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Temporal Misalignment and Unequal Agency: What Terminal Cancer Patients Teach Us about Time and Inequality. 时间错位和不平等代理：晚期癌症患者告诉我们的时间和不平等。

IF 6.9 1区社会学

American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2026-06-09 eCollection Date: 2026-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/00031224261448220

Zhuofan Li, Daniel Dohan, Corey M Abramson

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Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters. 反补贴权力：工会反对沃尔玛超市的买方权力。

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2026-05-27 eCollection Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00031224261437057

Joshua Choper, Lukas Lehner, Zachary Parolin

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Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States. 美国的无担保信贷和社会安全网。

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-22 DOI: 10.1177/00031224251411563

Alec P Rhodes, Davon Norris, Jason Houle, Rachel E Dwyer, Sarah K Bruch, Lawrence M Berger

{"title":"Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States.","authors":"Alec P Rhodes, Davon Norris, Jason Houle, Rachel E Dwyer, Sarah K Bruch, Lawrence M Berger","doi":"10.1177/00031224251411563","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00031224251411563","url":null,"abstract":"Low-income households in the United States draw on public and private resources to manage economic risk. Cross-national scholars describe a \"credit-welfare state tradeoff\" where credit markets become particularly important when state benefits are less supportive. The United States is frequently highlighted in this regard, with its often-inadequate market-first safety net. Both credit markets and the safety net are, however, highly unequal and segmented across U.S. states. We provide new empirical insights on the credit-welfare state nexus by leveraging a large national sample of credit record data that allows us to distinguish between credit instruments. We link these data to a comprehensive dataset on state safety nets with comparable measures of program supportiveness. We estimate two-way fixed-effects models that exploit temporal variation within states in safety net supportiveness. We find that living in states with more supportive safety nets is associated with a lower probability of high-cost alternative payday, installment and personal finance loan use, and a higher probability of mainstream credit card access, particularly among low-income households. In the context of the relative inadequacy of the U.S. safety net, state safety net supportiveness matters less for whether people borrow than for what credit instruments they use. Our findings suggest that efforts to restrict the U.S. safety net are likely to increase reliance on high-cost loans among low-income households, furthering the unequal burden of interest and fees levied on these households.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"91 2","pages":"349-377"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13186415/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147983904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns. 《与鬼同住：过去的痕迹如何塑造唐人街的文化创伤》。

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2026-03-13 eCollection Date: 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/00031224261422414

Matt Patterson, Henry Tsang, Bryan Kuk, Weiqi Li, Mojtaba Rostami

{"title":"Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns.","authors":"Matt Patterson, Henry Tsang, Bryan Kuk, Weiqi Li, Mojtaba Rostami","doi":"10.1177/00031224261422414","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00031224261422414","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community's shared identity, potentially generating feelings of solidarity and providing communities with a sense of common purpose. This article examines the role of cultural trauma in motivating and guiding ongoing efforts to preserve historic Chinatowns in Canada and the United States in the face of contemporary challenges such as gentrification. We demonstrate how activists understand themselves to be continuing a struggle against anti-Chinese racism that extends back to the nineteenth century. Explaining the contemporary salience of trauma, we conceptualize Chinatowns as \"cultural reservoirs\" that have accumulated physical traces of past harms. These traces serve as iconic representations of trauma: haunting reminders of the tenuous place of Chinatowns in North American cities. We identify three types of icons produced by distinct material processes: stubborn, entropic, and remedial. By identifying the importance of the physical environment in the trauma process, we reconcile a realist focus on historical events themselves with a constructivist account of their subsequent incorporation into collective memory. Cultural reservoirs do not determine how contemporary communities will remember their past, but the physical traces they preserve create experiences and situations in which trauma narratives seem intuitive and salient to contemporary communities.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"91 2","pages":"286-312"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13068313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147676713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Changing Role of Mothers' Status in Children's College Completion. 母亲在子女大学学业中的地位变化。

