Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

Students of social inequality have noted the presence of mechanisms militating toward
cumulative advantage and increasing inequality. Social scientists have established that …

Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar
actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in …

This article explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans
find romantic partners. We use a new data source, the How Couples Meet and Stay …

Most studies of assortative marriage still rely on cross-sectional data and apply log-linear
modeling of the contingency table of wives' and husbands' educational levels. However …

This fully updated Sixth Edition of Religion in Sociological Perspective introduces students
to the basic theories and methods in the field, and shows them how to apply these analytic …

Over the next generation or two, America's older, largely white population will increasingly
be replaced by today's disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come …

We use incidence data from the 1980 Census and 2008 American Community Survey to
track recent trends in interracial marriage. Intermarriage with Whites increased rapidly …

Die Familiensoziologie stellt einen wichtigen Bereich der sozialwissenschaftlichen
Theoriebildung und Forschung dar. Sie behandelt ein breites Spektrum an praxisrelevanten …

Anthropologist Edmund Leach, in his discussion of caste and class systems, stated,“In a very
fundamental way, we all of us distinguish those who are of our kind from those who are not …