Kim Vo
Biographic Data
| ID | 175962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Vo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Vo |
| SIGNATURE | VO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3841-5757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 423 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dental school caries and periodontitis risk analysis skillset: Survey of carryover to practice
BACKGROUND: Scarce evidence is available in how clinicians process the management of high-risk individuals in real-world scenarios. The purpose of the present study is to discern the degree to which graduates apply explicit risk analysis skillsets in practice over time, and how graduates prioritize risk factors for caries and periodontitis. METHODS: The importance of risk factors for caries and periodontitis and management of low/high risk privat…
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States
Many scholars and activists consider civil rights to be a powerful, effective way to frame diverse causes, but do civil rights claims actually resonate? Building on social movements, collective memory, and public opinion scholarship, we conceptualize civil rights claims in three non-mutually-exclusive ways: as a highly resonant "master frame" grounded in core American ideals of equal rights, as an appeal to the idealized memory of the Civil Right…
Use of Virtual Reality to Improve Expressive Communication and Social Skills Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been implemented in classrooms to improve higher-order thinking and enhance curricula. VR technology may be useful for improving current methods of social skill
Inactive and Quiescent? Immigrant Collective Action in Comparative Perspective, 1960 to 1995
Social movement mobilization by and on behalf of immigrants occurs frequently today, but sociologists have been slow to include immigrant collective action in the canon of social movement or immigration scholarship. Is this because, until recently, immigrant protest was minimal or limited in scope? The authors take a macro-comparative approach, recoding the Dynamics of Collective Action dataset to compare proimmigrant collective action with parad…
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980-2010
Fewer than half of America's college students complete their bachelor's degrees. To many, cost seems to be the crucial barrier. Sociologists of education have long argued, though, that inequalities start before costs matter. Entrenched 'sort and sieve' processes apportion outcomes to family background. The whole system of grading, testing, and selecting some students while rejecting others makes a degree much more likely for students from higher …
Movement or moment? Lessons from the pro-immigrant movement in the United States and contemporary challenges
This introduction to the special issue takes stock of the current state of the pro-immigrant movement in the United States. It begins by reflecting back on the massive demonstrations for immigrant rights that swept the U.S. in 2006 and considers whether they should be seen as one episode in a broad, long-term immigrant movement, or just a remarkable but ephemeral moment of spontaneous political action. We contend that a true social movement on be…
The limits of rights: Claims-Making on Behalf of Immigrants
Activists do not just ‘name’ problems faced by migrants; they ‘frame’ them, constructing a particular meaning of the social world. Activists in the United States are especially likely to use rights language. Some appeal to human rights; others call on the history and resonance of civil rights. Those who contest immigrant inclusion often instead evoke ‘American values’. Are these competing frames persuasive? Drawing on a survey experiment of Calif…
The Great Defunding of Public Higher Education in America
Rights, Economics, or Family?Frame Resonance, Political Ideology, and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Although social movement scholars in the United States have long ignored activism over immigration, this movement raises important theoretical and empirical questions, especially given many immigrants' lack of citizenship. Is the rights “master” frame, used extensively by other US social movements, persuasive in making claims for noncitizens? If not, which other movement frames resonate with the public? We leverage survey experiments—largely the …
Same as It Ever Was? New Labor, the CIO Organizing Model, and the Future of American Unions
Jane McAlevey makes a significant contribution in her critique of labor's growing use of the corporate campaign to stem union decline. But in placing the blame for the strategy's adoption on the excessive influence of Saul Alinsky's organizing model, she misses a much more fundamental cause: the changed nature of capital
The local in the global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium
We discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize locally-based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil, “livability movements” in third world cities, and living wage movements in the US. Movements like these come to the attention of most social movement analysts only when the activists who participate in them come together in the streets of Seattle or international forums l…
Enduring Legacy? Charles Tilly and Durable Inequality
This article assesses Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality and traces its influence. In writing Durable Inequality, Tilly sought to shift the research agenda of stratification scholars. But the book's initial impact was disappointing. In recent years, however, its influence has grown, suggesting a more enduring legacy
Labor History symposium: Gay W. Seidman, Beyond the Boycott
Labor Movement
The labor movement is a broad, multidimensional social formation that is generated from the social structures of work and industry in a society. It may comprise both legally recognized and formally sanctioned institutions (like trade unions, political parties, and works councils) as well as less formal groupings of workers and their allies (industrial actions, organizations of strike supporters, dissident movements within unions, cultural forms, …
New Unity for Labor
From the ?Editor?s Introduction?: Within today?s AFL-CIO, a different set of frustrations with the bureaucratic structure and leadership is simmering. The relative lack of new organizing and the continuous toll of jurisdictional rivalries have produced a call for radical restructuring, or ?New Unity Partnership? (NUP). As articulated by the leaders of some of the most powerful and dynamic of federation affiliates, including the Service Employees …
Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. Hard Work begins with a comparison of t…
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement
