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M J Rosenfeld

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ID43649
NAMEM J Rosenfeld
GIVEN NAMESM J
FAMILY NAMERosenfeld
SIGNATUREROSENFELD M J
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0000-0002-6310-4558
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS779
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX12
  • What Happened to the Marriage Alternatives? Same‐Sex Couples in the United States and the Distinctiveness of Marriage

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Alisa Feldman•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2026•References: 28

    Objectives Our goal is to understand if US adults with same‐sex partners viewed marriage and domestic partnership differently, and if so why. Background The retreat from marriage in the United States is a fundamental preoccupation of American social science. In a classic 2004 essay, Andrew Cherlin argued that marriage in the United States was in a process of deinstitutionalization, in part because the distinctiveness of marriage (compared to coha…

  • Singleness and the Pandemic Dating Recession

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2025•References: 39

    The Coronavirus pandemic in the US represented a fundamental challenge to casual dating and to romantic relationship formation. The How Couples Meet and Stay Together (HCMST) data for 2017-2022 show that the rate of singleness among US adults rose from 18.9% in 2017 to 24.3% in 2022 (or higher after adjusting for age), implying that more than 10 million more US adults were single during the pandemic in 2022 compared to 2017. HCMST data show that …

  • Stability and change in predictors of marital dissolution in the US 1950–2017

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2024

    Objective Our goal is to measure change over time in the predictors of marital dissolution in the United States. Background The last comprehensive comparative analysis of predictors of marital dissolution is more than 20 years out of date. Rising inequality in the United States requires a fresh look at the predictors of marital dissolution. The Diverging Destinies hypothesis predicts greater inequality over time in the divorce rate between groups…

  • The Surprising Decline of Workplace Sexual Harassment Incidence in the U.S. Federal Workforce

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency of USMSPB surveys and the delayed release of the USMSPB report based on the 2016 survey. The decline in workplace sexual h…

  • Resilience and Stress in Romantic Relationships in the United States During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Sonia Hausen•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We measure the perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on romantic relationships in the United States. We contrast Family Stress theories emphasizing potential harms of the pandemic with Family Resilience Theory suggesting that crises can lead couples to build meaning and strengthen their relationships. We examine closed-ended and open-ended questions about relationship responses to the pandemic from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surve…

  • Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Objective Our goal is to show how premarital cohabitation's association with marital dissolution can be measured consistently over time. Background Rosenfeld and Roesler (2019) showed that premarital cohabitation led to lower rates of marital dissolution early in marital duration, but higher rates of marital dissolution after a few years of marital duration. Analysis based on marriage cohorts can erroneously appear to show that the association be…

  • Disintermediating your friends

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Reuben J Thomas et al.•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the National…•2019

    We present data from a nationally representative 2017 survey of American adults. For heterosexual couples in the United States, meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. Moreover, among the couples who meet online, the proportion who have met through the mediation of third persons has declined over time. We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that …

  • Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation's Association With Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2019•Cited by: 16•References: 25

    BackgroundBefore data existed on premarital cohabitation and divorce, scholars assumed that the experience of premarital cohabitation would select compatible couples into marriage and lead to lower rates of divorce. The advent of data on premarital cohabitation and divorce overturned the early preconceptions, as premarital cohabitation was found to be associated with higher rates of divorce. Premarital cohabitation has risen dramatically in the U…

  • Moving a Mountain

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2017•Cited by: 33•References: 32

    Most public opinion attitudes in the United States are reasonably stable over time. Using data from the General Social Survey and the American National Election Studies, I quantify typical change rates across all attitudes. I quantify the extent to which change in same-sex marriage approval (and liberalization in attitudes toward gay rights in general) are among a small set of rapid changing outliers in surveyed public opinions. No measured publi…

  • Revisiting the Data from the New Family Structure Study

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This analysis revisits recent controversial findings about children of gay and lesbian parents, and shows that family instability explains most of the negative outcomes that had been attributed to gay and lesbian parents. Family transitions associated with parental loss of custody were more common than breakups of same-sex couples among family transitions experienced by subjects who ever lived with same-sex couples. The analyses also show that mo…

  • Is Global Constitutionalism Meaningful or Desirable

    M J Rosenfeld, M Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•European Journal of International…•2014•Cited by: 6

