Browsing by FAS Department "Sociology"
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A Sociocultural Paradigm for Pricing: How Status, Cognitive Authority, and Professional Culture Qualify Market Values
(2017-04-18)Two economic paradigms—neoclassical orthodoxy and behavioral heterodoxy—dominate modern price theory. Especially in actual practice, economics monopolizes discussions around pricing with most market actors paying little ... -
The Achievement Gap, Revisited: An Empirical Assessment of What We Can Learn from East Asian Education
(2012-10-23)International mathematics assessments have established students in East Asia as among the best in the world and their U.S. counterparts as mediocre. What is not clear is why this “achievement gap” exists. The last major ... -
Achieving the Middle Ground in an Age of Concentrated Extremes: Mixed Middle-Income Neighborhoods and Emerging Adulthood
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This paper focuses on stability and change in “mixed middle-income” neighborhoods. We first analyze variation across nearly two decades for all neighborhoods in the U.S. and the Chicago area. We then analyze a new ... -
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi
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Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21)This Presidential Address offers elements for a systematic and cumulative study of destigmatization, or the process by which low-status groups gain recognition and worth. Contemporary sociologists tend to focus on inequality ... -
Advocacy and Anti-Racism: How Institutions Shape Organizational Responses to Racially Biased Policing in France and the United States
(2017-05-13)Racially biased policing has captured the attention of citizens across the globe. This preoccupation with racial justice and policing is not unique the United States; these questions are on the rise across the Atlantic as ... -
African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
All-in-one: impact study of an online math game for educational purposes
(Inderscience Publishers, 2016)The purpose of this evaluation study is to address the impact of an educational game in strengthening mathematical skills and knowledge. Within this framework, the study deals with the appropriateness of specific game ... -
Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network
(American Psychological Association, 2009)The discrepancy between an individual’s loneliness and the number of connections in a social network is well documented, yet little is known about the placement of loneliness within, or the spread of loneliness through, ... -
The Architecture of Inclusion: Evidence from Corporate Diversity Programs
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Are Diversity Programs Merely Ceremonial? Evidence-Free Institutionalization
Institutionalists describe large domains of corporate policy and practice as symbolic. The work of entire departments is carried out to convey a firm’s commitment to efficiency (the now dismantled strategic planning unit) ... -
“Are You at Peace?”
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2006)Background Physicians may question their role in probing patients’ spiritual distress and the practicality of addressing such issues in the time-limited clinical encounter. Yet, patients’ spirituality often influences ... -
Art, Crime, and the Image of the City
(2014-02-25)This dissertation explores the symbolic structure of the metropolis, probing how neutral spaces may be imbued with meaning to become places, and tracing the processes through which the image of the city can come to be - ... -
Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success
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Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges
(Annual Reviews, 2005)This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. ... -
Association Between Widowhood and Risk of Diagnosis With a Sexually Transmitted Infection in Older Adults
(American Public Health Association, 2009)Objectives. We assessed whether widowhood is associated with risk of diagnosis with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) among older adults in the United States and whether the associations observed in men differed before ... -
Associations of Environmental Factors With Elderly Health and Mortality in China
(American Public Health Association, 2010)Objectives. We examined the effects of community socioeconomic conditions, air pollution, and the physical environment on elderly health and survival in China. Methods. We analyzed data from a nationally representative ... -
Attitude and Self-reported Practice Regarding Prognostication in a National Sample of Internists
(American Medical Association (AMA), 1998)Background Since prognostication appears increasingly important in clinical practice, especially in end-of-life care, we examined physicians' experiences and attitudes regarding it. Methods We mailed a survey to a ... -
Attitudes and Beliefs about Distributive Justice in China
(2014-02-25)This dissertation examines the patterns of popular attitudes and beliefs about economic inequality and distributive justice in contemporary China. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework on social cognition and ...