Category: Publications

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 Paulo State, long celebrated this Confederate heritage. Local memory politics, however, have become unsettled. This article examines local Black movement …

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 put forward to characterise the level of precarity – employment-based security capital, citizenship-based security capital and embodied security capital. Additionally, …

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 (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood …

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 an unconscious level, shunting off these anxieties from reflective awareness. This can happen in social and organizational settings that are …

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 over “common good” demands than others? This article compares two social justice-oriented union locals in Chicago to explore how workers’ …

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 association between socioeconomic status and an outcome variable. However, the descriptive regularities of the two theses may be driven by …

  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 and Beyond cohort (HS&B:80) and two mobility effect models (Luo’s Mobility Contrast Model and Sobel’s Diagonal Reference Model), we find …

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 of human rights, however, merit further examination. This study brings together human rights research and cognitive sociology, deploying a novel, …

American Educational Research Journal Abstract: Peer interaction offers critical learning opportunities for preschool students, yet exposure to peers of different skill levels varies within and across classrooms. We explore two ways peers may affect learning: differences in who children play with in a classroom and differences in student composition across classrooms. We find that playing …

Qualitative Sociology Abstract: With “In Praise of ‘Thick Construction,’” Loïc Wacquant offers a welcome manifesto for ethnography infused with Bourdieusian epistemology. Continuing in that spirit, I elaborate the need (and offer practical tips) for epistemological vigilance—that is, to reflexively interrogate one’s own thinking—in the face of prenotions that threaten the thick construction of ethnographic objects. …