Category: Publications

Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology Abstract: While researchers have some recommendations for measuring gender identity in surveys based on research and other sources that are summarized in a series of working group and panel reports, we continue to refine our understanding and practices. Gender identity is usually measured in surveys using a categorical selection …

Socius Abstract: The #MeToo movement illustrated how higher-ups may abuse their power by engaging in sexual harassment and generated heightened concern about hierarchical workplace romantic relationships. In a survey experiment, the authors test whether sexual attention from a superordinate outside one’s reporting chain (desired or not) leads to stereotyping and resultant career penalties. A woman …

Annual Review of Law and Social Science Abstract: Two broad thematic perspectives can be distinguished in the literature that broaches the revolutions–law nexus. One considers how actors’ relations to, and usages of, legal statutes and constitutional provisions affect the dynamics of revolutionary conjunctures (law in revolutions). The other examines how the dynamics and modalities of …

L’Année sociologique Abstract: Status—the value people are accorded by others—is a basic dimension of social stratification. There is, however, an ambiguity as to what sociologists mean when they talk about status differences: they can be differences in the overall amount of esteem individuals receive from various others; or differences in how any individual distributes their …

Comparative Population Studies (download pdf) Abstract: Couples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and place. We compare the relationship between spouses’ relative education and marital dissolution across four birth cohorts born between 1951 and …

Frontiers in Public Health Background: Individuals’ sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood characteristics, health, and disparities across socio-demographic groups. Methods: Using 2014–2016 data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW, N = 1,706), we conduct a detailed analysis of SoB and health in an American …

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought Abstract: This chapter reviews the personal biography, intellectual contributions, and academic leadership of Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte.  

Politics and Society Abstract: The #StopTheStealMovement, which culminated in the January 6 attack, was part of a coordinated, months-long campaign to convince the public that the 2020 election was stolen through fraud and that Donald Trump had won. The dominant narrative of how this movement emerged is a national one, with Donald Trump at the …

Social Psychology Quarterly Abstract: Despite a steep rise in income inequality over the past five decades, Americans’ preferences for redistribution have remained stagnant. Previous research suggests that redistributive preferences are rooted in stable institutional and cultural contexts but can change with exposure to information. We investigate the role of understandings of the link between income …

JAMA Pediatrics Abstract: Importance  Childhood exposure to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is common. Individuals with a childhood history of mTBI experience more frequent criminal justice involvement in mid to late adolescence and adulthood. No study had been conducted to examine whether the link is causal or spurious. Objective  To determine whether mTBI in childhood causes criminal …