Pub Date : 2021-08-23DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1966691
R. L. Boyd
ABSTRACT This study integrates three theories of urbanism into a single framework suggesting that urban population size has a nonlinear relationship with social-world intensity. Hypotheses derived from this framework are tested in regression analyses of 1930 census data on Black Metropolis communities created in major cities by blacks’ early twentieth-century urbanization. The findings show that the slope of the relationship between black population size and Black Metropolis social-world intensity varies by the type of social world under investigation. Consistent with subcultural theory, urbanism markedly intensifies blacks’ cultural-expression social worlds and modestly intensifies blacks’ political-action social worlds. Consistent with determinist theory, urbanism degrades blacks’ religious-participation social worlds, and consistent with compositional theory, urbanism is unrelated to blacks’ goods-distribution-and-consumption social worlds. These results imply that researchers should explore nonlinear relationships of urban population size and social-world intensity that are predicted by the integrated framework of urbanism theories.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1924904
P. Drentea, A. Zhu, Lingfei Guo
ABSTRACT This paper examines the associations of potential reasons for debt–including relative deprivation, conspicuous consumption, and medical financial hardship, and how these reasons for debt are associated with mental health. It examines how much debt explains the relationship with poor mental health. We used the 2010 Alabama Omnibus Survey with data on 507 respondents. We found that all three potential reasons for debt were at first associated with more days of poor mental health. Moreover, lower debt and debt stress explained some of the relationship with poor mental health. We also find the conspicuous consumption and mental health association is explained by the debt variables. We conclude with how comparison to others is negatively associated with mental health for individuals and families, especially in the context of a post Great Recession sample.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1920080
E. A. Windsong
ABSTRACT Topics of space and neighborhoods are important areas for the study of race and racial inequality. Based on a qualitative study of one middle-class neighborhood with a mix of whites and Latinos in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I examine emotional connections to the neighborhood. My findings demonstrate how white and Latino residents described distinct understandings of sense of belonging, neighborhood history, and neighborhood attachment. I situate these findings within a theory of racial space to illustrate how symbolic meanings given to space can reproduce and reinforce a racial hierarchy. I argue that the differences in how whites and Latinos describe emotional connections to their neighborhood reflect the racialization of space.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1921640
L. Markowitz, M. Hedley, Laurel D. Puchner
ABSTRACT Generally, writings about clergy sexual misconduct of adults tend to focus on a victim-abuser model, theorizing the causes and/or consequences or solutions to such abuse. With the exception of some analysis about the growth of Voice of the Faithful inside the Catholic Church (see), few researchers have focused theoretically on how members of religious groups make sense of and respond to accusations of clergy sexual misconduct against adults. In this paper, we apply the sensegiving paradigm to understand how, during crisis when leaders are absent, members compete to assert cognitive frames that attribute meaning to accusations of clergy sexual misconduct of adults. Our study analyzes a Facebook conversation with over 600 posts from over 100 participants that took place after the foremost leader of an international, Buddhist organization wrote an ambiguous letter of apology regarding clergy sexual misconduct against women members. Treating the conversation as a social discourse, we find that participants generated four conflicting frames. We refer to these frames as Loyalist, Rebel, Rationalist and Processor and distinguish among them by their respective claims regarding how the organization should respond to allegations of sexual misconduct. We find that these frames are conditioned upon the view of the validity of the allegations and the perception of the preexisting power inequalities in the organization. Further, we find that expressions of the different frames in the discourse relate to the gender identity of the participant and vary in their emotional tones.
