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Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party
How do social hierarchies emerge from symbolic boundaries? Based on an ethnography of a college party scene, we consider “Who parties with whom” as a...
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Exploring design and delivery of mentoring in degree apprenticeships at a U.S. community college: primary stakeholders’ perspectives
In recent years, U.S. community colleges have seen a surge in implementing apprenticeships, particularly within their degree programs in the form of...
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The Impact of the Inclusive Access Antitrust Lawsuit on US College Bookstores, Book Publishers, and Educational Publishers
On July 1, 2016, the US Department of Education’s “Rule 164” went into effect. This rule stipulated that: colleges “may include the costs of books...
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“You would think she would hug me”: Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted the education of first-generation college students (first-gens)—those whose parents did not complete a...
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College Student Experiences Regarding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Their Sexual Lives
The COVID 19 pandemic has impacted sexual health in a variety of ways. The purpose of this research was to examine the ways in which college students...
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Through the Eyes of Young People: A Qualitative Study of Sexting Among Croatian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian College Students
This study explores the phenomenon of sexting among college students through a qualitative research design. Participants took part in online...
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The Realignment of the Political Parties in the Advanced Capitalist Nations
Both old left-wing parties and the old conservative parties are becoming replaced by the new left—PC parties espousing women’s rights, gay rights,...
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Social Motivations for College Hookups
Hookups are a normative experience for college students with 72% of college students reporting hooking up by their Senior year. Although there is...
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Mobile Politicians: Opportunistic Career Moves
Using information on more than 1,500 elected Members of the Parliament (MPs) and the votes received by political parties in five consecutive...
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The Career Conveyor Belt: How Internships Lead to Unequal Labor Market Outcomes among College Graduates
Progressing quickly from school to work is an indicator of early career success for college graduates. Recent research shows that inter-institutional...
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Intimate Partner Violence in College Settings
In general, the college experience overlaps with emerging adulthood and is a time where romantic relationships begin to develop as a primary source...
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College Athletes and Sexual Assault
This article addresses the issue of sexual assaults committed by college athletes. The existing research is not conclusive but does suggest that...
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The Perils of Parliamentarism: Executive Selection Systems and Democratic Transitions from Electoral Authoritarianism
Why are some electoral authoritarian regimes immune to democratization for decades while others not? This article explores the impact of executive...
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Political differentiation and consolidation of choice in a U.S. media malaise environment: indirect effects of perceived alikeness on voter participation
Political marketing campaigns expend enormous effort each campaign season to influence voter turnout. This cyclical democratic process and nonstop...
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Voting Processes and Procedures
Voting in the United States is much less straightforward than it should be. The rules can be complicated; they vary from state to state, sometimes...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sexual Activity Among Young Adults
Using data from the 2013 through 2021 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Transition into Adulthood Supplement (PSID-TAS), this study...
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Wealth, Legacy and College Admission
The author traces the history of Harvard University and Yale University from their inception--1636 for Harvard and 1701 for Yale. Although the...
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The College Admissions Racket
In the aftermath of the well-publicized national scandal in which large fees (bribes) were paid for fraudulent access to college admissions, it may...
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The institutional logics of love: the order of passion in an intimate field
We use Multiple Correspondence Analysis to capture the institutional logics of love and intimacy among a random sample of American university...
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The sound of respondents: predicting respondents’ level of interest in questions with voice data in smartphone surveys
Web surveys completed on smartphones open novel ways for measuring respondents’ attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that are crucial for social science...
