Katherine Stovel

• University of Washington

Scholars have debated whether changes in digital environments have led to greater concentration or dispersal of scientific citations, but this debate has paid little attention to how other changes in the publication environment may impact the commonly used measures of inequality. Using Monte Carlo experiments, we demonstrate that a variety of inequ...

Journals play a critical role in the scientific process because they evaluate the quality of incoming papers and offer an organizing filter for search. However, the role of journals has been called into question because new preprint archives and academic search engines make it easier to find articles independent of the journals that publish them. R...

This article examines matching processes, specifically two-sided matching contexts such as marriage and job markets, using an agent-based simulation approach. It begins with a conceptual discussion of matching processes, focusing on four key analytic features that define a matching process: the preferences actors have over characteristics (of alter...

This article offers a contribution to the broader theoretical goal of increasing our systematic understanding of the social mechanisms that underlie collective behavior. Specifically, we ask how it is possible that equity can arise in a market situation. Even though fair outcomes can be observed across a wide range of social situations that are not...

Narrative networks are a method for representing narrative data that facilitates systematic comparison and interpretation of qualitative accounts of social phenomena. The basic insight behind the narrative network approach is that it is possible to break a narrative into ‘elements’ and treat these elements as nodes in a network, where links between...

In this chapter, the authors use an agent-based simulation model to explore how networks and referrals – two factors that are well known to affect job finding – may create turbulence in individual careers and macro-level inequality in exposure to unstable employment. The approach rests squarely in the tradition of analytical sociology, in the sense...

Many studies that gather social network data use survey methods that lead to censored, missing or otherwise incomplete information. For example, the popular fixed rank nomination (FRN) scheme, often used in studies of schools and businesses, asks study participants to nominate and rank at most a small number of contacts or friends, leaving the exis...

Although sociologists have frequently touched on ideas related to brokerage in their research, brokerage is rarely considered a central concept in the discipline's theoretical or analytic arsenal. Theoretically, brokerage is one of a small number of mechanisms by which disconnected or isolated individuals (or groups) can interact economically, poli...

A variety of social and economic arrangements exist to facilitate the exchange of goods, services, and information over gaps in social structure. Each of these arrangements bears some relationship to the idea of brokerage, but this brokerage is rarely like the pure and formal economic intermediation seen in some modern markets. Indeed, for reasons...

Political science is fascinated with networks. This fascination builds on networks' descriptive appeal, and descriptions of networks play a prominent role in recent forays into network analysis. For some time, quantitative research has included node-level measures of network characteristics in standard regression models, thereby incorporating netwo...

We compared subsequent sexual behaviors and risk of sexually transmitted infections among adolescents who did and did not use a condom at their sexual debut. We derived data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which followed a sample of 4018 sexually active adolescents between 1994 and 2002. During waves I, II, and III of the...

Though organizationally driven geographic mobility is a distinguishing feature of modern careers, accounts of its origin are murky. Drawing on various theories of organization, the authors show how a merger wave exposed competing institutional logics and triggered the elaboration of the modern, mobile, bureaucratic career. Using organizational data...

This article describes the structure of the adolescent romantic and sexual network in a population of over 800 adolescents residing in a midsized town in the midwestern United States. Precise images and measures of network structure are derived from reports of re- lationships that occurred over a period of 18 months between 1993 and 1995. The study...

The objective of this study was to assess whether using a condom at adolescent sexual debut is associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent condom use. A nationally representative sample was used, including 4024 sexually active adolescents (12-18 years) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Logistic regression was used...

This article illustrates the challenges and potential advantages associated with using a sequence-based method to describe the structure of individual residential mobility histories. The authors examine the existence and prevalence of distinctive patterns of residential mobility across a rural-suburban-urban place-type continuum. They identify a fi...

Which people end up in which jobs is not merely a matter of the individual and human capital characteristics of workers and the requirements and rewards of jobs, but is also a function of the process by which persons and jobs are matched with one another (Granovetter 1981; Sørensen and Kalleberg 1981). A poorly understood component of the matching...

Conclusions: Among sexually active adolescents using a condom during sexual debut is strongly associated with subsequent use which supports the imprinting hypothesis. Therefore early sexual education messages emphasizing condom use may be particularly important and hopefully effective at establishing a norm of regular condom use behavior thereby pr...

This article uses a case study of the spatial and career mobility of bank workers from Lloyds, a leading British bank, to explore the relationship between class formation and spatial mobility. The article argues against the idea that the large-scale concentration and bureaucratization of the British banking industry in the early years of the twenti...

White-on-black violence was a fact of life in the Deep South during the decades straddling the turn of the century. Yet though the lynching of blacks is historically significant, it was, statistically speaking, a relatively rare event. While each lynching is associated with a complex and often gruesome narrative, particularities often overwhelm eff...

This article illustrates a strategy for representing and analyzing narratives as networks. The strategy that we use considers narrative sequences as networks. Elements are treated as nodes which are connected by narrative clauses, represented by arcs. By representing complex event sequences as networks, inducing ‘narrative networks’, it is possible...

Optimal matching algorithms are used to model the transformation of-career systems in a large British bank (Lloyds) from 1890 to 1970. The authors first model the breakdown of the traditional ascriptive, status-based system, and then identify a more dynamic, achievement-based system as its replacement. By relating the structure of careers to organi...

Examined the adaptation of mothers and fathers of children with juvenile rheumatic disease on two occasions, 1 year apart, using 159 married couples at Time 1, and 111 of these couples at Time 2. A stress and coping model was tested in which parental functioning is determined by ongoing life stressors (patient and spouse dysfunction), family resour...

Examined the extent to which a model of risk and resistance factors (i.e., maternal dysfunction, family stressors, and maternal and family resources) explained concurrent and subsequent psychosocial functioning among 165 children with juvenile rheumatic disease. The study also identified specific risk and resistance factors that were associated wit...

Compared the adaptation of 165 patients with juvenile rheumatic disease (JRD) to that of their healthy siblings. Patients were divided into those with mild functional disability and those with moderate/severe disability. Adaptation in several domains was assessed by parents and children on two occasions 1 year apart. The adjustment difficulties of...

Compared the adaptation of 165 patients with juvenile rheumatic disease (JRD) to that of their healthy siblings. Patients were divided into those with mild functional disability and those with moderate/severe disability. Adaptation in several domains was assessed by parents and children on two occasions 1 year apart. The adjustment difficulties of...

The course is organized into three sections: The Material Side of Food; The Relationship Between Production and Consumption; and The Symbolic Meaning of Food. The first section of the course will provide a historical and comparative overview of what people eat and how this relates to other types of inequality. In the second part of the course will...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 272-279). Microfiche. s

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-52).