Annual Review of Sociology articles from January 1 1993

Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 1993

A sociologist's atypical life. (American sociologist Lewis A. Coser)
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Throughout my career I have been something of an outsider professionally, but I also often have had the advantage of participating in the inside life of sociology. I have been actively engaged in our discipline yet I have never...

Class formation in nineteenth-century America: the case of the middle class.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Increasing public concern about the effects of prevailing economic conditions on the middle class in the United States has spurred sociological interest in its historical origins and development. While current debates focus on the...

Refugees, immigrants, and the state.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Since the 1970s, refugees have posed a growing problem in the Third World and formed an increasing proportion of the migrants arriving to the First World. The Social Science Index listed an annual average of 15 journal articles on...

The sad demise, mysterious disappearance, and glorious triumph of symbolic interactionism.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION A standard ploy of textbook writers is to divide all sociology into three parts: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Without assessing the dubious contemporary justifications of the first two, what should be...

Perspectives on organizational change in the US medical care sector.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION This review may be attempting the impossible:to give structure and boundaries to an area of research that has exploded over the past decade--the study of medical care organizations and how they have changed. In the 1980s it became a...

The situational analysis of crime and deviance.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Hirschi & Gottfredson (1986:58) recently proposed an important distinction between the concepts of crime and criminality. Crime refers to events that presuppose a set of necessary conditions (e.g. activity, opportunity, adversaries,...

Minority identity and self-esteem.
January 1, 1993... CATEGORIZATION OF HISPANIC AND ASIAN AMERICAN SUBGROUPS The global categories "Hispanic" and "Asian" are socially constructed categories. The use of global terms to encompass disparate groups is of limited utility because of the demographic and...

The state and fiscal sociology.
January 1, 1993... THE STATE AND FISCAL SOCIOLOGY Schumpeter (1954, pp. 6-7) observed that the extraction of tax revenue by the state has an enormous influence on economic organization, social structure, human spirit and culture, and the fate of nations. For this...

The sociology of work and occupations.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION An Annual Review author must cheat either breadth or depth. I cheat depth. To limit my topic to occupations alone is absurd. Changes in occupations cannot be construed without the work system that enfolds them. That normal sociology...

Nationalism and ethnicity.
January 1, 1993... Introduction One of the uglier ways in which nationalism gained popular and academic attention in the early 1990s was the Serbian program of "ethnic cleansing." When promulgated by a psychiatrist, and other academically trained representatives of...

Sex segregation in the workplace.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Until the 1970s, the term "segregation" signified separation of the races. The phrase "race segregation" still denotes the races' physical segregation into different schools or neighborhoods. However, segregation is more than...

Formal models of collective action.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Formal collective action theory has undergone an enormous growth and elaboration within the past few years, with a major shift from focusing on individual decisions to focusing on group structure and interaction. This theory draws on...

Urban sociology: the contribution and limits of political economy.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Sometime between 1968 and 1973, a revolution occurred in the field of urban sociology, a paradigm shift that became the predominant, if not the exclusive, orientation in the 1980s and continues to guide current work, even as some of...

Macrocomparative research methods.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Interest in methods of macrocomparative research is at a high point. Articles devoted to the topic have appeared in recent issues of the major sociological journals (e.g. Lieberson 1991, Kiser & Hechter 1991); Kohn's 1987 ASA...

Sociological perspectives on life transitions.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION During the past two decades, sociologists have devoted increased attention to history, to heterogeneity, and to the dynamics of change. One research area in which these issues have been the dominant themes and challenges is the study...

Social organization and risk: some current controversies.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Sociological concern with risk developed slowly prior to Charles Perrow's Nominal Accidents and James Short's American Sociological Association presidential address, "The Social Fabric at Risk," both in 1984. Carol Heimer's 1988...

Entry into school: the beginning school transition and educational stratification in the United States.
January 1, 1993... Stuck in the Margin of the Dream Letitia is "8 years old, female, and the color of cinnamon... A few weeks ago she completed the second grade in a public school in one of Baltimore's most impoverished neighborhoods. For her good work she received...

Recent advances in longitudinal methodology.
January 1, 1993... 1. INTRODUCTION Longitudinal data come in a variety of forms. Common to all types is that one observes some social unit at least two points in time. With such data several opportunities for analysis arise that are not present in cross-sectional...

Recent moves in the sociology of literature.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Several years ago when Priscilla (Clark) Ferguson, Philippe Desan, and I were discussing a special issue of Critical Inquiry that we were editing on "The Sociology of Literature," I grumpily maintained that the sociology of...

Comparative patterns of retirement: recent trends in developed societies.
January 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION As can be noticed when analyzing the abundant sociological literature, retirement refers simultaneously to an event, a social institution, a stage in the life course, and the transition from work to nonwork. Let us examine these...