Research on race homophily in the United States has yet to meaningfully include the growing multiracial population. The present study confronts this challenge by drawing upon recent conceptualizations of race as a multidimensional construct. In aligning this insight with current understandings of homophily, we identify and address several open questions about the origins of race homophily—namely regarding

Gender segregation across fields of study is a persistent problem in higher education. Although a large body of literature has illustrated both gendered patterns in major choice as well as overall gender segregation across academic majors, comparatively less attention has been paid to an important building block for gender inequality: college courses. In this study, we examine the process of how students

The morality of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a contentious topic in academic and public debates. We argue that AIs moral acceptance depends not only on its ability to accomplish a task in line with moral norms but also on the social status attributed to AI. Agent type (AI vs. computer program vs. human), gender, and organizational membership impact moral permissibility. In a factorial survey

Stephan Dochow-Sondershaus Sociological Science October 18, 2024 10.15195/v11.a35 Abstract This study reexamines the relationship between the coexistence of distinct ethno-cultural groups and social connectedness. Although previous research suggests a negative association between neighborhood-level ethnic diversity or ethnic minority shares and individual integration, alternative theoretical perspectives

Michael J. Rosenfeld Sociological Science October 7, 2024 10.15195/v11.a34 Abstract U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency

Turgut Keskintürk Sociological Science September 27, 2024 10.15195/v11.a33 Abstract Do life-course transitions in adulthood shape political orientations? One framework suggests that life events expose people to new information, allowing actors to assess their political beliefs and preferences in response to these social experiences. An alternative framework suggests that the link between one’s life-course

Andrea G. Forster, Martin Neugebauer Sociological Science September 24, 2024 10.15195/v11.a32 Abstract Factorial surveys (FSs) are increasingly used to predict real-world decisions. However, there is a paucity of research assessing whether these predictions are valid and, if so, under what conditions. In this preregistered study, we sent out N = 3,002 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured

Adriano S. Senkevics, Rogério J. Barbosa, Flavio Carvalhaes, Carlos A. Costa Ribeiro Sociological Science September 10, 2024 10.15195/v11.a31 Abstract Access to higher education depends on the interaction between social origins and academic performance: background resources boost academic skills; but even when controlling for performance, privileged students are more likely to make ambitious choices

Delia Baldassarri, Johanna Gereke, Max Schaub Sociological Science September 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a30 Abstract How does prosocial behavior extend beyond in-group boundaries in multiethnic societies? The differentiation of Western societies presents an opportunity to understand the tension between societal pressures that push people outside the comfort zones of their familiar networks to constructively

Katrin Auspurg, Sabine Düval Sociological Science September 3, 2024 10.15195/v11.a29 Abstract We question the validity of standard measures of gender ideology. When asked about “men” and “women” in general, respondents may imagine women (men) with lower (higher) labor market resources. Therefore, standard measures may conflate gender ideologies (injunctive norms) with stereotypical beliefs (descriptive

Yao Lu, Neeraj Kaushal, Xiaoning Huang, S. Michael Gaddis, Ariela Schachter Sociological Science August 30, 2024 10.15195/v11.a28 Abstract This study examines how COVID-induced and general attitudes toward Asians have changed over the course of the pandemic using nationally representative survey experiments in 2020 and 2022. First, we measured COVID-induced anti-Asian attitudes as the effect of a treatment

Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Irene Pañeda-Fernández, Leire Salazar, Jonatan Castaño Muñoz Sociological Science August 27, 2024 10.15195/v11.a27 Abstract Teachers are the evaluators of academic merit. Identifying if their assessments are fair or biased by student-ascribed status is critical for equal opportunity but empirically challenging, with mixed previous findings. We test status characteristics beliefs

Peter McMahan, Eran Shor Sociological Science August 20, 2024 10.15195/v11.a25 Abstract Sociologists of culture have long noted that contrasting cultural frames can lead to status ambiguity and status multiplicity. We explore these phenomena in the domain of professional sports by first replicating and then extending and challenging recently published findings on selections for the National Basketball

Ursina Kuhn, Debra Hevenstone, Leen Vandecasteele, Samin Sepahniya, Dorian Kessler Sociological Science August 16, 2024 10.15195/v11.a24 Abstract We investigate how unemployment insurance generosity impacts reemployment and economic precarity by family type. With Swiss longitudinal administrative data and a regression discontinuity design using potential benefit duration, we examine differences between

Lauren A. Rivera, Katherine Weisshaar, András Tilcsik Sociological Science August 13, 2024 10.15195/v11.a23 Abstract Extensive research reveals employer biases against workers with career disruptions, particularly those related to caregiving. However, the effectiveness of organizational practices intended to mitigate such biases is less well understood. This study examines the use of COVID-19 impact

