Gene Sharp

Biographic Data

ID136999
NAMEGene Sharp
GIVEN NAMESGene
FAMILY NAMESharp
SIGNATURESHARP G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
ORCID0000-0001-7458-7383
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS261
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9

  • Within-Day Diversity Change, Neighborhood Social Cohesion, and Fear of Crime

    Open AccessChris L He, Youngmin Yi et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2025References: 36

    Research on neighborhood social organization and crime typically conceptualizes neighborhood change on the order of decades, even though the local social contexts that individuals experience change daily through mobility for work, errands and recreation. In this study, the authors analyze data from the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey linked to the Census Transportation Planning Products to investigate whether within-day changes in neighbor…

  • Nowhere to Launch? County-Level Correlates of Home-Leaving and Home-Returning

    Open AccessC Warner, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2024Cited by: 1References: 32

    Coresidence with parents is now the most common living arrangement among young adults (ages 18–29) in the United States. For many, coresidence comes after first leaving home and living in an independent household. Recent shifts in these residential transitions has spurred renewed research in this area, with a focus on contemporaneous young adult characteristics, individual well-being, and the family context. Largely overlooked in this research is…

  • Community social environments and cigarette smoking

    Open AccessJustin T Denney, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Cigarette smoking remains a primary contributor to health disparities in the United States, and significant evidence suggests that smoking behavior is socially influenced. Though residential neighborhoods are important for health disparities, recent evidence suggests that people spend the majority of their waking time away from the residential neighborhood. We advance research on neighborhoods and smoking by using individual, neighborhood, and ac…

  • (Can’t Get No) Neighborhood Satisfaction? How Multilevel Immigration Factors Shape Latinos’ Neighborhood Attitudes

    Open AccessA Schachter, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2020Cited by: 1References: 37

    How does immigrant generation shape Latinos’ neighborhood attitudes? We extend theoretical frameworks focused on neighborhood attainment to explore how immigrant generation structures Latinos’ neighborhood satisfaction, particularly with respect to neighborhood immigrant composition. Using longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, we estimate fixed-effects regression models to examine the associations between self-rep…

  • Neighborhood social environments, healthy resources, and adult diabetes: Accounting for activity space exposures

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Gregory Sharp et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2020Cited by: 4References: 6

  • Tapped Out? Racial Disparities in Extrahousehold Kin Resources and the Loss of Homeownership

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Gregory Sharp et al.ARTICLEDemography2020Cited by: 4References: 49

    Research shows that extrahousehold kin economic resources contribute to the racial gap in transitions into homeownership, but the extent to which these resources matter for racial disparities in exits from homeownership is less understood. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1984–2017, we examine the role of extrahousehold kin wealth and poverty in shaping racial inequalities in the risk of exiting homeownership. Our …

  • Changing in place? Neighbourhood change and place attachment among movers and stayers in Los Angeles

    Open AccessGene SharpARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2018Cited by: 4References: 18

    Recent research on neighbourhood effects has stressed the importance of adopting a dynamic approach by incorporating residential mobility into analyses of neighbourhood change and individual outcomes. This study uses longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighbourhood Survey to examine how changes in residential neighbourhood conditions shape two dimensions of place attachment—neighbourhood satisfaction and neighbouring—for people who…

  • Eclipsing Community? Neighborhood Disadvantage, Social Mechanisms, and Neighborly Attitudes and Behaviors

    Open AccessGene SharpARTICLECity and Community2018Cited by: 6References: 27

    This study investigates how objective neighborhood characteristics influence attitudinal and behavioral dimensions of community social organization. Grounded in ecological and neighborhood effects traditions, I extend prior inquiries by adjudicating the social mechanisms that link neighborhood disadvantage with residents’ satisfaction and neighboring. Results from longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey indicate that…

  • Neighborhood Structure, Community Social Organization, and Residential Mobility

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Cody WarnerARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2018Cited by: 6References: 61

    This article expands on classic models of residential mobility by investigating how neighborhood features influence mobility thoughts and actual mobility, with a particular focus on the role of neighborhood disorder and several indicators of community social organization. Using longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, the authors find that actual mobility is more susceptible to neighborhood structural conditions than…

  • Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk

    Open AccessRachel Tolbert Kimbro, Rachel Kimbro et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2017Cited by: 7References: 15