    Upon conceiving constitutionalism on the scale of the nation-state as transparent and unproblematic, one may think global constitutionalism to be a mere utopia. On closer analysis, however, legitimation of nation-state constitutionalism turns out to be much more complex and contested than initially apparent, as becomes evident based on the contrast between liberal and illiberal constitutionalism. Upon the realization that nation-state liberal con…

  • Couple Longevity in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2014•Cited by: 29•References: 30

    The author used a new longitudinal data set, the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surveys (N = 3,009), to generate the first nationally representative comparison of same-sex couple stability and heterosexual couple stability in the United States. He measured the association between marriage (by several definitions of marriage) and couple longevity for same-sex couples in the United States. Reports of same-sex relationship instability in the pas…

  • Reply to Allen et al

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 5

    Allen et al.’s results depend on their inclusion of children whose family at the time of their grade retention is unknown, plus adopted and foster children whose selection process into families is unknown. Children whose family has been through upheavals or transitions are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children raised by stable same-sex couples do remarkably well in school

  • Searching for a Mate

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Reuben J Thomas•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Cited by: 207•References: 44

    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 Together survey. Results show that for 60 years, family and grade school have been steadily declining in their influence over the dating market. In the past 15 years, the rise of the Internet has partly displaced not only family and school, but also neighborhood, friends, and the…

  • Still Weak Support for Status‐Caste Exchange

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2010•Cited by: 19•References: 4

  • Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 42

    I use U.S. census data to perform the first large-sample, nationally representative tests of outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples. The results show that children of same-sex couples are as likely to make normal progress through school as the children of most other family structures. Heterosexual married couples are the family type whose children have the lowest rates of grade retention, but the advantage of heterosexual married couple…

  • The Age of Independence

    M J Rosenfeld•BOOK•Age of Independence•2009•Cited by: 8

  • Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2008•Cited by: 102•References: 23

    This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market. Second, higher education has little effect on racial endogamy for blacks and whites. Third, the divisi…

  • Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 31

    This essay compares family change during two periods of social and historical upheaval in the United States: the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century and the more recent family changes of the late twentieth century. Despite the manifest social and demographic changes brought about by the industrial revolution, some aspects of family life remained unchanged. Almost all new families formed in the United States before and during the …

  • The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same-Sex Unions

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Byung-Soo Kim et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2005•Cited by: 92•References: 35

    Interracial unions and same-sex unions were rare and secretive in the past because U.S. society was organized to suppress such unions. The rise of same-sex and interracial unions in the past few decades suggests changes in the basic structure of U.S. society. Young adults have been marrying later, and single young adults are much less likely to live with their parents. The independence of young adults has reduced parental control over their child…

  • A Critique of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2005•Cited by: 83•References: 55

    Status‐caste exchange theory predicts that in interracial marriages one partner's socioeconomic status is exchanged for the other's racial caste status. The author examines the contradictory literature on the theory specifically in relation to black‐white intermarriage and offers three explanations for the divergent findings. First, black‐white inequality has obscured the actual status homogamy typifying intermarriage. Second, gender differences …

  • Measures of Assimilation in the Marriage Market

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2002•Cited by: 57•References: 15

    In 1965 the United States rewrote its immigration laws, and immigration increased sharply as a result. The immigrants and the children of immigrants from the post-1965 period are slowly becoming more influential in U.S. life; the largest of these groups are the Mexican immigrants and the Mexican Americans. The rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations in the United States has led to a renewed interest in the question of assimilation; that is…

  • The salience of PAN-national hispanic and Asian identities in U.S. marriage markets

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2001•Cited by: 48•References: 24

    In this paper I test whether “Hispanic” and “Asian” identities are salient in the U.S. marriage market. That is, I determine whether the different Asian and Hispanic national groups intermarry often enough to suggest that Asian and Hispanic pan-national identities are important. Analysis of census data from 1980 and 1990 suggests that both Hispanic and Asian pan-national identities are significant forces. Variations in the strength of pan-nationa…

  • Celebration, Politics, Selective Looting and Riots

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Problems•1997•Cited by: 14•References: 22

