University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Publications

Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar by Kristina Fullerton Rico (2023)

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Social Problems, May 2023 Abstract: In the past four decades, the United States has created a population of long-term unauthorized immigrants. As this population ages, issues of death and dying are increasingly salient. Though we know much about how families maintain close bonds despite geographic distance, death and dying remain undertheorized in transnational family scholarship. …

Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era? by Chloe Grace Hart (2023)

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Social Problems, April 2023 Abstract:  Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how comprehensive these shifts in public opinion have been remains unclear. I hypothesize that women who experience workplace sexual harassment are judged against the archetype of an idealized target of sexual …

Spillover Effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on Older Siblings Beyond the Mother-Infant Dyad by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, & Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2023)

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Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of maternal exposure to Wisconsin Medicaid’s Prenatal Care Coordination (PNCC) program during pregnancy with a younger sibling on the preventive care …

Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)

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European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, and exposure to academically weaker peers increases students’ ASC. These propositions have not yet been tested experimentally. We executed a …

From the asylum official’s point of view: frames of perception and evaluation in refugee status determination by Katherine Jensen (2023)

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2023 Abstract: In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, scholarship has focused on the characteristics of asylum seekers, their applications, and adjudicating officials. Relatively less is known about how …

Regulatory capture’s third face of power by Wendy Li (2023)

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Socio-Economic Review, February 2023 Abstract: The term ‘regulatory capture’ is frequently invoked to describe dysfunctional government institutions. In its casual use, it refers to a phenomenon in which regulations benefit regulated industries, rather than public interests. However, as an analytical concept, social scientists have struggled to empirically identify and define the processes in which capture …

Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly by Ruo-Fan Liu (2022)

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Ethnography, Online First, December 2022 Abstract: This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography, in particular, ethnographies that situate solely in the offline or online worlds. I focus on how researchers adapt the ethnographic toolkit to an environment where digital and physical landscapes touch, …

Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality by Kate Summers, Fabien Accominotti, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Liz Mann, and Jonathan Mijs (2022)

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Social Justice Research 35(4): 379-400. Abstract: In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality, resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better informed citizens. We still know little, however, about how understandings of inequality arise, and therefore about where perceptions and misperceptions of it might come …

The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality by Fabien Accominotti, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder (2022)

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 87-102. Abstract: We argue that the properties of status hierarchies, independent of the positions actors occupy within them, have important effects on the degree of inequality in material rewards generated by status processes. We first discuss how a focus on status hierarchies differs from, …

Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries by Theodore P. Gerber, Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang (2023)

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American Journal of Sociology, Volume 128, Number 3 Abstract: Sociological research on housing inequality overlooks how the predictors and benefits of home ownership vary by pathway to ownership. The market pathway (purchase) is more associated with ascribed and achieved status characteristics linked to income and with higher housing satisfaction, greater subjective housing-related autonomy, and better …