This article examines the methodological implications of fact that what people say is often a poor predictor they do. We argue many interview and survey researchers routinely conflate self-reports with behavior assume consistency between attitudes action. call this erroneous inference situated from verbal accounts attitudinal fallacy. Though interviewing ethnography are lumped together as “qualitative methods,” by juxtaposing studies “culture in action” based on ethnographic investigations,...

Introduction: Democratic Inequality 1 Chapter 1. The New Elite 18 2. Finding One's Place 41 3. Ease of Privilege 77 4. Gender and the Performance 114 5. Learning Beowulf Jaws 151 Conclusion 193 Methodological Theoretical Reflections 201 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Works Cited 223 Index 229

Elites are those with vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource. We can understand this as position that social actor occupies, we imagine such resources possession of an actor. The study elites is the power and inequality, from above. It involves looking at distribution resources, which include economic, social, cultural, political, knowledge capital. also means exploring role institutions schools, families, clubs in how organized distributed. Over past decade,...

Sexual assault on college campuses is a public health issue. However varying research methodologies (e.g., different sexual definitions, measures, assessment timeframes) and low response rates hamper efforts to define the scope of problem. To illuminate complexity campus assault, we collected survey data from large population-based random sample undergraduate students Columbia University Barnard College in New York City, using evidence based methods maximize representativeness, behaviorally...

In this introductory essay to our special issue on elites, we outline some of the major challenges research in area and propose a series theoretical methodological pathways address them. Theoretically make four recommendations: (a) greater attentiveness specificity about relationship between elites power; (b) clearer articulation relationships varieties capitalism; (c) far more attention diversity within use understand forms domination like white supremacy masculine (d) expanding beyond...

This article describes the relationship between saying and doing. It argues that focusing on discrepancy participants' accounts their actions is one of greatest analytical strengths ethnography. We make this case by drawing upon an ethnography elite boarding school. also reflect way two ethnographers worked together to better understand social significance are incongruent with situated behavior. conclude arguing qualitative researchers must be more sensitive different kinds claims can made...

This article deploys ethnographic data to explain why some students do not label experiences as sexual assault or report those experiences. Using ideas of social risks and productive ambiguities, it argues that labeling reporting can help (1) sustain their current identities allow for several future ones, (2) retain relationships group affiliations while maintaining the possibility developing a wider range (3) avoid derailing goals within higher educational setting, what we call 'college...

Purpose College-bound young people experience sexual assault, both before and after they enter college. This study examines historical risk factors (experiences exposures that occurred prior to college) for penetrative assault (PSA) victimization since entering Methods A cross-sectional study, including an online population-based quantitiative survey with undergraduate students was conducted in spring 2016. Bivariate analyses multivariable regressions examined protective associated ever...

This article provides two empirical evaluations of deliberation. Given that scholars deliberation often argue for its importance without support, we first examine whether there is a “deliberative difference”; if actors engaging in arrive at different decisions than those who think on their own or “just talk.” As find general convergence within scholarship around reasons and inclusion, the second test examines these specific mechanisms are central to The evaluation looks outcomes laboratory...

Sociology must worry less about theoretical innovation and more empirical description.

This article uses a new database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic explore how high culture became form socially valuable capital in late-19th-century America. The authors find support for classic account culture's purification and exclusiveness, showing over long Gilded Age social elite attended both increasingly more patterned ways. Yet they also that orchestra opened up group hailing from an emerging professional, managerial, intellectual middle class. Importantly, inclusion...

This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, “Which do I need?” argue that core feature most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation social category inquiry. outline researchers construct and observations discuss these choices impact data collection, analysis, argumentation. In particular, examine construction subsequent logic crafting within have consequences for conceptual...

The primary aim of the current study was to examine prevalence and correlates self-reported sexual assault (SA) perpetration, defined as nonconsensual sexualized touching or attempted completed oral, vaginal, anal penetration since starting college among men, women, gender nonconforming (GNC) students. A secondary encounters when respondent unsure that their partner consented (ambiguous consent). In spring 2016, 1,671 randomly sampled students (67% response rate) at two interconnected urban...

Research has documented multilevel risk factors associated with experiencing incapacitated sexual assault among undergraduate women. Less is known about nonincapacitated assault. This study examines and compares the different settings, coercion methods, relationships in which assaults occur women.Our sample included 253 women who reported during college on a population-based survey of randomly selected students at two colleges New York City 2016 (N = 1671, response rate 67%). We examined...

In this review, we provide an overview of the literature on sexual assault. First, define assault, noting its multiple dimensions and consequences for operationalization—including reviewing strategies such operationalization. Second, outline different approaches to critically assessing those frameworks that rely upon a model sociopathy; instead, propose focusing more sociological ecological understandings push beyond single dimension gender framework power. Third, range data sources have...

This paper uses data from the American Voices Project, an interview study based on a random population sample, to explore relationship between assault experiences and how people narrate their lives. Using quantitative sentiment analysis, we find that survivors of express significantly greater negative when asked tell life stories. These sentiments are observable throughout entire interview, including before questions asked. Survivors with more anger, disgust, fear, sadness, less...

In a reflection upon Alexander's (2024. The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities. London: Bloomsbury Publishers.) Revisited, I highlight challenges with "revisits". They rest on colonialist anthropological assumption: that you can go back to your tribe, and as primitive community you're welcome assume they are largely stuck in place. It's thereby easy enough reevaluate claims. Alexander provides us powerful solution this troubling problem: "Salvage ethnography". This approach...

It is almost axiomatic that there are two contrasting theoretical approaches to ethnography: induction and deduction. However, regardless of whether ethnographers build theory from observations (induction) or use test (deduction), they approach the field armed with one more particular analytic lens leads them focus on a distinct thread social fabric. We outline suite lenses typify ethnography identify eight ideal types. Though not mutually exclusive, can be usefully grouped contrasted...

Cet article propose d’étudier la formation des élites dans le système éducatif États-Unis. Il examine comment les étudiants sont acceptés écoles d’élite, leurs expériences au sein de ces et conséquences élites. soutient que d’élite ne pas caractérisées seulement par sélectivité initiale, compétitivité, niveau social ou caractéristiques qui fréquentent, elles existent aussi leur insertion un réseau complexe relations culturelles institutionnelles à dimension nationale mondiale. De même...

Sexual assault is a part of many students' experiences in higher education. In U.S. universities, one four women and ten men report being sexually assaulted before graduation. Bystander training programmes have been shown to modestly reduce campus sexual assault. Like all public health interventions, however, they unintended social consequences; this research examines how undergraduate on understand bystander interventions those understandings shape their actual practices. We draw...

The classic “Undead text” of sociology is Erving Goffman’s Presentation Self in Everyday Life. This article argues that what helps make Undead its key point obvious. Yet this only the case after someone shows to you. texts are ones live us, because reading them awakens us we feel have always seen and known, but did not quite know until read them.