The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality Introduction: In the contemporary social sciences, qualitative data, by which we here refer specifically to evidence gathered from participant observation and in-depth interviewing, have a peculiar status. Across …
Publications
Beyond a bachelor’s: Stratification in graduate school enrollment by Madeline Brighouse Glueck (2025)
Social Stratification and Mobility Abstract: Graduate study has rapidly expanded since the late 1990s, with women overtaking men in their enrollment in all levels of graduate degree. Once thought to be a relatively meritocratic space, …
Racial disparities in intrapartum care experiences and birth hospital characteristics by iona Weeks, Rebecca Myerson, Ronald Gangnon, Jennifer Dykema, Candi Cornelius, and Tiffany Green (2025)
Social Science and Medicine Abstract: Policymakers and researchers have posited intrapartum care as a potential mediator of racial inequities in perinatal outcomes. However, few studies have measured patient-centered quality of intrapartum care or explored differences …
Environmental change, aquatic conditions, and household food security: evidence from Lake Malawi by Heather Randell, Clark Gray, Monica Grant, Galina Shinkareva, Wondwosen M. Seyoum, and Catherine O’Reilly (2025)
Population and Environment Abstract: Food insecurity is a key barrier to improving global health and achieving sustainable development. Nearly 30% of the world’s population experiences moderate or severe food insecurity, and rates of hunger have …
Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring by So Yun Park and Eunsil Oh (2025)
Sociological Science Abstract: For the past three decades, scholars have conducted field experiments to examine gender-based hiring discrimination in the United States. However, these studies have produced mixed results. To further interpret these findings, we …
Transnationalizing Reception: Racial Scripts, Institutional Logics, and Congolese Refugee Processing in the United States and Brazil by Katherine Jensen and Jake Watson (2025)
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Abstract: While national reception contexts formatively shape immigration possibilities and experiences, we argue that transnational racial dynamics play an underappreciated role. Juxtaposing two independent ethnographies of the U.S. resettlement program …
Are Skills Becoming an Increasingly Important Determinant of Life Outcomes? by Douglas B. Downey, Benjamin Gibbs, and Eric Grodsky (2024)
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 …
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 …