    In the aftermath of the Bulls riot of 1992, which started as a celebration of a basketball victory but turned into a night of looting and rioting in Chicago's black ghettos, local and national newspapers asked: was it just a celebration? Was it an expression of pent-up anger and frustration? Had Korean and Arab merchants been targeted? The sociological literature on riots contains a great deal of analysis of city level data, but few micro level s…

  • Job Analysis for Teacher Competency Testing

    Open Access•Richard J Tannenbaum, M J Rosenfeld et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1994

    The purpose of this study was to conduct a job analysis of the basic skills judged to be important for all entry-level teachers regardless of subject area taught or grade level. Committees of content experts defined a domain consisting of 134 basic skill statements clustered within six basic skill dimensions: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Listening, Speaking, and Interactive Communication Skills. A national survey of 6,120 practicing teachers wa…

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  • Searching for a Mate

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Reuben J Thomas•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Cited by: 207•References: 44

    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 Together survey. Results show that for 60 years, family and grade school have been steadily declining in their influence over the dating market. In the past 15 years, the rise of the Internet has partly displaced not only family and school, but also neighborhood, friends, and the…

  • Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2008•Cited by: 102•References: 23

    This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market. Second, higher education has little effect on racial endogamy for blacks and whites. Third, the divisi…

  • The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same-Sex Unions

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Byung-Soo Kim et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2005•Cited by: 92•References: 35

    Interracial unions and same-sex unions were rare and secretive in the past because U.S. society was organized to suppress such unions. The rise of same-sex and interracial unions in the past few decades suggests changes in the basic structure of U.S. society. Young adults have been marrying later, and single young adults are much less likely to live with their parents. The independence of young adults has reduced parental control over their child…

  • A Critique of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2005•Cited by: 83•References: 55

    Status‐caste exchange theory predicts that in interracial marriages one partner's socioeconomic status is exchanged for the other's racial caste status. The author examines the contradictory literature on the theory specifically in relation to black‐white intermarriage and offers three explanations for the divergent findings. First, black‐white inequality has obscured the actual status homogamy typifying intermarriage. Second, gender differences …

  • Measures of Assimilation in the Marriage Market

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2002•Cited by: 57•References: 15

    In 1965 the United States rewrote its immigration laws, and immigration increased sharply as a result. The immigrants and the children of immigrants from the post-1965 period are slowly becoming more influential in U.S. life; the largest of these groups are the Mexican immigrants and the Mexican Americans. The rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations in the United States has led to a renewed interest in the question of assimilation; that is…

  • The salience of PAN-national hispanic and Asian identities in U.S. marriage markets

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2001•Cited by: 48•References: 24

    In this paper I test whether “Hispanic” and “Asian” identities are salient in the U.S. marriage market. That is, I determine whether the different Asian and Hispanic national groups intermarry often enough to suggest that Asian and Hispanic pan-national identities are important. Analysis of census data from 1980 and 1990 suggests that both Hispanic and Asian pan-national identities are significant forces. Variations in the strength of pan-nationa…

  • Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 42

    I use U.S. census data to perform the first large-sample, nationally representative tests of outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples. The results show that children of same-sex couples are as likely to make normal progress through school as the children of most other family structures. Heterosexual married couples are the family type whose children have the lowest rates of grade retention, but the advantage of heterosexual married couple…

  • Moving a Mountain

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2017•Cited by: 33•References: 32

    Most public opinion attitudes in the United States are reasonably stable over time. Using data from the General Social Survey and the American National Election Studies, I quantify typical change rates across all attitudes. I quantify the extent to which change in same-sex marriage approval (and liberalization in attitudes toward gay rights in general) are among a small set of rapid changing outliers in surveyed public opinions. No measured publi…

  • Couple Longevity in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2014•Cited by: 29•References: 30

    The author used a new longitudinal data set, the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surveys (N = 3,009), to generate the first nationally representative comparison of same-sex couple stability and heterosexual couple stability in the United States. He measured the association between marriage (by several definitions of marriage) and couple longevity for same-sex couples in the United States. Reports of same-sex relationship instability in the pas…

  • Still Weak Support for Status‐Caste Exchange

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2010•Cited by: 19•References: 4

  • Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation's Association With Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2019•Cited by: 16•References: 25

