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Politics & Gender

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, men have been consistently les... more Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, men have been consistently less likely to report wearing a protective face mask. There are several possible reasons for this difference, including partisanship and gender identity. Using a national live-caller telephone survey that measures gender identity, we show that men's gender identities are strongly related to their views of mask wearing, especially when gender identity is highly salient to the individual. The effects of this interaction of sex and gender are shown to be separate from the effects of partisanship. While partisanship is a significant driver of attitudes about face masks, within partisan groups, men who report “completely” masculine gender identities are very different from their fellow partisans.

European Journal of Politics and Gender

Issues arising from the measurement of gender identity on surveys have received scant attention f... more Issues arising from the measurement of gender identity on surveys have received scant attention from survey methodologists. We make use of three studies (two in the US and one in Mexico) to look at the effects of asking about gender identity on downstream measurements of political party affiliation. In all three studies, we show a significant impact of priming respondents to think about gender identity on expressed political identity. In two of the studies, we also find conditional effects based on the predispositions of respondents, and we find throughout that these effects are much stronger for men than for women.Key messagesAsking about their gender identity leads to significant shifts in men’s reported partisanship.In the US, saying that they are more masculine leads men to say that they are more Republican.While they are needed to bring our analyses in line with our theories, researchers need to be careful about how they use sexual orientation and gender identity items in surveys.

Gender, Work & Organization

Men and Masculinities

The article provides an overview of the effects of broader economic changes on the division of ho... more The article provides an overview of the effects of broader economic changes on the division of housework among dual earner heterosexual couples. It summarizes some of the broader methodological and theoretical trends in the field and calls for an interdisciplinary, intersectional approach in studying men today.

Social Research Methods by Example

Oxford Scholarship Online

This chapter addresses work experience from the perspective of the young people themselves so as ... more This chapter addresses work experience from the perspective of the young people themselves so as to capture varied lived experiences of youth employment and unemployment. Research to date has provided an incomplete picture of youth unemployment, failing to focus on part-time work. For youth, part-time jobs are becoming scarce and more difficult to locate. With the economic recession, not only are employers in the retail and service sector less likely to hire but young people find themselves in competition with unemployed older workers and immigrant workers, rendering these jobs more competitive than ever before. Moreover, with the rise in youth unemployment and with recently intensifying aesthetic labor requirements, young people do not have the same extent of opportunities for interacting with diverse groups of workers from a range of backgrounds, including those who have been socially and economically disadvantaged.

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 2016

Theory and Society, 2008

In the late twentieth century, many social scientists and other social commentators came to chara... more In the late twentieth century, many social scientists and other social commentators came to characterize the world as evolving into an "information society." Central to these claims was the notion that new social uses of information, and particularly application of scientific knowledge, are transforming social life in fundamental ways. Among the supposed transformations are the rise of intellectuals in social importance, growing productivity and prosperity stemming from increasingly knowledge-based economic activity, and replacement of political conflict by authoritative, knowledge-based decision-making. We trace these ideas to their origins in the Enlightenment doctrines of Saint Simon and Comte, show that empirical support for them has never been strong, and consider the durability of their social appeal. Intellectuals love to vie in the effort to name their own ageto define the essential and salient qualities that distinguish the times in which they live from every other. In the closing decades of the twentieth century, the upper hand in this struggle often seemed to go those insisting that we were entering an "Information Society." Beginning in the 1960s the idea took hold among many social scientists that information had assumed a new and decisive role in human affairs. For exponents of this idea, social processes based on innovative information uses, and particularly the transformation of information into authoritative knowledge, manifestly represented the distinguishing feature of the age. Characterizing the world's "advanced" societies as "information societies" became as axiomatic as bracketing other eras as "Neolithic societies" or "feudal societies."

Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, 2013