Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103222
Seymour Spilerman
This essay is a personal reflection on developments in the fields of stratification and collective violence over the past 60 years. For each area, I outline the themes that have been prominent at various points in time, how one theme has segued into the next, and the extent to which the choice of research topic has been a response to perceived issues confronting our society. Some suggestions are made for future research directions in each of the two fields.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103214
Andrew Francis-Tan, Adam Y. Liu
How does great power competition affect domestic affairs? This paper investigates the effect of the perceived threat of China on Americans’ attitudes toward Asian Americans. To do so, we conducted three survey experiments. Participants engaged with vignettes that manipulated different aspects of the China threat. Then they evaluated a diverse set of fictitious Americans applying for a job in the U.S. The experiments yielded several insights. The vignettes related to Chinese domestic policy had no impact on the evaluation of the target groups. However, the vignette about Chinese espionage caused participants to give Chinese Americans lower ratings when the job was marketing analyst (experiment 1) and IT specialist (experiment 2). That vignette also caused participants to give Russian Americans, but not other Asian Americans, lower ratings as well. However, on average, participants did not rate the target groups any differently when the job was American history teacher (experiment 3). The vignette about economic competition between China and the U.S. mostly had insignificant effects. Together, the findings show that discrimination is present but limited in size and scope.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103230
Jie Wang, Xin Chen
This study investigates the evolving patterns of assortative mating based on family background and education in China from 1978 to 2022 focusing on the impact of economic inequality. Using data from the 2010–2022 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and employing log-linear models, the study examines how family background (ascribed status) and educational attainment (achieved status) influence mate selection. The findings reveal that, the degree of family background homogamy has strengthened with social modernization in China. This shift is closely linked to the rising economic inequality in the context of China, which has increased the emphasis on economic and cultural resources in mate selection. Meanwhile, educational homogamy followed a pattern of initial increase, reflecting the growing importance of education in spousal choice, followed by a decline in recent decades. This decline may be attributed to the devaluation of educational qualifications due to the rapid expansion of higher education. The results support the economic inequality perspective, suggesting that economic inequality has a stronger influence on assortative mating trends than modernization theories. These findings underscore the critical role of family background in shaping marriage patterns, reinforcing the concentration of socioeconomic resources within families and contributing to the perpetuation of social inequality.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103213
Shuang Yu , Manfei Yang , Yinhe Liang
This paper explores the effect of clan culture on multidimensional poverty among older adults. To address potential endogeneity issues, this paper uses the minimum distance between each city and two well-known academies from the Song Dynasty as an instrumental variable for clan culture. The findings reveal that clan culture significantly reduces the incidence of multidimensional poverty among older adults. The primary mechanisms driving this effect include increased intergenerational support and strengthened kinship support. The results of sensitivity analyses indicate that these findings are robust. The impact of clan culture on poverty reduction is observed to be more pronounced among older adults in rural areas, men, younger cohorts, and ethnic minorities. Dose‒response analysis indicates that the stronger the clan culture in a region is, the greater its impact on older adults. These findings suggest that clan culture, as an informal institution, plays a vital role in alleviating multidimensional poverty and enhancing the well-being of older adults.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-19DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103205
Ariane Bertogg , Patrick Präg , Klara Raiber
As populations age and informal caregiving becomes more widespread, the health consequences of providing care are becoming a key concern for societies. Sociological theories of stress appraisal and role strain posit detrimental consequences to the health and wellbeing of caregivers. Conversely, role enhancement theory holds that caregiving can have positive health consequences. Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA) collected among adults aged 50 years or older with a follow-up period of up to 20 years (2002–23, 88,225 observations of 20,217 respondents), we examine associations between transitions into and out of caregiving, and two key health outcomes which have been understudied as consequences of caregiving, namely: allostatic load and cognitive functioning. We estimate asymmetric fixed-effects models which model changes in health outcomes as a function of transitions into and out of caregiving while accounting for unobserved between-person heterogeneity. Our results show that caregiving is associated with better cognitive health for both men and women, but not with improved biomarker-based allostatic load. Results do not differ by caregiving intensity. Our findings provide support for role enhancement theory, suggesting that caregivers benefit in terms of cognitive functioning, even if a biomarker-based approach to measuring stress-related health outcome does not corroborate an overall health benefit. We formulate implications for policy-making and directions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103206
Kirsten Sehnbruch , Joaquín Prieto , Diego Vidal
This paper studies whether workers become “stuck” in poor-quality employment, or whether poor-quality employment can serve as a “stepping stone” towards better job opportunities in the Chilean labor market. It does this from a multidimensional and longitudinal perspective, taking into account the intensity of the deprivation that workers face. In particular, it examines how workers move between good and bad jobs, and between these jobs, unemployment and inactivity and also discusses the respective determinants of these changes. The results of this analysis show that the deprivation levels among women in the labour market are persistently higher those of men, and that workers do indeed become stuck in bad jobs.
