{"title":"Attitudes about Affirmative Action in Higher Education Admissions","authors":"Amy L. Petts","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1951627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1951627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Affirmative action is any policy or program that provides special consideration to historically excluded groups, like racial minorities. Affirmative action in higher education is largely understood as being synonymous with the explicit consideration of college applicants’ race. However, colleges can also give special consideration to racial minorities through the consideration of non-race explicit factors, such as first-generation status or removing legacy admissions. In this work, I use a survey experiment to assess US attitudes toward race explicit and non-race explicit admission factors. I find that regardless of racial identity, parents in the US tend to view colleges that consider ascribed characteristics such as race and legacy status less favorably than colleges that do not consider these characteristics. Colleges may be able to use non-race explicit factors to give consideration to the inclusion of racial minorities with more support from the general public.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"96 1","pages":"711 - 732"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1951627","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58950536","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":"State Presence, Armed Actors, and Criminal Violence in Central America","authors":"J. Cruz, Y. Vorobyeva","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1940349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1940349","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between the perceived presence of state forces and non-state actors and the levels of criminal violence affecting Central America. It contends that state presence in some communities does not necessarily lead to lower crime levels than communities where state institutions are absent. The data of this study come from three nationally representative surveys conducted in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The findings suggest that state forces, such as the police and the military, have a limited role in reducing criminal violence rates. In contrast, non-state armed actors, such as vigilantes and community groups, may have a more significant role in reducing violence in some circumstances. We analyze these findings as evidence of the complex relationships between state actors, non-state actors, and criminal violence in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"641 - 660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1940349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48450693","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":"Premature Death Risk from Young Adulthood Incarceration","authors":"D. Witteveen","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1923379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1923379","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data, a comprehensive treatment model indicates a strong positive influence of incarceration on premature death risk. Models adjust for numerous covariates of mortality, including demographics, family background, and a range of health and behavioral indicators measured during childhood, as well as selection into incarceration (“treatment”). This study expands extant research by observing much longer panel data, closer to the mortality curve. The main treatment effect reveals risk of premature death by one’s mid-fifties being increased by 13.9 percentage-points. Results also indicate that young adulthood incarceration shortens lives equally for Blacks and non-Blacks.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"613 - 640"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1923379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45916059","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":"Walking the Intra-Racial Tightrope: Balancing Exclusion and Inclusion within a Black Social Club","authors":"Joseph A. Guzman","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1918593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1918593","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Exclusion and inclusion constitute the formation of social groups and their boundaries. Historically, middle- and upper-class African Americans formed social organizations to engage in racial uplift and status enhancement. Recent work suggests the purposes of such organizations have shifted from status enhancement toward preserving intra-racial ties. Drawing on nearly four years of participant observation and 29 in-depth interviews with members of a middle-class Black men’s social club, this article analyzes the tensions imbued in maintaining solidarity amid class-based divisions. Beyond providing social respite from the white gaze, this Black space offers escape from the Black gaze, or the burdens of racial uplift. Studying Black social clubs and symbolic boundary formation is richly informative for understanding boundary maintenance and group solidarity within racialized organizations.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"590 - 611"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1918593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46733819","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}
Jeremy Pais, A. Deener, M. Fischer, Zachary D. Kline
{"title":"“Shelter at Home, if You Can:” Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020","authors":"Jeremy Pais, A. Deener, M. Fischer, Zachary D. Kline","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1916410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1916410","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with analyses that account for the disease epidemiology and other demographic factors. Data come from multiple sources, including Google’s Mobility Reports and Cuebiq’s Mobility Insights. Growth curve analyses find that socioeconomic disadvantage, political orientation, and racial composition independently explain the rate of change in mobility and peak residential sequestering levels during the initial outbreak. These conceptually separate dimensions of community vulnerability operate in concert, rather than as substitutes or as competing explanations, to impact the behavioral response to COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"562 - 589"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1916410","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43703410","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}
R. Wickes, John R. Hipp, Jacqueline Laughland-Booÿ
{"title":"Ethnic Diversity, Social Identity, and Social Withdrawal: Investigating Putnam’s Constrict Thesis","authors":"R. Wickes, John R. Hipp, Jacqueline Laughland-Booÿ","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1899087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1899087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since Putnam introduced his constrict thesis in 2007, many researchers have established that ethnic diversity lowers perceptions of social cohesion, at least in the short term. The connection between ethnic diversity and social behavior, however, is less certain. In this paper we draw on social distance and social identity theories to empirically test if ethnic diversity encourages behaviors linked to social withdrawal. Using data from a longitudinal panel study of urban communities in Australia, we examine the influence of social distance on neighborhood ties, neighborly exchange, and civic engagement and assess if an individual’s social identity (ethnic or civic) strengthens or weakens these relationships. We find individuals that endorse an ethnic identity are more likely to engage in social withdrawal behaviors. Withdrawal is also more likely in neighborhoods where individuals distort the presence of minorities.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"516 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1899087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44523993","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}
Thomas E. Shriver, Laura A. Bray, Annika Wilcox, A. Szabo
{"title":"Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes","authors":"Thomas E. Shriver, Laura A. Bray, Annika Wilcox, A. Szabo","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research indicates that social movements are shaped by increased opportunities and threats, yet this work rarely examines environments of intersecting opportunity and threat. This article extends the literature on political opportunity theory by explaining how shifting rights regimes influence the political context of movements. Specifically, we analyze how dissent in Communist Czechoslovakia responded to the expansion and contraction of rights across three political periods between 1948 and 1977. Our research delineates three key features of rights regimes and shows how variation across multiple scales creates “hybrid environments” of political opportunity and threat for social movements.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"541 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44811558","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":"Mobilizing Usual versus Unusual Protesters. Information Channel Openness and Persuasion Tie Strength in 71 Demonstrations in Nine Countries","authors":"S. Walgrave, R. Wouters, Pauline Ketelaars","doi":"10.1080/00380253.2021.1899086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1899086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Decades of research found that protest participation is unequally distributed over the population. The usual protesters are resourceful, skilled, and politically engaged. We theorize that “open channel” mobilization and mobilization via strong persuasion ties is able to bring unusual protesters to the streets. Additionally, we explore the contextual antecedents of both mobilization types. Results are based on large-scale protest survey data encompassing 71 protests from nine countries. We measure protester (un)usualness in terms of education, political interest, political efficacy and past participation. We find that mobilization via closed information channels and weak persuasion ties generally leads to the well-known skew in participation. Open information channels and strong persuasion ties, on the other hand, tend to decrease the probability of participants being usual suspects and increase the probability of participants being unusual suspects. In sum, not all mobilization fosters inequality.","PeriodicalId":48007,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Quarterly","volume":"63 1","pages":"48 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00380253.2021.1899086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48968858","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}