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{"title":"Family Structure, Gender, and Wages in STEM Work","authors":"Ann M. Beutel, C. Schleifer","doi":"10.1177/07311214211060032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211060032","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing upon work effort and gendered organizations perspectives and using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how family structure types (i.e., combinations of marital and parental statuses) shape within- and between-gender variation in the earnings of highly educated men and women working in STEM and non-STEM occupations. We find that STEM and non-STEM women earn premia for marriage and for motherhood if they are married, with higher family-related premia for STEM women. Analysis of married men and women by specific STEM category reveals the largest parenthood premium is for women in engineering. Yet, STEM men and non-STEM men generally earn more than their counterpart women, with the largest between-gender wage difference for married parents in non-STEM occupations. Taken together, these findings provide a mixed picture of movement towards gender equality in work organizations.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"790 - 819"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43041138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008–2016","authors":"Daniel Laurison, H. Brown, Ankita Rastogi","doi":"10.1177/07311214211059136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211059136","url":null,"abstract":"Intersectional analyses are increasingly common in sociology; however, analyses of voting tend to focus on only race, class, or gender, using the others as control variables. We assess whether and how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct patterns of voter engagement in presidential elections 2008–2016. Per existing research, we find income strongly predicts White voting. However, the class gap in voting is not statistically significant among Black voters. In contrast to common characterizations of Black people as politically disengaged, lower income Black citizens are more likely to vote than their White counterparts. Moreover, the lowest earning Black women vote at dramatically higher rates than any other race-gender combination in this income group. These findings call into question the perceived universality of the income gap in voting and widespread claims that more resources directly facilitate voting. They also have implications for our understanding of political participation, social inequality, and democratic citizenship.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"768 - 789"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43651026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States","authors":"Beksahn Jang, Kelsey E. Gonzalez, Liwen Zeng, Daniel E. Martínez","doi":"10.1177/07311214211057121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211057121","url":null,"abstract":"Latinos and Asian-Americans constitute the largest recent immigrant groups in the United States. Upon arrival, immigrants from these groups generally identify with their national origin despite being categorized as “Asian” or “Latino” for state enumeration. While both are racialized and excluded from mainstream identities, they differ in their internal linguistic and religious diversities, socioeconomic status, and immigration experiences. Sociologists theorized that Asian-American panethnicity is based on structural commonalities while Latino panethnicity is built upon cultural commonalities. We elaborate the theoretical understanding of contexts associated with this identification and find alternative underpinnings that shape both groups’ panethnic identification. We find generation since immigration is a common basis for elevated likelihood of panethnic identification for both groups. However, among Asian-Americans, we find English proficiency and age increase people’s odds of identifying with a panethnic identity over a national origin term, whereas for Latinos, political affiliation and religiosity increase these odds.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"702 - 726"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45709258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Anselm Strauss's Grounded Theory and the Study of Work","authors":"Roberta Lessor","doi":"10.1177/073112140004300401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/073112140004300401","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <i>Anselm Strauss was interested in the sociology of work in every sense and used his grounded theory method to observe and analyze everything he encountered, including his own “medical work.” Drawing on the reflections of his students, this introduction briefly examines Strauss's everyday work mode using grounded theory. The eight articles in this special issue honor Strauss by using his theories and methods for studying varieties of work in very different settings. The final article in this collection provides selected statements from graduates who had the opportunity to study with Strauss. Their voices reveal how Anselm Strauss influenced their lives and work and speak for the many sociologists he trained.</i> </p>","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138534662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance","authors":"R. Bonhag, P. Froese","doi":"10.1177/07311214211057119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211057119","url":null,"abstract":"Social mattering refers to an individual’s perceived sense of significance in the world and is a key aspect of overall mental health. Using data from a representative survey of adult Americans, we test the extent to which societal-level status, community engagement, group memberships, and interpersonal attachments affect men’s and women’s sense of mattering. We find that women gain social significance to the extent that they feel attached to others interpersonally, in terms of romantic relationships, parenthood, friendships, and closeness to family. Men’s sense of mattering is significantly influenced by broader social factors, like their strength of attachment to the Republican Party, their social media use, and their ability to donate money to the community. These differences suggests that gender norms lead men to also seek significance from the broader community and through group memberships while women rely mainly on their close social ties to feel like they matter.