Project MUSE®: Social Forces - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Social Forces.daily12024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 79, no. 3 (2001) through current issueLatest Articles: Social ForcesTWOProject MUSE®Social Forces1534-76050037-7732Latest articles in Social Forces. Feed provided by Project MUSE®The Power Elite in the Welfare State 2012–2017: Stability and Change in the Key Institutional Orders of the Core of Power Networks in Denmark
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913188
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For each epoch and for every social structure, we must work out an answer to the question of the power of the elite.When Charles Wright Mills (1956) wrote The Power Elite in America in the 1950s, three pillars of American society were represented at the top of the power structure: the corporations, the president's cabinet, and the military. But why were these institutions central to Mills' analysis? Through revolving doors, a shared upper-class background, ties made in elite boarding schools and Ivy-league universities, and, most importantly, the overlapping cliques of these three institutional orders, the power elite was able, Mills argued, to forge bonds to promote their shared interests in a way that was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe Power Elite in the Welfare State 2012–2017: Stability and Change in the Key Institutional Orders of the Core of Power Networks in Denmark2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Power Elite in the Welfare State 2012–2017: Stability and Change in the Key Institutional Orders of the Core of Power Networks in Denmark2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1654382024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29A Threatening Tone: Homicide, Racial Threat Narratives, and the Historical Growth of Incarceration in the United States, 1926–2016
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913189
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Since Blalock's (1967) first writing on intergroup competition, threat theory has provided an influential account of spatial variation in criminal punishments. Threat theory argues that the criminal justice system operates to suppress the competitive power of large minority groups. A large literature evaluates the threat hypothesis (e.g., Olzak 1993; Quillian and Pager 2001; Behrens et al. 2003; Stults and Baumer 2007), with mixed empirical results varying by social control outcome, measurement strategy, and demographic subgroup (Feldmeyer and Cochran 2019; King and Light 2019). A growing number of scholars have responded to these inconsistencies by evaluating threat mechanisms (King and Wheelock 2007; Stults and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallA Threatening Tone: Homicide, Racial Threat Narratives, and the Historical Growth of Incarceration in the United States, 1926–20162023-11-29text/htmlen-USA Threatening Tone: Homicide, Racial Threat Narratives, and the Historical Growth of Incarceration in the United States, 1926–20162023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1794562024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Displaced Trust: Disrupting Legal Estrangement during Disaster Recovery
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913190
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Marion County, SC experienced devastating flooding after heavy rainfall in 2015, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and Hurricane Florence in 2018. After Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, Marion County was allotted approximately $170 million in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds (Duffy and Shaefer 2022) and federal disaster declarations made residents eligible to apply for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Individual and Household Program (IHP). Given this funding, residents were hopeful about a potential recovery.However, research on federal disaster aid distribution reveals stark racial and economic inequalities. Black applicants receive less FEMA aid than White applicants
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallDisplaced Trust: Disrupting Legal Estrangement during Disaster Recovery2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDisplaced Trust: Disrupting Legal Estrangement during Disaster Recovery2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1514662024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913191
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Social isolation contributes to long-term health decline (Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010; Yang et al. 2016), but we know very little about the specific life course events that increase the risk of social isolation in mid and later life. Life course events characterized by stress and trauma, such as the death of a parent in childhood or young adulthood, may be especially likely to contribute to social isolation throughout life. Thus, we consider how the death of a parent, especially in childhood or young adulthood, increases the risk of isolation and whether isolation, in turn, explains linkages between exposure to parental death and health outcomes in later life. Indeed, experiencing the death of a parent in childhood or
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallParental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.2023-11-29text/htmlen-USParental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1894372024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29State Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913192
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The American Service-Members' Protection Act of 2002 prohibits US courts and other institutions from engaging in cooperation with or giving assistance to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Act also authorizes the President "to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the ICC" (United States Congress 2002, Section 2008(a)). Nicknamed the "Hague Invasion Act" (Faulhaber 2003), this piece of legislation has been widely discussed in the field of international criminal justice organized around the idea of ending impunity for atrocity crimes—a mission written into the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallState Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital2023-11-29text/htmlen-USState Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1446492024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913193
