Annual Review of Sociology articles from January 1 2000

Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 2000

PREFACE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... For the millennial volume of the Annual Review of Sociology we invited sociologists from different specialties to write about what they wished they knew but did not know at the dawn of the next century. Most of those invited agreed to submit...

COHABITATION IN THE UNITED STATES: An Appraisal of Research Themes, Findings, and Implications.
January 1, 2000... Key Words family, marriage, union formation, children, gender, social change * Abstract Cohabitation has risen dramatically in the United States in a very short time. So, too, has the amount of sociological research devoted to the topic....

DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR COMPETENCE: Theory and Research.
January 1, 2000... Key Words ability inference, competence requirements, performance evaluation, status characteristics, experimental research * Abstract This article reviews theory and research on double standards, namely, the use of different requirements...

THE CHANGING NATURE OF DEATH PENALTY DEBATES.
January 1, 2000... Key Words capital punishment, public opinion, deterrence, retribution, social science research * Abstract Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas:...

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES.
January 1, 2000... Lisa A. Keister [1] Stephanie Moller [2] Key Words wealth distribution, wealth accumulation, social stratification, social mobility, economic sociology * Abstract Wealth ownership in the United States has long been concentrated...

CRIME AND DEMOGRAPHY: Multiple Linkages, Reciprocal Relations.
January 1, 2000... Key Words deviance, family, life course, migration, race * Abstract Individual demographic characteristics and aggregate population processes are central to many theoretical perspectives and empirical models of criminal behavior. Recent...

ETHNICITY AND SEXUALITY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words race, ethnicity, nationalism, sexuality, queer theory * Abstract This paper explores the connections between ethnicity and sexuality. Racial, ethnic, and national boundaries are also sexual boundaries. The borderlands dividing...

PREJUDICE, POLITICS, AND PUBLIC OPINION: Understanding the Sources of Racial Policy Attitudes.
January 1, 2000... Key Words racial attitudes, African American attitudes, white attitudes, affirmative action, survey research * Abstract This review examines the intersection of prejudice, politics, and public opinion. It focuses specifically on research...

RACE AND RACE THEORY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words racism, racial formation, racial politics * Abstract Race has always been a significant sociological theme, from the founding of the field and the formulation of classical theoretical statements to the present. Since the...

STATES AND MARKETS IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION.
January 1, 2000... Key Words neoliberalism, welfare states, development, capitalism, socialism * Abstract The paper considers how states and markets shape one another at the national and world-system levels and how globalization is transforming that...

VOLUNTEERING.
January 1, 2000... Key Words Volunteers, activism, motives, human capital, social capital, commitment * Abstract Volunteering is any activity in which time is given freely to benefit another person, group or cause. Volunteering is part of a cluster of...

HOW WELFARE REFORM IS AFFECTING WOMEN'S WORK.
January 1, 2000... Mary Corcoran [1] Sandra K. Danziger [2] Ariel Kalil [3] Kristin S. Seefeldt [2] Key Words poverty, TANF, gender, employment, self-sufficiency * Abstract The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity....

FERTILITY AND WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS.
January 1, 2000... Key Words fertility, female labor force participation, industrialized nations, work-family issues, public policy * Abstract INTRODUCTION Thirty years ago, Bumpass & Westoff (1970:95) asked, "Do women limit their fertility in...

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS OF THE U.S. NEW DEAL.
January 1, 2000... Key Words political sociology, political change, New Deal * Abstract The U.S. New Deal raises issues of class, race, gender, region, social movements, and institutional constraint in the context of a societal-wide economic and political...

THE TREND IN BETWEEN-NATION INCOME INEQUALITY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words income inequality, convergence theory, cross-national, income growth * Abstract About seventy percent of the world's total income inequality is between-nation inequality as opposed to within-nation inequality. Between-nation...

NONSTANDARD EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS: Part-time, Temporary and Contract Work.
January 1, 2000... Key Words contingent work, part-time work, temporary work, contract work * Abstract Nonstandard employment relations--such as part-time work, temporary help agency and contract company employment, short-term and contingent work, and...

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF IDENTITIES.
January 1, 2000... Key Words social construction of identity, language, intersections of identities, social cognition, symbolic interaction * Abstract In this chapter I review the social psychological underpinnings of identity, emphasizing social cognitive...

SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions.
January 1, 2000... Key Words neighborhood effects, racial segregation, educational resources, school-to-work transitions, school discipline * Abstract Research on the relationship between schools and communities has reemerged as a principal focus of the...

RACIAL AND ETHNIC VARIATIONS IN GENDER-RELATED ATTITUDES.
January 1, 2000... Key Words gender role attitudes, beliefs about gender inequality, race, ethnicity * Abstract Research on how gender-related attitudes vary across racial/ethnic groups has produced contradictory results, depending upon the type of...