The recent revitalization of the American labor movement presents a paradox for social movement scholars. Long seen as exemplifying the conservative goal and tactical transformation associated with Michels’s iron law of oligarchy, few would expect organized labor to embrace radical goals and tactics. Yet some local unions have done just that. This article addresses the question of how social movement organizations are able to break out of bureauc…
Response to Nielsen's Review of Inequality by Design
A New Genre: Contra-Bell Curve
Happy Days are Here Again
The collapse of a social movement: The interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor
Failure is an unpopular subject among social movement scholars. Like death and taxes at social gatherings, it is a topic that many of us avoid. In contrast, the birth of insurgency is eagerly debated. As a result, our theories of movement emergence are much more sophisticated and convincing than our models of movement development and decline. However, while social movement failure is a neglected topic theoretically, in the empirical world it occu…
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays a…
The political economy of inequality in the “age of extremes”
Massey spresidential address correctly points to growing economic inequality as one of the pressing issues of our day, but his analysis gives short shrift to the political institutions that underlie the economic trends. We supplement his analysis with a review of some of those institutions. In particular we point out how politics mediates between computerized production and inequality, between the segregation of education and inequality, and (dra…
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays a…
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement
The recent revitalization of the American labor movement presents a paradox for social movement scholars. Long seen as exemplifying the conservative goal and tactical transformation associated with Michels’s iron law of oligarchy, few would expect organized labor to embrace radical goals and tactics. Yet some local unions have done just that. This article addresses the question of how social movement organizations are able to break out of bureauc…
Formal Organization and the Fate of Social Movements: Craft Association and Class Alliance in the Knights of Labor
This paper asks how an existing field offormal organizations influences the formation of social movements around new interests. Data on the Knights of Labor are used to examine how craft organization in the iron and steel industry affected the incorporation of industrial workers into the labor movement. We find that even in the absence of ideological opposition to class-based organization, building on craft associations tended to create a divided…
Movement or moment? Lessons from the pro-immigrant movement in the United States and contemporary challenges
This introduction to the special issue takes stock of the current state of the pro-immigrant movement in the United States. It begins by reflecting back on the massive demonstrations for immigrant rights that swept the U.S. in 2006 and considers whether they should be seen as one episode in a broad, long-term immigrant movement, or just a remarkable but ephemeral moment of spontaneous political action. We contend that a true social movement on be…
The limits of rights: Claims-Making on Behalf of Immigrants
Activists do not just ‘name’ problems faced by migrants; they ‘frame’ them, constructing a particular meaning of the social world. Activists in the United States are especially likely to use rights language. Some appeal to human rights; others call on the history and resonance of civil rights. Those who contest immigrant inclusion often instead evoke ‘American values’. Are these competing frames persuasive? Drawing on a survey experiment of Calif…
The local in the global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium
We discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize locally-based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil, “livability movements” in third world cities, and living wage movements in the US. Movements like these come to the attention of most social movement analysts only when the activists who participate in them come together in the streets of Seattle or international forums l…
Enduring Legacy? Charles Tilly and Durable Inequality
This article assesses Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality and traces its influence. In writing Durable Inequality, Tilly sought to shift the research agenda of stratification scholars. But the book's initial impact was disappointing. In recent years, however, its influence has grown, suggesting a more enduring legacy
Labor organization and class alliance: Industries, communities, and the Knights of Labor
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980-2010
Fewer than half of America's college students complete their bachelor's degrees. To many, cost seems to be the crucial barrier. Sociologists of education have long argued, though, that inequalities start before costs matter. Entrenched 'sort and sieve' processes apportion outcomes to family background. The whole system of grading, testing, and selecting some students while rejecting others makes a degree much more likely for students from higher …
Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States
Many scholars and activists consider civil rights to be a powerful, effective way to frame diverse causes, but do civil rights claims actually resonate? Building on social movements, collective memory, and public opinion scholarship, we conceptualize civil rights claims in three non-mutually-exclusive ways: as a highly resonant "master frame" grounded in core American ideals of equal rights, as an appeal to the idealized memory of the Civil Right…
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century. By Kim Voss. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2882-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8119-8.) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
Labor History symposium: Gay W. Seidman, Beyond the Boycott
The political economy of inequality in the “age of extremes”
Massey spresidential address correctly points to growing economic inequality as one of the pressing issues of our day, but his analysis gives short shrift to the political institutions that underlie the economic trends. We supplement his analysis with a review of some of those institutions. In particular we point out how politics mediates between computerized production and inequality, between the segregation of education and inequality, and (dra…
The Great Defunding of Public Higher Education in America
Same as It Ever Was? New Labor, the CIO Organizing Model, and the Future of American Unions
Jane McAlevey makes a significant contribution in her critique of labor's growing use of the corporate campaign to stem union decline. But in placing the blame for the strategy's adoption on the excessive influence of Saul Alinsky's organizing model, she misses a much more fundamental cause: the changed nature of capital