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Over the past few decades, social scientists have documented a persistent Black–White wealth gap. While these studies have shed light on the mechanisms through which the legacy of racism produces wealth disparities, they potentially mask heterogeneity in wealth ownership between and across racialized groups by treating race as an either-or category. That is to say, they examine how wealth varies by whether or not a person is classified as either Black or White. This approach, however, eludes our understanding of race as a social construct that is actively negotiated. As Sen and Wasow (2016), Monk (2015), and others argue, the extent to which racism negatively shapes a person's life chances is affected by the degree
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallThe Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1597712024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Race, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover: Do Restrictive Immigration Policies Affect Citizen Earnings?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913194
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"Over the last two decades, the growing body of critical race theory literature has shown that racism in the United States can be fully comprehended only by studying the ways in which immigration laws have detrimental consequences for all racial minorities (Romero 2008, p. 27)."State-sponsored surveillance of Latinx and Black individuals fuels US racial inequality (Omi and Winant 2014; Romero 2008; Yancy 2016). For racialized Latinx people, this surveillance facilitates the enforcement of immigration policies meant both to apprehend undocumented Latinx immigrants and to make conditions so difficult that undocumented immigrants "self-deport" (Cox and Miles 2013; Donato and Rodriguez 2014; Golash-Boza and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallRace, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover: Do Restrictive Immigration Policies Affect Citizen Earnings?2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRace, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover: Do Restrictive Immigration Policies Affect Citizen Earnings?2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®2018612024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913195
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As natural hazards affect communities with greater severity due to climate change (Sobel et al. 2016), programs assisting households through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have become a significant part of the US welfare state. In 2016, FEMA constituted a quarter of the Department of Homeland Security's 64.9-billion-dollar budget, making it the costliest of the department's 15 organizations (DHS 2016). In counties receiving federal disaster assistance, the amount transferred to individuals has been comparable to the annual amount dispensed by other social programs, such as TANF (DHS 2017; State of Louisiana 2004). Yet, despite its growing share of government spending and increasing importance to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallStratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities2023-11-29text/htmlen-USStratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1730432024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Within, Between, and Beyond: A New Approach to Examining World Income Inequality
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913196
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World income inequality is a function of how resources are distributed within states and how levels of economic development vary between them. To borrow Milanovic's (2011, 2012a, 2016) terminology, we can refer to these two sources of inequality as "class" and "location," respectively. Since the mid-twentieth century, most of the world's income inequality has been location-based, as Western economies far outgrew the rest of the world during the Industrial Revolution. And, by the end of the century, inequality between countries continued to explain about 65–75 percent of the variation in global income (Anand and Segal 2008; Firebaugh 2003; Goesling 2001; Milanovic 2005, 2016). Around this time, however, income gaps
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallWithin, Between, and Beyond: A New Approach to Examining World Income Inequality2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWithin, Between, and Beyond: A New Approach to Examining World Income Inequality2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1824512024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021" by Abby Day (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913197
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For quite some time now, scholars have debated the importance of the 1960s for religious decline in western countries. Some scholars argue that secularization only started in the 1960s, others believe that the 1960s were a period of increased speed of a much larger secularization process and still others doubt that the 1960s had a significant impact on religious change.Abby Day clearly sets herself in the camp of those who argue that the 1960s were a pivotal moment for religious decline in western countries. She believes that current secularization has a lot to do with the fact that Baby Boomers (in Day's definition the generation born between 1945 and 1960) turned from religion, and she sets out to understand why.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021" by Abby Day (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Why Baby Boomers Turned from Religion: Shaping Belief and Belonging, 1945–2021" by Abby Day (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®123752024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault Against Queer Men" by Doug Meyer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913198
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Whose experiences of sexual violence guide our theories? Whose voices shape our visions for social transformation? These are the political and theoretical questions at the center of Doug Meyer's important book, Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault Against Queer Men. Throughout the book, Meyer builds an intersectional analysis of sexual violence grounded in queer male survivors' experiences of assault, with a focus on the complex nexus of race and sexuality. The goal of the book is to decenter whiteness and heterosexuality in research and policy related to sexual violence, and Meyer is successful in showing the audience how this should be done. Woven throughout the text are survivors'