Thus, the paper presents a methodology for measuring chronic deprivation in the labor market, an issue on which neither the literature on job quality nor the literature on poor-quality employment (or bad jobs) has focused. It concludes by discussing the policy implications of this research.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103210
Giacomo Melli , Leo Azzollini
While research is increasingly focusing on the political influence of subjective social status, it is yet unclear how the latter shapes attitudes towards redistribution on its own, nor how it interacts with contextual inequality. To address this, we integrate perspectives across sociology, political economy, and social psychology, testing competing hypotheses of polarisation vs. mitigation of redistributive attitudes among social groups. We rely on ISSP data for twenty-five countries across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania between 1987 and 2019, exploiting the longitudinal potential of contextual information. Results show that individuals with lower subjective status display higher support for redistribution and perception of inequality, independently from their objective characteristics. Contextual inequality plays a key role: in countries with higher income inequalities, high subjective status individuals show higher support for redistributive policies. This suggests that, in highly unequal countries, individuals who feel they are above most of the population display pro-redistribution attitudes in line with the rest of the population. The results have broad implications, suggesting that an approach to social stratification that considers both subjective and objective aspects is central to illuminate support for redistribution.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-24DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103204
Yuyao Liu, Eric Fong
Background
Understanding the attitudes of immigrants toward local immigration (i.e., immigration in their host societies) is increasingly important in the context of rising international migration and naturalized immigrants. However, little is known about how immigrants view local immigration, especially across societies with different cultures and naturalization requirements.
Objective
This research examines two questions: 1) whether immigrants with and without host-society citizenship view local immigration differently across Western and non-Western societies, and 2) how the potential attitudinal differences between naturalized and non-naturalized immigrants vary across societies with different cultures and naturalization requirements.
Methods
Drawing from World Values Survey data (WVS7, 2017–2022), this study analyzes how naturalized immigrants and non-naturalized immigrants from 21 societies accommodating around 40 % of the world's international migrants view local immigration.
Results
Results indicate that naturalized immigrants exhibit less favorable attitudes toward local immigration than their non-naturalized counterparts, particularly in societies with collectivistic cultures or stringent naturalization processes or without language requirements.
Conclusions
The host-society citizenship is associated with less favorable attitudes toward local immigration. Access to naturalization and its requirements are associated with local immigration attitudes, which can potentially shape the integration environment and overall social cohesion in the host society.
Contribution
The study goes beyond the conventional native-versus-immigrants attitudes in Western contexts and explores the important yet underexplored attitudinal outcomes of naturalization. It analyzes the moderating impacts of the host-society culture and naturalization criteria and combines a multilevel analysis with a coarsened exact matching and machine-learning approach, offering valuable insights for future studies and integration strategies.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103203
Michael Kumove , Intifar Sadiq Chowdhury
Most African countries are experiencing a ‘youth bulge’—a large proportion of young people in their populations. What effect might this have on generalised trust? Using a cross-classified random effects model (CCREM) on Afrobarometer data, we show that (1) higher age is correlated with higher generalised trust in Africa, and (2) this is at least partly the result of the ageing process itself and not merely due to period or cohort effects. Both of these findings are consistent with previous work on trust in the US and Europe. This implies that the African youth bulge has pushed down generalised trust as the proportion of low-trust young people in the population has steadily increased. This supports the ‘instability thesis’ of youth bulges and could threaten the other dividends which they may generate. We conclude by presenting some suggestions for ameliorating this decline.
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