{"title":"In-and-Beyond State Power: How Political Equality Moderates the Economic Growth-CO2 Emissions Relationship, 1990-2014","authors":"Ryan P. Thombs","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1776174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1776174","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study tests whether greater political equality at the nation-state level moderates economic growth’s association with production-based and consumption-based CO2 emissions. Based on data for 106 nations from 1990 to 2014, this study finds that greater political equality mitigates both types of emissions, but when interacted with economic growth, it intensifies growth’s association with emissions. Conversely, political equality mitigates emissions when the economy is stagnant or contracts, but has no effect on emissions during times of economic expansion. The results are homogeneous across country income groups. These findings suggest that greater political equality is likely a necessary but insufficient condition to mitigate CO2 emissions.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"528 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1776174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surrogacy and Medicalization: Navigating Power, Control, and Autonomy in Embodied Labor","authors":"Elizabeth Ziff","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1775528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1775528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gestational surrogacy exposes a group of reproductively healthy women to highly medicalized assisted reproductive interventions. This paper conducts a close examination of the medicalization of the surrogate body to better understand how women who act as surrogates navigate issues of power, autonomy, and control. Drawing on thirty-three in-depth interviews with women who were surrogates in the United States, I find women construct a highly scientific and embodied expertise of knowledge to prepare for, and execute, their responsibilities as a surrogate. I demonstrate that surrogates have a unique relationship to the issues of power and control that arise in the medicalization process. This distinctive orientation to medicalization does not render the issues of power and control obsolete, rather it contextualizes how women navigate these issues within their gendered and embodied labor.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"510 - 527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1775528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42927859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristics of the Most Productive U.S. Sociology Faculty and Departments: Institution Type, Gender, and Journal Concentration","authors":"E. I. Wilder, W. H. Walters","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1775530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1775530","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using data for a sample of 2,132 individuals, we examine the characteristics of the sociology faculty and departments that ranked highest on any of four measures of publishing productivity over the 2013–2017 period. While the most productive men tend to work at the top research universities, women with comparable publishing records are especially likely to be found among the most productive faculty at other types of institutions. This suggests that “striving institutions” – those that have faced the greatest competition to improve their standing relative to their peers – have benefited by hiring and retaining highly productive faculty without regard to their gender. Our results further reveal that prolific faculty are similar to other faculty in their publication outlets, although they do exhibit high levels of journal concentration. That is, they tend to publish in the same journals in which they previously published.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"594 - 622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1775530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45179341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combating Inequality: The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities","authors":"D. Pettinicchio, M. Maroto","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1820918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1820918","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009–2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership benefits workers with disabilities more than other groups and workers with the severest disabilities benefit the most from being in unionized work. Because union membership increases disabled workers’ weekly earnings by more than double the increase experienced by people without disabilities, it brings unionized disabled workers closer to overall average earnings with important implications for inequality. Unionized work reduces earnings inequality between disabled and non-disabled workers, but earnings boosts associated with union membership generate more pronounced inequality within groups of workers with disabilities depending on whether individuals have access to unionized employment. We find that gaps among employed unionized and nonunionized disabled workers are significantly larger than those experienced by unionized and nonunionized female, Black, and Hispanic workers.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"763 - 787"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1820918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49067385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitudes toward Immigration as a Sense of Group Position","authors":"Abdi M. Kusow, M. Delisi","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1756518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1756518","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on prejudice has historically employed Blumer’s group position as a theoretical alternative to Allport’s group conflict in understanding prejudice against members of minority groups. Our purpose in this study is to extend the theoretical parameters of group position into the domain of immigration by defining prejudice in terms of non-immigrant Americans versus immigrants. We find cultural identity threat and subjective economic threat are more significant in informing attitudes toward immigration than objective economic threat. This finding is consistent with and confirms Blumer’s argument that prejudice as a sense of group position is primarily derived from feelings, and is therefore subjective in nature.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"323 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1756518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42900452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Public Health Frame for Fracking? Predicting Public Support for Hydraulic Fracturing","authors":"B. O’Neill, M. J. Schneider","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1773350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1773350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The American public is split on support for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This study seeks to better understand fracking attitudes by predicting support via economic, environmental, and public health concern. We find support for fracking is intertwined with political partisanship. We show those identifying as “other” political party are significantly more likely to claim “don’t know” in response to questions of fracking support. However, fracking attitudes are not solely the product of political ideology, but also of perceived effects on the environment, the economy, and especially public health.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"439 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1773350","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45836868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility Optimism in an Age of Rising Inequality","authors":"Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1756520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1756520","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Four decades of rising incomes at the top, combined with income stagnation and declining intergenerational social mobility for the majority of American households, have combined to produce what has been widely described as a “new gilded age” in the United States. Yet analyses of the best available survey data reveal little evidence of a proportional increase in policy demands for redistribution over time. What explains this puzzling pattern of non-responsiveness? One classical explanation, revived in recent economic literature, postulates that high and persisting levels of optimism about the chances for advancement and social mobility reduce Americans’ willingness to support redistributive public policies. Although seemingly paradoxical in the current economic environment, the “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis is consistent with cross-national survey evidence revealing relatively high levels of support for such beliefs. What about trends over-time? This raises an important and largely unexamined question: Have underlying beliefs about POUM also shaped Americans’ attitudes toward redistributive policies during the era of rising inequality? In this paper, we examine the POUM-policy preference link, and how it has changed in recent decades. We find that POUM beliefs have shaped how individuals form policy attitudes toward inequality and taxes, net of partisanship, income, and confidence in government. Study findings provide new and provocative evidence in support of the POUM hypothesis, and we discuss implications for models of inequality attitudes and more generally scholarship on the politics of rising inequality.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"62 1","pages":"343 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1756520","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42237105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi, S. Alexander
{"title":"Why White Supremacist Women Become Disillusioned, and Why They Leave","authors":"Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi, S. Alexander","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2019.1625733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2019.1625733","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between becoming disillusioned with racist ideas and/or groups and the decision to leave organize white supremacism. We explore a classical sociological puzzle about the indeterminate ways that beliefs and actions inform each other. Drawing on a unique dataset from in-depth interviews with former members of U.S. white supremacist groups, we examine disillusionment and exit in a volatile social world in which both beliefs and actions often change abruptly.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"367 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2019.1625733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43885573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discerning the Heart and Soul of Public Sociology","authors":"M. May, L. Treviño, Eufemia B. Garcia","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2020.1773351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2020.1773351","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article tells the story forged from a research partnership among the authors and their respective organizations over two decades of partnership, of research practiced in a different key than many who engage in research have chosen. Building on Michael Burawoy’s (Burawoy 2005) articulation of public sociology, we present a protocol about a “way” of practicing public sociology, about human qualities by which and through which community-based research can be practiced, and what the authors have come to understand as the “heart and soul” of practicing sociological research.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"61 1","pages":"588 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2020.1773351","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46752562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}