Review of “Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates” By Jennie E. Brand Russell Sage Foundation, 2023, 328 pages, price: $37.50 (paper) / $37.50 (ebook). https://www.russellsage.org/publications/overcoming-odds

Review Essay: Where have all the gay bars gone? A review of: Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani. Princeton University Press, 2024, 288 pages, price: $29.95 (cloth) / $29.95 (ebook). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691253855/long-live-queer-nightlife and Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen by Theodore Greene. Columbia University Press, 2024, 320 pages, price: $140.00 (cloth) / $32.00 (paper) / $31.99 (e-book). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/not-in-my-gaybor hood/9780231189897

Review of “Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place and Populism on the Iron Range.” By Erik Kojola New York University Press, 2023. 272 pages, prices: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper) / $30.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479815210/mining-the-heartland/

Review of “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College” By Jessi Streib The University of Chicago Press, 2023, 256 pages, prices: $27.50 (cloth) / $26.99 (EBook), https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo206059711.html

Review of “GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding” By Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk Stanford University Press, 2023. 230 pages, prices: $100.00 (cloth) / $25.00 (paper). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30793

Review of “Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.” By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza University of California Press, 2023. 312 pages, prices: $85.00 (cloth) / $27.95 (paper) / $27.95 (eBook). https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391178/before-gentrification#:~:text=About#20the#20Book,-Draws#20a#20direct&text=In#20Before#20Gentrification#2C#20Tanya#20Maria,decimate#20the#20Black#20middle#20class

Review of “Sons, Daughters & Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles” By Neil Gong University of Chicago Press, 2024, 328 pages, price: $30.00 (Cloth). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo212067953.html

Review of “Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition.” By Calvin John Smiley University of California Press. 2023. 240 pages, prices: $95.00 (cloth) / $29.95 (paper) / $29.95 (eBook). https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520385993/purgatory-citizenship

Review of “The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality.” By Timothy Recuber New York University Press, 2023. 288 pages, prices: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper) / $30.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479814961/the-digital-departed/

Review of “The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession” By Kelsy Burke Bloomsbury Press, 2023. 352 pages, prices: $29.99 (cloth) / $20.99 (eBook). https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pornography-wars-9781635577365/

Review of “The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market” By Laura López-Sanders New York University Press, 2024. 312 pages, prices: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper)/ $30.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479822997/the-manufacturing-of-job-displacUement/

Review of “Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times” By Cassaundra Rodriguez NYU Press, 2023, 272 pages, prices: $89.00 (cloth) / $30.00 (paper). https://nyupress.org/9781479800544/contested-americans/

Review of “Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground.” By Ronald Weitzer NYU Press, 2023, 352 pages, prices: $89.00 (cloth) / $32.00 (paper) / $32.00 (eBook). https://nyupress.org/9781479813407/sex-tourism-in-thailand/

Review of “Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge” By Catherine Tan Columbia University Press, 2024, 289 pages, price: $130.00 (cloth) / $32.00 (paper) / $31.99 (e-book). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/spaces-on-the-spectrum/9780231556330

Scholars have found that as the proportion of female workers in an occupation grows, wages generally decline. Yet, we know little about how this gender inequality intersects with other labor market inequalities. This study evaluates the feminization-wage relationship of an increasingly economically polarized post-2000 US labor market. First, I hypothesize that the negative effect of feminization on wages has diminished in high-skilled occupations due to the declining prejudice against (highly educated) women and increasing requirements for higher education, which functions as a form of social closure. Second, because of the increasing demand for “people skills” in higher-skilled occupations and their association with women, workers in higher-skilled occupations that require these skills may experience positive effects of feminization on wages. Not all people skills, however, are associated with women and similarly rewarded. Thus, I examine three people skills—persuasion, managerial, and sociability—that have different gender stereotypes. I test hypotheses using occupational-level fixed-effects models with individual-level data from the American Community Survey 2003–2019 (N = 15,996,526) and time-varying occupational-level data from the Occupational Information Network 2003–2019 (N = 460). Results show that for workers in occupations requiring more than sixteen years of education, feminization corresponds with higher wages. Additionally, the positive feminization-wage relationship is larger in occupations with a high demand for a gender-neutral people skill, persuasion. This moderation effect is not found for sociability and managerial skills, which are associated with women and men, respectively. This study calls for greater attention to how labor market polarization has shaped gender inequality.