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault Against Queer Men" by Doug Meyer (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault Against Queer Men" by Doug Meyer (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®94592024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy" by Ana Catalano Weeks (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913199
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In Making Gender Salient, Anna Catalano Weeks examines whether gender quotas lead to policy changes for women. Leveraging data from high-income democracies and four carefully selected case studies, she seamlessly weaves together large-N observational data with indepth interviews and archival research to show that quotas do lead to policy change–but not necessarily in the ways we may have previously anticipated. Focusing on work-family policies this book breaks new ground and uncovers counterintuitive conclusions about when, how, and by whom women's policy interests are addressed.Whereas champions of quotas often advocate that quotas will bring about positive policy change for women, skeptics suggest we should not
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy" by Ana Catalano Weeks (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy" by Ana Catalano Weeks (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®96622024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America" by Christopher Prener (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913200
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Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America is a fascinating examination of the daily work experiences of emergency medicine service (EMS) workers at Private Ambulance, a private EMS agency, in Chapman, a midsized city in the Eastern United States. Prener contextualizes the experiences of these EMS workers within a complicated historical and societal backdrop shaped by the emergence of the EMS system in the mid-20th century, the deinstitutionalization of mental and behavioral illness, and the ensuing patchwork nature of prehospital emergency medicine in the United States. Prener situates his research amidst the sociology of work and other ethnographic studies of EMS work, while also filling a gap in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America" by Christopher Prener (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America" by Christopher Prener (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®89272024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration" by Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913201
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In Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen provide a foundational and comprehensive understanding of how incarceration creates and exacerbates health disparities in the United States. This book describes how incarceration, an adverse event that is disproportionately experienced among vulnerable population groups including people of color and the poor, is a social determinant of health and wellbeing. The authors draw on more than a decade of research—much of it their own—to provide a thorough understanding of the repercussions of incarceration for people confined in carceral facilities, people reentering their families and communities after
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration" by Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration" by Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®93842024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California's Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913202
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The COVID-19 pandemic prompted increased xenophobia and racialized violence toward Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants in the United States. This surge in discrimination and hate crimes is unsurprising when tracing long-standing stereotypes of Asians as threats to public health. Historians have documented the development of legal, social, and scientific narratives portraying Asians, both foreign- and American-born, as unassimilable aliens and threats to the health of white populations (Ngai 2014; Stern 2016). Public health policies and practices reified the racialization of Asians through "yellow peril" narratives, cleanliness crusades, and birth rate monitoring (Molina 2006; Ngai 2014; Shah 2001; Takaki 1998).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallRacialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California's Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRacialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California's Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1617462024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913203
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Inequality has grown dramatically in recent decades. The financial elite—couples in the top 20% of US income and wealth distributions—have seen their incomes and wealth soar since the late 1970s, with few signs that these patterns are slowing. In 2019, the financial elite controlled 61% of income and 87% of wealth in the United States (author estimates from Survey of Consumer Finances [SCF]). A variety of mechanisms have been proposed for the rise in inequality; more recently, scholars have argued that gender inequality in elite households may contribute to creating and sustaining class advantage (Keister, Thébaud, and Yavorsky 2022; Rao 2020; Stone and Lovejoy 2019). Qualitative research suggests that some elite
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallSeparate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite2023-11-29text/htmlen-USSeparate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1616412024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Legacies of Resistance and Resilience: Antebellum Free African Americans and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the Northeast
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913204
