1. The institutional embededness of the stratification process: a comparative study qualifications and occupations in thirteen countries 2. transition from school to work Australia 3. Education occupation Britain 4. From education first job: French case 6. Investment education: educational class entry Republic Ireland 7. Israel 8. Occupational returns contemporary Italy 9. Educational credentials labour market outcomes Japan 10. high college - meritocracy through semi-institutional linkages...

Theories of cultural capital and family educational resources explain how why background matters for achievement, yet it is unclear whether the processes described are equally applicable to nonwhites. The study presented here examined (1) extent which black white students differ in resources, (2) mediating role these attributes may play between racial disparities (3) returns vary by group. findings suggest that significant variations household items largely a function socioeconomic status,...

Journal Article Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment Get access Claudia Buchmann, Buchmann Ohio State University Direct correspondence to Department of Sociology, 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Ave. Mall, University, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: buchmann.4@sociology.osu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dennis J. Condron, Condron Emory Vincent Roscigno Social Forces, Volume 89, Issue 2, December 2010,...

Students living in inner city and rural areas of the United States exhibit lower educational achievement a higher likelihood dropping out high school than do their suburban counterparts. Educational research policy has tended to neglect these inequalities or, at best, focus on one type but not other. In this article, we integrate literatures spatial stratification outcomes, offer framework which resources influential for achievement/attainment are viewed as embedded within, varying across,...

The debate over whether educational spending shapes achievement has persisted for decades, largely because of methodological and analytical limitations associated with the use districtlevel data. In this study, authors analyzed unique within-district variations in among 89 public elementary schools a large, North Central, urban district. analyses reveal considerable disparities within district, which are linked to local patterns racial class stratification concentration. They show how these...

Journal Article Age Discrimination, Social Closure and Employment Get access Vincent J. Roscigno, Roscigno Ohio State University Direct correspondence to Department of Sociology, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall, University, Columbus OH, 43210. E-mail: Roscigno.1@osu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sherry Mong, Mong Reginald Byron, Byron Griff Tester Georgia Forces, Volume 86, Issue 1, September 2007, Pages 313–334,...

Abstract Students living in rural areas of the United States exhibit lower levels educational achievement and a higher likelihood dropping out high school than do their nonrural counterparts. In this paper we extend literature by offering framework which resources influencing achievement/attainment are viewed as embedded in, varying across, places because differences structures local opportunity. We draw from National Educational Longitudinal Survey Common Core Data, employ hierarchical...

The study of worker resistance has tended to focus either on organizational attributes that may alter actors' capacity respond or influential shop-floor social relations. This divide, partially driven by analytical and methodological preference, is also a function different theoretical traditions. In this article, we suggest interpersonal relations in the workplace, concert with union presence collective action history, be simultaneously but conditionally meaningful for workers their...

Bullying is a significant workplace problem—a fact highlighted by growing body of social science literature. Its causes, however, have received little systematic attention beyond analyses the personality attributes bullies. This article explores roles relational power and organizational chaos in emergence bullying. The analysis content-coded ethnographies integrates quantitative qualitative techniques draws heavily from themselves. Results suggest that interplay powerlessness gives rise to...

Research has uncovered many mechanisms that exacerbate racial inequalities in achievement. Due to specialization within the field, however, little focus been devoted multitiered and often interconnected institutional nature of these processes. Matching data from restricted-use National Educational Longitudinal Survey Common Core Data, I hierarchically model influence family/peer educational processes simultaneously on black-white gap The modeling strategy used offers a more comprehensive...

Over the previous decade, white supremacist organizations have tapped into ever emerging possibilities offered by World Wide Web. Drawing from prior sociological work that has examined this medium and its uses organizations, article advances understanding of recruitment, identity action providing a synthesis interpretive more systematic analyses thematic content, structure associations within discourse. Analyses, which rely on TextAnalyst, highlight semantic networks content principal...

Housing represents an important arena within which racial inequalities continue to manifest—a fact highlighted in housing audit studies and the substantial literature on residential segregation. In this article, we extend insights of prior work by: (1) denoting wide range exclusionary discriminatory practices that transpire at distinct stages rental/sales process are too varied be captured by any singular design; (2) analyzing something audits simply cannot, namely discrimination occurs...

