Social Science Quarterly articles from June 1999

Social Science Quarterly archives from June 1999

Postmodernism, institutional change, and academic workers: a sociology of knowledge *.
June 1, 1999... Introduction Over the past twenty years, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have filled bookshelves with analyses of a set of interrelated cultural and intellectual trends called postmodernism. Despite the large volume of commentary...

Dumping in Dixie revisited: the evolution of enviromnental injustices in South Carolina *.
June 1, 1999... The South has been tagged as a "sacrifice zone" for the rest of America's toxic waste (Schueler, 1992; Bullard, 1990). More pointedly, the assertion is that racial minorities and the lower-income classes within this sacrifice zone bear a...

Spatial inequality and the distribution of industrial toxic releases: evidence from the 1990 TRI *.(Toxic Release Inventory)
June 1, 1999... Introduction Since the highly publicized Love Canal scandal in 1978, antitoxics movements have proliferated in the United States. At first these movements focused on single, local issues, but in recent years formerly isolated groups have...

Racial and ethnic differences in job-search strategies in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles *.
June 1, 1999... Introduction Granovetter's pioneering work (1973, 1974) on the role of social ties in matching workers to jobs provides much of the conceptual basis for the sociology of labor markets. He finds that most individuals attain jobs through...

Political socialization or selection? Adolescent extracurricular participation and political activity in early adulthood *.
June 1, 1999... Numerous studies have documented the association between participation in voluntary associations and political involvement (e.g., Olsen, 1982; Sallach, Babchuk, and Booth, 1972; Verba and Nie, 1972; Verba, Schlozman, and Brady, 1995), and a...

Participation in high school extracurricular activities: investigating school effects *.
June 1, 1999... Participation in extracurricular activities is associated with a host of positive educational, social and developmental outcomes such as increased achievement, improved interpersonal skills, reduced levels of delinquency, a reduced likelihood...

The effect of immigration on poverty in the Southwestern United States, 1980-1990 *.
June 1, 1999... Immigration has become a major topic of discussion among both policy analysts and scholars (Jensen, 1989; Borjas, 1990, 1996; Tienda and Liang, 1994; Smith and Edmonston, 1997). The economic, environmental, and social effects of immigration...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the U.S. Supreme Court's racial discrimination decision making *.
June 1, 1999... When David Truman wrote that "the activities of judicial officers of the United States are not exempt from the processes of group politics" (1951: 479), he recognized interest-group litigation as a legitimate focus for social science. Despite...

Assessing the effectiveness of gender quotas in open-list proportional representation electoral systems *.
June 1, 1999... The percentage of women representatives in a legislature is vitally important, affecting both public policy (Dodson et al., 1995; Thomas, 1994) and democratic legitimacy (Darcy, Welch, and Clark, 1994; Rule, 1994). Unfortunately, the...

Conservative Protestantism and opposition to state-sponsored lotteries: evidence from the 1997 Texas Poll *.
June 1, 1999... Introduction Although state lotteries were commonly used to raise money for educational and public-interest projects during the early years of the Republic, a series of lottery scandals, and the development of a central government that...

Changes in occupational sex segregation during the 1980s and 1990s *.
June 1, 1999... Background In American society, the occupational structure constitutes an important foundation for social stratification and connects people to other "institutions and spheres of social life" (Blau and Duncan, 1967:6). Occupational...

The competitive arena: the effects of visibility on the labor activity of white females *.
June 1, 1999... To the extent that women continue to enter the labor force at ever-increasing rates, their activity not only changes the structure of the labor force but also the structures of power and economics in society. Increased female labor activity...

The intersection of immigration and gender: labor force outcomes of immigrant women scientists *.
June 1, 1999... Immigrants are an important source of the scientific workforce in the United States. According to an estimation from the 1990 census, 11.7% of all scientists in the United States are foreign born (Bouvier and Martin, 1995), compared to 8.5%...

Voting for the person, not the party: party defection, issue voting, and process sophistication *.
June 1, 1999... Introduction One of the most important phenomena in the last forty years of American voting behavior has been the rise of split-ticket voting, the act of casting votes for different party candidates across different races on a ballot....

The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California. (Book Reviews).(Abstract)
June 1, 1999... James P. Allen and Eugene Turner. The Ethnic Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern California. Northridge: California State University Center for Geographical Studies, 1997. 282 pages. Hardcover (ISBN 0-9656966-1-8), $24.00 paperback...

Understanding Latino Families: Scholarship, Policy, and Practice. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Ruth E. Zambrana, ed. Understanding Latino Families: Scholarship, Policy, and Practice. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1995. 242 pages. $51.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8039-5609-6), $24.50 paperback (0-8039-5610-X). Over the past decade, interest...

The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Devon G. Pena. The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-292-76562-2), $19.95 paperback (0-292-76561-4). This is a fresh...

Environmentalism and Economic Justice. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Laura Pulido. Environmentalism and Economic Justice. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. 282 pages. $45.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8165-1424-0), $17.95 paperback (0-8165-1605-7). Get out your dictionary of postmodern terminology and...

Liberal Economics and Democracy: Keynes, Galbraith, Thurow, and Reich. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Conrad P. Waligorski. Liberal Economics and Democracy: Keynes, Galbraith, Thurow, and Reich. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. $29.95 paperback (ISBN 0-7006-0803-6). This book focuses on the works and economic-political...

Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Susan K. Sell. Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 289 pages. Hardcover (ISBN 0-7914-3576-8), paperback (0-7914-3575-X). This new book presents...

The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Judith E. Michaels. The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 348 pages. $50.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8229-3977-0), $22.95 paperback (0-8229-5628-4). This detailed...

Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Greg Moses. Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. New York: Guilford Press, 1997. 238 pages. $23.95 paperback (ISBN 157230-169-4). In Revolution of Conscience, Greg Moses faces a difficult...

Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Sara Hunter Graham. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 256 pages. $27.50 hardcover (ISBN 0-300-06346-6). The seventy-year struggle of the woman suffrage movement, while well chronicled in U.S....

Non-Response in Household Interview Surveys. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 1999... Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper. Non-Response in Household Interview Surveys. New York: Wiley, 1998. $79.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-471-18245-1). Some time ago, I was looking up a series of reports about the attitudes of the British. Once...