R Macmillan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 48490 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Macmillan |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Macmillan |
| FIRMA | MACMILLAN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4397-5900 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 686 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Re-Assessing the Impact of Brexit on British Fertility Using Difference-in-Difference Estimation
The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (“Brexit”) was a seismic, and largely unexpected, political and economic event. In a recent contribution to this journal, Mavropoulos (2024) used difference-in-difference (DID) estimation to examine the impact of Brexit on fertility dynamics among European countries and concludes that there are large and robust Brexit effects. DID estimation is a tool for extracting quasi-causal estimates fro…
Are “bad” jobs bad for democracy? Precarious work and electoral participation in Europe
Introduction While socioeconomic inequality in voting has been central for research on electoral participation, recent years have seen radical changes in labor relations. The key issue is increasing prevalence of precarious work, involving dimensions as non-indefinite tenure and limited control over work activities. While occupations traditionally were the locus of political socialization, there is scarce research connecting occupational uncertai…
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms
The idea that socioeconomic differences are a “fundamental cause” of health and well-being is the basis for large volumes of research. However, one of the challenges in this area is that of linking socioeconomic positions to etiological mechanisms in theoretically informative ways. The situation is doubly challenging because the expression and meaning of socioeconomic positions and the mechanisms they activate change over time. Focusing on depres…
Why Precarious Work Is Bad for Health
The expansion of precarious work in recent decades has motivated a large body of research on its implications for health. While considerable work has focused on whether precarious work undermines health, much less is known about why it matters. To fill this gap, this paper offers and tests a conceptual model whereby the effects of precarious work on health are mediated by social marginality, specifically reduced self-efficacy, weaker social integ…
Until work do us part
While recent decades have seen considerable research on cohabitation without marriage, the study of marriage without cohabitation has not fared as well. Prior work on the latter has emphasized the importance of occupational stratification, but ignored the social context around occupation, particularly regarding labour mobility and economic development. In this paper, we outline the significance of contemporary labour mobility and concomitant occu…
Gender and the Politics of Death
There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and the conditions under which this might be enhanced or muted are not well understood. In this article, we draw on theoretical work on the politics of representation to frame an investigation of whether increases in the percentage of females in a country…
Schooling, Skills, and Self-rated Health
Education is a key sociological variable in the explanation of health and health disparities. Conventional wisdom emphasizes a life course-human capital perspective with expectations of causal effects that are quasi-linear, large in magnitude for high levels of educational attainment, and reasonably robust in the face of measured and unmeasured explanatory factors. We challenge this wisdom by offering an alternative theoretical account and an emp…
Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood
Personality and the Reproduction of Social Class
A burgeoning literature in psychology and economics examines how personality characteristics predict indicators of attained status. We build on this research by suggesting that connections between personality and attained status are also socially contingent: Valued personality characteristics are stronger predictors of attainments at lower levels of parent education (the resource substitution hypothesis), but such characteristics are less likely …
A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood
The association between parent's health and the educational attainment of their children
Youth in Transition
Transitions from School to Work
Young People Making a Life
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
The Context of Marriage and Crime
Marriage is central to theoretical debates over stability and change in criminal offending over the life course. Yet, unlike other social ties such as employment, marriage is distinct in that it cannot be randomly assigned in survey research to more definitively assess causal effects of marriage on offending. As a result, key questions remain as to whether different individual propensities toward marriage shape its salience as a deterrent institu…
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Their Associations with Physical Health, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work is to formally model patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) separately for males and females and to assess the unique contributions of different types of violence exposure to health related outcomes. METHODS: Using data from the National Violence Against Women Survey--a national probability sample of U.S. men and women--latent class analyses produced a map of the underlying structure of IPV for both males…
Special Reviewers
Families in the Life Course
