Sociology Faculty Publications

The Emotions: Senses of the Modern Self

E. Doyle McCarthy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:10:31 PDT

Public Displays of Emotion Today: Changing Forms of Memorializing Death and Disaster

E. Doyle McCarthy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:10:30 PDT

Emotional Performances as Dramas of Authenticity

E. Doyle McCarthy — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:10:27 PDT

Emotions are Social Things: An Essay in the Sociology of Emotions

E. Doyle McCarthy — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:10:16 PDT

The Social Construction of Emotions: New Directions from Culture Theory

E. Doyle McCarthy — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:10:15 PDT

The International Child Poverty Gap: Does Demography Matter?

Patrick Heuveline et al. — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:06 PDT

According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the United States child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult live in poverty —the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined by this Study. While previous analyses have focused on market forces and governmental redistribution across households, we question the contribution of demographic factors that place children in family structures with different poverty risks relative to other factors such as differential market opportunities and governmental benefits for adults caring for children in various living arrangements. Applying a classic demographic decomposition technique to the overall poverty gap, we find that the distributional effect of demographic behavior contributes little to the U.S. poverty gap with other nations (and none in respect to the United Kingdom.) Overall differences in labor markets and welfare schemes best explain the U.S. child poverty gap, although for some countries, the gap is accentuated by the gradient of governmental transfers, and for most countries, by the gradient of market earnings across living arrangements.

Adolescents’ Expectations about Mothers’ Employment: Life Course Patterns and Parental Influence

Matthew Weinshenker — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:09:30 PDT

Because of social constraint and personal preference, cutting back and dropping out of the workforce remain common responses to the problem of balancing work and motherhood. To understand whether this phenomenon will continue, adolescents from middle-class, dual-earner families (N = 194) were asked how much they expected that they (for girls) or their future partners (for boys) would work while raising children. Nearly all expected new mothers to quit their jobs or reduce their hours temporarily, which signifies either acceptance of, or ignorance of, the penalties of career interruption among girls with high occupational aspirations. Adolescents’ expectations were associated with their mothers’ employment histories and support for gender egalitarianism, as well as the level of challenge in the home environment.