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To explain persistent racial inequality in the United States, scholars increasingly point to historical institutions and their enduring consequences. Notably, for instance, scholars have documented the effects of historic lynching on contemporary patterns of social control, violence, and racial inequality (Gabriel and Tolnay 2017; Petersen and Ward 2015; Williams et al. 2021). Inequality scholars embracing this diachronic approach have continued to dig deeper into America's ugly past. These efforts have yielded incisive historical studies establishing slavery as foundational to the United States and the making of capitalism (Baptist 2014; Reuf 2014) and race (Smedley 2012).This historical turn has lately been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallLegacies of Resistance and Resilience: Antebellum Free African Americans and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the Northeast2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLegacies of Resistance and Resilience: Antebellum Free African Americans and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the Northeast2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1797722024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913205
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Countries with an apprenticeship-based vocational education and training (VET) system often facilitate smooth transitions to the labor market (Barbieri, Cutuli, and Passaretta 2018; Kogan 2019). Having obtained an apprenticeship is then key to a successful school-to-work transition (Masdonati, Lamamra, and Jordan 2010), which, in turn, leads to relatively stable occupational careers and avoids unemployment (Manzoni, Härkönen, and Mayer 2014; Müller, Steinmann, and Ell 1998; Solga 2008; Ainsworth and Roscigno 2005). At the same time, however, apprenticeship dropout behavior constitutes a prevalent phenomenon in many VET systems (e.g., Switzerland: Filliettaz 2014; Negrini et al. 2016; Schmid and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCareer Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCareer Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1758042024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities Between and Within Households
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913206
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Social mobility and social inequality are two of the most central concepts in sociology (Mare 2001). The former relates to the openness of societies. How mobile are individuals in the social hierarchy? How easily do they interact with others across the hierarchy? The latter relates to the distribution of valued resources between individuals and households. How unequal and distant are positions in the social hierarchy? Although social mobility and social inequality are distinct concepts and often examined separately, they "go together intuitively" (Hout 2004: 969) and inter-as well as intra-generational social mobility can be directly related to dynamics in inequality (Mare 2001) and vice versa (Hertel and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallAssortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities Between and Within Households2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAssortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities Between and Within Households2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1285142024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Exoduster Entrepreneurs: Distinctiveness and Segregation in Minority Communities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913207
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Among minority groups, migration is often linked to hopes of upward mobility and entrepreneurship. Millions of African Americans moved North for better opportunities during the Great Migration, though scholars continue to debate whether their economic outcomes improved over those of counterparts who remained in the US South (Eichenlaub, Tolnay, and Alexander 2010; Collins and Wanamaker 2014). Since the 1970s, reverse migration to the Southern states has built a new source of Black community and business enterprise in cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas (Pendergrass 2013). During periods when circumstances catalyzed immigrant entrepreneurship, West Indian and Chinese migrants to New York City likewise
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallExoduster Entrepreneurs: Distinctiveness and Segregation in Minority Communities2023-11-29text/htmlen-USExoduster Entrepreneurs: Distinctiveness and Segregation in Minority Communities2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1346672024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913208
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Family structure in the United States has become increasingly diverse over the past half-century (Smock and Schwartz 2020). One key aspect of this change has been the rising instability of fathers' co-residential status with children. From a father's perspective, this means that millions of non-residential fathers were previously residential fathers (Gupta, Smock, and Manning 2004).Despite long-standing scholarship examining the relationship between fatherhood and wage advantages (Glauber 2008; Hodges and Budig 2010; Lundberg and Rose 2000; Yu and Hara 2021), few studies have investigated how divergent residential contexts of fatherhood may affect men's wages differently. Killewald (2013) is an exception. Examining
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallBecoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers2023-11-29text/htmlen-USBecoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1369382024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness" by Jacob R. Boersema (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913209
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Can We Unlearn Racism? is among a few books currently turning to South Africa as an exemplar of possible new political horizons amid surging right-wing populisms and democratic backsliding across the world. As an unusual settler state, it bucked global trends in the mid-twentieth century with its notorious prolongation of colonial relations called apartheid, instituted in 1948, the year of the adoption of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights. As colonial powers withdrew from the African continent in the following decades, "colonialism of a special type" persisted in South Africa, as per the local diagnosis of the condition in which colonizers and colonized inhabited the same country. In 1994, this time
