Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas
{"title":"Evaluating Employment Quality as a Determinant of Health in a Changing Labor Market.","authors":"Trevor Peckham, Kaori Fujishiro, Anjum Hajat, Brian P Flaherty, Noah Seixas","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","DOIUrl":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The shifting nature of employment in recent decades has not been adequately examined from a public health perspective. To that end, traditional models of work and health research need to be expanded to include the relational and contractual aspects of employment that also affect health. We examine the association of three health outcomes with different types of employment in the contemporary U.S. labor market, as measured by a multidimensional construct of employment quality (EQ) derived from latent class analysis. We find that EQ is associated with self-rated health, mental health, and occupational injury. Further, we explore three proposed mediating mechanisms of the EQ-health relationship (material deprivation, employment-related stressors, and occupational risk factors), and find each to be supported by these data.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 4","pages":"258-281"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41219825","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}
Lanikque Howard, Lisa Klein Vogel, Maria Cancian, Jennifer L Noyes
{"title":"Building Connections: Using Integrated Administrative Data to Identify Issues and Solutions Spanning the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems.","authors":"Lanikque Howard, Lisa Klein Vogel, Maria Cancian, Jennifer L Noyes","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We analyze the role of newly integrated data from the child support and child welfare systems in seeding a major policy change in Wisconsin. Parents are often ordered to pay child support to offset the costs of their children's stay in foster care. Policy allows for consideration of the \"best interests of the child.\" Concerns that charging parents could delay or disrupt reunification motivated our analyses of integrated data to identify the impacts of current policy. We summarize the results of the analyses and then focus on the role of administrative data in supporting policy development. We discuss the potential and limitations of integrated data in supporting cross-system innovation and detail a series of complementary research efforts designed to support implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 2","pages":"70-85"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40562505","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}
{"title":"Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law.","authors":"Brittany Friedman, Mary Pattillo","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monetary sanctions mandated in state statutes include fines, fees, restitution, and other legal costs imposed on persons convicted of crimes and other legal violations. Drawing on content analysis of current legislative statutes in Illinois pertaining to monetary sanctions, we ask three questions: What are defendants expected to pay for and why? What accommodations exist for defendants' poverty? What are the consequences for nonpayment? We find that neoliberal logics of personal responsibility and carceral expansion suffuse these laws, establishing a basis for transferring public costs onto criminal defendants, offering little relief for poverty, and supporting severe additional penalties for unpaid debt. Statutory inequality legally authorizes further impoverishment of the poor, thereby increasing inequality. Major related organizing and advocacy work, however, has created an opening for significant changes toward greater fairness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"173-196"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e5/06/nihms-1686136.PMC8059699.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38901012","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}
{"title":"Police Contact and the Legal Socialization of Urban Teens.","authors":"Amanda Geller, Jeffrey Fagan","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.02","DOIUrl":"10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary American policing has routinized involuntary police contacts with young people through frequent, sometimes intrusive investigative stops. Personal experience with the police has the potential to corrode adolescents' relationships with law and skew law-related behaviors. We use the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate how adolescents' experiences with the police shape their legal socialization. We find that both personal and vicarious police contact are associated with increased legal cynicism. Associations are present across racial groups and are not explained by teens' behaviors, school settings, or family backgrounds. Legal cynicism is amplified in teens reporting intrusive contact but diminished among teens reporting experiences characterized by procedural justice. Our findings suggest that aggressive policing risks weakening teens' deference to law and legal authorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"26-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/17/bc/nihms-1731363.PMC8423110.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39396529","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}
{"title":"Gender Differences in Biological Function in Young Adulthood: An Intragenerational Perspective.","authors":"Margot Jackson, Susan E Short","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2018.4.4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2018.4.4.06","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sex/gender differences in health are a function of social and biological factors, and their interplay over the life course. Despite a large body of research documenting sex/gender as a determinant of health behavior and outcomes, far less scholarship examines how these differences are reflected in physiologic function-an important mediator through which social experiences \"get under the skin\"-in young adulthood. Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we examine the relationship between gender and biological function (inflammation and immunosuppression) in young adulthood. Second, we examine the contribution of social and economic circumstances in childhood and early adulthood to gender differences in health. The findings reveal strong gender differences in physiologic function, which are robust to the inclusion of many indicators of the social environment, in both inflammation and immune function.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"4 4","pages":"98-119"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6586225/pdf/nihms-1013959.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37076625","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}