一般来说，关于神职人员对成年人的不当性行为的文章倾向于关注受害者-施虐者模型，将这种虐待的原因和/或后果或解决方案理论化。除了对天主教会内部“忠实之声”(Voice of the Faithful)发展的一些分析之外，很少有研究人员从理论上关注宗教团体成员如何理解和回应神职人员对成年人的不当性行为指控。在本文中，我们运用感官赋予范式来理解，在领导者缺席的危机期间，成员如何竞争维护认知框架，将意义赋予神职人员对成年人的性行为不端指控。我们的研究分析了Facebook上的对话，其中包含100多位参与者的600多条帖子，这些帖子发生在一个国际佛教组织的最重要领导人就神职人员对女性成员的性行为不端写了一封模棱两可的道歉信之后。将对话视为社会话语，我们发现参与者产生了四个冲突框架。我们将这些框架称为忠诚者、叛逆者、理性主义者和处理者，并通过他们各自关于组织应如何应对性行为不端指控的主张来区分它们。我们发现，这些框架取决于对指控的有效性的看法和对本组织中先前存在的权力不平等的看法。此外，我们发现话语中不同框架的表达与参与者的性别认同有关，并且其情感语调也有所不同。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1923597
Reilly Kincaid
ABSTRACT Making parenting decisions is inherent in the responsibility of raising children. Past research suggests that employed mothers may designate themselves “in charge” of these decisions in order to reconcile employment obligations with cultural gender ideologies around mothering. Despite substantial literature suggesting that the more family responsibilities one has, the more likely that family matters are to “spill over” into one’s work, little is known about how employed mothers’ “maternal decision-making” is related to spillover or how mothers’ own personal gender ideologies may influence this link. Based on a sample of employed mothers (N = 316) derived from waves 2002 and 2012 of the General Social Survey, this paper examines how maternal decision-making (i.e., mothers acting as the primary authorities on childrearing decisions) and shared parental decision-making (i.e., mothers and fathers sharing such decisions equally) are differentially associated with negative spillover and how gender ideology plays a role in these experiences. Regression results suggest that for employed mothers, maternal decision-making is associated with greater spillover but that this link is moderated by gender ideology. Among maternal decision-makers, those holding traditional gender attitudes experience greater spillover, whereas those holding egalitarian attitudes experience less spillover, similar to the spillover rate of mothers in shared parental decision-making arrangements. By shifting empirical attention from routine childcare tasks to less visible parenting responsibilities and from societal gender ideologies to individuals’ own beliefs, this study makes important contributions to research on spillover, mental labor, and gender.
养育孩子是养育孩子责任的一部分。过去的研究表明，职业母亲可能会指定自己“负责”这些决定，以协调就业义务与围绕母亲的文化性别意识形态。尽管大量文献表明，一个人承担的家庭责任越多，家庭事务越有可能“溢出”到一个人的工作中，但对于职业母亲的“母性决策”如何与溢出相关，或者母亲自己的个人性别意识形态如何影响这种联系，我们知之甚少。基于2002年和2012年综合社会调查(General Social Survey)的就业母亲样本(N = 316)，本文研究了母亲决策(即母亲作为育儿决策的主要权威)和共同父母决策(即母亲和父亲平等地分享这些决策)与负面溢出的差异，以及性别意识形态如何在这些经历中发挥作用。回归结果表明，对于有工作的母亲，母亲决策与更大的溢出相关，但这种联系受到性别意识形态的调节。在母亲决策者中，那些持有传统性别态度的人经历了更大的溢出效应，而那些持有平等主义态度的人经历了更小的溢出效应，这与共享父母决策安排的母亲的溢出率相似。通过将实证关注从日常的育儿任务转移到不太明显的育儿责任，从社会性别意识形态转移到个体自身的信念，本研究对溢出效应、脑力劳动和性别的研究做出了重要贡献。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1894282
Scott Swiatek, Janette Dill
ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, many male-dominated jobs have contracted while the demand for occupations traditionally held by women has increased. Despite these trends, men have made limited progress in entering female-dominated jobs. In this study, we use the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine whether younger men (ages 18–24) are more likely to enter female-dominated occupations than adults (ages 25–44) and middle-aged men (ages 45–65), as well as whether young men persist in female-dominated occupations once they are employed. We find that younger men are more likely to be in female-dominated occupations, and young men are as likely to stay in a female-dominated occupation as their counterparts in mixed- or male-dominated occupations. Our findings suggest that younger men may be more open to working in female-dominated occupations as compared to older men; once younger men enter female-dominated occupations, they are retained.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1891592
D. Scott
