Most Recent Articles from Social Forces

• Maternal education, early child care and the reproduction of advantage.(Report) 

  Rates of educational attainment among American women are increasing dramatically, with women now more likely than men to graduate from high...

  09/01/09 by Augustine, Jennifer March · More from publication

• Multiracial self-identification and adolescent outcomes: a social psychological approach to the marginal man theory.(Report) 

  Despite its pejorative and seemingly outdated connotations, the marginal man theory (Park 1928, 1931; Stonequist 1935) remains one of the most...

  09/01/09 by Cheng, Simon · More from publication

• Disability and the transition to adulthood.(Report) 

  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 51 million people, or 18 percent of the 283 million people residing in the United States in 2002, had a...

  09/01/09 by Janus, Alexander L. · More from publication

• The transformative role of religious experience: the case of short-term missions.(Report) 

  Sociologists have long sought to understand the relationship between collective experiences and individual commitments. An early attempt at such...

  09/01/09 by Trinitapoli, Jenny · More from publication

• Cross-talk: the role of homophily and elite bias in civic associations.(Report) 

  Introduction Within democratic governance, exposure to differing political perspectives, or political "cross-talk," is widely believed to...

  09/01/09 by Weare, Christopher · More from publication

• Civic opportunities in associations: interpersonal interaction, governance experience and institutional relationships.(Report) 

  Since Tocqueville made his classic claims about voluntary associations as "large free schools" (2000[1835] :639) training citizens in the art of...

  09/01/09 by Baggetta, Matthew · More from publication

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