Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1845259
K. J. Peralta
ABSTRACT An organization that has everyday resilience can withstand ongoing adversities. Previous studies on organizational resilience commonly examine capabilities to bounce back from acute disturbances such as natural disasters. This study, however, explores the strategies that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) employ to persist in the face of chronic challenges. In doing so, I analyze qualitative interviews with 20 NGO actors, who serve the Haitian immigrant population in the Dominican Republic. Specifically, I examine their community work experiences in order to, first, identify the challenges they face that are related to an uncertain sociopolitical environment that marginalizes Haitians and Dominico-Haitians. Next, I describe the strategies that they use to respond to these challenges. Finally, I critique their everyday resilience strategies to shed light on possible alternative approaches that may help to transform the social conditions in which they work. Findings reveal that challenges consist of community conflict, deportations and threats of removal, and contentious micro-level interactions. The everyday resilience strategies recognized include making initiatives inclusive, developing and using social connections, and using strategic communication. I propose that NGOs ensure their programming includes human rights education and intergroup dialogue, build power through networks, and engage in discursive resistance. This research advances a deeper understanding of the ongoing organizational challenges, common everyday resilience strategies, and prospects for Haitian-immigrant-serving NGOs in the Dominican Republic to use transformative approaches.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1845258
Ashley Niccolai, M. Swauger
ABSTRACT People involved in an age-discrepant relationship, where one partner is significantly older than the other, are typically viewed with negative cultural tropes and stereotypes. Using a chain sampling technique to recruit participants, data were collected through 20 in-depth interviews with men and women who experienced being in a relationship with an age gap of 10 or more years between partners. Analyses revealed participants used common techniques to manage and overcome the stigma, both in self-interaction and in interaction with others. In self-interaction, participants drew from “love narratives” to reframe their involvement with someone much younger or older as something outside of their control. When interacting with others, participants used techniques of passing, lampooning, and dismissing. Passing involved participants’ ability to feel and appear closer in age to their partner. Lampooning involved the use of humor to deflect the threat of stigma. Dismissing involved repudiation of the stigma associated with age-discrepant relationships. Importantly, participants’ use of these techniques worked either in defense of or as a reaction against the inequality they faced in an age-discrepant relationship.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1845260
Alexander B. Kinney
ABSTRACT As global economic crises place the issue of money at the forefront of media attention, a growing minority are turning to “cryptocurrencies” as an emerging digital alternative to state-issued currencies. Bitcoin, the most popular version of this emerging medium, is a useful proxy to answer a key question to the sociology of money: how do people embed themselves into an emerging money system, and what role does value play in this process? Drawing on 23 interviews with Bitcoin adopters, I find that embedding into Bitcoin is closely tied to personal experience and temporal contexts. This study demonstrates that the adoption of Bitcoin follows a distinct process. First adopters discover the value Bitcoin on their own terms. Next, they reflexively overcome challenges to these initial perceptions of value. Finally, they reaffirm their embeddedness in the system through rituals of commitment. This finding has implications for the sociology of money and economic sociology by distilling the connection between fictional expectations that are used to anchor value systems and the social construction of monetary utilities and group identities. Additionally, this connection helps to unpack how Bitcoin continues to mature as a money system despite being characterized by diverse adopters that often engage in economically inefficient activities.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1838979
Robert M. Carrothers
ABSTRACT The past four years in the United States has been rife with constant crisis, even preceding the COVID19 pandemic. The Trump Administration regularly caused upheaval by refusing to following traditional protocol for the presidency across official appointments, staffing, domestic policy and international relations, among others. The inability to stop these violations despite strong negative reactions to them highlight the United States cultural overreliance on structural expectations. Weber cautioned again the growing influence of bureaucratic organizations while also reminding us the voluntary compliance necessary to make authority legitimate. Coupled with a broad misunderstanding of the Weberian sources of authority for the office of the president and use of homogenous sources of information, we have been lucky that such upheaval has not occurred in the past 240 years. Perhaps now our luck has run out. This essay is a modified version of the 2020 NCSA Presidential Address given virtually by Robert Carrothers after the cancellation of the in-person conference due to the COVID19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1845887
Heather M. Washington, Rachael A. Woldoff
ABSTRACT Men’s employment is an important predictor of union formation and couples’ transitions to marriage, but previous research has not investigated the extent to which the type of men’s employment affects the likelihood of marriage. To fill this gap, we use multinomial logistic regression and data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,128) to explore whether men’s employment in the underground economy inhibits or promotes the transition to marriage among unmarried parents three years after the birth of their child. The results show that underground work is associated with relationship instability and serves as a barrier to marriage. Thus, in fragile families, the type of work that the father does, independent of the amount of income he earns from such employment, drives couples’ decisions to marry. Implications for research and policy that stem from the findings are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1847796
