• INEQUALITY AND THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY 

  Pepin, Joanna (2018)

  Intrahousehold finances offer a window into the crossroads between the market domain’s emphasis on self-reliance and the family domain’s emphasis on interdependence. Modern couples confront tensions between ideals of mutual ...

• Intersecting Inequalities in the Paid Care Work Sector Under Changing Social and Economic Contexts 

  Sun, Shengwei (2018)

  This dissertation focuses on the expanding paid care work sector as a key terrain for examining labor market inequalities in the United States and China, with three papers attending to different aspects of social stratification. ...

• POWER AND STATUS IN JUDGING AND PUNISHING IMMORALITY 

  Ho, Hsiang-Yuan (2018)

  This research offers a framework that explains how observers respond to moral violations when considering the amount of power and status held by violators. It follows the group processes literature on the characteristics ...

• Re-Inscribing Subculture: Commodification and Boundary Work in American Traditional Tattooing 

  Strohecker, David Paul (2018)

  This auto-ethnographic research explores the debate surrounding the analytical utility of the concept of subculture. Utilizing interview data collected from 58 tattoo artists and collectors, I address fundamental concerns ...

• IN THE NAME OF CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF CELEBRATION IN THE MULTICULTURAL CIVIL SPHERE 

  Richer, Zach (2018)

  A common barrier to the civic integration of immigrant and minority groups is the suite of symbolic classifications that structure everyday relations in diverse societies and set standards for inclusion and exclusion in ...

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