  • Ethnoracial Diversity across the Rural-Urban Continuum

    Open AccessBarrett A Lee, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2017Cited by: 16References: 21

    Scholarship and popular opinion regard cities as more racially and ethnically diverse than rural communities. However, recent trends hint at the possibility of less distinctive diversity profiles on either side of the metro-nonmetro divide. To explore this, we compare the magnitude and structure of ethnoracial diversity in more than 27,000 census-defined places arrayed across ten different types of county contexts that spanned the rural-urban con…

  • New Faces in Rural Places: Patterns and Sources of Nonmetropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity since 1990

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Gregory Sharp et al.ARTICLERural Sociology2017Cited by: 23References: 17

    Much of the research on ethnoracial diversity in nonmetropolitan America consists of case studies describing how the arrival of Hispanics has transformed a particular community. To complement this work, we examine the dimensions and sources of diversity for a sample of 10,000 nonmetro places. We identify two dimensions of diversity-magnitude and structure-and draw hypotheses about their changes and correlates from the spatial assimilation and loc…

  • Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children: A Disadvantage Paradox

    Justin T Denney, Rachel Tolbert Kimbro et al.ARTICLESocial Problems2017References: 55

    In the United States, more than 1 in 5 households with children are unable to access and provide adequate food for a healthy, active lifestyle. We argue that the contribution of local context for food insecurity risk has largely been overlooked in favor of focusing on individual family characteristics, and that this is problematic given that mitigating food insecurity may be a communal process. We examine the relevance of neighborhood contributor…

  • Multiple contexts of exposure: Activity spaces, residential neighborhoods, and self-rated health

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Gregory Sharp et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Cited by: 31References: 53

  • L'avenir de la non-violence: Un entretien avec Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Gene Sharp, Ramin Jahanbegloo et al.ARTICLEDiogène2014

  • Emerging Forms of Racial Inequality in Homeownership Exit, 1968–2009

    Gene Sharp, Matthew HallARTICLESocial Problems2014Cited by: 24References: 6

    Because homeownership continues to be a key mechanism underlying racial inequality in America, recent developments that led to the foreclosure crisis bring to the forefront issues concerning minority homeowners ’ ability to sustain ownership. This article uses longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine racial differences in the likelihood of homeownership exit over the last four decades. We find that black homeowners are…

  • The Future of Nonviolence: A Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

    Open AccessGene SharpARTICLEDiogenes2014

  • White Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Conceptual Issues, Patterns, and Trends from the U.S. Census, 1980 to 2010

    Open AccessJ Iceland, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2013Cited by: 33References: 42

  • Sun Belt Rising: Regional Population Change and the Decline in Black Residential Segregation, 1970–2009

    Open AccessJ Iceland, Gene Sharp et al.ARTICLEDemography2013Cited by: 36References: 22

    The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the overall decline in black segregation in the United States in recent decades. Using data from the 1970 to 2000 decennial censuses and the 2005–2009 American Community Survey (ACS), our analysis indicates that black dissimilarity and isolation declined more in the South…

  • The residential segregation patterns of whites by socioeconomic status, 2000-2011

    Open AccessGene Sharp, Gregory Sharp et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2013Cited by: 7References: 41

  • Ethnic Residential Segregation by Nativity in Great Britain and the United States

    J Iceland, Pablo Mateos et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2011Cited by: 12References: 12

    This study examines patterns of ethnic residential integration in Great Britain and the United States. Using data from 2000/2001 censuses from these two countries, we compute segregation indexes for comparably-defined ethnic groups by nativity and for specific foreign-born groups. We find that blacks are much less segregated in Great Britain than in the U.S, and black segregation patterns by nativity tend to be consistent with spatial assimilatio…

  • Sharp's dictionary of power and struggle: Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts

    Gene SharpBOOKSharp's dictionary of power and…2011

  • Nonviolent Action: A Research Guide

    Open AccessRonald M McCarthy, Gene Sharp et al.BOOKNonviolent action1997

    An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several cl…

  • The Intifadah and Nonviolent Struggle

    Gene SharpARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies1989Cited by: 8

    (1989). The Intifadah and Nonviolent Struggle. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 3-13

  • The Intifadah and Nonviolent Struggle

    Gene SharpARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies1989Cited by: 3