Book chapter in Advances of Social Demography This chapter describes complex parenthood experiences for men and women in the contemporary United States.
Publications
A Faithful Force: Catholics as Pillars of the Conservative Movement by Emily Burke (2025)
Journal of Religion and Society Abstract: The story of the rise and transformation of the American conservative movement largely characterizes the Religious Right as established, comprised, and led by evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Through highlighting …
Confederate Reckoning and Resignifying Racism in Brazil: Local Memory Politics and Anti-Racist Movement Strategies by Katherine Jensen (2025)
Ethnic and Racial Studies Abstract: Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and Americana, in São …
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality by Yue Qin (2025)
Work, Employment, and Society Abstract: Drawing on Bourdieu’s theories of field and capital, this article proposes the concept of security capital for a better understanding of precarity in the field of work. Three indicators are …
Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging by Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Joseph Clark, Amy Schultz, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki (2025)
SSM – Population Health Abstract: Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage …
Collective Defense Mechanisms by Mustafa Emirbayer (2025)
American Sociological Review Abstract: Despite being an uncommon topic in sociological inquiry, collective defense mechanisms are a widely known phenomenon in social life. Whenever people experience anxieties in common, shared defensive processes can arise at …
Working for the Public Good: Organizational Dilemmas & Strategy in Public-Sector Unions by Sara Gia Trongone (2025)
Work and Occupations Abstract: Despite the success of “Bargaining for the Common Good”, only educators have used this strategy at scale in the public sector. Why are some workers more likely to strike and bargain …
Counterfactual Slopes and Their Applications in Social Stratification by Ang Yu and Jiwei Zhao (2025)
Sociological Methodology Abstract: This paper addresses two prominent theses in social stratification research, the great equalizer thesis and Mare’s (1980) school transition thesis. Both theses describe the role of an intermediate educational transition in the …
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Health in the United States by Hyeyun Jeong, Jiahui Xu, John Robert Warren, Liying Luo, Eric Grodsky, and Chandra Muller (2025)
Social Science & Medicine Abstract: Does intergenerational occupational mobility impact health and well-being net of occupational origins and destinations? Are the net effects of mobility homogeneous across demographic subgroups? Using data from High School …
Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought: Content and Structure in the United States by Katherine Jensen, Monika Krause, and Benny Witkovsky (2025)
Socius Abstract: What are human rights? Although legal scholars point to a growing list of international entitlements, social scientists have highlighted underlying ideological assumptions and the selective interpretation of human rights in practice. Lay conceptualizations …