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"748 - 767"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42402591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products","authors":"Sebastian Weingartner, P. Schenk, Jörg Rössel","doi":"10.1177/07311214211057120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211057120","url":null,"abstract":"In times of cultural omnivorousness, authentic products are highly valued by high-status consumers. The article scrutinizes the social and individual preconditions for attributing hedonic and economic value to authentic products. Taking the concept of cultural capital as a starting point, it argues that cues indicating a product’s authenticity affect taste and price evaluations only if individuals perceive authenticity cues correctly (descriptive beliefs) and regard authenticity as an important product feature (evaluative beliefs). This interplay of descriptive and evaluative beliefs explains the appreciation of authentic products. The model is tested by combining an experimental tasting of apple juice samples with a survey. We find that cues of authenticity causally influence the hedonic evaluation of products only for consumers with both strong descriptive and evaluative beliefs. Attribution of economic value depends on descriptive beliefs only. In addition, such beliefs are socially structured: descriptive beliefs correlate with higher formal education, whereas evaluative beliefs covary with highbrow cultural practices.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"727 - 747"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47771364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kinship Ties to Government Staff and Local Political Trust: Evidence from Rural China","authors":"Anning Hu, Chen Yin","doi":"10.1177/07311214211057123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211057123","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the Rural Socioeconomic Survey in China, we for the first time present descriptive information about Chinese citizens’ kinship ties to local government staff in rural areas, where around 40 percent of the respondents have at least one close relative in the family working in the local government. On average, such kinship ties have a significant but negative correlation with both the trust in staff of local township and county governments, and the trust in staff of judicial, legislative, and public security agencies. This negative effect, however, is not linearly additive with the number of kinship ties. Taken together, these findings lend support to the negative association between local kinship embeddedness and confidence in local official staff, highlighting a relational approach to understanding political trust in Chinese society.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"64 1","pages":"1122 - 1144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45829502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Special Issue Editors’ Introduction: A Sociology of Firearms for the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Trent Steidley, David Yamane","doi":"10.1177/07311214211040933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211040933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"25 1","pages":"5 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65423766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession","authors":"Laura Napolitano, Patricia Tevington, P. Carr, M. Kefalas","doi":"10.1177/07311214211052019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211052019","url":null,"abstract":"While student loans play a large role in the financing of higher education, there has been relatively little qualitative work on how young adults understand their debt burdens and the debt’s perceived future impact. We examine this topic utilizing a sample of 105 young people from working-, middle-, and upper middle-class backgrounds who experienced young adulthood during the Great Recession. While most respondents are accepting of debt at the time of postsecondary enrollment, their inability to meet the demands of their debt leads to frustration and anxiety. Further, many respondents are concerned that this debt will impact their ability to support themselves and transition into the role of a marital partner, although this varies across social class backgrounds and debt levels. We argue that this debt, and its corresponding repercussions, are likely to contribute to the continued bifurcation of family life in the United States.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"65 1","pages":"684 - 701"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48540667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Society","authors":"A. P. Davis, Simone Rambotti, Terrence D. Hill","doi":"10.1177/07311214211039303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211039303","url":null,"abstract":"Since emerging in late December 2019, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has contributed to over 4.5 million deaths worldwide, and many more “long-haulers” have been left to endure a range of long-term side effects. While impacts on health have been devastating, the COVID-19 pandemic has metastasized through entire societies and nearly every aspect of social life. Indeed, the pandemic has mobilized and changed governments and political parties, economies, public health, medicine, militaries, religions, the media, families, and individuals. While some of these efforts and changes have worked to curtail the pandemic, others have served to prolong the misery and suffering. As we have witnessed the erosion of democratic institutions, the expansion of social inequalities, and the further disintegration of societies, it is unclear whether we will ever really “return to brunch.” One fact is certain. Although medicine and public health are uniquely equipped to address the biological and behavioral aspects of the coronavirus, they are far less suited to contribute to our understanding of the enduring social, cultural, institutional, and structural ramifications of the pandemic. To be sure, these broader questions of society and social life will require years of sociological analysis. To this point, comparatively little work in sociology journals has been devoted to the COVID19 pandemic. As of late March 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) has cataloged over 234,000 pieces of scientific research through its “global literature on the coronavirus disease” database (https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/). While fields like medicine and public health have already written extensively on the pandemic, sociological research has clearly lagged behind. According to the WHO database, only 138 pieces of relevant research appear in the top 50 sociology journals by impact factor or the top 20 sociology journals per Google Scholar metrics. Now that we are just beginning to comprehend the myriad social consequences of the COVID19 pandemic, we expect to see exponential growth in sociological research. But this should come as no surprise. The field of sociology emerged during the crises brought on by industrialization in the late nineteenth century to provide unique insights into a crucial moment of a shifting social order. The COVID-19 pandemic is merely the latest moment to apply a sociological lens to the world in flux. With this in mind, Sociological Perspectives agreed to publish the seminal special issue entirely devoted to original sociological research on the coronavirus (COVID-19) & society. In the section that follows, we describe the major contributions of each article in the issue, organized by theme.","PeriodicalId":47781,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Perspectives","volume":"64 1","pages":"683 - 688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47862612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}