John F. Zipp

• University of Akron

A considerable amount of research across the past several decades has documented the emergence of a new racial ideology of “color-blindness” as well as evidence that white college students have difficulty recognizing the racial privileges that are obscured by this color-blindness. To address this, we developed a cooperative group White Privilege Ac...

Is there a distinct disciplinary core (or foundation of agreed on knowledge) in sociology? Should we define a core in our broad field to build consensus? If so, what should it look like? We address these questions by presenting three viewpoints that lean for and against identifying a core for department curricula, students, and the public face of s...

The phase III placebo-controlled BRAVO study assessed laquinimod effects in patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), and descriptively compared laquinimod with interferon beta (IFNβ)-1a (Avonex(®) reference arm). RRMS patients age 18-55 years with Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scores of 0-5.5 and documented pre-study relapse (≥ 1 in p...

Although there is widespread agreement among academics that critical thinking is an important component to the college classroom, there is little empirical evidence to verify that it is being taught in courses. Using four sections of introductory sociology, we developed an experimental design using pretests and posttests to assess students' critica...

In this article, I ask for whom is our teaching developed? Although we typically think that it is developed for our students, there appears to be a considerable gap between how our curriculum, especially Introductory Sociology is organized, and what we know about current college students. Drawing on data on enrollment in sociology and overall in co...

In this article, we use feminist theories of the state to examine why the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has had relatively little impact on increasing men’s caregiving after the birth or adoption of a child. An analysis of witness testimonies and of the language of the proposed bill at three different stages of its development revealed that a...

There are contradictory expectations regarding the relationship between sport and sexuality, one suggesting less sports participation for sexual minority males and more for sexual minority females, with the other hypothesizes no participation differences by sexuality for either males or females. I used the nationally representative Add Health Surve...

At the 2007 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, we presented a workshop entitled “How to do the Scholarship of Teaching.” The workshop had three main goals: to introduce participants to the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and to various SoTL outlets, to guide participants in the process of doing t...

Decades of research have documented the positive impacts of cooperative learning on student success: increased learning, retention through graduation, improved critical thinking, and intrinsic motivation. One cooperative teaching technique, however, has received relatively little attention. In the two-stage cooperative, group, or "pyramid" exam stu...

In the last several years, conservatives have argued that an overwhelmingly Left and liberal faculty has taken over American colleges and universities. In particular, two main claims have been advanced: (1) a disproportionate percentage of the faculty is liberal; and (2) these liberal faculty are pushing their values on students and colleagues, ske...

A recurrent theme in scholarship on gender and the family is the asymmetry between husbands and wives on decision making, the division of household labor, child care, and so forth. In this article, the authors tested to see if this asymmetry can be explained, in part, by taking into account the invisible power of men. Using data from the third wave...

The individualistic orientation of most U.S. college students presents a persistent problem for teaching sociology, especially at the introductory level where many students find it hard to understand social structure and how it shapes their lives. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of whether an active-learning exercise focused on mate sel...

Since concerns about privacy are paramount for most survey organizations, it is standard practice to instruct interviewers to question respondents alone, especially on sensitive attitudes and behaviors. Despite these guidelines, "third" parties—frequently are present in interviews. Although most research has found little impact of third parties, we...

One of the most controversial issues in the literature on class and gender has been how to understand the class positions of dual earner couples. However, a central issue in this debate is, in fact, not testable using typical sample surveys: there is no way to assess if spouses who have different objective class positions also have different subjec...

In this study we update analyses of the 1977 QES (Zipp, 1991) using data from the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. We use hierarchical linear modeling procedures to partition the variance in a wide variety of indicators of workers' experiences. Most variation was associated with the individual level of analysis, but significant and no...

Objective. We evaluate the impact that entering the labor market has on the class identities of married women in the U.S. Methods. We use data from the first two waves of the Student-Parent Socialization Study. A representative sample of U.S. high school seniors were interviewed in 1965. Our sample consists of mothers of these students, who were in...

Previous research on racial differences in roll-off (ballot noncompletion) has shown that black voter roll-off is responsive to the relative size of the black electorate and the salience of the election to black voters. The authors examine racial differences in roll-off in 1996 Milwaukee County elections and attempt to explain why black voter roll-...

Using the seven weeks of canceled baseball games caused by the 1994 strike as a natural experiment, the author analyzes the degree to which the absence of baseball affected retail trade and hotel room sales in the 24 U.S. cities hosting baseball franchises and in 4 control cites. The most important finding is that the strike had little, if any, eco...

In this article I analyze the impact that capital mobility has on employee rights in the workplace by studying the effects of the relocation of General Motor’s Corvette plant from St. Louis to Bowling Green, Kentucky. This relocation not only afforded GM an opportunity to increase its control over its hourly work force, but it also set in motion a...

