Social Change and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Course in China: A Cohort AnalysisAmerican Sociological Review - Tập 75 Số 1 - Trang 126-150 - 2010
Feinian Chen, Yang Yang, Guangya Liu
This article examines social stratification in individual health trajectories for multiple cohorts in the context of China’s dramatically changing macro-social environment. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find significant socioeconomic status (SES) differences in the mean level of health and that these SES differentials generally diverge over the life course. We ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational ChangeAmerican Sociological Review - Tập 74 Số 1 - Trang 63-82 - 2009
Michael Sauder, Wendy Nelson Espeland
This article demonstrates the value of Foucault's conception of discipline for understanding organizational responses to rankings. Using a case study of law schools, we explain why rankings have permeated law schools so extensively and why these organizations have been unable to buffer these institutional pressures. Foucault's depiction of two important processes, surveillance and normali...... hiện toàn bộ
Neighborhood Effects in Temporal PerspectiveAmerican Sociological Review - Tập 76 Số 5 - Trang 713-736 - 2011
Geoffrey T. Wodtke, David J. Harding, Felix Elwert
Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today, but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research, however, usually measures neighborhood context only once and does not account for length of residence, thereby understating the detrimental effects of long-term neighborhood disadvantage. This study investigates effects of duration of expo...... hiện toàn bộ