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Direct linkMcAdam, Doug; Brandt, Cynthia – Social Forces, 2009
We use survey data from all accepted applicants to Teach for America 1993-98 to assess the longer-term effect of youth service on participants' current civic attitudes and behaviors. While TFA "graduates" score higher than the two comparison groups--"drop-outs" and "non-matriculants"--on a broad range of attitudinal items measuring civic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Volunteers, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
Gee, Gilbert C.; Pavalko, Eliza K.; Long, J. Scott – Social Forces, 2007
Self-reported discrimination is linked to diminished well-being, but the processes generating these reports remain poorly understood. Employing the life course perspective, this paper examines the correspondence between expected age preferences for workers and perceived age discrimination among a nationally representative sample of 7,225 working…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Age Discrimination, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Noonan, Mary C.; Corcoran, Mary E.; Courant, Paul N. – Social Forces, 2005
Using unique data from a survey of University of Michigan Law School graduates, we test various models of how sex differences in pay, labor supply and job settings should have evolved as women entered the elite male field of law. We compare the sex gap in earnings 15 years after graduation for two cohorts of lawyers and find that it has remained…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Lawyers, Income, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedDiMaggio, Paul; Ostrower, Francie – Social Forces, 1990
Explores Black and White attendance in American art events. Blacks generally participated more in Afro-American events, Whites in Euro-American. Differences greatest in public consumption, smaller in private. Assesses cultural convergence and competition theories with survey data. Discusses need for middle-class minorities to cultivate membership…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Art Activities, Black Culture, Blacks
Parrado, Emilio A. – Social Forces, 2005
This paper compares men's career opportunities and intra-generational class mobility across periods with markedly different development strategies in Mexico. Despite its significance for social stratification and inequality in Mexico, research on mobility has been relatively scant in recent decades. Using data from the National Retrospective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Social Stratification, Males
Peer reviewedWinfield, Idee; And Others – Social Forces, 1989
Linkages between educational system and occupational structure were compared in 2 countries using data on matched male labor market cohorts. Despite substantial differences in educational systems and career mobility processes, societal openness (indicated by occupational status 10 and 20 years after first job) was similar. Contains 42 references.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
