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 many substantive fields – inequality, poverty, education, organizations, immigration, health, crime, and more – scholars doing quantitative research actively rely …

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, due to increasing selection as educational transitions move into higher degrees, more recent research on graduate education has shown it …

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 by race. To address this gap, we developed a survey supplement using cognitive interviewing and administered it to a probability-based …

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 risen in recent years. Environmental change is a major factor driving this increase, as warming air and water temperatures, extreme …

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 performed a meta-analysis of 37 audit studies conducted between 1990 and 2022. Using an aggregated sample of 243,202 fictitious job …

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 and Brazilian asylum system, we show that Congolese refugees encounter strikingly similar racialized logics of reception as they move through …

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 idea. Using six nationally representative datasets, the authors find surprisingly little support for the notion that measurable skills are becoming …