    BackgroundBefore data existed on premarital cohabitation and divorce, scholars assumed that the experience of premarital cohabitation would select compatible couples into marriage and lead to lower rates of divorce. The advent of data on premarital cohabitation and divorce overturned the early preconceptions, as premarital cohabitation was found to be associated with higher rates of divorce. Premarital cohabitation has risen dramatically in the U…

  • Celebration, Politics, Selective Looting and Riots

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Problems•1997•Cited by: 14•References: 22

    In the aftermath of the Bulls riot of 1992, which started as a celebration of a basketball victory but turned into a night of looting and rioting in Chicago's black ghettos, local and national newspapers asked: was it just a celebration? Was it an expression of pent-up anger and frustration? Had Korean and Arab merchants been targeted? The sociological literature on riots contains a great deal of analysis of city level data, but few micro level s…

  • Revisiting the Data from the New Family Structure Study

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This analysis revisits recent controversial findings about children of gay and lesbian parents, and shows that family instability explains most of the negative outcomes that had been attributed to gay and lesbian parents. Family transitions associated with parental loss of custody were more common than breakups of same-sex couples among family transitions experienced by subjects who ever lived with same-sex couples. The analyses also show that mo…

  • The Age of Independence

    M J Rosenfeld•BOOK•Age of Independence•2009•Cited by: 8

  • Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 31

    This essay compares family change during two periods of social and historical upheaval in the United States: the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century and the more recent family changes of the late twentieth century. Despite the manifest social and demographic changes brought about by the industrial revolution, some aspects of family life remained unchanged. Almost all new families formed in the United States before and during the …

  • Is Global Constitutionalism Meaningful or Desirable

    M J Rosenfeld, M Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•European Journal of International…•2014•Cited by: 6

    Upon conceiving constitutionalism on the scale of the nation-state as transparent and unproblematic, one may think global constitutionalism to be a mere utopia. On closer analysis, however, legitimation of nation-state constitutionalism turns out to be much more complex and contested than initially apparent, as becomes evident based on the contrast between liberal and illiberal constitutionalism. Upon the realization that nation-state liberal con…

  • Reply to Allen et al

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 5

    Allen et al.’s results depend on their inclusion of children whose family at the time of their grade retention is unknown, plus adopted and foster children whose selection process into families is unknown. Children whose family has been through upheavals or transitions are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children raised by stable same-sex couples do remarkably well in school

  • The Surprising Decline of Workplace Sexual Harassment Incidence in the U.S. Federal Workforce

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency of USMSPB surveys and the delayed release of the USMSPB report based on the 2016 survey. The decline in workplace sexual h…

  • Resilience and Stress in Romantic Relationships in the United States During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Sonia Hausen•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We measure the perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on romantic relationships in the United States. We contrast Family Stress theories emphasizing potential harms of the pandemic with Family Resilience Theory suggesting that crises can lead couples to build meaning and strengthen their relationships. We examine closed-ended and open-ended questions about relationship responses to the pandemic from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surve…

  • Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Objective Our goal is to show how premarital cohabitation's association with marital dissolution can be measured consistently over time. Background Rosenfeld and Roesler (2019) showed that premarital cohabitation led to lower rates of marital dissolution early in marital duration, but higher rates of marital dissolution after a few years of marital duration. Analysis based on marriage cohorts can erroneously appear to show that the association be…

  • Intrinsic-Extrinsic Aspects of Work and Their Demographic Correlates

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Michael Rosenfeld et al.•ARTICLE•Psychological Reports•1971

    An objective paper-and-pencil instrument was used to identify intrinsically and extrinsically oriented employees at each of three job levels. Analyses were then conducted to determine the demographic correlates of this distinction. Results indicated that intrinsically oriented groups at the supervisory and salaried non-supervisory levels tended to be younger, better educated, and have more dependents than their extrinsically oriented fellow emplo…

  • Negro-White Differences in Adolescent Educational Growth

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Michael Rosenfeld et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•1971•References: 5

  • Job Analysis for Teacher Competency Testing

    Open Access•Richard J Tannenbaum, M J Rosenfeld et al.•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•1994