Families are central in the unfolding life course. They have both internal and external dynamics that reflect and characterize the modern life span, and a life course perspective has particular utility for understanding the role and implications of families for individuals and society. The purpose of this paper is 3-fold. First, we offer a family life course perspective that delineates core concepts of roles, role configurations, and pathways, sp…
Violence in the Transition to Adulthood
There is increasing speculation about links between violent victimization in childhood and adolescence and socioeconomic disadvantage in later adulthood, yet little work, either theoretical or empirical, has examined this issue. This paper integrates research on social and psychological consequences of victimization with theory and research on socioeconomic attainment to propose a theoretical model that situates adolescent victimization in the so…
Necessary Conditions
Violence and the Life Course
Considerable research documents the consequences of criminal violence for victims. At the same time, a strong relationship exists between age and risk of violent victimization; risk is greatest in childhood and adolescence. This article joins these two issues by examining the implications of violent victimization for personal and social development. The discussion is divided into three sections. The first section situates violent victimization in…
Experiencing the Streets
Although research consistently shows that women feel unsafe in a variety of situations, the social sources of these perceptions have not been clearly identified. This article examines, theoretically and empirically, the influence of sexual harassment on perceptions of safety among women. Because perceptions of safety among women are largely related to fears of sexual victimization, sexual harassment, particularly when it involves strangers, shoul…
Adolescent Victimization and Income Deficits in Adulthood
Estimating the financial costs of criminal violence to victims is important for assessing both the impact of crime on individuals and evaluating the feasibility and utility of various crime prevention, crime control, and criminal justice policies. Traditionally, such estimates focus on short‐term costs: costs connected to the victimization event itself and costs incurred during the immediate aftermath. Although the possibility of more long‐term c…
Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways A Latent Structure Approach
New Kid in Town
Les AA. etudient l'impact des demenagements sur la vie des familles et plus particulierement sur la reussite scolaire des enfants. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees a Toronto, au Canada, entre 1976 et 1989. Ils s'efforcent de dresser une typologie des demenagements effectues par les familles et leur frequence. Ils examinent l'influence en ce domaine d'un certain nombre de facteurs comme la structure familiale, le statut socio…
Violence and the Life Course
Considerable research documents the consequences of criminal violence for victims. At the same time, a strong relationship exists between age and risk of violent victimization; risk is greatest in childhood and adolescence. This article joins these two issues by examining the implications of violent victimization for personal and social development. The discussion is divided into three sections. The first section situates violent victimization in…
The Context of Marriage and Crime
Marriage is central to theoretical debates over stability and change in criminal offending over the life course. Yet, unlike other social ties such as employment, marriage is distinct in that it cannot be randomly assigned in survey research to more definitively assess causal effects of marriage on offending. As a result, key questions remain as to whether different individual propensities toward marriage shape its salience as a deterrent institu…
When She Brings Home the Bacon
Ross Macmillan, Rosemary Gartner, When She Brings Home the Bacon: Labor-Force Participation and the Risk of Spousal Violence against Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 947-958
Just Des(s)erts? The Racial Polarization of Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
Sociologists have long been interested in how reactions to deviance influence social order and consensus. However, classic statements on this subject present contrasting hypotheses. This article extends previous work by examining how the extensive media coverage of an interracial homicide influences public attitudes toward the criminal justice system. Initial results indicate that race, education, and police contact directly effect perceptions of…
Families in the Life Course
Families are central in the unfolding life course. They have both internal and external dynamics that reflect and characterize the modern life span, and a life course perspective has particular utility for understanding the role and implications of families for individuals and society. The purpose of this paper is 3-fold. First, we offer a family life course perspective that delineates core concepts of roles, role configurations, and pathways, sp…
Violence in the Transition to Adulthood
There is increasing speculation about links between violent victimization in childhood and adolescence and socioeconomic disadvantage in later adulthood, yet little work, either theoretical or empirical, has examined this issue. This paper integrates research on social and psychological consequences of victimization with theory and research on socioeconomic attainment to propose a theoretical model that situates adolescent victimization in the so…
A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood
Adolescent Victimization and Income Deficits in Adulthood
Estimating the financial costs of criminal violence to victims is important for assessing both the impact of crime on individuals and evaluating the feasibility and utility of various crime prevention, crime control, and criminal justice policies. Traditionally, such estimates focus on short‐term costs: costs connected to the victimization event itself and costs incurred during the immediate aftermath. Although the possibility of more long‐term c…
