Colloquium Series: Hexuan Liu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hamilton Hall, Conference Room 271 102 Emerson DR, CHAPEL HILL, NC, United StatesIntegration of Sociology with Genomics in Studies of Health and Social Behavior
Integration of Sociology with Genomics in Studies of Health and Social Behavior
"Apathy and Antipathy: Media Coverage of Restrictive Immigration Policy and the Maintenance of Inequality" Although the government is no longer explicit in defending the boundaries of whiteness, it continues to play a central role in shaping symbolic boundaries between immigrants … Read more
Does Marriage Moderate Genetic Effects for Delinquency and Violence?
Mass Mobilization and the Durability of New Democracies A generation ago, political scientist Samuel Huntington commented that “democratic regimes that last have seldom, if ever, been instituted by mass popular actors” (1984:212). This paper subjects this observation to empirical investigation … Read more
Work-Family Orientations in Emerging Adulthood: How Young Women Combine Partnering, Parenting, Education, and Work Young women come to the transition to adulthood with a set of ideas about how life should and might turn out to be. Among these … Read more
"Inequality, Status, and Subjective Well-Being" Subjective well–being is shaped by social inequality. For instance, in every society for which we have data, rich people tend to be happier than poor people. Using unique data gathered by the author on … Read more
Presentation by Mosi Ifatunji, PhD One of the most common practices in the social and professional sciences is the under theorization of race in multivariate statistical models. This practice results in findings that are, at best, non-informative, and at worst, … Read more
Thad Domina, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Education "Membership Has Its Privileges’: Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education" Prizes – formal systems that publicly allocate rewards for exemplary behavior – play an increasingly important role in … Read more
"The National News Media and the Decline of American Lynching 1883-1930" When does sustained criticism of racial and ethnic violence emerge? When racial and ethnic violence break out, members of organized political opposition are often the first victims. Others who … Read more
“Who Will Care For Us: Long Term Care and the Paraprofessional Workforce” Today there are three million Aides providing long term care and the numbers will double in the coming decades as the demand for long term care grows. These … Read more