In 1992 a record 14 women sought statewide office by running “as women” and as representatives of women. In this article we examine whether their appeals led to widespread vot ing on the basis of gender identity. We find evidence that the sex of the voter is significantly related to voting for female candidates in eight of 13 states, and among part...

Two decades after Joan Acker (1973) castigated mainstream stratification research for its `intellectual sexism', the debate over the impact that married women's paid employment has on class analysis is perhaps the most controversial issue in social stratification. Using two decades of survey data from the U.S., we assess the conditions under which...

Through both its direct employment and its policies, the public sector historically has provided an important avenue for the upward mobility of blacks. However, the conservative Reagan-Bush agenda of the 1980s greatly redefined the role of government in promoting racial equality, and this paper tests to see if the advantages that blacks have obtain...

Since David Birch's work on the role of small business in job creation, a considerable amount of scholarly and practical attention has focused on small businesses. State and local governments have formulated policies to foster small business birth and growth, while scholars have tried to measure more accurately the contributions of small business t...

Some teachers would not send their children to the schools in which they taught because of school quality, school discipline, school desegregation.

This article analyzes the costs and benefits of using state-level unemployment compensation (UC) records, commonly known as ES202 data, for analyzing local economic change. Although the unedited UC records are helpful for the most general level for statewide analysis, these records must be edited considerably for more detailed questions and/or any...

Technology, the New International Division of Labor, and Location - Susan S Fainstein and Norman I Fainstein Continuities and Disjunctures Pittsburgh in Transition - Gordon L Clark Consolidation of Prosperity in an Era of Economic Restructuring New Trends in the Sociospatial Organization of the New York City Economy - Saskia Sassen Industrial Restr...

This article explores the influence that the proportion of women in a department has on hiring decisions in the field of psychology. A sample of advertisers from the APA Monitor was asked to identify the gender of the candidate hired. Hiring patterns were the same for men and women hirers in nonacademic organizations, as each favored male candidate...

Generous contact efforts were used to recruit 3,004 respondents into the first wave of the St. Louis Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) project, a psychiatric epidemiologic study of the general population, conducted from 1981-1982. These efforts were analyzed to establish which sociodemographic characteristics or current psychiatric disorders were...

There is growing literature focusing on the effects of plant closings on displaced workers. Although the gist of this literature is that plant closings have substantial negative economic, social/psychological, and physical health effects on workers, this “social problems” approach, by not placing capital mobility in the larger politicaleconomic con...

The relationship between social class and politics has been a central concern of political sociologists over the years. Recently various scholars have contended that the last twenty years have witnessed the emergence of noneconomic or social issues (e.g., equal rights, personal freedom) and of a middle class liberalism, especially on these social i...

This paper analyzes voting in five 1982 elections in which women ran as major party candidates for high-level offices: Governor in Vermont and Iowa; and U.S. Senator in Missouri, New York, and New Jersey. Results indicate that the sex of the candidate generally has little impact on voting and that solid women candidates can attract cross-over votes...

The persistent decline in voting in presidential elections since 1960 has resulted in serious scholarly attention being given to nonvoting. Despite the quality of these studies, however, the ratio of what we know about nonvoting to what we do not know is rather low. In the hopes of improving this situation, I advance the hypothesis that one reason...

After analyzing attitudes toward the distribution of political power, Form and Rytina (1969) called for increased investigation of the relationship between social stratification and political ideology. This article complements their focus by analyzing attitudes toward the distribution of power in the workplace. We do this specifically by examining...

Data on musculoskeletal problems were collected among samples of letter carriers who were subject to a recent weight increase and those who were not. In addition, comparable data were collected for two groups of controls: gas meter readers who walk on the job, but do not bear a load as do letter carriers, and postal clerks who neither walk nor carr...

Consistent with renewed interest in using social phenomena to explain political orientations, we analyze the impact of a personal relationship with a party official on the political involvement of a group of citizens (“nigh-dwellers”) in Winnipeg and Vancouver who reside near the party officials and are like them with respect to sex, age, and occup...

This paper examines conventional explanations as to why many lower status persons in the United States are less inclined than others to participate in politics. Such explanations typically treat lower status nonparticipation as the result of SES-related personality traits and therefore as an inevitable consequence of stratification. We present two...

Studies of the issue disagree about the reasons for-even the existence of-a low level of class voting in Canada. In order to study class voting, three items must be conceptualized and measured adequately: the class of the voters, the class of the parties, and the structural constraints on political partisanship. Central to our concerns is that the...

Les différences entre l'élite et la masse dans 1'identification aux partis fédéraux canadiens: une analyse discriminatoire Dans la littérature sur les partis politiques canadiens, on ne s'entend pas sur la possibilité de différencier I'idéologie des partis sur un continuum droite-gauche. Cette étude cherche à résoudre partiellement cette question e...

Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts international, v.39 (1979) no. 12, p. 7533-A. Vita. University Microfilms order no. 7912811. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Duke University, 1978. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-241). Microfiche of typescript.