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness" by Jacob R. Boersema (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness" by Jacob R. Boersema (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®86922024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Gendered Pluralism" by Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913210
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Are women united or divided in US politics? Is gender a "fault line" in Americans' public opinion and policy attitudes? Sociologist Belinda Robnett and political scientist Katherine Tate explore these questions in Gendered Pluralism. Analyzing the 2012 Outlook on Life Survey dataset, the authors explore pluralism, intersectionality, and identity politics as relevant to the ways in which Americans respond to public policy issues. Investigating how socio-political and demographic factors, as well as gender, race, and sexuality, may influence public policy attitudes, the authors assert that gender is a consistent divider of opinions in US politics and yet, women's attitudes still vary by their intersectional social
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Gendered Pluralism" by Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Gendered Pluralism" by Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®120172024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise" by Monica Liu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913211
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The book Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise written by Monica Liu examines the evolving "mail order bride" industry in a major Chinese city within the larger economic context of China's rise from a poor agrarian country into the world's second largest economy after the United States. This is an important empirical study of the "mail order bride" industry within China that provides an intervention into the literature regarding international dating and marriage. Previous studies of the phenomenon in China did not include the in-depth ethnographic data that this book provides. Based on Monica Liu's positionality as a Chinese–American who spoke the language of her participants, she was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise" by Monica Liu (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise" by Monica Liu (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®98222024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk" by Hyeyoung Oh Nelson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913212
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There is a quote in Hyeyoung Oh Nelson's Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk, which captures the book's substance beautifully. In an interview excerpt with the director of residency training at the hospital Nelson studied, the doctor explains the "single biggest dilemma" physicians face in an academic medical institution. He addresses an imaginary trainee to illustrate the problem: "Look, this is the time when you are learning to be a doctor: we want you to be cost-effective but we also want you to be thorough and humanistic and use physical diagnostic skills that you have learned appropriately, and not overorder tests. And you have to do all that within two and a half days
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk" by Hyeyoung Oh Nelson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk" by Hyeyoung Oh Nelson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®101902024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where do Organs Come from?" by Hagai Boas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913213
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This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to another through donation, sale, or gift are mediated by the state, market, and family. The book is a thorough review of the sociological, anthropological, and ethical literature surrounding transplant organs but encased within the author's own personal dilemmas and lived experience. His work skillfully underscores the negotiations and accommodations inherent in the use of these technologies and reveals the situatedness of decisions that belie any simplistic readings of the ethics of transplantations.Hagai Boas, himself a kidney transplantee, argues that the two main approaches in the social sciences
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where do Organs Come from?" by Hagai Boas (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where do Organs Come from?" by Hagai Boas (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®94352024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology" by Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913214
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Specifying the relationship between macrostructures and microinteraction is a challenge fundamental to the discipline of sociology. We often conceptualize human experience and behavior as a complex interconnection between these forces, but there are multiple and competing conceptualizations of how to understand these relationships sociologically. Many social theorists try to trace connections between structure and agency, the macro and the micro. Bourdieu developed ideas of habitus and field; Giddens wrote of structuration; Mills promised us that a sociological imagination could help us understand the connections between public issues and our private troubles.But what if a key part of the answer to this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology" by Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology" by Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®123622024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics" by Sophie Mützel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913215
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Breast cancer is a leading cause of death for women worldwide, with more than 2 million new cases diagnosed and over 650,000 deaths each year.1 On the heels of the discovery of the oncogene and advances in molecular engineering and in the 1980s, a vision of minimally invasive and nontoxic treatments for breast cancer emerged. In Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics, sociologist Sophie Mützel examines the emergence of the market for breast cancer therapeutics and demonstrates how storytelling has material consequences in the construction of economic markets.Offering a cultural analysis of economic life, Making Sense shows how interrelations between various networks, including academic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics" by Sophie Mützel (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics" by Sophie Mützel (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®85392024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance" by Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913216