    The purpose of this study was to conduct a job analysis of the basic skills judged to be important for all entry-level teachers regardless of subject area taught or grade level. Committees of content experts defined a domain consisting of 134 basic skill statements clustered within six basic skill dimensions: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Listening, Speaking, and Interactive Communication Skills. A national survey of 6,120 practicing teachers wa…

  • Celebration, Politics, Selective Looting and Riots

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Problems•1997•Cited by: 14•References: 22

    In the aftermath of the Bulls riot of 1992, which started as a celebration of a basketball victory but turned into a night of looting and rioting in Chicago's black ghettos, local and national newspapers asked: was it just a celebration? Was it an expression of pent-up anger and frustration? Had Korean and Arab merchants been targeted? The sociological literature on riots contains a great deal of analysis of city level data, but few micro level s…

  • The salience of PAN-national hispanic and Asian identities in U.S. marriage markets

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2001•Cited by: 48•References: 24

    In this paper I test whether “Hispanic” and “Asian” identities are salient in the U.S. marriage market. That is, I determine whether the different Asian and Hispanic national groups intermarry often enough to suggest that Asian and Hispanic pan-national identities are important. Analysis of census data from 1980 and 1990 suggests that both Hispanic and Asian pan-national identities are significant forces. Variations in the strength of pan-nationa…

  • Measures of Assimilation in the Marriage Market

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2002•Cited by: 57•References: 15

    In 1965 the United States rewrote its immigration laws, and immigration increased sharply as a result. The immigrants and the children of immigrants from the post-1965 period are slowly becoming more influential in U.S. life; the largest of these groups are the Mexican immigrants and the Mexican Americans. The rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations in the United States has led to a renewed interest in the question of assimilation; that is…

  • The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same-Sex Unions

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Byung-Soo Kim et al.•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2005•Cited by: 92•References: 35

    Interracial unions and same-sex unions were rare and secretive in the past because U.S. society was organized to suppress such unions. The rise of same-sex and interracial unions in the past few decades suggests changes in the basic structure of U.S. society. Young adults have been marrying later, and single young adults are much less likely to live with their parents. The independence of young adults has reduced parental control over their child…

  • A Critique of Exchange Theory in Mate Selection

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2005•Cited by: 83•References: 55

    Status‐caste exchange theory predicts that in interracial marriages one partner's socioeconomic status is exchanged for the other's racial caste status. The author examines the contradictory literature on the theory specifically in relation to black‐white intermarriage and offers three explanations for the divergent findings. First, black‐white inequality has obscured the actual status homogamy typifying intermarriage. Second, gender differences …

  • Young Adulthood as a Factor in Social Change in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 31

    This essay compares family change during two periods of social and historical upheaval in the United States: the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century and the more recent family changes of the late twentieth century. Despite the manifest social and demographic changes brought about by the industrial revolution, some aspects of family life remained unchanged. Almost all new families formed in the United States before and during the …

  • Racial, Educational and Religious Endogamy in the United States

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2008•Cited by: 102•References: 23

    This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market. Second, higher education has little effect on racial endogamy for blacks and whites. Third, the divisi…

  • The Age of Independence

    M J Rosenfeld•BOOK•Age of Independence•2009•Cited by: 8

  • Still Weak Support for Status‐Caste Exchange

    M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2010•Cited by: 19•References: 4

  • Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 42

    I use U.S. census data to perform the first large-sample, nationally representative tests of outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples. The results show that children of same-sex couples are as likely to make normal progress through school as the children of most other family structures. Heterosexual married couples are the family type whose children have the lowest rates of grade retention, but the advantage of heterosexual married couple…

  • Searching for a Mate

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Reuben J Thomas•ARTICLE•American Sociological Review•2012•Cited by: 207•References: 44

    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 Together survey. Results show that for 60 years, family and grade school have been steadily declining in their influence over the dating market. In the past 15 years, the rise of the Internet has partly displaced not only family and school, but also neighborhood, friends, and the…

  • Reply to Allen et al

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Demography•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 5

    Allen et al.’s results depend on their inclusion of children whose family at the time of their grade retention is unknown, plus adopted and foster children whose selection process into families is unknown. Children whose family has been through upheavals or transitions are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children raised by stable same-sex couples do remarkably well in school

