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Minagawa, Yuka – Social Forces, 2013
Guided by Durkheim's classic theory of suicide, this article examines suicide trends and determinants in Eastern European countries for the period of 1989-2006, with particular attention given to the association between postcommunist social change and suicide mortality. I find that countries characterized by more drastic structural change…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Suicide, Social Systems
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Park, Chan-ung; Subramanian, S. V. – Social Forces, 2012
Generalized trust varies across individuals and countries. Past studies on trust have demonstrated that voluntary association membership, inequality and ethnic homogeneity at country level are important. However, those studies examined either individual-level or country-level factors separately. In this paper, we conceptualized the emergence of…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Income, Voluntary Agencies, Individual Characteristics
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Wildeman, Christopher – Social Forces, 2010
This study extends research on the consequences of mass imprisonment and the causes of children's behavioral problems by considering the effects of paternal incarceration on children's physical aggression at age 5 using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Results suggest that paternal incarceration is associated with…
Descriptors: Aggression, Daughters, Fathers, Males
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Lange, Matthew; Dawson, Andrew – Social Forces, 2009
To test claims that postcolonial civil violence is a common legacy of colonialism, we create a dataset on the colonial heritage of 160 countries and explore whether a history of colonialism is related to indicators of inter-communal conflict, political rebellion and civil war in the years 1960-1999. The analysis provides evidence against sweeping…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Policy, Violence, Foreign Countries
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Harding, David J. – Social Forces, 2009
Using data from Add Health, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community and school controls. Neighborhood violence…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Characteristics, Disadvantaged, Graduation
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Palmore, Erdman; Whittington, Frank J. – Social Forces, 1970
By using an equality index to measure the amount of overlap between percentage distributions of whites and nonwhites, it is shown that nonwhites have substantially progressed toward equality in income, education, occupation, employment, and housing. (JM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Housing Discrimination
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Bursik, Robert J., Jr. – Social Forces, 1980
Discusses problems with the use of stochastic (probabilistic) models for the analysis of juvenile offense data. Analyzes longitudinal data for White and non-White delinquents which show significant evidence of offense specialization and a random distribution of offenses if no specialization occurs. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delinquency, Models, Probability
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Smith, A. Wade – Social Forces, 1981
Tests Myrdal's predictions about racial attitude change, using responses to questions on school desegregation from 16 surveys. Finds that, although there has been a 30 percent increase in tolerance of school desegregation since 1954, cohort and education subgroups maintain consistent differences among themselves, and regional differences dissipate…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cohort Analysis, Differences, Educational Attainment
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Tweed, Dan L.; Jackson, David J. – Social Forces, 1981
Employs log linear and logit techniques in order to model male-female differences in the odds of a mental disorder, as affected by marital status, age, and residential location. Suggests that sex differences may be expressed in terms of a model with main effects only. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Age, Females, Males, Marital Status