, their actions, those of others, and the environment that surround them. Thus, ... -
Black Students' Graduation from Elite Colleges: Institutional Characteristics and Between-institution Differences
(Academic Press, 2007)Among the nation’s elite colleges and universities, black graduation rates vary dramatically from institution to institution. Many sociologists have suggested that this is due not to differences in the student bodies but ...