Annual Review of Sociology articles from January 1 2003

Annual Review of Sociology archives from January 1 2003

The changing picture of Max Weber's sociology.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION For several decades the general picture of Max Weber in sociology, and especially in American sociology, has roughly been as follows: Weber's main contribution to the social sciences is to be found in his sociology, which is...

Day labor work.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The growth of nonstandard employment--part-time work, temp agencies, contract company employment, short-term and contingent work, and independent contracting--has transformed work in significant and profound ways (Kalleberg...

Still "not quite as good as having your own"? Toward a sociology of adoption.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Adoption is certainly a very common occurrence in the United States and in much of the world today. No official and complete counts of adoptions exist, but estimates are that about 4% of Americans are adopted (Freundlich...

The lopsided continent: inequality in Latin America.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The study of injustice is at the heart of the sociological imagination. The classic queries of the discipline concern the distribution of power and resources; who gets what and why remain the fundamental questions we must ask....

Covert political conflict in organizations: challenges from below.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION During the past decade, sociologists increasingly drew on social movement theory to understand change in a broad array of organizations: economic corporations (Davis & Thompson 1994, McCann 1994, Scully & Segal 2002),...

Racial and ethnic stratification in educational achievement and attainment.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In this review, we provide an overview of recent empirical research on racial, ethnic, and immigrant differences in educational achievement and attainment, and we examine some current theories that attempt to explain these...

The economic sociology of conventions: habit, custom, practice, and routine in market order.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Economic organization and market order are central concerns of both classical and contemporary economies and economic sociology. Even scholars of different perspectives typically agree that stable economic organization is...

Population and African society.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION This review is written within the context of a persistent lack of interest in Africa long characteristic of modern sociology. Detailed research into the sociology of Africa has only begun in the past 20 years and is not yet...

Welfare-state regress in Western Europe: politics, institutions, globalization, and Europeanization.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Once upon a time--not that long ago--there was consensus in Western Europe that the welfare states' full employment and expanding social-citizenship rights inaugurated after the end of World War II had come to stay. This...

Racial measurement in the American census: past practices and implications for the future.
January 1, 2003... THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC DATA ABOUT RACE Quarrels about the relative significance of race notwithstanding, few sociologists would disagree with the unparalleled importance of race in American society. Along with gender, age, and...

Cognitive skills and noncognitive traits and behaviors in stratification processes.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION What characteristics do employers want in their workers? Bowles & Gintis (1976, p. 131) suggested that they are the same characteristics that teachers want in their students. These include the cognitive skills necessary to get...

Associations and democracy: between theories, hopes, and realities.
January 1, 2003... Over the past decade, there has been a resurgence of interest and research into the connections between associations and democracy. This article divides the question of associative contributions to democracy into four component parts: What (a)...

The intersection of gender and race in the labor market.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In her 1997 review of feminist theorizing in sociology, Saltzman Chafetz asserts "the 'hot topic' among feminist scholars is 'the intersection of race, class and gender.'" Most sociologists--feminist or otherwise--who study...

Relationships in adolescence.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION It is well recognized that relationships outside the family become increasingly important during adolescence. Although several very important studies of basic social processes have been conducted by sociologists (Coleman 1961,...

The potential relevances of biology to social inquiry.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Although sociologists vary greatly in their thoughts on biology and social behavior, there is little question that "biology" can dramatically affect the behavior of sociology's journals. Recently--and unprecedentedly--the...

The African American "Great Migration" and beyond.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Of the traditional trinity of demographic processes (fertility, mortality, and migration), migration is probably the least studied by sociologists. This is somewhat surprising, given that it is the demographic event...

The dynamics of racial residential segregation.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Sociologists and policymakers have long viewed racial residential segregation as a key aspect of racial inequality, implicated in both intergroup relations and in larger processes of individual and group social mobility. At...

Skills mismatch in the labor market.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION There is a widespread belief that workers' skills and education are not adequate for the demands of jobs in the current economy. Journalistic reports, employer surveys, popular and policy debates on school quality and...

The sociology of the self.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The emerging direction of contemporary social theory is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the attention it lavishes upon the nature of the self, self-identity, and individual subjectivity. Anthony Elliot...

Transitions from prison to community: understanding individual pathways.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Over the past generation, America embarked on a large-scale social experiment with vast, unexamined consequences. We have increased the per capita rate of imprisonment fourfold. After nearly 50 years of stability, the rate of...

The science of asking questions.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Research on the wording of survey questions flourished in the first two decades after the modern sample survey was invented, culminating in Stanley Payne's 1951 classic, The Art of Asking Questions. With the notable exception...

The urban street gang after 1970.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Since the early twentieth century, the study of gangs has shifted in accordance with general theoretical and methodological changes in sociology. Frederic Thrasher's seminal work, The Gang (Thrasher 1927), conducted as the...

Teenage childbearing as a public issue and private concern.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION I never intended to spend such a large share of my academic life studying the issue of teenage childbearing. It just happened that way. Not unlike parenthood for most of the young mothers whose lives I have followed for nearly...

Beyond rational choice theory.
January 1, 2003... RCT: A SOLUTION TO THE CRISIS OF SOCIOLOGY? It is evident that sociology has not achieved triumphs comparable to those of the several older and more heavily supported sciences. A variety of interpretations have been offered to...