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Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads of Criminal and Conventional
Moral legitimacy of market activities is important in determining how commodities are traded and market success (Anteby 2010; Fourcade and Healy 2007; Zelizer 1979). Economic sociologists studying morally contested markets ... -
Change in Race and Ethnic Stratification: The Roles of Period, Cohort, Immigrant Generation, Socioeconomic Origins and Gender in Shaping Educational Attainment
(2012-09-13)Education has been the primary means of advancement for immigrants and native-born Americans throughout the 20th century. Despite the overall expansion of the educational system in the United States, not all immigrant ... -
Children's well-being: a longitudinal analysis of the effects of family life on children's outcomes postdivorce
(1996)Although a number of studies have examined children's well-being postdivorce, such studies have commonly used non-representative samples and simple cross-sectional designs. To date, analyses of children's well-being after ... -
Civic Participation in Indonesia: Islam, Community, and Rural Development
Indonesia entered the 21st century on the brink of imminent social change. The downfall of the Suharto government in 1998 marked the end of authoritarianism and led to a democratic transition whose first step consisted ... -
Collective Identification, High Risk Protest, and Social Media Use in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
(2014-02-24)Existing literature suggests that online spaces may be less effective than face-to-face communication at promoting a sense of collective identification among social movement participants. These studies, however, do not ... -
Colonialism and Displays of Third World Dependency Among Thai Sex Workers
Expanding upon Hoang’s (2015) theory that Vietnam’s history of colonialism or imperialism is a precondition for displays of dependency to exist among sex workers today, this paper tests the same theoretical framework in ... -
Coming Together? Trends in Black-White Occupational Segregation, 1980 to 2009
Occupational segregation, the differential distribution of groups of workers across occupations, provides one of the most important mechanisms for creating, maintaining and legitimating social inequality. In this study I ... -
Community control and crime: an ecological analysis
(1984)The goal of this dissertation is to improve upon the ecological analysis of deviance by proposing and testing a more theoretically based ecology of deviance. The ecological analysis of crime and other deviant behaviors has ... -
Confidence Game: Fiscal Crisis, Market Confidence, and the Remaking of Jamaica’s Post-Recession Political Economy
The deregulation of global financial markets has increased the propensity for economies, especially those in the developing world, to experience fiscal crises. Scholars have noted the potential for these crises to pit the ... -
Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America
Despite significant advances in macro and micro level theories, explanation and prediction of urban unrest remains challenging. This dissertation contributes to ongoing efforts to improve understanding of urban unrest ... -
Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women’s Employment
Social scientists have amassed considerable evidence that incarceration has detrimental consequences for employment. Incarceration pushes inmates out of jobs, reduces employment prospects upon release, and confines former ... -
Constructing Pro-Immigrant Spaces: An Analysis of the Policies and Practices of Sanctuary
In the United States, sanctuary cities are generally defined as sub-federal jurisdictions that refrain from engaging in the enforcement of federal immigration law. Proponents defend sanctuary cities based on the claim that ... -
Contextualizing Sanctuary Cities: A Descriptive Analysis into America’s “Most Welcoming Spaces”
Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions that implement various local-level policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Inspired by the literature exploring the historical and legal process by which they ... -
Continued Migrant Mobility: Analyzing the geographic mobility of immigrant populations beyond the international migration context
The late 20th century rise in international migration to the United States (US) brought with it an abundance of novel scholarship and theorizing regarding what drives movement across international borders. Conversely, ... -
Developing Computational Approaches to Investigate Health Inequalities
Computational approaches to health, especially approaches harnessing "big data'' offer researchers emerging methods and novel data to understand social inequalities. Through data sources such as social media and smart city ... -
The development of Taiwanese folk religion, 1683-1945
(1995)The development of Taiwanese folk religion was intertwined with social and economic conditions through Taiwan's history. Since the 17th century, the new immigrant society favored the growth of economic crops to exchange ... -
Dimensions of Discomfort: Examining Child Welfare Professionals’ Approach Toward Gender Diverse Foster Youth
There is an increasing amount of sociological scholarship regarding gender diverse people’s interaction with institutions. An understudied institution is the foster care system. This paper seeks to understand affective ... -
Disability, Identity, and the Law: A Phenomenological Study of Living with Acquired, Invisible Impairment
This study examines the social construction of disability, identity management, and everyday understandings of the law among individuals who have acquired non-apparent impairments, sometimes referred to as “invisible ... -
Discourses of danger: the construction of gender through talk about violence
(1997)Women report far more fear of violence than do men; however, crime statistics show that men are victimized more frequently than women. Explanations proposed for this paradox include the underreporting of violence against ... -
Disorder in the Neighborhood: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on Disorder, Norm Violation, and Pro-Social Behavior
A highly-visible paper, published in Science, using field experiments in a Groningen neighborhood found strong support for the broken windows hypothesis: disorder increases norm violations (Keizer et al. 2008). The study ...