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Entangled Inequalities: U.S. Trends in Self-Rated Health at the Intersection of Gender and Race, 1972–2018
This study provides a systematic assessment of U.S. differentials in self-rated health over the past five decades (1972–2018) at the intersection of...
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Health Differences Between Religious and Secular Subgroups in the United States: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Religious nonaffiliates who have high certainty in the existence of God or a higher power (theistic nones) have grown rapidly in size in the U.S. in...
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Hidden (and Not so Hidden) Messaging in Top-Utilized U.S. Social Surveys: The Persistence of Heteronormative Ideology and the Gender Binary
As activists and scholars look toward nationally representative surveys for quality data regarding gender and sexual minorities, it is important to...
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Describing and explaining age, period, and cohort trends in Americans’ vocabulary knowledge
For a quarter of a century researchers have been documenting and trying to explain trends in Americans’ vocabulary knowledge using data from the...
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To Protect and Serve? Race and Police Use of Force Across Religious Contexts
BackgroundWhile prior research has revealed a dynamic relationship between individual religiosity and punitiveness, much less is known about how...
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Digital Religion Among U.S. and Canadian Millennial Adults
BackgroundAlthough there is a growing body of research on the nature and content of digital religion, we still know little about the prevalence of...
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The Structure of Racial Identity: Comparing Non-Hispanic White and Black Americans
This study focuses on the measurement and modeling of Racial Identification among non-Hispanic White and Black Americans. Using data from the 2014...
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Median Voters’ Happiness Cycles in the United States Along the Nation’s Principal Political Fault Line
Data from the General Social Survey are used to examine the political polarization in the United States, by examining presidential periods from 1972...
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What Does Non-standard Employment Look Like in the United States? An Empirical Typology of Employment Quality
Despite significant interest in the changing nature of employment as a critical social and economic challenge facing society—especially the decline...
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Differences in Parents’ Attitudes Toward Spanking Across Socioeconomic Status and Region, 1986–2016
This paper explores whether and how parents’ attitudes toward the spanking of children have changed over the last 30 years, a period when parents’...
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Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Across Gender Identities
This chapter includes three sections. First, it presents the limitations of demographic data in those who identify as transgendered related to...
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Racial Identity Among Blacks and Whites in the U.S.
This study uses identity theory, social identity theory, and life course theory to investigate influences on five aspects of Blacks’ and Whites’...
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The Perfect Paramour: Predicting Intention to Own a Sex Doll
We conducted a survey of U.S. respondents using Survey Monkey in July of 2021. Our primary interest was in predicting interest in owning a sex doll....
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Religiosity and Trust: Evidence from the United States
BackgroundTrust is one of the key driving forces behind human action and an important factor in sha** human interaction. Trust can improve economic...
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Operationalizing the Salience of Race to State Social Policy: A Comparison of Approaches with Application to TANF
The USA’s system of dual federalism affords states substantial discretion over the design and implementation of important social welfare programs....
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Gender and Health Inequalities: Social Networks in the Context of Health and Health Behavior
There are significant differences in morbidity (incidence of disease) and mortality (death rate) between men and women. By puberty, male adolescents...
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“Calling Out Our Own for Political Incivility? Identity and Shared Versus Oppositional Partisanship in Perceptions of Name-Calling and Deception”
Partisan-based motivated reasoning is a well-known phenomenon by which persons exhibit political attitudes and behavior supporting prior beliefs that...
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Celebrity Infidelity and Sex Crimes: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, and Solicitation
Although celebrity infidelity and sex crimes have received much attention in recent years, there has been almost no criminological research on these...
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Examining Parental Expenditure on Children in Ghana
Understanding parental spending on children is crucial for making the right investments to positively influence child well-being and long-term social...
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Societal Inputs, Religious Outputs, and Young Adults: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relations and Civil Liberties for Gays and Lesbians
BackgroundWithin an open systems theorization, the degree to which religious identity and attendance at religious services influence attitudes toward...