My broad research areas are social stratification, poverty and inequality. I am particularly interested in how micro and macro factors help create, maintain, and reproduce systems of inequality. I am also interested in the causes and consequences of poverty for children and families. Accordingly, my dissertation is a multi-level analysis of the determinants ...
My research focuses on the economic and health stratification outcomes associated with immigration. Additionally, I have published and presented research on the how China's economic transition contributes to social inequality. My dissertation research combines these two interests by asking: how do processes occurring in an immigrants home country, ...
Raph C. Chénier is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology department at Duke University. His research focuses on consumption and social stratification, with a focus on the contemporary United States. He is currently working on a paper (with Lisa Keister and Joshua Fink) dealing with racial and ethnic differences in access to consumption in the US, and on a paper ...
My research is motivated by how religion relates to stratification outcomes and to broader social change. Presently, I am studying religious organizational change; religion, gender and stratification; cross-national patterns of affiliation and participation; immigration’s effects on religiosity; and the role of the media in shaping public discourse ...
Most voluntary associations and social movement organizations tend to be homogeneous in their social composition, yet some have achieved notable levels of diversity. Meanwhile, even though many associations aspire to be diverse, diversity’s consequences for organizational effectiveness remain unclear. My research analyzes the causes and consequences of diversity within voluntary associations and social movement organizations. I seek to explain how associations become diverse and ...
Dissertation Title: When Do Good Networks Fail?: Assessing the Impact of Immigrant Status, Gender and Action of Social Ties on the Socioeconomic Incorporation of First-Generation West Indians in New York City.
Chair: Nan Lin
Sancha earned her M.A. in Sociology and advanced to doctoral candidacy at Duke University in May, 2012. She graduated Summa ...
My research examines the consequences of socio-economic networks and geo-spatial configurations for the distribution of resources in a globalized world. My approach is quantitatively-oriented, blending network and spatial analysis methods with a healthy dose of scientific programming.
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My primary focus is on integrating and improving theories of behavior across academic disciplines. At present I am examining how people's identities interact with one another and with other personal constructs (like attitudes) to influence patterns of behavior. I also study morality, religion, and health.
Substantively, my research focuses on the family and fertility with an interest in how inequality results in different family forms. I explore the links between marriage and fertility with a focus on how cognitive schemas and material conditions interact for low-income Blacks. Methodologically, I use Network Text Analysis combined with traditional ...
Kimberly B. Rogers is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. She received her M.A. in Psychology from Wake Forest University in 2005, and her M.A. in Sociology from Duke University in 2008. Kimberly's dissertation project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, is entitled “Mapping the Social Ecology ...