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The authors challenge the "global city literature" school of urban studies thought advanced by such authors as Saskia Sassen, which empirically rank-orders world cities based on their concentration of business activity and confers higher power and importance to cities atop this hierarchy. The book advances a critique of the global city literature alongside scholars such as Neil Brenner and Jennifer Robinson, arguing that such hierarchical conceptions of world cities ignore third world or Global South cities, instead treating higher-ranked cities as ideal and merely reproducing North American and Eurocentric views of urban life. As opposed to the orthodoxy of global city literature, the authors suggest that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance" by Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance" by Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®78562024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Does Online Dating Challenge Gendered Divisions of Household Labor?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913217
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Dating online through websites, phone apps, or social networks is now common and socially endorsed (Smith 2016). In certain contexts (e.g., United States), it has even become the number one way of meeting partners (Rosenfeld, Thomas, and Hausen 2019). Social scientists have already documented several social transformations brought about by online dating. In the United States, for instance, internet-matched heterosexual couples are less socially homogamous (Thomas 2020) and transition faster into marriage than couples who met face-to-face (Rosenfeld 2017). In addition to these effects, scholars also expected online dating to transform gendered relationship practices (Hardey 2002). Despite advances in women's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallDoes Online Dating Challenge Gendered Divisions of Household Labor?2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDoes Online Dating Challenge Gendered Divisions of Household Labor?2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1929182024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring About the Environment" by Emily H. Kennedy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913218
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Who cares about the environment? According to Emily H. Kennedy, we all do. We just do so in different ways that may appear inscrutable (at best), or even immoral, to those who see things differently. Lack of appreciation of variation in ways of relating to and caring about the environment, she argues, is a key factor behind political polarization around environmental issues. Environmental issues are significant, but we get nowhere by blaming other individuals or denigrating their relationships with the environment.Through sixty plus in-depth interviews of "ordinary" but politically and socioeconomically diverse people in the state of Washington, Kennedy found that people can be categorized into five different
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring About the Environment" by Emily H. Kennedy (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring About the Environment" by Emily H. Kennedy (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®92922024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Correction to: Loneliness in Europe: Personal and Societal Individualism–Collectivism and Their Connection to Social Isolation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913219
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This is a correction to: Christopher S Swader, Loneliness in Europe: Personal and Societal Individualism–Collectivism and Their Connection to Social Isolation, Social Forces, Volume 97, Issue 3, March 2019, Pages 1307–1336, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy088In the originally published version of this manuscript, the country-level variables in the analysis that came from the ESS were not combined with post-stratification weights. This caused an impact for the living alone variable. All analyses were re-run to check for any impact. It was determined that this change did not impact the main analysis because the only variable impacted by this change, country-level living alone, was not included in that analysis.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCorrection to: Loneliness in Europe: Personal and Societal Individualism–Collectivism and Their Connection to Social Isolation2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Loneliness in Europe: Personal and Societal Individualism–Collectivism and Their Connection to Social Isolation2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®51992024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Correction to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913220
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This is a correction to: Janina Beckmann and others, Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany, Social Forces, 2023;, soad063, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad063In the originally published version of this manuscript, formatting errors were present in the reference list. In addition, Figures 4 and 6 were included under the wrong headings.These errors have been corrected; the Publisher apologizes for not correcting them at an earlier production
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallCorrection to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCorrection to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®23832024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" by Zai Liang (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913221
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This book is a highly original exploration of the geographic dispersion of Chinese restaurant owners and workers to new immigrant destinations throughout the United States, and the role of institutions and ethnic entrepreneurs [especially employment agencies (EAs) and Chinatown bus lines] in facilitating that dispersion. Data for the book come from an innovative research design that combines participant observation, field work, and in-depth interviews with immigrant entrepreneurs, community leaders, and immigrant workers in six states; surveys of EAs and interviews with EA staff; census data; and historical archival research. The result is a highly readable combination of entrepreneurs' life and business histories