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1177/00031224251401938

Christine R Schwartz, Michael D King

{"title":"The Changing Role of Mothers' Status in Children's College Completion.","authors":"Christine R Schwartz, Michael D King","doi":"10.1177/00031224251401938","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00031224251401938","url":null,"abstract":"Despite vast changes in women's status in society and in the home, we have little understanding of the changing role of mothers in shaping children's life chances. Mothers' contributions may have grown given their increased status-measured here as their education, occupational status, and earnings-and the rise of single-parent families. Using data from three large, nationally representative U.S. surveys, we find that the returns to mothers' status have remained relatively stable and similar to fathers' among children born from the 1930s to the 1980s and thus account for little of observed increases in children's college completion. But this does not mean nothing has changed. Our decomposition results show that the outsized role of recent increases in women's education, occupational status, and earnings for families' standard of living has meant that increased levels of mothers' status account for more of the increase in children's college completion than fathers' status among cohorts born since the 1960s. That continued increases in college completion have more to do with the rising status of mothers than fathers has been overlooked by previous research.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"91 1","pages":"123-157"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12915997/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146229119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce. 谁能生孩子？社会规范与生育权。

IF 6.9 1区社会学

American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1177/00031224251387273

Letícia J Marteleto, Sneha Kumar, Luiz Gustavo Fernandes Sereno, Alexandre Gori Maia

{"title":"Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce.","authors":"Letícia J Marteleto, Sneha Kumar, Luiz Gustavo Fernandes Sereno, Alexandre Gori Maia","doi":"10.1177/00031224251387273","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00031224251387273","url":null,"abstract":"Childbearing norms and discourse influence social interactions and policy priorities, reflecting and reinforcing social stratification. We propose a theoretical framework that systematically explains stratification and discrimination in childbearing norms. The theory of socially sanctioned reproduction (TSSR) emphasizes how childbearing and reproductive norms are shaped by individual and intersectional attributes of both evaluators and those evaluated, underscoring multidimensionality and intersectionality in childbearing norms. We empirically examine this theory through paired conjoint survey experiments with a population-based sample of women ages 18 to 34 in Pernambuco, Brazil-a highly unequal, multiracial context. In our novel application, respondents assessed profiles of hypothetical married women with randomly varying attributes and reported whether they were well-suited for childbearing. Findings show how intersectional attributes and in-group/out-group dynamics, principally along race and SES lines, define childbearing norms. Black women receive less approval if in low- versus high-SES positions, whereas White women receive similar levels of approval regardless of SES. We find that these discriminatory patterns are shaped by the social attributes of evaluators themselves, suggesting othering and group attachment processes. Our theoretical and empirical frameworks can be extended to study norms in other highly contested areas of reproductive and family life.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"90 6","pages":"1060-1091"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12965193/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Threats to Blue Networks: The Effect of Partner Injuries on Police Misconduct 对蓝色网络的威胁：伙伴受伤对警察不当行为的影响

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1177/00031224231208723

Linda Zhao, A. Papachristos

{"title":"Threats to Blue Networks: The Effect of Partner Injuries on Police Misconduct","authors":"Linda Zhao, A. Papachristos","doi":"10.1177/00031224231208723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231208723","url":null,"abstract":"Police culture creates an “us versus them” dynamic, which, at its worst, treats threats to the “thin blue line” as worthy of group response. Prior research documents such a group threat process as a possible mechanism for police misconduct, but few studies have analyzed the precise network relationships that serve as the conduit for a misconduct response. Using data on misconduct, officer injuries, and officer networks within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) between 2004 and 2015, this study examines the extent to which injuries officers receive from civilians might elicit a misconduct response from officers’ peers, and especially their direct network associates. Findings demonstrate that network ties to injured officers predict higher levels of subsequent misconduct, especially for officers with stronger ties to the injured officer. Furthermore, the effects of peer injury on subsequent misconduct are contingent on the race of the suspect involved: officers whose peers are injured are linked to more use of excessive force, as well as other types of misconduct, when the suspects involved are Black. These findings support our central hypothesis of a networked group threat response that links peer injuries to police misconduct.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022 学术自由的社会基础：1960 至 2022 年世界社会中的异质机构