Won-tak Joo, Felix Elwert, Martin D. Munk Sociological Science August 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a22 Abstract Little is known about the labor market consequences of becoming a grandparent. We estimate grandparenthood effects on labor supply and earnings using detailed multigenerational data from Danish population registers. Results show that the consequences of grandparenthood are unequally distributed and

Christof Nägel, Mathijs Kros, Ryan Davenport Sociological Science August 6, 2024 10.15195/v11.a21 Abstract Does (under-)performance of athletes from stigmatized racial groups influence the incidence of racial hate crimes? We consider the case of the English national football team during the 2020 European Football Championship and analyze whether the performance of black players during the final at

Patrick Sharkey Sociological Science August 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a20 Abstract The changes in daily life induced by the COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to longstanding concerns about social isolation in the United States. Despite the links between the physical setting for individuals’ daily lives and their connections with family, friends, and the various institutions of collective life

Mauricio Bucca Sociological Science June 10, 2024 10.15195/v11.a19 Abstract Studies of colorism—the idea that racial hierarchies coexist with gradational inequalities based on skin color—consistently find that darker skin correlates with lower socioeconomic outcomes. Despite the causal nature of this debate, evidence remains predominantly associational. This study revisits the colorism literature by

Mauricio Bucca, Lucas G. Drouhot Sociological Science June 3, 2024 10.15195/v11.a18 Abstract Are Western European countries successfully incorporating their immigrant populations? We approach immigrant incorporation as a process of intergenerational social mobility and argue that mobility trajectories are uniquely suited to gauge the influence of immigrant origins on life chances. We compare trajectories

Richard Breen, John Ermisch Sociological Science April 29, 2024 10.15195/v11.a17 Abstract The question of how social mobility affects outcomes, such as political preferences, wellbeing, and fertility, has long been of interest to sociologists. But finding answers to this question has been plagued by, on the one hand, the non-identifiability of “mobility effects” as they are usually conceived in this

Jason Greenberg, Christopher C. Liu, Leanne ten Brinke Sociological Science April 17, 2024 10.15195/v11.a16 Abstract In many organizational settings, individuals make evaluations in the context of affect-based negative relationships, in which an evaluator personally dislikes the evaluated individual. However, these dislikes are often held in check by norms of professionalism that preclude the use of

Mads Meier Jæger, Mikkel Haderup Larsen Sociological Science April 12, 2024 10.15195/v11.a15 Abstract Theories of cultural stratification argue that a widely shared cultural hierarchy legitimizes status differences and inequality. Yet, we know little about this hierarchy empirically. To address this limitation, we collected survey data in Denmark and asked respondents to rate the implied social rank

Filip Olsson Sociological Science April 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a14 Abstract Sociology has recently seen a surge of interest in implicit culture, which refers to knowledge, habits, and feelings that are largely automatic and habitual. In this article, I argue that certain expressions of implicit culture may be more contextual and malleable than previously thought. The argument is illustrated by showing

Maria S. Grigoryeva, Blaine G. Robbins Sociological Science April 5, 2024 10.15195/v11.a13 Abstract This article examines what people conceal, who conceals from whom, and whether there are demographic differences in how much and what people conceal. We map concealment using a two-wave probability survey and behavioral experiment of U.S. adults (N = 1,281). Our survey measures self-reports of 37 different

Katharina Burgdorf, Henning Hillmann Sociological Science April 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a12 Abstract To what extent may individual autonomy persist under the constraints of group identity? This dualism is particularly salient in new movements that value individual creativity above all, and yet have to muster community cohesion to establish a new style. Using the case of New Hollywood in the 1960s and

Sofia Avila Sociological Science March 28, 2024 10.15195/v11.a11 Abstract Workplace raids are visible and disruptive immigration enforcement operations that can result in the detention of hundreds of immigrants at one time. Despite concerns about the impact of raids on children’s well-being, there is limited research on how these tactics affect their academic performance. Using school-level testing

Kristen Harknett, Charlotte O’Herron, Evelyn Bellew Sociological Science March 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a10 Abstract The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and advancement. In this paper, we draw on data from 13,574 hourly service-sector workers to extend the study of intersectional labor market inequalities to workers’

Vincenz Frey, Delia S. Baldassarri, Francesco C. Billari Sociological Science March 21, 2024 10.15195/v11.a9 Abstract Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American

Hannu Lahtinen, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Tim Morris, Mikko Myrskylä Sociological Science March 18, 2024 10.15195/v11.a8 Abstract Educational systems that separate students into curriculum tracks later may place less emphasis on socioeconomic family background and allow individuals’ personal skills and interests more time to manifest. We tested whether postponing tracking from age 11 to