The association between parent's health and the educational attainment of their children
Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood
Schooling, Skills, and Self-rated Health
Education is a key sociological variable in the explanation of health and health disparities. Conventional wisdom emphasizes a life course-human capital perspective with expectations of causal effects that are quasi-linear, large in magnitude for high levels of educational attainment, and reasonably robust in the face of measured and unmeasured explanatory factors. We challenge this wisdom by offering an alternative theoretical account and an emp…
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
Gender and the Politics of Death
There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and the conditions under which this might be enhanced or muted are not well understood. In this article, we draw on theoretical work on the politics of representation to frame an investigation of whether increases in the percentage of females in a country…
Until work do us part
While recent decades have seen considerable research on cohabitation without marriage, the study of marriage without cohabitation has not fared as well. Prior work on the latter has emphasized the importance of occupational stratification, but ignored the social context around occupation, particularly regarding labour mobility and economic development. In this paper, we outline the significance of contemporary labour mobility and concomitant occu…
Changes in the Structure of Life Courses and the Decline of Social Capital in Canadian Society
Ross Macmillan, Changes in the Structure of Life Courses and the Decline of Social Capital in Canadian Society: A Time Series Analysis of Property Crime Rates, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 51-79
Head injuries in accident and emergency departments. How different are children from adults
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the differences between child and adult patients attending accident and emergency departments after recent head injuries. DESIGN AND SETTING--A retrospective survey based on existing case records from 23 Scottish accident and emergency departments for 1985 was compared with prospective data from one hospital over 9 months in 1984. PATIENTS--3838 children under 15 and 4775 adults attended hospit…
Are “bad” jobs bad for democracy? Precarious work and electoral participation in Europe
Introduction While socioeconomic inequality in voting has been central for research on electoral participation, recent years have seen radical changes in labor relations. The key issue is increasing prevalence of precarious work, involving dimensions as non-indefinite tenure and limited control over work activities. While occupations traditionally were the locus of political socialization, there is scarce research connecting occupational uncertai…
Explaining the Occupational Structure of Depressive Symptoms
The idea that socioeconomic differences are a “fundamental cause” of health and well-being is the basis for large volumes of research. However, one of the challenges in this area is that of linking socioeconomic positions to etiological mechanisms in theoretically informative ways. The situation is doubly challenging because the expression and meaning of socioeconomic positions and the mechanisms they activate change over time. Focusing on depres…
Youth in Transition
Transitions from School to Work
Young People Making a Life
Head injuries in accident and emergency departments. How different are children from adults
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the differences between child and adult patients attending accident and emergency departments after recent head injuries. DESIGN AND SETTING--A retrospective survey based on existing case records from 23 Scottish accident and emergency departments for 1985 was compared with prospective data from one hospital over 9 months in 1984. PATIENTS--3838 children under 15 and 4775 adults attended hospit…
The effect of victim-offender relationship on reporting crimes of violence against women
The effect of victim-offender relationship on reporting crimes of violence against women Rosemary Gartner and Ross Macmillan University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario This paper examines how a crime victim's relationship with her offender affects the likelihood that police will learn about the crime. While both mainstream and feminist social science perspectives predict that the more intimate the relationship, the less likely police awareness of the…
Changes in the Structure of Life Courses and the Decline of Social Capital in Canadian Society
Ross Macmillan, Changes in the Structure of Life Courses and the Decline of Social Capital in Canadian Society: A Time Series Analysis of Property Crime Rates, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 51-79
New Kid in Town
Les AA. etudient l'impact des demenagements sur la vie des familles et plus particulierement sur la reussite scolaire des enfants. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees a Toronto, au Canada, entre 1976 et 1989. Ils s'efforcent de dresser une typologie des demenagements effectues par les familles et leur frequence. Ils examinent l'influence en ce domaine d'un certain nombre de facteurs comme la structure familiale, le statut socio…
Just Des(s)erts? The Racial Polarization of Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
