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How to Make a Functionalist Argument 如何进行功能主义论证
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a20
Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa
Sociologists have an awkward relationship with functionalist explanations. Despite having declared “functionalism” to be obsolete, some form of functionalist argument still remains cryptically present in much substantive research. We argue that the resulting inability to talk plainly about functions is a major hindrance for theory building in the discipline. As such, this article has two goals. The first is disambiguation. What does it mean to attribute a function to something? We answer this question by elaborating on the distinction between proper functions (responding to why-is-it-there questions) and role functions (responding to how-does-it-work questions). The second is to introduce a typology of functional arguments that builds upon this distinction, allowing us to recast “functionalism” as a set of general explanatory strategies and not as a substantive theory about society. Importantly, these forms of argument are not burdened by the problems with the organicist framework that many sociologists associate with functionalism.
社会学家与功能主义的解释有着尴尬的关系。尽管已经宣布“功能主义”已经过时,但在许多实质性研究中,某种形式的功能主义论点仍然神秘地存在。我们认为,由此导致的无法清楚地谈论功能是该学科理论建设的主要障碍。因此,本文有两个目标。首先是消歧义。把一个函数归为某物是什么意思?我们通过阐述适当功能(回答“它为什么在那里”的问题)和角色功能(回答“它如何工作”的问题)之间的区别来回答这个问题。第二种是引入基于这种区别的功能论证的类型学,使我们能够将“功能主义”重新塑造为一套一般的解释策略,而不是作为一种关于社会的实质性理论。重要的是,这些形式的论证没有受到许多社会学家与功能主义联系在一起的有机体框架问题的困扰。
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Partisanship Meets Social Networks: How Politically Heterogeneous Acquaintances and Close Relationships Buffer Partisan Animosity 党派关系遇到社会网络:政治上异质的熟人和亲密关系如何缓冲党派仇恨
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a18
Delia Baldassarri, Jona de Jong
Politically heterogeneous social networks have long been considered as a safeguard against political division. However, in today’s polarized political climate, the effectiveness of cross-partisan interactions in mitigating animosity is increasingly questioned. Prior research emphasizes the importance of hearing-the-other-side through cross-partisan discussions with close ties. We confirm that these discussions still take place and are related to lower inter-partisan animosity. Moreover, we propose a complementary mechanism, seeing-the-other-side, according to which even brief interactions with out-partisan acquaintances serve to reduce distorted views of out-partisans, thereby lowering inter-partisan hostility. Using original data from the United States, we find that both close tie and acquaintance networks display significant political heterogeneity and this heterogeneity is associated with lower partisan animosity. Experimentally, we show that reducing misperceptions by increasing the salience of similarities between in-partisan and out-partisan acquaintances further reduces hostility. These findings highlight the continued relevance of everyday political diversity in tempering partisan divisions and nuance worries about partisan echo chambers.
长期以来,政治异质性社会网络一直被视为防止政治分裂的保障。然而,在当今两极分化的政治气候下,跨党派互动在缓解敌意方面的有效性日益受到质疑。先前的研究强调通过密切联系的跨党派讨论听取对方意见的重要性。我们确认,这些讨论仍在进行,并与党派间敌意的降低有关。此外,我们提出了一种互补机制,即看到另一面,根据该机制,即使与党派外的熟人进行短暂的互动,也有助于减少对党派外人士的扭曲看法,从而降低党派间的敌意。使用来自美国的原始数据,我们发现亲密关系和熟人网络都表现出显著的政治异质性,这种异质性与较低的党派仇恨有关。实验表明,通过增加党派内和党派外熟人之间相似性的显著性来减少误解,进一步减少敌意。这些发现强调了日常政治多样性在缓和党派分歧和细微差别对党派回声室的担忧方面的持续相关性。
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Who Learns from Deliberative Minipublics? Identity-Based Differences in Knowledge Gains across Thirteen Citizens' Initiative Review Experiments 谁能从协商迷你公众中学习?13个公民主动性回顾实验中基于身份的知识收益差异
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a17
Kristinn Már Ársælsson, John Gastil
Voters often show low levels of accurate policy information owing to misinformation and directional motivated reasoning. Extant research shows that participants in randomly selected deliberative groups—commonly called
由于错误信息和定向动机推理,选民往往显示出低水平的准确政策信息。现存的研究表明,随机选择的审议小组的参与者通常被称为
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Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education 预测算法与公平感知:家长对K-12教育中算法资源分配的态度
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a15
Rebecca A. Johnson, Simone Zhang
As institutions increasingly use predictive algorithms to allocate scarce resources, scholars have warned that these algorithms may legitimize inequality. Although research has examined how elite discourses position algorithms as fair, we know less about how the public perceives them compared to traditional allocation methods. We implement a vignette-based survey experiment to measure perceptions of algorithmic allocation relative to common alternatives: administrative rules, lotteries, petitions from potential beneficiaries, and professional judgment. Focusing on the case of schools allocating scarce tutoring resources, our nationally representative survey of U.S. parents finds that parents view algorithms as fairer than traditional alternatives, especially lotteries. However, significant divides emerge along socioeconomic and political lines—lower socioeconomic status (SES) and conservative parents favor the personal knowledge held by counselors and parents, whereas higher SES and liberal parents prefer the impersonal logic of algorithms. We also find that, after reading about algorithmic bias, parental opposition to algorithms is strongest among those who are most directly disadvantaged. Overall, our findings map cleavages in attitudes that may influence the adoption and political sustainability of algorithmic allocation methods.