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" by Zai Liang (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" by Zai Liang (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®92632024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo" by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913222
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The global ecological crisis generated by capitalism is the defining feature of our era. Climate change is the most prominent element of that crisis which, along with species extinction and chemical contamination, makes the continuation of our current political-economy untenable. Social institutions have proven unwilling or unable to adequately address the crisis. Institutional failure has inspired an interdisciplinary conversation about what is to be done. The loss of habitability on this planet is accelerating exponentially, creating a sense of urgency about identifying effective strategies for restructuring the global political economy in ways that facilitate the continuation of human (and non-human) life.The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo" by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo" by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®145442024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison" by Michael Gibson-Light (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913223
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In Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison, Michael Gibson-Light provides a rich description of the inner workings of labor and life behind bars in one southwestern American prison. His insight stems from access to an American prison that is rare and valuable: he conducted eighteen months of ethnographic observation and eighty-two interviews with incarcerated workers and prison staff at "Sunbelt State Penitentiary." As a result, this slim volume is full of fascinating detail.Gibson-Light takes the reader into four prison worksites: a sign shop, an auto garage, a food factory, and a call center. Though all of these jobs pay well below the federal minimum wage and are an essential component of carceral
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison" by Michael Gibson-Light (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison" by Michael Gibson-Light (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®107002024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina" by Kai Erikson and Lori Peek (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913224
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What have we learned since Hurricane Katrina made landfall nearly two decades ago? For the final installment of University of Texas Press' Katrina Bookshelf collection, two of the most discerning voices in disaster sociology, Kai Erikson and Lori Peek, offer answers in a short and powerfully written new book, The Continuing Storm. Methodologically, Erikson and Peek draw upon an impressive corpus of media reports, government documents, historical geography, and published interdisciplinary literature, including much of their own research, to elucidate lessons that extend far beyond mass crises like Katrina and into the functioning of everyday life.The Continuing Storm is divided into three parts: "The Hurricane Known
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina" by Kai Erikson and Lori Peek (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina" by Kai Erikson and Lori Peek (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®75972024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" by Margaret K. Nelson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913225
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In Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s, Nelson takes advantage of "confessional age" tell-alls to explore the case of secrets in families. Holding particular primacy in the post-war context, the "Standard North American Family" reflected a broader logic of normalcy and conformity which demanded careful front-stage performance. Deviation by any member—due to supposed physical, cultural, or moral failings—not only rendered a family vulnerable but was considered tantamount to national threat. In dedicated chapters, Nelson leverages 162 film and text memoirs to explore six types of secrets connected to this tenuous socio-political context. Memoirs from those who kept secrets from or with
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" by Margaret K. Nelson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" by Margaret K. Nelson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®100102024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" by Damien M. Sojoyner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913226
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The diffusion of a carceral mentality into everyday life in the US is a long and intricate story. The historical foundations of criminalization and racial capitalism live on today in brick-and-mortar sites of human imprisonment, but they also are embedded in a Weltanschauung that informs such commonplace and only seemingly unrelated aspects of our society as its architectural designs and functions (from housing to hospitals), its employment opportunities and labor arrangements, its maintenance of law and order (including increasingly widespread and diverse forms of surveillance), and its educational institutions.Damien Sojoyner is well aware of the ways that a carceral mentality shapes the lives of Americans. Joy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" by Damien M. Sojoyner (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" by Damien M. Sojoyner (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®90142024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" by Melanie Heath (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913227
