Current Table of Contents

• Political Consequences of Social Movements
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Non-Parametric Methods
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Assortative Marriage in Comparative Perspective
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
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• Reexamining the Social Actor
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Gender Ideology: Components, Predictors, and Consequences
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Outsourcing
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Class Differentials in Mortality and Morbidity/Health Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Has American Society Become Fragmented?
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• The Co-Evolution of Genetic Science and Social Inquiry
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Prefatory
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• The Impacts of Wal-Mart
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Changing Employment Relations in Japan
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Interdisciplinarity: A Review of Research on Communication Between Social-Science Disciplines
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Sociology of the Military
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Intergenerational Relationships in Adulthood in Europe
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Sociology of Valuation
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• The New Homelessness Revisited
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Life Course Research
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Socioeconomic Attainments of Asian Americans
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Men and Masculinities
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Comparative Labor Movements
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Safety Cultures
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• What We Don't Know About American Labor Unions
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Coping with Terrorism
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Organizational Inequality
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• The American Middle Class
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Intergenerational Family Relations in Adulthood: Patterns, Variations, and Implications in the Contemporary United States
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Racial Mixing
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Relationships and Health Behaviors Over the Life Course
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• What Sociologists Know about Social Networks
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Migrant Remittances: Exchange in the Transnational Social Network and the Family
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Political Sociology and Social Movements
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Sociology of Sex Work
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• The Sociology of Emotional Labor
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• The Paradox of China's Economic Growth
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• The Consequences of Relative Deprivation
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 35, 8/11/2009.
• Related Articles
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, August 2008.
• Reproductive Biology, Technology, and Gender Inequality: An Autobiographical Essay
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 1-13, August 2008. Ignorance of biodata is costly in sociology. Gender theorists remain unaware that until the demographic transition, infants were suckled every 15 minutes for two years, less often another two. A nearly continuous cycle of pregnancy and lactation barred ...
• From Mead to a Structural Symbolic Interactionism and Beyond
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 15-31, 11 August 2008. This review discusses the continuing value of and problems in G.H. Mead's contributions to sociology from the standpoint of the contemporary discipline. It argues that the value is considerable and the problems largely avoidable with modifications to Mead'...
• Methodological Memes and Mores: Toward a Sociology of Social Research
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 33-53, 11 August 2008. A plethora of scholarly research has been conducted on social science: on its organizational and communicative patterns, on the historical development of research standards, and on the diversity of local research practices. But this body of work on the ...
• After Secularization?
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 55-85, August 2008. The study of secularization appears to be entering a new phase. Supply-side theories that focus exclusively on religious participation and membership seem too one-dimensional. But classical theories of secularization contain generalized and teleological ...
• Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 87-105, 11 August 2008. Studies of the relationship between religion and science have traditionally assumed that any conflict that exists is based on epistemology. This assumption is built into the history of Western academic thought, the founding of sociology itself, as well as ...
• Black/White Differences in School Performance: The Oppositional Culture Explanation
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 107-126, 11 August 2008. The late anthropologist, John Ogbu, developed one of the most theoretically provocative explanations for racial/ethnic differences in school performance: oppositional culture theory. Rather than view racial/ethnic gaps as a product of structural ...
• Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 127-151, 11 August 2008. Higher education lacks an intellectually coherent sociology; varied research on colleges and universities is dispersed widely throughout the discipline. This review initiates a critical integration of this scholarship. We argue that sociologists have ...
• Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 153-179, 11 August 2008. Citizenship encompasses legal status, rights, participation, and belonging. Traditionally anchored in a particular geographic and political community, citizenship evokes notions of national identity, sovereignty, and state control, but these relationships ...
• The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 181-209, 11 August 2008. Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the pre–civil rights era, when racial prejudice and discrimination were overt and ...
• The Second Generation in Western Europe: Education, Unemployment, and Occupational Attainment
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 211-235, 11 August 2008. This paper reviews recent research in ten Western European countries on the educational and labor market outcomes of second-generation minorities. Minorities from less-developed origins appear to be particularly disadvantaged in education, access to the ...
• Broken Down by Race and Gender? Sociological Explanations of New Sources of Earnings Inequality
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 237-255, 11 August 2008. Group gaps research risks irrelevance because new forms of earnings inequality are increasing inequality within groups. This review attempts to stimulate more broad-ranging research on earnings inequality beyond the study of average gender and racial ...
• Family Structure and the Reproduction of Inequalities
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 257-276, 11 August 2008. Over the past four decades, income inequality has increased and family structures have diversified. We argue that family structure has become an important mechanism for the reproduction of class, race, and gender inequalities. We review studies of income ...
• Unconscious Racism: A Concept in Pursuit of a Measure
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 277-297, 11 August 2008. It is common in scientific and popular discussions to claim that unconscious racism is both prevalent and potent in modern societies. We review the theoretical models that posit different forms of unconscious racism and evaluate the empirical evidence for ...
• Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Forms, Explanations, and Implications
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 299-318, 11 August 2008. For the past 20 years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to the links between type of postsecondary education received and socioeconomic inequalities. Borrowing the terminology of Charles & Bradley (2002), we refer to the forms of these ...
• Gender Inequalities in Education
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 319-337, 11 August 2008. The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young ...
• Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class, and Gender Inequality
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 339-358, 11 August 2008. Access to civil justice is a perspective on the experiences that people have with civil justice events, organizations, or institutions. It focuses on who is able or willing to use civil law and law-like processes and institutions (who has access) and with ...
• How the Outside Gets In: Modeling Conversational Permeation
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 359-384, 11 August 2008. Conversation is incrementally, progressively produced, subject to constraints that ensure linearity (one person speaks at a time) irrespective of the identities, motives, and conversational resources of those present. And yet conversation is also ...
• Testing and Social Stratification in American Education
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 385-404, 11 August 2008. We focus on how standardized testing in American education has reflected, reproduced, and transformed social inequalities. We begin by describing inequalities in test score distributions by race/ethnicity, social origins, and gender over time. We then ...
• Social Networks and Health
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 405-429, 11 August 2008. People are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected. In recognition of this social fact, there has been growing conceptual and empirical attention over the past decade to the impact of social networks on health. This article reviews prominent ...
• Gender in African Population Research: The Fertility/Reproductive Health Example
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 431-452, 11 August 2008. We survey the literature on sub-Saharan Africa to identify how gender has factored into explaining fertility levels and behavior. Tracing the development of male role theory, we argue that despite increasing awareness of men's authority, fertility ...
• Regional Institutions and Social Development in Southern Africa
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 453-473, 11 August 2008. Regional institutions increasingly shape economic and political development in Southern Africa. In this review, I discuss the historical background of this region and examine the major regional institutions that address key common concerns of economic ...
• Conditional Cash Transfers as Social Policy in Latin America: An Assessment of their Contributions and Limitations*
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 475-499, 11 August 2008. Conditional cash transfer programs have recently spread throughout Latin America, and early findings suggest their potential to overcome poverty and create human capital. This review undertakes an assessment of CCT programs and the conventional theory ...
• Las Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas Como Política Social en América Latina. Un Balance: Aportes, Límites y Debates*
  Annual Review of Sociology Volume 34, Page 499-524, 11 August 2008. Recientemente se han diseminado por AL los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas (CCT). Rápidamente se han resaltado sus potencialidades para superar la pobreza y acumular capital humano, y se ha promovido su difusión. Así, se ha formado ...