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Stockard, Jean; Gray, Jo Anna; O'Brien, Robert; Stone, Joe – Social Forces, 2009
We employ newly developed methods to disentangle age, period and cohort effects on non-marital fertility ratios from 1972 through 2002 for black and white women ages 20-44 in the United States. We focus on three cohort factors: family structure, school enrollment and the sex ratio. For both blacks and whites, cohorts with less traditional family…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Family Structure, Whites
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Haynie, Dana L.; Osgood, D. Wayne – Social Forces, 2005
This paper examines the contribution of peer relations to delinquency from the perspective of two sociological traditions: socialization/normative influence and opportunity. Earlier studies have likely overestimated normative influence by relying on respondents' reports about their friends' behaviors rather than obtaining independent assessments…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Relationship, Socialization, Social Networks
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Lutz, Amy – Social Forces, 2006
This paper investigates the effects of individual, family, social and demographic characteristics on the maintenance of Spanish among English-speaking Latino youth. This research finds effects of generation, gender, race, parent's English proficiency, single-parent status, parental income, and neighborhood concentration of co-ethnics as well as…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Individual Characteristics, Social Characteristics