New Unity for Labor
From the ?Editor?s Introduction?: Within today?s AFL-CIO, a different set of frustrations with the bureaucratic structure and leadership is simmering. The relative lack of new organizing and the continuous toll of jurisdictional rivalries have produced a call for radical restructuring, or ?New Unity Partnership? (NUP). As articulated by the leaders of some of the most powerful and dynamic of federation affiliates, including the Service Employees …
Response to Nielsen's Review of Inequality by Design
Labor organization and class alliance: Industries, communities, and the Knights of Labor
Formal Organization and the Fate of Social Movements: Craft Association and Class Alliance in the Knights of Labor
This paper asks how an existing field offormal organizations influences the formation of social movements around new interests. Data on the Knights of Labor are used to examine how craft organization in the iron and steel industry affected the incorporation of industrial workers into the labor movement. We find that even in the absence of ideological opposition to class-based organization, building on craft associations tended to create a divided…
Disposition Is Not Action: The Rise and Demise of the Knights of Labor
Recent theoretical and historical studies of working-class formation have raised important doubts about standard interpretations of the American working class. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the renewed debate over “American exceptionalism,” that unexpected combination of political conservatism and weak working-class institutions in the nation that underwent the modern world's first democratic revolution. Once it was popular to argue that A…
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century. By Kim Voss. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. xviii, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2882-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8014-8119-8.) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histo…
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
The collapse of a social movement: The interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor
Failure is an unpopular subject among social movement scholars. Like death and taxes at social gatherings, it is a topic that many of us avoid. In contrast, the birth of insurgency is eagerly debated. As a result, our theories of movement emergence are much more sophisticated and convincing than our models of movement development and decline. However, while social movement failure is a neglected topic theoretically, in the empirical world it occu…
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays a…
The political economy of inequality in the “age of extremes”
Massey spresidential address correctly points to growing economic inequality as one of the pressing issues of our day, but his analysis gives short shrift to the political institutions that underlie the economic trends. We supplement his analysis with a review of some of those institutions. In particular we point out how politics mediates between computerized production and inequality, between the segregation of education and inequality, and (dra…
The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century
A New Genre: Contra-Bell Curve
Happy Days are Here Again
Response to Nielsen's Review of Inequality by Design
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement
The recent revitalization of the American labor movement presents a paradox for social movement scholars. Long seen as exemplifying the conservative goal and tactical transformation associated with Michels’s iron law of oligarchy, few would expect organized labor to embrace radical goals and tactics. Yet some local unions have done just that. This article addresses the question of how social movement organizations are able to break out of bureauc…
Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. Hard Work begins with a comparison of t…
New Unity for Labor
From the ?Editor?s Introduction?: Within today?s AFL-CIO, a different set of frustrations with the bureaucratic structure and leadership is simmering. The relative lack of new organizing and the continuous toll of jurisdictional rivalries have produced a call for radical restructuring, or ?New Unity Partnership? (NUP). As articulated by the leaders of some of the most powerful and dynamic of federation affiliates, including the Service Employees …
Labor Movement
The labor movement is a broad, multidimensional social formation that is generated from the social structures of work and industry in a society. It may comprise both legally recognized and formally sanctioned institutions (like trade unions, political parties, and works councils) as well as less formal groupings of workers and their allies (industrial actions, organizations of strike supporters, dissident movements within unions, cultural forms, …
Labor History symposium: Gay W. Seidman, Beyond the Boycott
Enduring Legacy? Charles Tilly and Durable Inequality
This article assesses Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality and traces its influence. In writing Durable Inequality, Tilly sought to shift the research agenda of stratification scholars. But the book's initial impact was disappointing. In recent years, however, its influence has grown, suggesting a more enduring legacy
The local in the global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium
We discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize locally-based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil, “livability movements” in third world cities, and living wage movements in the US. Movements like these come to the attention of most social movement analysts only when the activists who participate in them come together in the streets of Seattle or international forums l…
Same as It Ever Was? New Labor, the CIO Organizing Model, and the Future of American Unions
Jane McAlevey makes a significant contribution in her critique of labor's growing use of the corporate campaign to stem union decline. But in placing the blame for the strategy's adoption on the excessive influence of Saul Alinsky's organizing model, she misses a much more fundamental cause: the changed nature of capital
Rights, Economics, or Family?Frame Resonance, Political Ideology, and the Immigrant Rights Movement
Although social movement scholars in the United States have long ignored activism over immigration, this movement raises important theoretical and empirical questions, especially given many immigrants' lack of citizenship. Is the rights “master” frame, used extensively by other US social movements, persuasive in making claims for noncitizens? If not, which other movement frames resonate with the public? We leverage survey experiments—largely the …
The Great Defunding of Public Higher Education in America
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