ABSTRACT India’s new middle class is important in establishing a hegemonic culture and structure that legitimizes what it means to be a successful, modern Indian man or woman. This study examines the extent to which, and how, the aspirations of educated, non-cosmopolitan young people in the Garhwali hills of northern India reflect and embody these hegemonic ideals. These questions are important because these ideal constructs, largely based in the realities of elite, transnational middle-class lives, are held up to be the legitimate ones that reflect a vision of India as a modern nation. My findings draw from 38 in-depth interviews conducted with students at five colleges in the Garhwali area of Uttarakhand. The aspirations and expectations of college students in this area largely reflect, and thus reinforce and legitimize, dominant constructs of gender, class, and nation. This is the case even though the chances of obtaining a position in the transnational middle class are relatively low for young people in this area. Moreover, the particular constraints faced by female students make it especially unlikely that they will ever reach new-middle-class status. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1894622
Krista Lynn Minnotte, Michael C. Minnotte
ABSTRACT Research has shown that the ideal worker norm stipulating workers should be completely devoted to their jobs without interference from outside responsibilities creates difficulties for workers. At the same time, scholarship continues to emphasize the positive outcomes associated with coworker and supervisor support in making it easier for workers to combine work and family. Yet we know little about what shapes the extent to which workers have access to supportive coworkers and supervisors. This study brings together these two strands of scholarship to explore the relationships between the perceived presence of the ideal worker norm and two forms of workplace social support: coworker support and supervisor support. Using data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. workers, this study finds that the perceived presence of the ideal worker norm—regardless of gender and largely irrespective of parenthood and elder-care responsibilities—is associated with decreased levels of both forms of support. Taken together, these findings contribute to the literature by documenting the impact of the ideal worker norm on the workplace social support to which workers have access.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1895012
C. Stacey, Kenneth R. Hanson, Meghan A. Novisky
ABSTRACT Service learning is a well-established part of the sociology curriculum in many American universities and colleges. Less well known is student-led philanthropy (also known as experiential philanthropy), a form of service learning that encourages students to donate money to the community partners they are serving. Underwritten by national foundations or regional Campus Compacts, student-led philanthropy (SLP) positions undergraduates as donors as well as doers. In this paper, we ask how sociology students perceive the role of donor and how it enhances or detracts from their volunteer experiences with community partners. To answer this question, we draw on qualitative and quantitative data from 24 SLP students enrolled in an Honors Social Problems course. We find that students overwhelmingly welcome the shift from doer to donor in so much as it affords them a greater perceived sense of purpose and impact, enriching their relationships with community partners. Students lament being donors, however, when they have to collectively decide which organizations “deserve” funding. The award process is especially fraught when organizations become maligned and deemed unworthy by a subset of students. We conclude with a discussion of how SLP can be integrated into the sociology classroom and how instructors might pursue this form of service learning when resources for philanthropic giving are limited.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2021.1891160
A. Kłonkowska, Stephanie Bonvissuto
ABSTRACT Two widely recognized transgender identity formations—the medical model, which emerged from the findings of mid-twentieth-century sexologist Harry Benjamin and is reliant on incremental hormonal and surgical interventions, and the social construct model, which relies on experiential standpoint within a poststructural frame—are often considered dichotomous, even oppositional, categories within the transgender social movement. Such political positioning suggests that they operate for their adherents as adversarial Foucauldian “regimes of truth.” This is demonstrated in the following recent study of transgender persons in Poland. The findings suggest elevated fracturing tensions that may find relief through a more inclusive community model that recognizes the widest diversity of variant gender identities through an encompassing of both, and all, gendered subdivisions.
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