Research on race and gender inequalities in employment typically infers discrimination as an important causal mechanism. The authors' systematic explication of social closure a discriminatory mechanism reveals that traditional analyses structural effects process are not competing, but rather complementary. Analyzing sex cases filed Ohio from 1988 to 2003, the authors highlight dominant processes impact exclusion, expulsion, mobility, harassment job. Rather than employing typical cause effect...

Objective. The study examines the association between music involvement and academic achievement in both childhood adolescence using three measures of participation: school, outside parental form concert attendance. Methods. We review prior work pertaining to music's impact on then draw from two nationally representative data sources (ECLS‐K NELS:88). Our analyses apply logistic OLS regression techniques assess patterns possible effects math reading performance for elementary high school...

Bullying has been increasingly identified as a significant social problem. Although much of this attention centered on the context schooling, researchers are now beginning to recognize that workplaces also arenas rife with abusive, bullying behaviors. Personality attributes bullies and victims have received attention, but less research examined organizational foundations bullying. In article, we focus theoretical importance status-based power differentials for emergence supervisory in...

Building on prior work surrounding negative workplace experiences, such as bullying and sexual harassment, we examine the extent to which organizational context is meaningful for subjective experience of sex discrimination. Data draw 2002 National Study Changing Workforce, provides a key indicator individuals' discrimination experiences well arguably influential dimensions context—i.e., composition, culture relative power—suggested by research. Results indicate that reduced both women men...

Journal Article Power, Revisited Get access Vincent J. Roscigno Ohio State University E-mail: Roscigno.1@osu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 90, Issue 2, December 2011, Pages 349–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sor034 Published: 20 2011

There are large inequalities in who enrolls four-year collegiate programs, finishes, and why. In this article, we draw on several waves of the Educational Longitudinal Study, explore family disadvantages, uniquely highlight challenges first-generation students face. Family resources, cultural capital, college-focused parental actions their consequences for high school achievement explain most college attendance disadvantage. Inequalities completion, however, notably also explained by...

This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important, striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation implementation charter schools over past decade. Drawing from several data sources using event-history analyses, competing risks, random-effects negative binomial regression, analyses examine how interstate dynamics intrastate attributes affect adoption creation within states. The findings reveal strong mimetic tendency among adjacent...

Les AA. montrent que les inegalites economiques entre blancs et afro-americains tendent a croitre aux Etats-Unis. Ils soulignent toutefois leur intensite varie en fonction des regions. estiment differences liees au capital humain refletent avec une plus grande acuite ces celles-ci sont determinees par la competition economique politique. s'interessent particulierement situation populations noires dans le sud presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees Caroline du Nord 1980

Collective action rests, in part, on group identity and political opportunity. Just how is manifested perceptions of opportunity are altered, however, remain unclear, particularly the case a geographically dispersed population. An often overlooked mechanism media technology. This article analyzes an important yet underexamined instance worker mobilization United States: southern textile strike campaigns 1929 to 1934 during which more than 400,000 workers walked off their jobs. Using...

Analyses of educational achievement and racial gaps, in particular, have demonstrated the importance family background school attributes. Little this work, however, incorporates a broad, multi-level, conceptual analytic focus; one whereby disadvantages at, potential linkages between, levels are considered simultaneously. In paper, I offer framework that views individuals societal subgroups as simultaneously embedded multiple institutional spheres potentially interdependent. Such embeddedness...

Journal Article Stratification, School-Work Linkages and Vocational Education Get access James W. Ainsworth, Ainsworth Georgia State University Direct correspondence to Department of Sociology, University, Plaza, General Classrooms 1063, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail: ainsworth@gsu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent J. Roscigno Ohio Social Forces, Volume 84, Issue 1, September 2005, Pages 257–284, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2005.0087 Published: 01 2005

Workplace harassment can be devastating for employees and damaging organizations. In this article, we expand the literature by identifying common distinct processes related to general workplace sexual harassment. Using both structural equation modeling in-depth case immersion, analyze content-coded data from full population of ethnographies—ethnographies that provide information on nature causes would otherwise difficult gather. Importantly, forms emerge in settings characterized physically...