Peter Mateyka, Matthew Hall Sociological Science March 14, 2024 10.15195/v11.a7 Abstract Empirical research assessing the link between neighborhood racial composition and out-migration has largely relied on a single sample from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). In this article, we validate these models by comparing estimates from the PSID to estimates from identical models based on internal

João M. Souto-Maior, Ravi Shroff Sociological Science March 11, 2024 10.15195/v11.a6 Abstract Whether racial disparities in enrollment in advanced high school coursework can be attributed to differences in prior academic preparation is a central question in sociological research and education policy. However, previous investigations face methodological limitations, for they compare race-specific enrollment

Taylor Laemmli Sociological Science March 7, 2024 10.15195/v11.a5 Abstract This paper shows how class shaped service workers’ experiences of administrative burdens during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use the pandemic and pandemic-related shutdowns as a pseudo natural experiment in which job loss was applied to a set of workers from different class backgrounds and with different class locations, workers

Julieta Goldenberg, Rogers Brubaker Sociological Science March 1, 2024 10.15195/v11.a4 Abstract We examine emerging practices of pronoun disclosure, discovery, and repair after the procedural turn in pronoun politics, which shifted attention from the substantive question of which pronouns should be used to the procedural question of how preferred pronouns, whatever they might be, could be effectively

Filippo Gioachin, Anna Zamberlan Sociological Science February 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a3 Abstract Women and men share comparable levels of intergenerational social mobility in all Western economies, except for Southern European countries, where women’s life chances appear less determined by their family background. This is puzzling given Southern European’s persistent familialism, lack of institutional

Michael Cerda-Jara, David J. Harding, The Underground Scholars Research Cohort Sociological Science January 15, 2024 10.15195/v11.a2 Abstract One of the primary ways in which contact with the criminal legal system creates and maintains inequality is through the stigma of a criminal record. Although the negative effects of the stigma of a criminal record are well-documented, existing research is limited

Lisa Blaydes, Christopher Paik Sociological Science January 8, 2024 10.15195/v11.a1 Abstract What explains worldwide, historical patterns of trade diaspora dispersal? In the premodern period, trade diasporas were among the most important communities facilitating cross-cultural exchange over long distances. We argue that two general principles explain the proliferation of premodern trade diasporas.

Andrew J. Cherlin Sociological Science December 16, 2023 10.15195/v10.a34 Abstract Amid the changes that have diversified family life, studies have shown the continuing importance of attachment to kin through established patterns such as ties among full siblings and newer patterns such as efforts by donor-conceived individuals to find their donor siblings. Sociologists have good explanations for the

Chris Felton Sociological Science December 11, 2023 10.15195/v10.a33 Abstract I present evidence that the release of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why—a fictional series about the aftermath of a teenage girl’s suicide—caused a temporary spike in emergency room (ER) visits for self-harm among teenage girls in the United States. I conduct an interrupted time series analysis using monthly counts of ER visits obtained

Hyunku Kwon, John Levi Martin Sociological Science November 27, 2023 10.15195/v10.a32 Abstract Although the political polarization literature has provided important insights in understanding the structure of political attitudes in the United States at the aggregate level, and how this has changed in recent years, few attempts have been made to examine how each individual subjectively perceives political

Michael Grätz Sociological Science November 20, 2023 10.15195/v10.a31 Abstract Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during

Viktor Decker, Thijs Bol, Hanno Kruse Sociological Science November 14, 2023 10.15195/v10.a30 Abstract Vocational education is considered beneficial to young workers entering the labor market but disadvantageous late in their careers. Many studies assume that late-career disadvantages stem from lower levels of occupational mobility, but do not explicitly study this mechanism. This study is the first

Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob Sociological Science November 9, 2023 10.15195/v10.a29 Abstract Sociological research is increasingly using survey panel data to examine changes in diverse outcomes over life course events. Most of these studies have one striking similarity: they analyze changes between yearly time intervals. In this article, we present a simple but effective method to model such trajectories

Tamás Keller, Felix Elwert Sociological Science November 6, 2023 10.15195/v10.a28 Abstract Schools routinely employ seating charts to influence educational outcomes. Dependable evidence for the causal effects of seating charts on students’ achievement levels and inequality, however, is scarce. We executed a large pre-registered field experiment to estimate causal peer effects on students’ test scores

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Peter Catron, Dylan Connor, Rob Voigt Sociological Science November 3, 2023 10.15195/v10.a27 Abstract The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs. Scholars attribute the success of refugee groups to governmental programs on assimilation and integration. Before 1948, however, refugees arrived without

Ohjae Gowen, Ethan Fosse, Christopher Winship Sociological Science October 31, 2023 10.15195/v10.a26 Abstract For decades, researchers have sought to understand the separate contributions of age, period, and cohort (APC) on a wide range of outcomes. However, a major challenge in these efforts is the linear dependence among the three time scales. Previous methods have been plagued by either arbitrary

