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Author: Rotolo, Thomas
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Rotolo, Thomas Wilson, John |
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Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Discrimination; Economics of Gender; Employment; Fertility; Housework/Housewives; Volunteer Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Competing demands from work and family make it difficult for women to do volunteer work. An analysis of data from the Young Women's Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey (1978-1991) shows that homemakers are more likely to volunteer than are fulltime workers, followed by part-time workers. Mothers of school-age children are the most likely to volunteer, followed by childless women and mothers of young children. Mothers of school-age children are even more likely to volunteer if they are homemakers, and mothers of pre-school children are even less likely to volunteer if they work fulltime. |
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Rotolo, Thomas and John Wilson. "Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503.
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Rotolo, Thomas Wilson, John |
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What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism Social Forces 82,3 (March 2004): 1091-1121. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598367 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Volunteer Work; Women's Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In Bowling Alone Robert Putnam argues that the passing of the "long civic generation," whose values were molded by the Depression and the Second World War, has resulted in a decline in civic engagement. In this analysis we test the generation hypothesis by comparing the volunteer behavior of two successive generations of women at the same age. No support for Putnam's thesis is found. Once appropriate controls for sociodemographic trends are imposed, generation differences disappear. However, there are cohort differences in the type of volunteer work performed. |
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Rotolo, Thomas and John Wilson. "What Happened to the "Long Civic Generation"? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism." Social Forces 82,3 (March 2004): 1091-1121.
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Tittle, Charles R. Rotolo, Thomas |
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IQ and Stratification: An Empirical Evaluation of Herrnstein and Murray's Social Change Argument Social Forces 79,1 (September 2000): 1-28. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2675563 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Evaluations; I.Q.; Income; Occupations; Skills; Stratification; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Tests and Testing Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A state-level index of the conditions that Herrnstein and Murray suggest tightened the relationship between IQ and status in the past century as well as a measure of "credentialing by examination" are used to try to explain interstate variation in the association between IQ and status attainment circa 1990. The results contradict Herrnstein and Murray's interpretation and provide support for an alternative credentialing argument. The more a state uses written, IQ-like examinations as screening devices for occupational access, the stronger the relationship between IQ and income. Thus, rather than higher IQ leading to status attainment because it indicates skills needed in a modern society, IQ may reflect the same test-taking abilities used in artificial screening devices by which status groups protect their domains. |
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Tittle, Charles R. and Thomas Rotolo. "IQ and Stratification: An Empirical Evaluation of Herrnstein and Murray's Social Change Argument." Social Forces 79,1 (September 2000): 1-28.
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