随着机构越来越多地使用预测算法来分配稀缺资源,学者们警告说,这些算法可能使不平等合法化。尽管研究已经检验了精英话语如何将算法定位为公平的,但与传统的分配方法相比,我们对公众如何看待算法知之甚少。我们实施了一项基于图像的调查实验,以衡量相对于常见替代方案(行政规则、彩票、潜在受益人的请愿书和专业判断),算法分配的感知。关注学校分配稀缺辅导资源的案例,我们对美国家长进行的具有全国代表性的调查发现,家长们认为算法比传统的选择更公平,尤其是彩票。然而,沿着社会经济和政治路线出现了显著的分歧——社会经济地位较低和保守的父母更喜欢辅导员和父母掌握的个人知识,而社会经济地位较高和自由的父母更喜欢算法的客观逻辑。我们还发现,在阅读了算法偏见之后,父母对算法的反对在那些最直接处于不利地位的人中是最强烈的。总体而言,我们的研究结果映射了可能影响算法分配方法的采用和政治可持续性的态度分歧。
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Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets 不平等和社会关系:来自15个美国数据集的证据
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a14
Cristobal Young, Benjamin Cornwell, Barum Park, Nan Feng
What is the relationship between inequality and social ties? Do personal networks, group memberships, and connections to social resources help level the playing field, or do they reinforce economic disparities? We examine two core empirical issues: the degree of inequality in social ties and their consolidation with income. Using 142,000 person-wave observations from 15 high-quality U.S. data sets, we measure the quantity and quality of social ties and examine their distribution. Our findings show that (1) the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income and (2) social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes. We introduce an overall inequality–consolidation curve, demonstrating that social ties generally reinforce economic inequality. However, we identify one key exception: there is no class gradient in the use of social ties for job search. These findings contribute to debates about the role of social ties in perpetuating or mitigating inequality.
不平等和社会关系之间的关系是什么?个人网络、团体成员以及与社会资源的联系是否有助于公平竞争,还是会加剧经济差距?我们研究了两个核心实证问题:社会关系中的不平等程度及其与收入的整合。利用来自15个高质量美国数据集的142,000人波观察,我们测量了社会关系的数量和质量,并检查了它们的分布。我们的研究结果表明:(1)社会关系的基尼系数往往超过收入的基尼系数;(2)社会关系集中在收入最高的人群中。我们引入了一个整体的不平等巩固曲线,表明社会关系通常会加剧经济不平等。然而,我们发现了一个关键的例外:在使用社会关系寻找工作方面没有阶级梯度。这些发现有助于讨论社会关系在延续或减轻不平等方面的作用。
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Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure 对两步性别认同测量反应的人口统计学差异
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a13
Christina Pao, Christopher A. Julian, D’Lane Compton, Danya Lagos, Lawrence Stacey
Strategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273) that allows for the enumeration of noncisgender people. These data enable researchers to examine how respondents' selection of different response categories may differ across their demographic characteristics. Many studies using a two-step gender measure either exclude noncisgender respondents or aggregate them into a single analytic group, obscuring within-group heterogeneity. We find significant socioeconomic differences between cisgender and noncisgender responses, with cisgender individuals generally faring better. There is additional heterogeneity within noncisgender groups; for example, individuals who mark 'transgender' are more likely to identify as non-heterosexual and never married, and those outside defined gender categories often report 'don't know' or 'something else' about their sexual identity. Although differences persist between cisgender and noncisgender populations, this work emphasizes the need to also perform within-group analyses (e.g., with a two-step measure) to capture the unique and shared experiences of noncisgender populations.
