This paper reviews the scholarship, primarily but not exclusively historical, concerning women and the U.S. welfare state, scholarship that considers both the impact of welfare programs on the gender system and the contributions of women's activism in the creation of welfare programs. A brief review of the traditional historical scholarship on U.S. welfare suggests the limitations that result f...

This paper takes a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of “second generation deciine” and “segmented assimiiation” that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. We begin with a review of the basic approach, outlining the logic of argument, and specifying the central contentions.We then head toward the past, in search of material that will illuminate b...

As global cities have mushroomed in significance, mounting concern has accompanied the visible inequality that such centers contain. Sassen’s influential dual city thesis maintains that the growth of the finance industry is largely to blame for inequality by generating an elite of well-paid occupations and large numbers of poorly paid ones. This approach, however, suffers from an inadequate exp...

Residential segregation, especially of blacks from whites, remains the common pattern in urban America. This research examines the part that popular attitudes on residential integration may play in the process of residential integration/segregation. Using data from a large multiethnic sample survey in Los Angeles, we examine three hypotheses about the nature of attitudes toward residential inte...

Professor Jennifer Hochschild’s Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Science Is Shaping Society is a must-read for anyone interested where our politics about genetics America has been and it going. It also an exemplar of how to do mixed-methods social science work: Hochschild combines theory with database searches coding congressional acts journal articles, open-ended interviews authors lead...

I view interactive fiction in its present stage as an immature medium capable of artistic development. [We] are at the beginning what could be explosive development [and while] games like Adventure do not yet have a generally accepted name … “Adventure games” might win out long run, much “Kleenex” is used instead “facial tissue.” (Buckles 6–9) [Adventure games] resemble Donkey Kong, Space Invad...

Modern political-science research on racial attitudes suggests that white conservatism stems from symbolism, prejudice and socialized resentment. The implication, sometimes made explicit, is that racial conservatism has no rational competitive basis; it does not grow out of the social structure of intergroup competition. Evidence for this claim usually appears in two sorts of analysis: (1) surv...

This paper is centred on the process of identity and belonging negotiation of rural women in their migration to urban employment in contemporary China. Employing a unique mobile method, the author follows rural women’s migration by gathering data from both sending and receiving areas, and captures the dynamic and situated, fluid nature of rural migrant women’s identity deconstruction and recons...

We estimate a set of alternative models to examine the effect of neighborhood characteristics on outcomes among young adult women. The models are motivated by a concern that standard estimates of neighborhood effects may in part reflect the characteristics of families that reside in those neighborhoods. In addition to a “standard” model that includes controls for family background, we estimate ...

Globalization is said to restrict severely the state’s capacity to fulfill its welfare function in advanced industrial societies. This paper tests empirically the redistributive capacity of the state operationalized as the difference in percent of households who live below 50% of the median income in their respective country before taxes and transfers and after taxes and transfers, based on the...