IF 9.1 1区社会学

American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/00031224231214000

Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, Evan Schofer

{"title":"The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960 to 2022","authors":"Julia C. Lerch, David John Frank, Evan Schofer","doi":"10.1177/00031224231214000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231214000","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes academic freedom worldwide with newly available cross-national data. The literature principally addresses impingements on academic freedom arising from religion or repressive states. Academic freedom has broadly increased since 1945, but we see episodic reversals, including in recent years. Conventional work emphasizes the uniformity of international institutional structures and their influence on countries. We attend to the heterogeneity of international structures in world society and theorize how they contribute to ebbs and flows of academic freedom. Post-1945 liberal international institutions enshrined key rights and norms that bolstered academic freedom worldwide. Alongside them, however, illiberal alternatives coexisted. Cold War communism, for instance, anchored cultural frames that justified greater constraints on academia. We evaluate domestic and global arguments using regression models with country fixed effects for 155 countries from 1960 to 2022. Findings support conventional views: academic freedom is associated positively with democracy and negatively with state religiosity and militarism. We also find support for our argument regarding heterogeneous institutional structures in world society. Country linkages to liberal international institutions are positively associated with academic freedom. Illiberal international structures and organizations have the opposite effect. Heterogeneous institutions in world society, we contend, shape large-scale trajectories of academic freedom.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139139027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society 教育、社会学和社会中未实现的融合

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1177/00031224231217711

Prudence L. Carter

{"title":"Unrealized Integration in Education, Sociology, and Society","authors":"Prudence L. Carter","doi":"10.1177/00031224231217711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231217711","url":null,"abstract":"In the 2023 ASA presidential address, Prudence Carter delves into the landscape of U.S. society, tracing some of its historical progress and confronting contemporary social, economic, educational, and political challenges. Central to her argument is an exploration of the concept of “unrealized integration” and how it has hindered the nation’s march toward an inclusive, multiracial democracy. Carter describes and characterizes the current state of integration within education and society. Despite the widespread rhetoric of diversity in our organizations and institutions, she critiques its shallow application, exposing diversity’s inability to rectify imbalances of power- and resource-sharing. Incorporating the idea of “tipping points,” she discusses how civil rights movements, despite expanding representation and opportunity, have faced recurrent waves of political backlash and reversals. She contends that an erosion of social progress occurs when there is an imbalance in the pursuit of distributional equality (concerning material resources) and relational equality (involving social and cultural dynamics and processes that shape well-being). Additionally, she identifies three other crucial areas that warrant focus to pave the path toward realized integration within education and society. In a forward-looking call to arms, Carter underscores the imperative for sociologists to transcend epistemological and methodological boundaries; and she advocates for robust collaborations across the social sciences and humanities to harness the collective power of knowledge-generation and solution-building for pressing societal issues.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"2008 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139002094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field 代币主义及其长期后果：来自文学领域的证据

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American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1177/00031224231214288

Clayton Childress, Jaishree Nayyar, Ikee Gibson

{"title":"Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field","authors":"Clayton Childress, Jaishree Nayyar, Ikee Gibson","doi":"10.1177/00031224231214288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231214288","url":null,"abstract":"Research on tokenism has mostly focused on negative experiences and career outcomes for individuals who are tokenized. Yet tokenism as a structural system that excludes larger populations, and the meso-level cultural foundations under which tokenism occurs, are comparatively understudied. We focus on these additional dimensions of tokenism using original data on the creation and long-term retention of postcolonial literature. In an institutional environment in which the British publishing industry was consolidating the production of non-U.S. global literatures written in English, and readers were beginning to convey status through openness in cultural tastes, the conditions for tokenism emerged. Using data on the emergence of postcolonial literature as a category organized through the Booker Prize for Fiction, we test and find for non-white authors (1) evidence of tokenism, (2) unequal treatment of those under consideration for tokenization, and (3) long-term retention consequences for those who were not chosen. We close with a call for more holistic work across multiple dimensions of tokenism, analyses that address inequality across and within groups, and a reconsideration of tokenism within a broader suite of practices that have grown ascendent across arenas of social life.","PeriodicalId":48461,"journal":{"name":"American Sociological Review","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138972863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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