Sociological Science
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Sociological Science is a general-interest, open-access sociology journal committed to the highest standards of rigor and relevance. It aims to be the flagship journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes.
Sociological Science
6d ago
Richard Breen, John Ermisch
Sociological Science April 29, 2024
10.15195/v11.a17
Abstract
The question of how social mobility affects outcomes, such as political preferences, wellbeing, and fertility, has long been of interest to sociologists. But finding answers to this question has been plagued by, on the one hand, the non-identifiability of “mobility effects” as they are usually conceived in this literature, and, on the other, the fact that these “effects” are, in reality, partial associations which may or may not represent causal relationships. We advance a different approach, drawing on ..read more
Sociological Science
2w ago
Jason Greenberg, Christopher C. Liu, Leanne ten Brinke
Sociological Science April 17, 2024
10.15195/v11.a16
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In many organizational settings, individuals make evaluations in the context of affect-based negative relationships, in which an evaluator personally dislikes the evaluated individual. However, these dislikes are often held in check by norms of professionalism that preclude the use of personal preferences in objective evaluations. In this article, we draw from social network theory to suggest that only individuals that are network brokers—those who have the cognitive freedom to ..read more
Sociological Science
3w ago
Mads Meier Jæger, Mikkel Haderup Larsen
Sociological Science April 12, 2024
10.15195/v11.a15
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Theories of cultural stratification argue that a widely shared cultural hierarchy legitimizes status differences and inequality. Yet, we know little about this hierarchy empirically. To address this limitation, we collected survey data in Denmark and asked respondents to rate the implied social rank of 60 activities, genres, and objects belonging to six lifestyle domains (music, food, performing arts, leisure, sport, and literature). We use ratings of social rank to infer about the cultural h ..read more
Sociological Science
3w ago
Filip Olsson
Sociological Science April 9, 2024
10.15195/v11.a14
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Sociology has recently seen a surge of interest in implicit culture, which refers to knowledge, habits, and feelings that are largely automatic and habitual. In this article, I argue that certain expressions of implicit culture may be more contextual and malleable than previously thought. The argument is illustrated by showing how terror attacks in France affect implicit bias toward Arab Muslims. By analyzing the longevity and specificity of this effect, I also detail when and why implicit bias might change. The article ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Maria S. Grigoryeva, Blaine G. Robbins
Sociological Science April 5, 2024
10.15195/v11.a13
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This article examines what people conceal, who conceals from whom, and whether there are demographic differences in how much and what people conceal. We map concealment using a two-wave probability survey and behavioral experiment of U.S. adults (N = 1,281). Our survey measures self-reports of 37 different concealable attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics over a 12-month period, whereas the experiment provides a concrete behavioral measure of concealment. These data yield four principal fin ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Katharina Burgdorf, Henning Hillmann
Sociological Science April 2, 2024
10.15195/v11.a12
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To what extent may individual autonomy persist under the constraints of group identity? This dualism is particularly salient in new movements that value individual creativity above all, and yet have to muster community cohesion to establish a new style. Using the case of New Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s, the authors show how this movement reconciled the demands of collective identity and collaboration in film production with their commitment to the individual filmmaker’s artistic autonomy. Us ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Sofia Avila
Sociological Science March 28, 2024
10.15195/v11.a11
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Workplace raids are visible and disruptive immigration enforcement operations that can result in the detention of hundreds of immigrants at one time. Despite concerns about the impact of raids on children’s well-being, there is limited research on how these tactics affect their academic performance. Using school-level testing data from 2015 to 2019, I compare changes in the performance of Hispanic students in schools close to a workplace raid to white students in the same schools and Hispanic students at control schools ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Kristen Harknett, Charlotte O’Herron, Evelyn Bellew
Sociological Science March 25, 2024
10.15195/v11.a10
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The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and advancement. In this paper, we draw on data from 13,574 hourly service-sector workers to extend the study of intersectional labor market inequalities to workers’ experience on the job. In the service sector, where workers are regularly expected to be on their feet for long hours and contend with intense and unrelenting workloads, regular break time is ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Vincenz Frey, Delia S. Baldassarri, Francesco C. Billari
Sociological Science March 21, 2024
10.15195/v11.a9
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Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American National Election Studies. In 2012, when about 80% of the U.S. population was already connected to the internet, the ANES face-to-face study was for the first time supplemented with a sample ..read more
Sociological Science
1M ago
Hannu Lahtinen, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Tim Morris, Mikko Myrskylä
Sociological Science March 18, 2024
10.15195/v11.a8
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Educational systems that separate students into curriculum tracks later may place less emphasis on socioeconomic family background and allow individuals’ personal skills and interests more time to manifest. We tested whether postponing tracking from age 11 to 16 results in stronger genetic prediction of education across a population, exploiting the natural experiment of the Finnish comprehensive school reform between 1972 and 1977. The association betwee ..read more