Sociologists have long been interested in how reactions to deviance influence social order and consensus. However, classic statements on this subject present contrasting hypotheses. This article extends previous work by examining how the extensive media coverage of an interracial homicide influences public attitudes toward the criminal justice system. Initial results indicate that race, education, and police contact directly effect perceptions of…
Hate Crime
These twelve previously unpublished essays explore the international phenomenon of hate crime, examining the socio-psychological dynamics of these crimes and the settings in which they occur, the relationships between offenders and their victims, the emotional states of the participants, and the legal and law enforcement responses to these crimes.The essays address religious, racial, ethnic, and sexual crimes in the United States, Latin America, …
When She Brings Home the Bacon
Ross Macmillan, Rosemary Gartner, When She Brings Home the Bacon: Labor-Force Participation and the Risk of Spousal Violence against Women, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 947-958
Experiencing the Streets
Although research consistently shows that women feel unsafe in a variety of situations, the social sources of these perceptions have not been clearly identified. This article examines, theoretically and empirically, the influence of sexual harassment on perceptions of safety among women. Because perceptions of safety among women are largely related to fears of sexual victimization, sexual harassment, particularly when it involves strangers, shoul…
Adolescent Victimization and Income Deficits in Adulthood
Estimating the financial costs of criminal violence to victims is important for assessing both the impact of crime on individuals and evaluating the feasibility and utility of various crime prevention, crime control, and criminal justice policies. Traditionally, such estimates focus on short‐term costs: costs connected to the victimization event itself and costs incurred during the immediate aftermath. Although the possibility of more long‐term c…
Violence and the Life Course
Considerable research documents the consequences of criminal violence for victims. At the same time, a strong relationship exists between age and risk of violent victimization; risk is greatest in childhood and adolescence. This article joins these two issues by examining the implications of violent victimization for personal and social development. The discussion is divided into three sections. The first section situates violent victimization in…
Violence in the Transition to Adulthood
There is increasing speculation about links between violent victimization in childhood and adolescence and socioeconomic disadvantage in later adulthood, yet little work, either theoretical or empirical, has examined this issue. This paper integrates research on social and psychological consequences of victimization with theory and research on socioeconomic attainment to propose a theoretical model that situates adolescent victimization in the so…
Necessary Conditions
Special Reviewers
Families in the Life Course
Families are central in the unfolding life course. They have both internal and external dynamics that reflect and characterize the modern life span, and a life course perspective has particular utility for understanding the role and implications of families for individuals and society. The purpose of this paper is 3-fold. First, we offer a family life course perspective that delineates core concepts of roles, role configurations, and pathways, sp…
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence and Their Associations with Physical Health, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work is to formally model patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) separately for males and females and to assess the unique contributions of different types of violence exposure to health related outcomes. METHODS: Using data from the National Violence Against Women Survey--a national probability sample of U.S. men and women--latent class analyses produced a map of the underlying structure of IPV for both males…
The Context of Marriage and Crime
Marriage is central to theoretical debates over stability and change in criminal offending over the life course. Yet, unlike other social ties such as employment, marriage is distinct in that it cannot be randomly assigned in survey research to more definitively assess causal effects of marriage on offending. As a result, key questions remain as to whether different individual propensities toward marriage shape its salience as a deterrent institu…
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
Young People Making a Life
Youth in Transition
Transitions from School to Work
A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood
The association between parent's health and the educational attainment of their children
Personality and the Reproduction of Social Class
A burgeoning literature in psychology and economics examines how personality characteristics predict indicators of attained status. We build on this research by suggesting that connections between personality and attained status are also socially contingent: Valued personality characteristics are stronger predictors of attainments at lower levels of parent education (the resource substitution hypothesis), but such characteristics are less likely …
Schooling, Skills, and Self-rated Health
Education is a key sociological variable in the explanation of health and health disparities. Conventional wisdom emphasizes a life course-human capital perspective with expectations of causal effects that are quasi-linear, large in magnitude for high levels of educational attainment, and reasonably robust in the face of measured and unmeasured explanatory factors. We challenge this wisdom by offering an alternative theoretical account and an emp…
Parental and adolescent health behaviors and pathways to adulthood
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