Jiaxin Shi, Martin Kolk Sociological Science October 17, 2023 10.15195/v10.a24 Abstract At older ages, most people are supported by pension systems that provide payments based on prior contributions. An important, but neglected, aspect of inequality in how much people receive in pensions is the number of years they live to receive their pension. We examine inequality in lifetime-accumulated pensions

Katrin Auspurg, Renate Lorenz, Andreas Schneck Sociological Science October 10, 2023 10.15195/v10.a23 Abstract Literature suggests that sudden mass immigration can fuel xenophobic attitudes. However, there is a lack of reliable evidence on hostile actions, such as discrimination. In this study, we leverage the unexpected mass immigration of refugees to Germany in 2015 in combination with a two-wave

Clemens Kroneberg, Mark Wittek Sociological Science October 3, 2023 10.15195/v10.a22 Abstract Research on ethnic segregation in schools regularly assumed that ethnic homophily—the tendency to befriend same-ethnic peers, above and beyond other mechanisms of tie formation—is associated with salient ethnic boundaries. We devise a more direct test of this assumption based on a novel measure of ethno-racial

Ariella Schachter, John Kuk, Max Besbris, and Garrett Pekarek Sociological Science September 26, 2023 10.15195/v10.a21 Abstract Increasing Spanish fluency in the United States likely shapes ethnoracial group boundaries and inequality. We study a key site for group boundary negotiations—the housing market—where Spanish usage may represent a key source of information exchange between landlords and prospective

Garrett Baker Sociological Science September 19, 2023 10.15195/v10.a20 Abstract Children’s expectations and aspirations have a substantial effect on a variety of life course outcomes, including their health, education, and earnings. However, little research to date has considered empirically how expectations and aspirations are shaped by adverse events—such as experiencing a parent be incarcerated

Jascha Dräger, Klaus Pforr, Nora Müller Sociological Science September 18, 2023 10.15195/v10.a19 Abstract Wealth plays an important role in social stratification but the results that can be obtained when analyzing wealth as a predictor variable depend on modeling decisions. Although wealth consists of multiple components it is often operationalized as net worth. Moreover, wealth effects are likely

Laura Doering, Jan Doering, András Tilcsik Sociological Science September 11, 2023 10.15195/v10.a18 Abstract Research shows that people often feel emotional distress when they experience a potentially discriminatory incident but cannot classify it conclusively. In this study, we propose that the ramifications of such ambiguous incidents extend beyond interior, emotional costs to include socially consequential

Michael J. Rosenfeld, Sonia Hausen Sociological Science September 6, 2023 10.15195/v10.a17 Abstract We measure the perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on romantic relationships in the United States. We contrast Family Stress theories emphasizing potential harms of the pandemic with Family Resilience Theory suggesting that crises can lead couples to build meaning and strengthen their relationships

Using population register data from the Netherlands, we analyze the child penalty for new parents in three groups of couples: different-sex and female same-sex couples with a biological child and different-sex couples with an adopted child. With a longitudinal design, we follow parents' earnings from two years before to eight years after the arrival of the child and use event study models to estimate

Understanding how outcomes for biracial individuals compare with those for their monoracial peers is critical for understanding how patterns of racial inequality in the contemporary United States might be shifting. Yet, we know very little about the life chances of biracial individuals because of limitations in most available data sources. In this article, I utilize American Community Survey data from

Drawing on individual-level full-population data from Sweden, spanning four decades, we investigate the joint growth of income inequality and income segregation. We study Sweden as a 'least likely' case comparison with the United States, given Sweden's historically low levels of inequality and its comprehensive welfare state. Against the background of U.S.-based scholarship documenting a close link

This article analyzes how young adults draw on cultural resources to understand their identities, aspirations, and goals when taken-for-granted scripts of success are perceived as less desirable or achievable. Drawing on pragmatism, we propose the concept of 'plausible futures' to capture how people rearrange elements within cultural repertoires as a practical and moral project to define their identities

As sociologists are increasingly turning away from using odds ratios, reporting average marginal effects is becoming more popular. We aim to restore the use of odds ratios in sociological research by introducing marginal odds ratios. Unlike conventional odds ratios, marginal odds ratios are not affected by omitted covariates in arbitrary ways. Marginal odds ratios thus behave like average marginal

In many settings, witnesses can report wrongdoing to internal authorities such as officials within an organization or to external authorities such as the police. We theorize this decision of where to report as rooted in the policing of group boundaries, as the use of different reporting channels symbolically affirms or disaffirms affiliation with different social categories. As such, both witnesses