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What Do Children Know about Their Futures: Do Children's Expectations Predict Outcomes in Middle Age?
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Hallerod, Bjorn – Social Forces, 2011
Are children's statements about their futures related to outcomes in middle age? In 1966 almost 13,500 children ages 12-13 were asked whether they thought their futures would be worse, similar or better as compared to others of their own age. It was shown that children with low, and surprisingly high, expectations did suffer from increased…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Risk, Children
Delinquency, Social Skills and the Structure of Peer Relations: Assessing Criminological Theories by Social Network Theory
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Smangs, Mattias – Social Forces, 2010
This article explores the plausibility of the conflicting theoretical assumptions underlying the main criminological perspectives on juvenile delinquents, their peer relations and social skills: the social ability model, represented by Sutherland's theory of differential associations, and the social disability model, represented by Hirschi's…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Interpersonal Competence, Delinquency, Peer Relationship
The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course: Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging
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Clarke, Philippa; Marshall, Victor; House, James; Lantz, Paula – Social Forces, 2011
The sociology of aging draws on a broad array of theoretical perspectives and social theories from several disciplines, but rarely has it developed its own theories or theoretical perspectives. We build on past work to further advance and empirically test a model of mental health framed in terms of structural theorizing and situated within the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Sociology, Social Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
Occupational Feminization and Pay: Assessing Causal Dynamics Using 1950-2000 U.S. Census Data
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Levanon, Asaf; England, Paula; Allison, Paul – Social Forces, 2009
Occupations with a greater share of females pay less than those with a lower share, controlling for education and skill. This association is explained by two dominant views: devaluation and queuing. The former views the pay offered in an occupation to affect its female proportion, due to employers' preference for men--a gendered labor queue. The…
Descriptors: Females, Employment Patterns, Educational Attainment, Salary Wage Differentials
National Business Cycles and Community Competition for Jobs.
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Kasarda, John D.; Irwin, Michael D. – Social Forces, 1991
Analysis of employment change data for 3,101 counties during recent national recession and recovery periods found that factors derived from human ecological theory (density, infrastructure age, unionization, labor force education, and crime rate) best predicted local competitive dynamics across all business-cycle phases. Contains 60 references.…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Community Characteristics, Competition, Employment Patterns
The Dynamics of Moral Beliefs and Minor Deviance.
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Matsueda, Ross L. – Social Forces, 1989
Contrary to social control theory, adolescent boys' belief in the efficacy of honesty had little impact on minor deviant activities, whereas deviance had a large effect on beliefs. A situational theory of crime is needed to conceptualize the reciprocal causal relationship of beliefs and deviant behavior. Contains 60 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conformity, Delinquency, Longitudinal Studies