A Conversation on Race and Colorism in <i>Social Forces</i>

Hargrove, Taylor W.; Gonzalez, Shannon Malone

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“…Decades of scholarship on intersectionality clearly demonstrate that it is the convergence of these social statuses, which occurs in a dynamic, synergistic fashion, that produce the unequal distribution of health in a given place at a given time. Of particular interest is the emerging research on colorism that provides preliminary evidence that Black people with darker skin tones are at risk of worse health outcomes (Hargrove and Gonzalez 2022; Monk 2021). We hope that future research will further elucidate the association between racial disparities in time use and health for specific subgroups of Black Americans.…”

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A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities

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An expansive and methodologically varied literature designed to investigate racial disparities in health now exists. Empirical evidence points to an overlapping, complex web of social conditions that accelerate the pace of aging and erodes long-term health outcomes among people of color, especially Black Americans. However, a social exposure—or lack thereof—that is rarely mentioned is time use. The current paper was specifically designed to address this shortcoming. First, we draw on extant research to illustrate how and why time is a critical source of racial disparities in health. Second, we employ fundamental causes theory to explain the specific mechanisms through which the differential distribution of time across race is likely to give rise to unequal health outcomes. Finally, we introduce a novel conceptual framework that identifies and distinguishes between four distinct forms of time use likely to play an outsized role in contributing to racial disparities in health.

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A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities

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100 Years of Sex and Gender in Social Forces

Weisshaar

Casey

2022

Social Forces

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The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again

Duxbury

2023

Social Forces

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The centennial of Social Forces provides an opportunity to examine change and stability in crime research in one of sociology’s oldest journals. Since the first issue of Social Forces in 1922, crime and punishment have transitioned from marginal topics subsumed under the umbrella of deviance studies to a central research area. This essay traces the intellectual development of crime research as captured in Social Forces’ pages and contrasts it with the growing independence of criminology as an academic field. To do so, I employ two analyses. First, I examine the topical classifications provided by Moody, Edelmann and Light (2022). Second, I expand upon these classifications by using structural topic models (STM) to detect clusters of crime research activity in Social Forces’ abstracts and group them into “eras” of crime research. The analysis reveals a circular development of crime research in Social Forces that reflects broader trends in the sociology of crime. 1 Themes of power, stratification, and punishment oriented early studies on crime. Research attention focused on inequality within the justice system, the effects of juvenile justice contact on criminal labeling and recidivism, and inequalities resulting from justice system contact. However, as crime rates rose throughout the Western world, Social Forces articles sought to explain the causes of crime and evaluate policies designed to cull the crime wave. In recent decades, persistent crime declines combined with growing concern with an oversized prison system have refocused attention on incarceration and its collateral consequences, especially for adolescent well-being and racial and class inequalities. In this way, crime research in Social Forces has returned to core themes of power and stratification that motivated early work in the sociology of crime. It has also distanced itself from individual etiology and policy studies that once dominated the journal’s pages and that continue to appear in specialist outlets.

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A Conversation on Race and Colorism in Social Forces

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities

A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities

100 Years of Sex and Gender in Social Forces

The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again

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