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If you see the title of this book and assume that it will only be of interest to those who study polygamy, think again. Melanie Heath provides an exceptional cross-national examination of how France, The United States, Canada, and French colonial Mayotte structure their national identities by regulating families and intimacies. As Heath compellingly demonstrates, these nations engage in racial and gender projects around binary constructions of good, healthy, and "progressive" monogamous marriage in contrast to bad, unhealthy, and oppressive polygamy.The book is methodologically innovative, and the data and analysis provided by Heath make important contributions to our understanding of national identities
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" by Melanie Heath (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" by Melanie Heath (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®87232024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Injustice, Inc. How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" by Daniel Hatcher (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913228
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Over the last 15 years, sociological and legal research has begun to examine how US court systems rely on fines and fees to extract wealth from disproportionately poor communities and from people of color, with aims including the collection of operating expenses, revenue generation, and social control. Hatcher's Injustice, Inc. provides an entirely new line of inquiry examining the hidden internal juvenile legal practices that center on capturing money—from federal funds to individuals' income and assets. This book provides a dizzying eye opening deep dive into the juvenile legal system to highlight the strategies and practices which courts, police, prosecutors, probation offices, and confinement institutions use
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Injustice, Inc. How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" by Daniel Hatcher (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Injustice, Inc. How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" by Daniel Hatcher (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®122962024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire" by Matthew Norton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913229
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In the early-to-mid seventeenth century, pirates set sail from England in great numbers in order to raid maritime trading vessels and, on occasion, besiege whole towns. Figures like Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh were so successful in these tasks that they were co-opted by the state and, later, became figures of mythical renown, taught in every English school as heroes of the early modern world. However, between the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century, things changed. By the end of this period, pirates had become enemies of the English state, subject to pacification campaigns that ranged from new acts of parliament to spectacular public executions. Perhaps the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire" by Matthew Norton (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire" by Matthew Norton (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®94192024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" by Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913230
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Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry by Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens traces the evolution of EDM from a consumerist underground music scene, to a socially constructed deviant subculture, and finally as a mainstream object field corporate commodity worth billions of dollars. Using Horkheimer and Adorno's ([1944] 1972) concept of culture industry to situate their sociological analysis, Conner and Dickens support their arguments with an impressive array of field interviews with industry insiders, organizers, promoters, and participants as well as Conner's personal experience as an EDM insider. What emerges from this mixed methodological qualitative approach is a book that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" by Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" by Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®114312024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy" by Mohammad Ali Kadivar (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913231
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In Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy, Mohammad Ali Kadivar provides a groundbreaking sociological analysis of democratic consolidation. The book is, first and foremost, a response to elitist approaches to democratization that either underestimate the role of social/mass mobilization in democratization or point toward the "antidemocratic tendencies" of mass uprisings (p. 5). In his comparative analysis of cases of both democratic success and failure, the book contributes to the scholarship that shows the critical role that social movements play in democratization. However, the book's contribution goes beyond demonstrating the importance of pro-democracy social movements for successful democratic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmall"Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy" by Mohammad Ali Kadivar (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy" by Mohammad Ali Kadivar (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®108762024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29What Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry
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Contentious battles over whether to add a citizenship question to the US census, new federal restrictions on immigration, and proposals to eliminate birthright citizenship from the US Constitution are recent manifestations of longstanding debates over who should be included in the polity. At the heart of these discussions is the question—What makes a citizen?Citizenship is a central axis of stratification, reflecting both the inclusive nature of its members and exclusionary attitudes toward outgroups (Brubaker 2015). Theorized as a macro-level phenomenon, the state is the main actor producing the boundary between citizens and non-citizens (Brubaker 2009), as it implements and enforces such boundaries.1 However, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/187/image/coversmallWhat Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWhat Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1514352024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29