How does competition for school resources, along with racial and socioeconomic biases, shape parental preferences for schools? In this article, I investigate how school attributes affect preferences and choice, which sheds light on the processes that maintain school segregation. To do so, I conduct a survey experiment that explores parental preferences and the tradeoffs inherent in the process of school selection using school profiles that resemble those available on widely used education data platforms. I find that parents hold the strongest positive preferences for learning opportunities and overall school achievement compared to other attributes, including school racial and socioeconomic composition. Additionally, though parents prefer schools that have higher equity rankings, highly equitable schools are less desirable to parents than schools with more status and learning opportunities. However, parents also hold independent racial and socioeconomic preferences and —on average—avoid schools with more students of color and low-income students. Furthermore, results suggest they are largely unwilling to make tradeoffs that would result in schools with higher fractions of students of color or low-income students. Taken together, this study links prior studies on the segregating effects of educational data with literatures on school segregation by illustrating the specific dimensions that drive school choice.

The salience of neighborhoods in shaping crime patterns is one of sociology’s most robust areas of research. One way through which neighborhoods shape outcomes is through the creation and maintenance of social networks, patterns of interactions and relationships among neighborhood residents, organizations, groups, and institutions. This paper explores the relationship between network structures generated through acts of co-offending—when two or more individuals engage in an alleged crime together—and patterns of neighborhood gun violence and gun availability. Using arrest data from New York City, we create co-arrest networks between individuals arrested in the city between 2010 and 2015. We analyze these network patterns to, first, understand the overall structure of co-offending networks and, then, assess how they impact neighborhood levels of gun violence and gun availability. Results show that local and extra-local networks play a central role in predicting neighborhood levels of shootings: neighborhoods with a greater density of local ties have higher shootings rates, and neighborhoods that share social ties have similar rates of violence. In contrast, the network dynamics involved in gun recoveries are almost entirely local: co-offending patterns within neighborhoods are strongly associated with the level of gun recoveries, especially the clustering of co-offending networks indicative of groups. Contrary to previous research, spatial autocorrelation failed to predict either shootings or gun recoveries when demographic features were considered. Social-demographic characteristics seem to explain much of the observed spatial autocorrelation and the precise measurement of network properties might provide better measurements of the neighborhood dynamics involved in urban gun violence.

Women increasingly work for pay, disrupting cultural expectations and relational dynamics tied to men’s breadwinning. Scholars have examined how women’s incomes impact measures of domestic gender inequality, yet there is limited research on the mechanisms underlying that relationship, including how households define and spend women’s wages. Adopting economic sociology’s relational work approach, this study shows how tandem processes, relational accounting of feminine consumption and relational obfuscation of women’s earnings, shape the meaning of women’s work—processes that extend beyond marital dyads to involve siblings, children, and parents. Drawing from interviews with sixty-four Emirati women and men, I show how households leverage contradictory feminine consumption norms to designate women’s wages as communal resources, while at the same time, they conceal women’s financial contributions and disproportionately recognize men’s breadwinning. I call these relational adaptations to the breakdown of patriarchal bargains predicated on men’s provision gendered resolutions, because they illustrate processes through which women’s wages may paradoxically uphold unequal gendered arrangements. This study offers a framework to understand shifting gender relations during periods of economic change.

A significant amount of research has been devoted to studying the sociopolitical incorporation of immigrants and their descendants both socially and structurally. However, questions remain about how psychological mechanisms play a role in the incorporation process. While some immigrants might internalize a sense of social alienation, others might be able to overcome the detrimental impact of historical and present-day exclusion and develop a psychological notion of belonging to US society. To test the role of a psychological mechanism in the incorporation process, I rely on national survey data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey and a novel survey experiment. By leveraging these data, I examine the determinants of perceptions of inclusion in the United States among Latinos. The findings present a mixed picture of incorporation. I find that as Latinos become more familiarized with the United States culturally and socially, they are more likely to develop a sense of belonging. However, both experiencing discrimination and perceiving that the in-group faces discrimination negatively shape Latinos’ psychological sense of belongingness. Furthermore, receiving hostile messaging causes Latinos to feel less included in the US society. This paper highlights a social psychological mechanism of racialized incorporation, capturing whether immigrants and their descendants feel that they belong and are part of the host society.

Contemporary perspectives on gender highlight the multilevel processes that maintain the gender system, from the hegemonic cultural beliefs embedded in state institutions to the gendered interactions that occur in everyday life. This study investigates immigration as a source of diversity and adaptation in the gender system. Using data on immigrant and native adolescents in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU), we examine the intergenerational transmission of attitudes about the domestic division of labor. Our results show a strong association between mother’s gender attitudes and child’s gender attitudes among both immigrants and natives, with no significant difference between the two groups. The persistence of beliefs grounded in family culture results in significantly higher levels of gender traditionalism among adolescent children of immigrants as compared to their native peers. These results underscore the centrality of families as a relational context that contributes both to the reproduction of cultural beliefs about gender and the slow pace of shifts in hegemonic gender beliefs in response to social change.