在人口分析中纳入非顺性反应的策略仍然是不断辩论和改进的主题。《家庭脉搏调查》是美国人口普查局第一批纳入两步性别认同测量的数据产品之一。这很重要,因为这项调查虽然是实验性的,但却是最大的联邦全国代表性样本之一(n = 668,273),允许对非顺性人群进行枚举。这些数据使研究人员能够检查受访者对不同反应类别的选择如何因其人口统计学特征而异。许多使用两步性别测量的研究要么排除非顺性性别的受访者,要么将他们汇总到一个单一的分析组中,从而模糊了组内异质性。我们发现在顺性和非顺性反应之间存在显著的社会经济差异,顺性个体通常表现更好。在非顺性群体中存在额外的异质性;例如,标记为“跨性别者”的个人更有可能被认定为非异性恋者,从未结婚,而那些在定义性别类别之外的人通常报告说,他们对自己的性别身份“不知道”或“不知道”。虽然顺性人群和非顺性人群之间存在差异,但这项工作强调还需要进行组内分析(例如,采用两步测量),以捕捉非顺性人群的独特和共享经验。
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What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions 你在说什么?讨论常见调查问题中捕获问题的频率
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a12
Turgut Keskintürk, Kevin Kiley, Stephen Vaisey
Social science surveys regularly ask respondents to generate opinions or positions on issues deemed to be of political and social importance, such as confidence in government officials or federal spending priorities. Many theories assume that interpersonal deliberation is a primary mechanism through which people develop positions on such issues, but it is unclear how often the issues captured by such questions become a topic of conversation. Using an original survey of 2,117 American adults, we quantify how often people report discussing the issues tapped by 88 questions in the General Social Survey’s core questionnaire, as well as how often respondents say they individually reflect on these issues, how important they believe them to be, and how sensitive they believe it would be to discuss those issues. We find that the majority of respondents report discussing the majority of issues fewer than once or twice a year, with the modal response that respondents have never discussed an issue in the past year. At the same time, some topics—such as religious beliefs and generic appraisals of political leaders—come up quite frequently, and a small number of respondents report frequently discussing most items. We consider the implications of these findings for theories of belief formation.
社会科学调查经常要求受访者就被认为具有政治和社会重要性的问题发表意见或立场,比如对政府官员的信心或联邦支出的优先事项。许多理论认为,人际间的深思熟虑是人们在这些问题上形成立场的主要机制,但尚不清楚这些问题所捕捉到的问题成为谈话话题的频率。通过对2117名美国成年人的原始调查,我们量化了人们讨论综合社会调查核心问卷中88个问题的频率,以及受访者表示他们个人反思这些问题的频率,他们认为这些问题有多重要,以及他们认为讨论这些问题有多敏感。我们发现,大多数受访者报告每年讨论大多数问题的次数少于一两次,而受访者在过去一年中从未讨论过任何问题。与此同时,一些话题——比如宗教信仰和对政治领导人的一般评价——出现得相当频繁,少数受访者报告说他们经常讨论大多数话题。我们考虑这些发现对信念形成理论的影响。
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Do Employers Care about Past Mobility? A Field Experiment Examining Hiring Preferences in Technology and Non-Technology Jobs 雇主关心过去的流动性吗?技术和非技术工作的招聘偏好的实地实验
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a11
Matissa Hollister, Nicole Denier, Xavier St-Denis
Research in previous decades found that employers imposed penalties on job applicants with a past history of frequent moves across employers, and yet mobility across employers is more common in today’s economy and perhaps even a valuable career strategy. While popular discourse and some academic literature has portrayed highly mobile careers as widespread and broadly accepted, other studies have suggested that such careers may only thrive in specific pockets of the labor market, particularly high-technology jobs. We conducted a field experiment in the United States to assess employer responses to resumes with three levels of past mobility. We found significant variation in employer mobility preferences, with jobs in human resources, financial reporting, marketing, and IT penalizing high-mobility applicants. In contrast, very stable work histories were penalized when hiring software testers. Counter to expectations, high-technology employers did not broadly embrace mobility. These findings suggest that employers follow occupation-specific mobility expectations, and as a consequence must balance competing mobility orientations within their workforce. Workers, meanwhile, must face the challenges of navigating a precarious labor market while also being mindful of the impact that their cumulative mobility may have on future job opportunities.
