The Social Science Journal articles from January 2001

The Social Science Journal archives from January 2001

The effects of age structure on the labor force and retirement in China.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Donald J. Adamchak [*] Abstract What are the current and future trends in age structure in China as it relates to labor force and retirement? And, what is the impact of the one-child policy on these trends? A trend analysis...

Social class, race, and toxic releases in American counties, 1995.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... David W. Allen [*] Abstract This article, using data on 2,083 counties in 1995, tests the environmental racism/classism hypotheses and concludes that both have merit, however, specific findings demonstrate that the relationships are...

Current tobacco policies in U.S. adult male prisons [**].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Steven Patrick [*] Abstract The current national trend in the restriction of smoking and use of tobacco products is extending to the prison system. At the same time that city, state and the federal governments are limiting smoking in...

Civic culture and socioeconomic development in the United States: a view from the states, 1880s-1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Tom W. Rice [a,*] Marshall Arnett [b] Abstract Putnam (1993) reported that the geographic distribution of civic culture in Italy has remained about the same for at least 100 years. He also found that civic culture at the turn of...

Machiavelli's Soderini and the problem of necessity.(Niccolo Machiavelli, Piero Soderini)
January 1, 2001... Daniel R. Sabia Jr. [*] Abstract Drawing principally on a particular example discussed by Machiavelli, this article seeks to clarify the concept of necessity and assess the Machiavellian contentions that evil-doing is in politics...

Fiscal and monetary policy rules revisited.
January 1, 2001... Michael Tager [a,*] William Van Lear [b] Abstract Why have automatic procedures designed to limit or eliminate the discretion of policy-makers become popular in recent years? The first part of the paper addresses fiscal policy...

Dodging the glass ceiling? Networks and the new wave of women entrepreneurs.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Stephan Weiler [*] Abstract Openings of women-owned businesses have radically accelerated recently. This paper explores the causes and results of this phenomenon. Noting the predictive weaknesses of the canonical neoclassical...

Hispanic and Anglo gang membership in two southwestern cities.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... L. Thomas Winfree Jr. [a,*] Frances P. Bernat [b] Finn-Aage Esbensen [c] Abstract Delinquent gangs have attracted the attention of social scientists for most of the twentieth century. The current study presents a systematic...

Identity development across the lifespan: a biracial model.
January 1, 2001... Ronald E. Hall [*] Abstract Traditional concepts of identity emphasize race to the exclusion of life span criteria. Race based models ignore the human behavior of biracial Americans in their social environment. Conversely, a...

Liberal undergraduate education and reasoning styles: using political scenarios in student assessment.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Hernandez, Caroline M. John T. Ishiyama [a,*] Keri T. Wingo [a] Shirley S. Arteaga [b] Caroline M. Hernandez [c] Abstract In recent years there has been an increasing interest in assessing the impact of...

European technology and the New Zealand Maori economy: 1769-1840.
January 1, 2001... William C. Schaniel [*] Abstract The paper argues that the introduction of European technology to the New Zealand Maori prior to colonization in 1840 did not result in the collapse of their culture. New technologies were adopted in...

Does information matter? A research note on information technologies and political protest.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Toby A. Ten Eyck [*] Abstract The lack of attention paid to information technologies in predicting variations of political protest in cross-national studies is surprising. Given the amount of research that has been done on the...

Politics and the American Economy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... James J. Gosling; New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000, 175 pages Regardless of their specialty, most social scientists will admit that the distinctions between academic disciplines are not as clear in practice as university...

The Clinton Legacy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman; New York: Chatham House publishers, 2000, 347 pages The editors of this work, Campbell and Rockman, commissioned notable and reputable scholars in the various subfields of presidential...

Obeying Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline, and the Law of War.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Mark J. Osiel; New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999, 398 pages This book expands on an earlier version of Mark J. Osiel's work which was published in the California Law Review. The author, a professor of law at the University of...

The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Howard L. Harrod; Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2000, 220 pages Since the Age of Enlightenment, Europeans and their New World descendants viewed Indians and their environment through lenses of western, utilitarian,...

American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United.(Review)
January 1, 2001... John Harmon McElroy; Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999, 259 pages Is the United States better understood in terms of the things that bind its people together or those that divide them? This is a perennial question. Earlier generations lined up...

Living Off Crime.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Kenneth D. Tunnell; Chicago: Burnham Inc. Publishers, 2000, 171 pages Some eight years after writing his first book Choosing Crime: The Criminal Calculus of Property Offenders, Kenneth D. Tunnell has returned to this subject matter. This...

The study of disasters.
January 1, 2001... How does one define disaster and what does a disaster mean to society and the impacted population? Three recent works argue provocatively about the institutional constructions and reconstructions of disaster by the culture; by organizational...