Showing papers in "Social Science Research in 1992"

TL;DR: The International Socio-economic Index of Occupational status (ISEI) as discussed by the authors is derived from the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) using comparably coded data on education, occupation, and income for 73,901 full-time employed men from 16 countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children is studied. But the authors do not consider the relationship between financial resources and parents' preferences for the timing of their children's marriages.

TL;DR: The authors found that the well educated are more likely than the poorly educated to engage in work that provides control over one's own work, control over people, and control over money, yet the total effect of education on job satisfaction is null.

TL;DR: In this article, two ways of collecting network data are discussed in the context of interorganizational networks among social service agencies, one method proceeds with a fixed agency list while the other uses a snowball selection procedure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the period in U.S. history that experienced the most rapid rate of increase of church membership, the decades between 1850 and 1930, in order to explain synchronic and diachronic variation in those rates.

TL;DR: The authors examine the process of ideological assimilation by which Mexicans in the United States shift their identities from mestizo to white, and then measure the effect that race has on the level of residential segregation from non-Hispanic whites.

TL;DR: This article conducted a longitudinal analysis of changes in black urban poverty in 59 large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas between 1970 and 1980 and found that structural characteristics of the urban labor market, such as suburbanization of employment, the decline in manufacturing jobs, and the rise of low-wage services, act to reduce black male employment, increase the prevalence of female-headed families, and drive up black poverty rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, data on the educational attainments and occupational statuses of all siblings from 1653 West German families, from three cohorts born respectively around 1930, 1940, and 1950, are analyzed in order to estimate effects of measured (father's and mother's schooling, father's occupation, and number of siblings) and unmeasured family background factors.

TL;DR: Furhermore et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the generalizability of the Southern culture of violence thesis to other violent index crimes and found evidence for the existence of a Southern culture which supports situation-specific types of violence (i.e., defensive acts) rather than violence in general.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test competing theories about temporal change in social mobility in Hungary in the past half-century using loglinear modeling and find that the transition from a preindustrial agrarian society to an industrial socialist state creates more opportunity and equality.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of racial inequality on black and white migration rates for a sample of metropolitan areas in the United States 1975-1980 and found that whites are more likely to leave areas where the competition with blacks for jobs is greater.

TL;DR: A life events approach to developing an index of societal well-being is described in this article, where the incidence of negative life events is measured and the seriousness of these problems is rated.

TL;DR: Simmons' (1937) data base of 109 variables measured on 71 societies was reanalyzed by as discussed by the authors, who found that private property in land and chattel was correlated with 21 variables falling into three clusters, interpretively labelled (1) the social ecology of agriculture, (2) social and material stratification, and social security.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between changing institutional mechanisms that structure class relations and the settlement of strikes and found that theories of strike settlement need to explicitly recognize conflicting class interests, the recalcitrance those interests create, as well as the institutional mechanisms attempting to coordinate those interests.

TL;DR: This article examined the sources of volatility in the aggregate input-output tables and the data on the large manufacturing firms in the American economy and found that the instability covaries with the parameters of the market structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of size in predicting the use of internal labor market (FILM) has been examined, but only as it interacts with the prior level of growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Stephan-Deming adjustments are used to control for the size of social networks in studies of religious mobility, and they are shown to be a theoretically and methodologically sound approach for investigating religious switching.