Socius Abstract: Several theoretical traditions posit that individual skills (or human capital) have become stronger predictors of life outcomes over time. To date, however, significant limitations have hindered a confident empirical assessment of this important …
Month: January 2025
Chad Goldberg interviewed for PBS Wisconsin’s “Here & Now”
PBS Wisconsin’s Here & Now host and anchor Frederica Freyberg interviewed Chad Goldberg on the show on January 10 about research he did with Masoud Movahed (PhD 2022) regarding political support for Donald Trump. The …
The Color of Asylum receives International Political Sociology Section Book Award
Katherine Jensen’s book The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil won the International Political Sociology Section Book Award from the International Studies Association, one of the oldest interdisciplinary associations dedicated …
Fear among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Youth in Texas during a Period of Punitive Immigration Policies (2009–2017) by Nicholas Mark, Abigail Weitzman, and Julia Behrman (2024)
Socius Abstract: Heightened partisan rhetoric surrounding immigration, combined with increasingly punitive immigration policies, has the potential to affect how children interact with their social environment, with implications for racially and spatially variegated developmental processes. In …
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice by Michael T. Light, Jason P. Robey, and Jungmyung Kim (2024)
Criminology Abstract: Although minor forms of criminal justice contact are increasingly used to identify immigration violators, little research has been conducted at the intersection of immigration and misdemeanor justice. As a result, citizenship remains undertheorized …
Aligned, competing, and blurred: Gender and family attitudes in East Asia by Sang Won Han and Eunsil Oh (2024)
Journal of Marriage and Family Abstract: Objective This study explores the complexity of how gender and family attitudes relate to each other in East Asia, paying particular attention to heterogeneity and the impact of cognitive …
Fabien Accominotti interviewed about his work on the architecture of status hierarchies
Fabien Accominotti was interviewed by Faculti, a streaming platform that bridges the gap between academic research, industry expertise, and current global challenges, about his work on the architecture of status hierarchies. A full written transcription …
Examining Variation in Survey Costs across Surveys by Kristen Olson, John Stevenson, Nadia Assad, Lindsey Witt-Swanson, Cameron Jones, Amanda Ganshert, and Jennifer Dykema (2024)
Sociological Methods and Research Abstract: Self-administered surveys may be administered with a single mode or mixed data collection modes. How mixing modes of data collection affects survey costs is not well understood. We examine whether …
Life Course Associations of Sibling Relationships and Cognitive Functioning in Late Adulthood by Jooyoung Kong, Sara M. Moorman, Gina Lee, and Michal Engelman (2024)
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Abstract: Objectives Relying on the linked lives concept within the life course perspective, the current study examined the lifelong associations of sibling relationships and their effects on cognitive functioning …
Vilas awards for Felix Elwert and Michael Massoglia
Two Sociology faculty have recently received Vilas awards. Congratulations to Felix Elwert for his Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship and Michael Massoglia for his Vilas Mid-career award!