Americans’ trust in government is lower than ever. However, while all groups have seen a decline in trust since the 1960s, the gap in trust between racial and ethnic minorities and Whites in this period has varied not only in size but also in direction. At times, racial and ethnic minorities have actually had higher […]
How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern […]
In this article, we provide a cultural explanation of a long-standing trust puzzle in Canada—Quebecers trust much less than their fellow Canadians. Specifically, we develop a novel approach to empirically assess the historical influence of the Catholic Church, using the Quiet Revolution (a period of abrupt modernization in Quebec) as a natural experiment. We find […]
Extant theory suggests that crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic may change people's trust in others. A crisis-to-solidarity model suggests that people become more trusting, while a crisis-to-negative experience theory suggests that people lose trust, and a stability perspective predicts that social trust will largely remain unchanged. We argue that, when a crisis occurs, trust […]
Trustful parents often have trustful children. Yet it is unclear whether this intergenerational correlation of trust is due to genetic inheritance, shared experiences, or parental socialization. In this article, I suggest that a dyadic approach that differentiates same-sex (mother-daughter and father-son) and cross-sex (mother-son and father-daughter) dyads provides important insights into these potential mechanisms. My […]
In this article, we describe a gender peak effect that women's relative share in COVID-19 infections increases when there is a sharp increase in cases, and it reaches the highest level during peak times in each wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. We demonstrate this gender peak effect by analyzing detailed, sex-disaggregated Public Health Agency of […]
While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals’ awareness of income inequality is largely unresponsive to actual inequality. In this article, we argue that individuals in different social class positions often respond to the actual levels of income inequality distinctively, […]
This article considers how county-level concentrations of Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites are associated with COVID-19 vaccination differently. I argue that racially specific mechanisms differential concentrations of social vulnerability and political ideology by race-are likely to create diverse associations between racial concentration and COVID-19 vaccination not only across racial groups but also within racial groups […]
It is generally assumed that certain academic competencies are essential for university graduation, occupational success, and democratic citizenship. Unfortunately, many university based instructors find that a good number of their students are weak in terms of key academic skills, such as analysis and research. Instructors’ assessments are similar to those of some prominent Canadian business […]
Pat Kaufert received her Ph.D. in 1976 from the Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, England. Coming to Canada in 1977 she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to retrain as a health researcher specializing in the fields of medical sociology and medical anthropology. A Professor in the Department of Community Health […]