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Interracial Marriage to a White Spouse Among Black, Asian, and Hispanic Americans & Online Dating and Partner Selections Among White Adults: Perspectives, Mechanisms, and Trends
No full textThis dissertation investigates intermarriage dynamics between whites and racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States, focusing on theoretical perspectives and mechanisms shaping partner selection from 2010 to 2020. Employing marriage market, structural/demographic, and assimilationist frameworks, this research analyzes intermarriage rates to whites among Black, Asian, and Hispanic Americans, addressing how factors such as demographic availability, socioeconomic parity, geographic dispersion, immigration patterns, and ethnic replenishment influence patterns of interracial marriage. The findings underscore the significant role that structural and demographic contexts, particularly socioeconomic resources at the local level, play in shaping intermarriage outcomes, while highlighting limitations in existing theoretical explanations for disparities across racial groups.Additionally, this dissertation explores the role of online dating platforms in perpetuating racial boundaries and biases among white users through a nationally representative conjoint experiment. The findings indicate that, despite the potential for digital platforms to expand interracial dating opportunities, they often reinforce existing racial hierarchies via implicit biases embedded in user choices and platform algorithms. Overall, this research contributes to sociological literature by providing deeper insights into racial integration processes, boundary maintenance, and the interaction between digital technologies and societal racial norms, ultimately presenting intermarriage as both a reflection and a mechanism of broader racial dynamics in contemporary American society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
2024 Storm Impacts in Houston and Harris County: A Descriptive Overview
No full textThis study looks at Houston residents' experiences both immediately and in the aftermath of the May derecho and Hurricane Beryl. It also examines the cumulative impact of the weather events, focusing on the proportion of residents affected by more than one storm and how these experiences may have overlapped
The Moderating Role of Factors of Assimilation in First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans' Socioeconomic Attainment
No full textContemporary assimilation theory has focused on immigrant groups reaching socioeconomic parity with whites as an indication that immigrants are integrating into the U.S. mainstream. In the case of Asian Americans, assimilation scholars contend that socioeconomic parity has been reached or is close to being reached, depending on the sub-group in question. However, this claim coupled with the model minority image of Asian Americans as educated, hard-working, and well-adjusted to the U.S. mainstream discounts several negative factors of Asian assimilation trajectories that prevent Asian Americans from reaching parity with whites on several important indicators. Using the Kinder Houston Area Survey (KHAS), I examine how perceptions of discrimination and community relations, and how civic participation, English language acquisition, and ethnic identity affect first- and second-generation Asian Americans’ socioeconomic attainment. Results indicate that second generation Asian Americans’ socioeconomic attainment depends on their experiences in their communities. Specifically, second-generation Asian Americans who express positive perceptions of ethnic relations in the Houston area are associated with increases in their income, and second-generation Asian Americans that hold negative perceptions of ethnic relations are associated with decreases in their income. These findings highlight divergent paths to assimilation in a racial/ethnic population that is overwhelmingly thought to assimilate upwardly through subsequent generations.Sociology, Department o
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