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Protected: The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (224+ words) For most adults in the United States, participation in the labor force is a normative expectation and a pre-requisite for social acceptance and inclusion. Yet, the conditions of low-wage work can breed social isolation by interfering with supportive social ties…...
Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (342+ words) Said Hassan Sociological Science June 30, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a29 Abstract Teachers play a formative role in shaping children's school experiences and ultimately, their educational outcomes. In this study, I use full population Danish administrative data to explore the consequences of unequal access to qualified…...
The Exception to Women's Advantage: How Rurality, Red Counties, and the Local Economy Shape Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (281+ words) April Sutton, Bernardo Mackenna, Bolun Zhang, Amanda Bosky Sociological Science June 25, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a28 Abstract Rural communities have lagged urban areas in the economic and sociocultural shifts thought to underlie women's advantage in bachelor's degree (BA) attainment, such as the expansion of high-status…...
Clickbait Crime News? Metrics and Professional Authority in Local Newsrooms
1+ week, 2+ day ago (261+ words) Jonathan Ben-Menachem Sociological Science June 22, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a27 Abstract Existing research on newsroom metrics documents how journalists construct compatibility between discordant professional and commercial evaluation frameworks. This study examines the underexplored case where metrics validate existing practices. Drawing on interviews with 58 crime journalists…...
Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution
2+ week, 1+ day ago (285+ words) L'a Pessin, Kevin Munger Sociological Science June 16, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a26 Abstract Despite substantial gender convergence in education and employment, women continue to perform a disproportionate share of housework. We employ a novel visual conjoint experiment to isolate the normative mechanisms underlying this persistent…...
Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility
2+ week, 2+ day ago (286+ words) Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche Sociological Science June 15, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a25 Abstract Recent research documents widening class gaps in intergenerational income mobility in the United States. Children from low-income families in more recent cohorts attain lower incomes than their counterparts in earlier cohorts, while…...
Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (238+ words) Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers Sociological Science June 10, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a24 Abstract Prior research finds that rising labor market inequality in the United States was abetted by structural changes in the economy: a consolidation of occupation and organizational bases of advantage; rising within-job inequality;…...
Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach
4+ week, 1+ day ago (269+ words) Nicol's Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas Sociological Science June 2, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a23 Abstract How first-time parents arrange childcare has critical implications for their careers and the child's development. Previous research shows that childcare choices are shaped by family care availability, understood as an…...
Fathers" Military Service and Children"s College Attainment
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (348+ words) Paula Fomby, Patricia van Hissenhoven Fl'rez Sociological Science April 20, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a18 Abstract Men's early adult experiences shape the life chances of their future children. For Black men in the United States, systemic exclusion from educational and labor market opportunity has long constrained…...
Echo Chambers Are Defined by Conflict, Not Isolation
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (202+ words) Anna Keuchenius, Petter T'rnberg, Justus Uitermark Sociological Science May 11, 2026 10. 15195/v13. a22 Abstract The influential "echo chamber" hypothesis suggests that social media drive polarization through a mutual reinforcement between isolation and radicalization. The existence of such echo chambers has been a central focus…...