Tracy E. OreSAINT CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITYOre, Tracy (2013) The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. Ohio: McGraw-Hill.
Are people quick to adopt status beliefs about a social difference that lead them to treat others unequally? In a test of status construction theory, two experiments show that men and women form equally strong status beliefs from only two encounters with others. Men act powerfully on these new...
We do so by analyzing the social and non-social colocation networks in each of the datasets (see “Methods” for details of the construction). The information flow is measured by the cross-entropy21,35, which is greater than the entropy when the alter contains less information on the ego ...
The article is based on an ethnography of three mobilizations contesting policing in France. The comparative methodology reveals that epistemic practices play a role in shaping how mobilizations reach a shared understanding of race and racism. Specifically, how knowledge projects determine racial differe...
The No. 1 central document in 2022 also points out that “promoting the construction of entrepreneurial parks for people returning to their hometowns and implementing various support policies”Footnote 2. However, most migrant workers in China currently confront difficulties at the cultural and ...
we introduce political dynasties as a way of integrating political economy approaches with ecological theory to better understand the political construction of urban spatial inequality. To do so, we examine the case of political dynasties within the Chicago city council. We show that, from 2011 to ...
social construction of crime and the criminalization of Blackness where social disorganization does not. Focusing on the relations of racial exclusion led Du Bois to propose solutions to crime that focus on mechanisms of oppression...
Bruno (2010) ran a series of experimental knowledge construction and collaborative learning activities using the Visible Effort wiki environment (Matei, 2010). The goal was to detect the degree to which learning effectiveness is influenced by group structure. A clear curvilinear relationship was ...
1980). These subjective feelings reflect the difference between one’s desired and one’s actual relationships (Peplau and Perlman 1982). Number of Social Gatherings Number of social gatherings is measured by four questions: How often do you do the following? Spend an evening with family (...
Despite appearances, strictly speaking it merely introduces a factor of social compensation, a sort of “assistencialism” to the victims of the greatest inequality. Even the most robust formulation of the principle of difference, according to which the greatest advantage to the less advantaged is ...