Richard Hogan

Gaining community support for group homes

Data from a telephone survey of New Jersey group home providers, contracting with the State Division of Mental Retardation and Mental Health and Hospitals, evidence the assertions that providers who follow a standard public relations policy, arrange to meet with municipal officials, inform neighbors before moving-in, use local contacts, and invite the community to an open house generally enjoy greater support for their group home programs. In the medium to long run, neighbors who choose to become involved in the group home location effort (often because of concern if not opposition) generally offer more support.

Producing and reproducing class and status differences : Racial and gender gaps in U.S. employment and retirement income

Recent research indicates that between 1970 and 1990 the racial gap in employment income increased (Cancio, Evans and Maume 1996), while the gender gap decreased (Wellington 1994). We find a parallel pattern in retirement income for the cohort that retired in 1980–1981. The racial gap is greater in retirement than it was in employment, while the gender gap is smaller. Regression analyses specify the qualitatively different ways in which racial and gender inequality are produced in employment and reproduced in retirement. Focusing on how self-employment and marital status interact with race and gender in predicting income, we explain how the redistributive effects of Social Security, pensions, and assets contribute to the enduring racial gap (and, perhaps, to the declining gender gap).

Managing local government opposition to community-based residential facilities for the mentally disabled

Abstract“Prior Notification” policies have elicited fears of community opposition from agencies who have adopted a “low profile” approach in locating communitybased residential facilities. Nevertheless, data from a survey of New Jersey community care providers indicate that local government offcials express less opposition when informed of the proposed location and invited to meet with the provider Arranging to meet with local officials is most important when neighbors have leadership, since officials express more intense opposition when neighbors invite them to a meeting. The literature has already established the fact that meeting with neighbors can facilitate mobilization and thereby engender more intense opposition, both from neighbors and from local officials. Hence, the available evidence suggests that providers should meet with local officials to discuss the commnity care program but should attempt to deal with neighbors individually. This strategy is compatible with the policy of “prior notification” adopted in New Jersey.

Dual-Earner Couples’ Expectations for Joint Retirement: A Study of Typical and Atypical Congruent and Non-Congruent Couples

To what extent do couples expect to retire together? What distinguishes “atypical congruent” couples who expect to retire separately? What distinguishes “non-congruent” couples who disagree on retirement plans? Using U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data, we find that “Atypical Congruent” (separate retirement) couples have shorter marriages, larger age differences, unequal decision-making, dependent children, and pension plans for both husband and wife. They are also more frequently interracial or minority couples. “Non-Congruent” couples (who disagree on retirement plans) are distinguished by wifes earnings and husbands occupational status and work schedule.

Charles Tilly Takes Three Giant Steps from Structure Toward Process: Mechanisms for Deconstructing Political Process

Deconstructing Political Process Stories, Identities, and Political Change by Charles Tilly; The Politics of Collective Violence by Charles Tilly; Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 by Charles Tilly Review by: Richard Hogan Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 273-277 Published by: American Sociological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3593900 . Accessed: 08/02/2014 13:23

The Making of Heroes: An Attributional Perspective

Abstract Through the use of posed vignettes in a telephone survey, we investigate the construction of heroes. We examine the extent to which respondents attribute hero status to three potential 9/11 and “war on terrorism” heroes: Todd Beamer, Army Private Jessica Lynch, and President George W. Bush. Findings suggest the importance of the extraordinary nature and the rarity of action(s) performed by heroes in the attribution of hero status; the role of class, status, and party in the attribution process; and the moral consideration of what should be done in each posed vignette. In addition, the study indicates the utility of attribution theory for the sociological examination of heroism and the viability of normative constructs in examining heroic behavior.

We Know about Reagan, but Was there a Clinton Effect? Earnings by Race, Gender, Marital and Family Status, 1993 and 2000

Radical and mainstream social scientists still speak of the effect of President Ronald Reagan’s administration on the welfare state and the legacy of Great Society and Equal Opportunity programs, but, as indicated in a search of the American Sociological Review and Critical Sociology, there is less research focused on President Bill Clinton’s plan to end welfare as we knew it. Here we begin with an historical perspective on race and gender gaps, 1955–2016, including a consideration of macro-economic processes associated with postmodernism. Then we compare the effects of marital and family status on earnings, focusing on race and gender effects, at the beginning (1993) and end (2000) of the Clinton era. We find considerable support for the concerns raised by early radical critics, notably, evidence of an influx of low-income black single mothers. We consider the possibility that these are institutional rather than regime effects, in conclusion.

Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey

List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Introduction 2. Spains Far Frontier 3. Revolutionary California 4. American Property 5. Industry and Community 6. The Historical Present 7. Conclusion: Action, Narrative, History Notes Bibliography Index

Carnival and Caucus: A Typology for Comparative Frontier History

AS DYKSTRA AND SILAG (1985) have noted, the analysis of American frontier towns continues to yield a plethora of local histories that might provide an empirical basis for generalization, if a theoretical basis for comparative analysis might be offered. The development of a rigorous methodology for historiographic and statistical analysis has facilitated the accumulation of empirical evidence, but the analysis of local history has not advanced far beyond the initial debate regarding the basis for democratic governance (Taylor, 1956). Instead, two research traditions have developed-one seeking to identify the socio-cultural basis for community solidarity, the other focusing on the partisan struggles that shape democratic governance. Elkins and McKitrick (I954) launched the search for community by proposing that homogeneous frontier populations developed democratic institutions in collective problem solving efforts. More recently, this thesis has been re-specified, as local histories suggested that even relatively heterogeneous populations managed