MULTILEVEL MODELING FOR BINARY DATA.
January 1, 2000... Key Words hierarchical models, contextual analysis, logistic regression, logit, generalized linear mixed models * Abstract We review some of the work of the past ten years that applied the multilevel logit model. We attempt to provide a...

A SPACE FOR PLACE IN SOCIOLOGY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words place and space, built environment, architecture, material culture, design * Abstract Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in...

WEALTH AND STRATIFICATION PROCESSES.
January 1, 2000... Key Words intergenerational transfers, inequality, living standards * Abstract This paper reviews current information on wealth trends, with particular attention to the role of household wealth in the stratification system. The first...

THE CHOICE-WITHIN-CONSTRAINTS NEW INSTITUTIONALISM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIOLOGY.
January 1, 2000... Key Words economy, commitment, exchange, state, organization * Abstract The variant of new institutionalism that is our focus is a pan-disciplinary theory that asserts that actors pursue their interests by making choices within...

POVERTY RESEARCH AND POLICY FOR THE POST-WELFARE ERA.
January 1, 2000... Key Words inequality, political economy, stratification, community * Abstract The "end of welfare as we know it" constitutes an important challenge for poverty research, shifting the focus away from once-dominant themes of dependency and...

CLOSING THE "GREAT DIVIDE": New Social Theory on Society and Nature.
January 1, 2000... Key Words environmental sociology, ecological Marxism, political ecology, ecofeminism, science studies, social theory * Abstract Twenty years ago, two environmental sociologists made a bold call for a paradigmatic shift in the discipline...

SOCIALISM AND THE TRANSITION IN EAST AND CENTRAL EUROPE: The Homogeneity Paradigm, Class, and Economic Inefficiency.
January 1, 2000... Key Words working class, intelligentsia, transition politics, epistemology, work * Abstract The homogeneity (mass-elite) paradigm exerts inordinate influence over social research on East and Central European socialism and its transition....

FRAMING PROCESSES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: An Overview and Assessment.
January 1, 2000... Key Words social movements, frame, collective action, reality construction, culture * Abstract The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that...

FEMINIST STATE THEORY: Applications to Jurisprudence, Criminology, and the Welfare State.
January 1, 2000... Key Words gender, social policy, law, criminal justice * Abstract This chapter discusses developments in feminist state theory through a comparison of feminist interventions into jurisprudence, criminology, and welfare state theory. Early...

PATHWAYS TO ADULTHOOD IN CHANGING SOCIETIES: Variability and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective.
January 1, 2000... Key Words life course, adulthood, agency, social structure, demography, social stratification * Abstract The transition to adulthood has become a thriving area of research in life course studies. This review is organized around two of...

A SOCIOLOGY FOR THE SECOND GREAT TRANSFORMATION?
January 1, 2000... At the turn of the millennium, sociology faces theoretical disorientation. The issue is not what we don't know, but how to interpret what we do know. Nowhere is this more true than in the transformations that have overtaken the former Soviet...

AGENDA FOR SOCIOLOGY AT THE START OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... I have always taken the sociologist's principal task to be that of explaining variations in collective action, institutions, and formal organizations, among other social outcomes. I seek to learn why revolutions occur in some places and times...

WHAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT MY FIELD BUT WISH I DID.
January 1, 2000... As a young college student in the early 1970s, I was very indecisive. 1 had always been attracted to academia but, having come of age during the 1960s, I was determined to do something "relevant" with my life. Earning a decent living was the...

FAMILY, STATE, AND CHILD WELL-BEING.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Sociologists have long recognized the importance of the family in social mobility and in the reproduction of poverty (Featherman & Hauser 1978, McLanahan & Sandefur 1994). More recently, they have begun to study the role of...

GETTING IT RIGHT: SEX AND RACE INEQUALITY IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS.
January 1, 2000... One of sociology's major accomplishments in the last quarter of the twentieth century was establishing that race and gender matter at work. We have been far less successful in explaining why workers' sex and race affect their employment...

WHITHER THE SOCIOLOGICAl STUDY OF CRIME?
January 1, 2000... The study of crime and deviance has always been one of the most theoretically fertile areas in sociology. Fundamental questions on why individuals violate norms, the origins of social order, official reactions to deviance, and macro-level...

ON GRANULARITY.
January 1, 2000... From early in conversation-analytic inquiry and through to contemporary work, examination of how persons in a variety of interactional contexts refer to or formulate elements of their immediate environment or past experience has paid off,...

HOW DO RELATIONS STORE HISTORIES?
January 1, 2000... For most of us, alas, crucial moments in a lifetime of inquiry involve discoveries that we have been asking the wrong questions. Any effort to lay the burden of our ignorance on the next generation of researchers--which is, after all, the...