The mainstream status-achievement model of sociology and economics views individual careers as sequences of causally linked status-related traits and outcomes, such as ability, educational attainment, and occupational status. The variance decomposition models of quantitative genetics interpret variation in these traits and status outcomes as produced by latent factors summarizing genetic, share...

NAVJOT S. SODHI,∗ THOMAS M. BROOKS,†‡§ LIAN PIN KOH,‖ GREG ACCIAIOLI,# MARIBETH ERB,∗∗ ALAN KHEE-JIN TAN,†† LISA M. CURRAN,‡‡ PETER BROSIUS,§§ TIEN MING LEE,‖‖ JASON M. PATLIS,## MELVIN GUMAL,∗∗∗ AND ROBERT J. LEE††† ∗Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore, email [email protected] †Center for Applied Biodiv...

We examine the origins of voluntary associations devoted to environmental protection. We argue that national resources and political institutions generate opportunities and constraints that shape domestic environmental association. Moreover, we develop and extend neoinstitutional ‘world polity’ arguments to account for domestic associations around the globe. We use event history and dynamic pan...

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline o...

A A c c c c o o u u n n t t s s Following the theme of August's ASA conference in Montréal, Great Divides, Transgress-ing Boundaries, our goal for this issue of Accounts is to foster a discussion of the boundaries between economic sociology and other areas within sociology. Economic sociology has expanded very rapidly in recent years, with explosions in section membership, publications, and oth...

What we call “environment” or environmental systems is the natural world (or sections thereof) including humans and the artifacts they create. Environmental systems are complex systems, comprising a large number of interacting objects, substances, and processes which are subject to different specialized areas of science, such as biology, chemistry, hydrology, meteorology, and, when it comes to ...

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more securely placed w...