过去几十年的研究发现,雇主会对那些过去经常跳槽的求职者进行处罚,然而在当今的经济环境中,跳槽更为普遍,甚至可能是一种有价值的职业策略。虽然流行话语和一些学术文献将高流动性职业描述为广泛且被广泛接受的职业,但其他研究表明,这类职业可能只在劳动力市场的特定领域蓬勃发展,尤其是高科技工作。我们在美国进行了一项实地实验,以评估雇主对三种过去流动性水平的简历的反应。我们发现,雇主对流动性的偏好存在显著差异,人力资源、财务报告、市场营销和IT行业的工作对流动性高的求职者不利。相比之下,在雇佣软件测试人员时,非常稳定的工作经历会受到惩罚。与预期相反,高科技企业的雇主并没有广泛接受流动性。这些发现表明,雇主遵循职业特定的流动性预期,因此必须平衡员工内部竞争的流动性取向。与此同时,工人们必须面对在不稳定的劳动力市场中航行的挑战,同时也要注意他们的累积流动性可能对未来的工作机会产生的影响。
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The Sequential Rise of Female Religious Leadership 女性宗教领袖的连续崛起
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a9
Jeremy Senn, Jörg Stolz
In his seminal work 'Ordaining Women,' Mark Chaves (1997b) highlighted the phenomenon of 'loose coupling' regarding female religious leadership: congregations often display inconsistencies between their stated policies and actual practices. Some congregations declare openness to female leadership but do not practice it, whereas others officially forbid female leadership yet have women in leadership roles. Our article identifies a theoretical mechanism producing this inconsistency. We propose that congregations typically first loosen their formal rules governing female access to leadership and only later allow women to occupy leadership positions in practice. This two-stage process results in a temporal lag between rule change and practice change, creating the observed 'loose coupling,' where rules are often more gender egalitarian than practice. Using two waves of the National Congregation Survey Switzerland covering all religious traditions, we test our theory both on the aggregate and the unit level and find strong support for it. Simulations further indicate that certain characteristics of the organizational population of congregations, such as their low attrition rate, may explain a large part of the lag between rule change and practice change.
马克·查维斯(Mark Chaves, 1997b)在他的开创性著作《任命女性》(Ordaining Women)中强调了女性宗教领袖的“松散耦合”现象:教会经常在其声明的政策和实际做法之间表现出不一致。一些教会宣称对女性领导持开放态度,但并未付诸实践,而另一些教会正式禁止女性领导,但仍有女性担任领导角色。我们的文章确定了产生这种不一致的理论机制。我们建议教会通常首先放松对女性进入领导层的正式规定,然后才允许女性在实践中担任领导职务。这个两阶段的过程导致了规则变化和实践变化之间的时间滞后,造成了观察到的“松耦合”,即规则往往比实践更注重性别平等。利用瑞士全国宗教集会调查的两波数据,涵盖了所有的宗教传统,我们在总体和单位层面上测试了我们的理论,并找到了强有力的支持。模拟进一步表明,组织人群的某些特征,例如他们的低流失率,可能解释了规则变化和实践变化之间的大部分滞后。
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Commuting and Gender Differences in Job Opportunities 通勤和工作机会的性别差异
IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.15195/v12.a8
Silvia Avram
Women tend to commute shorter distances and earn lower wages. The theory suggests that more mobile workers are likely to command higher wages, in part because they have access to more job opportunities. We show how information on employment concentration and commuting patterns can be linked to build an index of labor market opportunities, using linked administrative and household survey data from the UK. Although labor markets are porous, commonly used measures of employment concentration require well-defined geographical boundaries. We overcome this problem by combining employment concentration indices calculated using areas of different sizes and using the individual commuting costs as weights. We show that women have higher commuting costs and, as a result, their labor markets are smaller and their job opportunities are more limited.
女性往往上下班距离较短,工资也较低。该理论认为,流动性越强的员工可能要求的工资越高,部分原因是他们有更多的工作机会。我们展示了如何将就业集中度和通勤模式的信息联系起来,利用来自英国的相关行政和家庭调查数据,建立一个劳动力市场机会指数。虽然劳动力市场是多孔的,但常用的就业集中度测量方法需要明确的地理边界。我们通过结合使用不同面积计算的就业集中度指数和使用个人通勤成本作为权重来克服这一问题。我们的研究表明,女性的通勤成本更高,因此,她们的劳动力市场更小,就业机会也更有限。
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