Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1177/23780231231225578
Byeongdon Oh, Ned Tilbrook, Dara Shifrer
Amid the proliferation of state-level bans on race-based affirmative action in higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on June 29, 2023, dismantled race-conscious college admission policies, intensifying concerns about the persistence and potential increase of racial inequality in higher education. The authors analyze four restricted-use national survey datasets to investigate racial disparities in college attendance outcomes from the 1980s through the 2010s. Although college entrance rates increased for all racial groups, Black and Hispanic youth became increasingly less likely than their White peers to attend four-year selective colleges. In the 2010s cohort, Black and Hispanic youth were 8 and 7 percentage points, respectively, less likely than their White counterparts to secure admission to four-year selective colleges, even after controlling for parents' income, education, and other family background variables. The findings underscore the urgent need for proactive policy interventions to address the widening racial inequality in attending selective postsecondary institutions.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1177/23780231241277690
Michelle A Eilers
Sociologists have long been puzzled by whether attitudes inform behaviors or vice versa. Accurately assessing both possibilities requires panel data collected at relatively short intervals. In this study, I leverage intensive panel data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study to assess the case of young women's premarital sexual attitudes and behavior. Through a series of descriptive analyses and cross-lagged panel models, I show that opposition to premarital sex in young adulthood is only sometimes associated with subsequent sexual behavior and that premarital sex is negatively associated with later opposition to premarital sex. Young women are especially likely to reduce their opposition following first sex relative to sex reported at any time. Thus, initial behavioral experiences may result in outsized shocks to attitudes, following an active updating model. That subsequent sex is associated with less attitudinal change suggests that young women initially update their attitudes before settling into them. This study nuances long-standing debates on the malleability of attitudes within a person over time and with respect to behavior and has implications for how people approach behavior according to their attitudes across a wide spectrum of social phenomena.
长期以来,社会学家一直困惑于态度是否会影响行为,反之亦然。要准确评估这两种可能性,需要在相对较短的时间间隔内收集面板数据。在本研究中,我利用 "关系动态与社会生活研究"(Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study)的密集面板数据来评估年轻女性的婚前性行为态度和行为。通过一系列描述性分析和交叉滞后的面板模型,我发现年轻时反对婚前性行为只是有时与随后的性行为相关,而婚前性行为与后来反对婚前性行为呈负相关。与任何时候报告的性行为相比,年轻女性在第一次性行为后特别有可能减少其反对程度。因此,根据主动更新模型,最初的行为经历可能会对态度产生巨大的冲击。随后的性行为与态度变化较小的关联表明,年轻女性在最初更新自己的态度,然后再将其固定下来。这项研究细化了长期以来关于人的态度随时间和行为的可塑性的争论,并对人们如何在广泛的社会现象中根据自己的态度对待行为产生了影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1177/23780231241258022
Mara Getz Sheftel, Noreen Goldman, Anne R Pebley, Boriana Pratt, Sung S Park
Work, a segregated social context in the United States, may be an important source of differential exposure to stress by race/ethnicity, but existing research does not systematically describe variation in exposure to occupational stress by race/ethnicity. Using work history data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and occupational-level measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Occupational Information Network, the authors document the extent to which the race/ethnicity and gender composition of occupational categories varies by level of occupational strain and how life-course exposure to occupational strain differs by race/ethnicity and gender. Black and Latino workers are overrepresented in high-strain jobs at many ages, compared with other groups. Exposure to job strain across working ages shows more variation in exposure by gender and race/ethnicity groups than static measures. These findings point to potential bias in research using a single, cross-sectional measure of job stress.
在美国,工作是一种隔离的社会环境,可能是不同种族/族裔面临不同压力的一个重要来源,但现有研究并未系统地描述不同种族/族裔面临职业压力的差异。作者利用美国健康与退休研究(U.S. Health and Retirement Study)的工作历史数据以及劳工统计局和职业信息网络(Occupational Information Network)的职业水平测量数据,记录了职业类别的种族/族裔和性别构成因职业压力水平而异的程度,以及不同种族/族裔和性别的人在一生中面临的职业压力有何不同。与其他群体相比,黑人和拉丁裔工人在许多年龄段从事高负荷工作的比例过高。与静态测量结果相比,不同性别和种族/人种群体在不同工作年龄段的职业压力暴露差异更大。这些发现表明,使用单一的、横截面的工作压力测量方法进行研究可能存在偏差。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1177/23780231241241034
Xue Zhang, Danielle C Rhubart, Shannon M Monnat
Social infrastructure (SI) may buffer against suicide risk by improving social cohesion, social support, and information and resource sharing. This study uses an ecological approach to examine the relationship between county-level SI availability and suicide rates among working-age adults (ages 25-64) in the United States, a population for whom suicide rates are high, rising, and geographically unequal. Mortality data are from the National Vital Statistics System for 2016-2019. SI data are from the National Neighborhood Data Archive for 2013-2015 and capture the availability of typically free SI (e.g. libraries, community centers) and commercial SI (e.g. coffee shops, diners, entertainment venues). Results from negative binomial models show that suicide rates are significantly lower in counties with more SI availability, net of county demographic, socioeconomic, and health care factors. This relationship held for both typically free and commercial SI. Policymakers should consider strengthening existing and developing new social infrastructure, particularly in counties with less educated populations, as part of a broader strategy to reduce suicide rates in the United States.