Stephanie Medley-Rath
ABSTRACT Undergraduate sociology students need more opportunities to develop their research skills while earning their degree. However, a common reaction to this assertion is that there simply is not enough time to provide students with hands-on experience doing sociology while also ensuring that “all the material” is covered in elective courses. Therefore, much of the burden of helping students develop their sociological research skills occurs in isolated methods and statistical courses. Students then reach their senior year with underdeveloped sociological research skills and lack the confidence to conduct a research project with data collection. I encountered this challenge when I began teaching our Senior Seminar course. When I turned to the literature for insight, I quickly realized that my experience was not unique nor new. In this address, I describe the challenge I faced and the scholarship I have undertaken to illuminate where challenges lie and the missed opportunities for methods instruction and practice throughout the undergraduate sociology curriculum. Helping students develop their sociological research skills is just as important as helping students develop a sociological perspective.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1921641
Richard J Petts, Daniel L Carlson, Chris Knoester
Relationship dissolution is common among socioeconomically disadvantaged parents. This study utilizes longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to assess whether fathers' time off work after the birth of a child reduces the likelihood of parents dissolving their relationship. We also consider whether the association between fathers' time off work and relationship dissolution is mediated by fathers' support of mothers and moderated by union type. Results indicate that the risk of relationship dissolution is lower when fathers take time off work after the birth of a child. Results also suggest that longer periods of time off work (i.e., two or more weeks) are associated with a lower risk of relationship dissolution among married couples, although overall evidence for variations by union type are mixed. Additionally, there is evidence that the association between fathers' time off work and relationship dissolution is at least partially explained by higher levels of relationship support among fathers who took time off work after the birth of a child. Overall, findings suggest that providing fathers with opportunities to take time off for the birth of a child may help to promote relationship stability among socioeconomically disadvantaged couples in the U.S.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823288
Kevin McElrath
ABSTRACT This research examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and parental involvement in transition-to-college and transition-to-work activities using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009. Results from Poisson regression models show that socioeconomic status is positively associated with parental involvement in transition-to-college and transition-to-work activities. Further, logistic regression models show that parental involvement in transition activities is associated with a greater likelihood of college enrollment but not labor market entry after high school. Lastly, average marginal effects show that all socioeconomic groups benefit from parental involvement, but low SES students gain the most. This study provides further understanding of social stratification in educational outcomes and has implications for the study of parental involvement, college enrollment, and intergenerational mobility.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823286
Emily Schneider
ABSTRACT The deployment of tourism to strengthen diaspora support for homeland countries is well documented; however, there is a dearth of research on the use of tourism to complicate diasporic allegiances. With more American Jews visiting sites in Israel/Palestine that challenge dominant Zionist narratives, Jewish tourism to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) offers a lens into this growing field of critical diaspora tourism. The sample for this study is made up of young Jewish Americans who were deeply saturated in mainstream Israeli narratives prior to their participation in an alternative tour. This case study provides a lens to examine how Jewish Americans relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how experiences that confront them with Palestinian narratives intervene in their political views and diasporic identities, revealing that the socializing power of participants’ upbringings and the emotional, corporeal experiences on tours such as Birthright limit the potential of alternative tours to spark radical, political transformations. Even though alternative tours stand in direct contrast to mainstream Israeli tourism, orientalist tropes still seep into participants’ interpretations of Palestinian sites and narratives. As a result, even participants with newfound sympathy toward Palestinians will often continue to understand Palestinian resistance as a disruption of Israel’s legitimate power.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823287
Melanie Escue, John K. Cochran
ABSTRACT This study employs data from the NORC General Social Surveys to assess the extent, if any, to which the effects of both religious affiliation and personal religiosity on opposition to same-sex marriage are attenuated once effects for prejudice against same-sex relations (hate the sin) and prejudice against sexual minorities (hate the sinner) are controlled. Our results show that an initially robust set of affiliation and religiosity effects are substantially reduced once the effect of prejudice against same-sex relations is controlled but remains relatively unchanged when a control for prejudice against sexual minorities is introduced. The implications of these findings and potential explanations for the persistent religious effect on opposition to same-sex marriage are also discussed.
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