  • Is Global Constitutionalism Meaningful or Desirable

    M J Rosenfeld, M Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•European Journal of International…•2014•Cited by: 6

    Upon conceiving constitutionalism on the scale of the nation-state as transparent and unproblematic, one may think global constitutionalism to be a mere utopia. On closer analysis, however, legitimation of nation-state constitutionalism turns out to be much more complex and contested than initially apparent, as becomes evident based on the contrast between liberal and illiberal constitutionalism. Upon the realization that nation-state liberal con…

  • Couple Longevity in the Era of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2014•Cited by: 29•References: 30

    The author used a new longitudinal data set, the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surveys (N = 3,009), to generate the first nationally representative comparison of same-sex couple stability and heterosexual couple stability in the United States. He measured the association between marriage (by several definitions of marriage) and couple longevity for same-sex couples in the United States. Reports of same-sex relationship instability in the pas…

  • Revisiting the Data from the New Family Structure Study

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2015•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This analysis revisits recent controversial findings about children of gay and lesbian parents, and shows that family instability explains most of the negative outcomes that had been attributed to gay and lesbian parents. Family transitions associated with parental loss of custody were more common than breakups of same-sex couples among family transitions experienced by subjects who ever lived with same-sex couples. The analyses also show that mo…

  • Moving a Mountain

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2017•Cited by: 33•References: 32

    Most public opinion attitudes in the United States are reasonably stable over time. Using data from the General Social Survey and the American National Election Studies, I quantify typical change rates across all attitudes. I quantify the extent to which change in same-sex marriage approval (and liberalization in attitudes toward gay rights in general) are among a small set of rapid changing outliers in surveyed public opinions. No measured publi…

  • Disintermediating your friends

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Reuben J Thomas et al.•ARTICLE•Proceedings of the National…•2019

    We present data from a nationally representative 2017 survey of American adults. For heterosexual couples in the United States, meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. Moreover, among the couples who meet online, the proportion who have met through the mediation of third persons has declined over time. We find that Internet meeting is displacing the roles that …

  • Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation's Association With Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2019•Cited by: 16•References: 25

    BackgroundBefore data existed on premarital cohabitation and divorce, scholars assumed that the experience of premarital cohabitation would select compatible couples into marriage and lead to lower rates of divorce. The advent of data on premarital cohabitation and divorce overturned the early preconceptions, as premarital cohabitation was found to be associated with higher rates of divorce. Premarital cohabitation has risen dramatically in the U…

  • Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Objective Our goal is to show how premarital cohabitation's association with marital dissolution can be measured consistently over time. Background Rosenfeld and Roesler (2019) showed that premarital cohabitation led to lower rates of marital dissolution early in marital duration, but higher rates of marital dissolution after a few years of marital duration. Analysis based on marriage cohorts can erroneously appear to show that the association be…

  • Resilience and Stress in Romantic Relationships in the United States During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Sonia Hausen•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We measure the perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on romantic relationships in the United States. We contrast Family Stress theories emphasizing potential harms of the pandemic with Family Resilience Theory suggesting that crises can lead couples to build meaning and strengthen their relationships. We examine closed-ended and open-ended questions about relationship responses to the pandemic from the How Couples Meet and Stay Together surve…

  • Stability and change in predictors of marital dissolution in the US 1950–2017

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld, Katharina Roesler•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2024

    Objective Our goal is to measure change over time in the predictors of marital dissolution in the United States. Background The last comprehensive comparative analysis of predictors of marital dissolution is more than 20 years out of date. Rising inequality in the United States requires a fresh look at the predictors of marital dissolution. The Diverging Destinies hypothesis predicts greater inequality over time in the divorce rate between groups…

  • The Surprising Decline of Workplace Sexual Harassment Incidence in the U.S. Federal Workforce

    Open Access•M J Rosenfeld•ARTICLE•Sociological Science•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) surveys document a decline of more than 50 percent between 1987 and 2016 in the percentage of women working for the federal government who have been sexually harassed (narrowly or broadly defined) in the prior two years. This decline has been underappreciated due to the infrequency of USMSPB surveys and the delayed release of the USMSPB report based on the 2016 survey. The decline in workplace sexual h…

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