社会基础设施(SI)可以通过提高社会凝聚力、社会支持以及信息和资源共享来缓冲自杀风险。本研究采用生态学方法,考察了美国县级社会基础设施可用性与工作年龄成年人(25-64 岁)自杀率之间的关系。死亡率数据来自 2016-2019 年国家生命统计系统。SI数据来自2013-2015年的全国邻里数据档案,捕捉典型的免费SI(如图书馆、社区中心)和商业SI(如咖啡店、餐馆、娱乐场所)的可用性。负二项模型的结果表明,在不考虑县人口、社会经济和医疗保健因素的情况下,可提供更多社会机构的县的自杀率明显较低。这种关系在典型的免费和商业性 SI 中都成立。作为降低美国自杀率的更广泛战略的一部分,政策制定者应考虑加强现有的社会基础设施并开发新的社会基础设施,尤其是在人口受教育程度较低的县。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231205211
Christopher A. Julian, Susan L. Brown
Attention to the living arrangements of singles has centered around young adults who increasingly reside with their parents. By comparison, midlife singles remain overlooked despite a substantial rise in singlehood during this life-course stage. Using the 2021 American Community Survey five-year estimates, the authors uncovered the disparate living arrangements of midlife single men and women household heads, defining midlife as those aged 30 to 49 and single as those who were neither cohabiting nor married. The findings revealed that the living arrangements of men and women were near inverses of each other, with most men living alone, whereas most women lived with someone else. Relative to men, a far greater share of women were residing with their children, whereas a larger share of men were in arrangements that did not include children. The distinctive living arrangements speak to the potential differences in familial obligations and available support sources.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231197024
Matthew Hall, Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Elaina Johns-Wolfe
Housing discrimination has long been thought to contribute to the persistence of racial segregation, yet evidence indicates that many forms of discrimination have waned over time. We argue that past work has not fully considered the role of racial steering in maintaining segregation. To explore patterns of steering, we leverage experimental audit data from the 2012 Housing Discrimination Study to examine how neighborhoods of homes shown by real estate agents to auditors change dynamically throughout the search process and to assess the conditions under which steering is most likely. As with past research, we find no evidence of steering in Asian-White or Hispanic-White audits. However, we find consistent evidence that agents steer Black homeseekers away from White neighborhoods and toward Black ones, particularly female homeseekers and those with children. We also find that agents steer relatively early in the search process and especially when searches begin in racially-homogeneous neighborhoods.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231204850
Christopher P. Scheitle, Katie E. Corcoran
Many studies have used retrospective survey measures to examine changes in individuals’ religious affiliation, but studies examining changes to individuals’ core religious beliefs are comparatively rare. This is likely because surveys rarely contain measures of both current and past beliefs. Using data from a probability sample of U.S. adults that includes a measure of individuals’ current and age 16 belief in God, the authors examine the predictors of an individual’s adopting an atheistic worldview. Overall, 6 percent of the sample report moving from a nonatheistic worldview to an atheistic worldview. This rate is higher among those who said they had weaker belief in God at age 16, men, those with higher incomes, and some sexually minoritized groups. This rate is lower among older individuals, political conservatives, and some racially or ethnically minoritized groups. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the study of nonbelief and the measurement of religious change.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231177157
Udi Sommer, Or Rappel-Kroyzer, Amy Adamczyk, Lindsay Lerner, Anna Weiner
In the American system of government, courts are designed to operate within the legal sphere, with limited political interference. Is it possible, though, that a behavior that is at the heart of the political process can be influenced directly by a judicial decision? Focusing on voter registration big data for the universe of voters in North Carolina around the time of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the authors assess the roles of gender, political party affiliation, and age in voter registration. North Carolina is the only state whose voter registry has the necessary granularity over time and information needed. Women and Democrats were more likely to register to vote after information about the ruling was released, suggesting that Dobbs influenced their behavior. This effect on voter registration gender gap was unique to June 2022, unlike previous midterm election years (2014 and 2018). Interrupted time-series analyses lend further support to these findings.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231199388
Megan N. Reed, Linda Li, Luca Maria Pesando, Lauren E. Harris, Frank F. Furstenberg, Julien O. Teitler
This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident family members several times a week during the pandemic, and nearly half increased their communication with non-coresident kin since March 2020. Siblings and extended kin proved to be especially important ties activated during the pandemic. New Yorkers were most likely to report increased communication with siblings. A quarter of respondents reported that they increased communication with at least one aunt, uncle, cousin, or other extended family member. Although non-Hispanic White respondents reported the highest frequency of communication with kin, it was those groups most impacted by COVID-19—foreign-born, Black, and Hispanic New Yorkers—who were most likely to report that they increased communication with kin in the wake of the pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1177/23780231231197034
Alex Bierman, Laura Upenieks, Yeonjung Lee, Megan Harmon
Guided by a sociological perspective on mental health encapsulated in a stress process perspective, the authors examine the role of mastery, self-esteem, and mattering in explaining how financial strain is associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and anger in older adults. Analyses focus on the Caregiving, Aging, and Financial Experiences study, a national longitudinal survey of Canadian older adults conducted in the fall of 2021 and 2022 ( n = 3,977). Financial strain is associated with greater psychological distress across outcomes, but most strongly with anxiety. Although financial strain depletes mastery, self-esteem, and mattering, only mastery and self-esteem act as mediators between financial strain and psychological distress, with mastery predominant. This research suggests that a sociological perspective on stress and mental health can inform efforts to enhance the well-being of an aging population by identifying how reinforcements to the self-concept may truncate the consequences of financial challenges for psychological distress in later life.
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