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Losing a Job: The Nonpecuniary Cost of Unemployment in the United States
the United States Cost of Unemployment
2015/6/23
Job loss is a salient
trigger event that sets off large changes in well-being. The factors expected to
improve the lot of the unemployed have limited efficacy: (1) changes in family income
are n...
What Role Can Propinquity Play in the Development of New National Allegiances? Immigrant Latinos Establishing Ties to the United States through Out-Group Contact
Contact Theory Deprovincialization Out-Group Contact Inter-Group Relations Propinquity Latino Immigrants Latino Politics
2013/1/31
Contact theory has primarily been applied to the study of interactions between Blacks and Whites, with particular emphasis on changes in the attitudes of Whites towards Blacks. How individual contact ...
Personal Troubles and Public Issues: A Sociological Imagination of Black Athletes’ Experiences at Predominantly White Institutions in the United States
Black Athletes Sociological Imagination Racism Predominantly White Institutions
2013/9/5
The purpose of this paper is to provide a socio-historical examination of Black athletes’ experiences at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) and connect these experiences with the broader social i...
Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940-2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events
Accidental Death Rates Child Classification Homicide Rates
2013/9/5
Events that are mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and have a constant sum must be negatively correlated. This study examined whether non-motor vehicle accidental deaths and homicides in you...
The Exclusion of Black Women from National Leadership Positions in the United States: Taxation with Limited Representation
United States Black Women Gains in Academic Degrees
2013/9/5
This article claims that the United States is progressing well when examined through the racial and cul- tural diversity of its young people aged 29 and younger with earned doctorates. The data show t...
Explaining the Causes of the Black-White Wealth Gap in the United States
Race United States income Inequality Wealth Gap
2013/9/4
This paper examines the issue of the Black-White wealth gap in the United States. The paper presents pertinent data illustrating that a large gap exists in wealth accumulation between Black and Whites...
Inter-Ethnic/Interracial Romantic Relationships in the United States: Factors Responsible for the Low Rates of Marriages Between Blacks and Whites
Interracial Dating Marriage USA African Americans Wealth Transfer
2013/9/4
This paper examines the status of interracial romantic relationships among non-Black groups and those between Blacks and non-Blacks in the United States. The research shows that, apart from Blacks, in...
Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940–2000
Education Information Smoking Decisions: Smoking Histories States
2016/3/8
This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco sta...
Can Social Security Explain Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?
Social Security Explain Trends Labor Force Participation Older Men United States
2016/3/7
After a long decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We examine how changes in Social Se...
Title IX of the United States Education Amendments：A Gender-Equity Education Intervention Strategy
Women's Studies Education Amendment Intervention Strategy
2008/12/23
It has become increasingly apparent that gender equity in athletics, while in some instances centered on the particulars of Title IX compliance, is about more than that. Gender equity in athletics is ...
Adjusting to A New Society：A Study of Educated Chinese Women's Acculturation in the United States
Women's Studies Society Educated Chinese Women Acculturation
2008/12/23
Meeting the challenge of adjusting to a new culture and social life from a professional to a housewife places a great deal of pressure on these educated Chinese women. They have strong desires and mot...
Analysis of Violence Against Women Act and the South Asian Immigrants in the United States
South Asian immigrant women domestic violence
2008/10/27
The issue of domestic violence among South Asian immigrant population in the United States is examined in the light of the Violence Against Women Act. The paper gives a background to the issue of dome...