{"title":"The Biosocial Approach to Human Development, Behavior, and Health Across the Life Course.","authors":"Kathleen Mullan Harris, Thomas W McDade","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social and biological phenomena are widely recognized as determinants of human development, health, and socioeconomic attainments across the life course, but our understanding of the underlying pathways and processes remains limited. To address this gap, we define the \"biosocial approach\" as one that conceptualizes the biological and social as mutually constituting, and that draws on models and methods from the biomedical and social/behavioral sciences. By bringing biology into the social sciences, we can illuminate mechanisms through which socioeconomic, psychosocial, and other contextual factors shape human development and health. Human biology is a social biology, and biological measures can therefore identify aspects of social contexts that are harmful, as well as beneficial, with respect to well-being. By bringing social science concepts and study designs to biology and biomedicine, we encourage an epistemological shift that foregrounds social/contextual factors as important determinants of human biology and health. The biosocial approach also underscores the importance of the life course, as assessments of both biological and social features throughout human development over time, and across generations, are needed to achieve a full understanding of social and physical well-being. We conclude with a brief review of the papers in the volume, which showcase the value of a biosocial approach to understanding the pathways linking social stratification, biology, and health across the life course.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"4 4","pages":"2-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434524/pdf/nihms-1009503.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37101961","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}
Elizabeth McClure, Lydia Feinstein, Sara Ferrando-Martínez, Manuel Leal, Sandro Galea, Allison E Aiello
{"title":"The Great Recession and Immune Function.","authors":"Elizabeth McClure, Lydia Feinstein, Sara Ferrando-Martínez, Manuel Leal, Sandro Galea, Allison E Aiello","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Great Recession precipitated unprecedented home foreclosures increases, but documentation of related neighborhood changes and population health is scant. Using the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study (<i>N</i> = 277), we examined associations between neighborhood-level recession indicators and thymic function, a life course immunological health indicator. In covariate-adjusted multilevel models, each 10 percentage point increase in abandoned home prevalence and 1 percentage point increase in 2009 home foreclosures was associated with 1.7-year and 3.3-year increases in thymic aging, respectively. Associations attenuated after adjustment for neighborhood-level social cohesion, suggesting community ties may buffer recession-related immune aging. Effects of neighborhood stressors were strongest in middle-income households, supporting theory of excess vulnerability in this group. Future research should assess whether ongoing foreclosure and blight reduction efforts improve health for residents of recession impacted neighborhoods.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"4 4","pages":"62-81"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6168205/pdf/nihms941762.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36558856","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}
{"title":"Exploring the Effects of U.S. Immigration Enforcement on the Well-being of Citizen-Children in Mexican Immigrant Families.","authors":"Lauren E Gulbas, Luis H Zayas","doi":"10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we draw on ecocultural theories of risk and resilience to examine qualitatively the experiences of U.S. citizen-children living with their undocumented Mexican parents. Of central importance is the fact that citizen-children's daily lives are organized around the very real possibility that their undocumented parents could one day be detained and deported. Our purpose is to render visible the various ways in which citizen-children confront and navigate the possibilities-and realities-of parental deportation. We develop a framework to conceptualize the complex multidimensional, and often multidirectional, factors experienced by citizen-children vulnerable to or directly facing parental deportation. We situate youth well-being against a backdrop of multiple factors to understand how indirect and direct encounters with immigration enforcement, the mixed-status family niche, and access to resources shape differential child outcomes. In doing so, we offer insights into how different factors potentially contribute to resilience in the face of adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"3 4","pages":"53-69"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139667/pdf/nihms-987350.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36503876","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}
{"title":"The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession: Continuities and Transformations.","authors":"Arne L Kalleberg, Till M VON Wachter","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"3 3","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36115044","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}
{"title":"Why Did People Move During the Great Recession?: The Role of Economics in Migration Decisions.","authors":"Brian L Levy, Ted Mouw, Anthony Daniel Perez","doi":"10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2017.3.3.05","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Labor migration offers an important mechanism to reallocate workers when there are regional differences in employment conditions. Whereas conventional wisdom suggests migration rates should increase during recessions as workers move out of areas that are hit hardest, initial evidence suggested that overall migration rates declined during the Great Recession, despite large regional differences in unemployment and growth rates. In this paper, we use data from the American Community Survey to analyze internal migration trends before and during the economic downturn. First, we find only a modest decline in the odds of adults leaving distressed labor market areas during the recession, which may result in part from challenges related to the housing price crash. Second, we estimate conditional logit models of destination choice for individuals who migrate across labor market areas and find a substantial effect of economic factors such as labor demand, unemployment, and housing values. We also estimate latent class conditional logit models that test whether there is heterogeneity in preferences for destination characteristics among migrants. Over all, the latent class models suggest that roughly equal percentages of migrants were motivated by economic factors before and during the recession. We conclude that fears of dramatic declines in labor migration seem to be unsubstantiated.</p>","PeriodicalId":51709,"journal":{"name":"Rsf-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences","volume":"3 3","pages":"100-125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439978/pdf/nihms844278.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35030639","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}