B E Aguirre
Biographic Data
| ID | 1903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B E Aguirre |
| GIVEN NAMES | B E |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguirre |
| SIGNATURE | AGUIRRE B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6924-794X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Community Resilience: Toward a Framework for an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Model of Disaster
The science of resilience presents the opportunity to explain how natural, social, and physical systems interact to impact community functioning and well-being postdisaster. This paper describes the development and theoretical foundation of a comprehensive conceptual model, presenting a shift from the usual thinking about resilience to construe resilience more precisely as the trajectory of postdisaster recovery, with community functioning and we…
Computational Simulation of Benefit Fraud and Community Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
The monetary assistance provided for disaster relief creates opportunities for fraudulent behavior. Historical records have shown that the loss of recovery funds due to improper and fraudulent payments could reach hundreds of millions of dollars per event, siphoning support away from those who need it the most and potentially slowing down the economic resurgence of a disaster-stricken community. Focusing specifically on benefit fraud, a common ty…
The Emergence of Transdisciplinary Research and Disaster Science
This article intends to bring attention to the emerging specialty of disaster science (DS), as well as to introduce a newly created system of computer simulation to facilitate transdisciplinary integration that would allow for the interphase of computer simulation platforms developed by scientists in the different professions engaged in the study of disasters. The next section discusses the origins of DS and the characteristics of the scientists …
Emergent Norm Theory
The current status of emergent norm theory (ENT) is discussed, including the empirical tests it has generated and the theoretical criticisms and developments it has sustained during the last two decades. The entry shows ENT's conceptual links to the general sociological approach of symbolic interactionism as well as its need to develop constructs tapping structural components of social action
A Computational Study of the Station Nightclub Fire Accounting for Social Relationships
Using agent-based modeling, this study presents the results of a computational study of social relationships among more than four hundreds evacuees in The Station Nightclub building in Rhode Island. The fire occurred on the night of February , and resulted in fatalities. A er summarizing and calibrating the computational method used, parametric studies are conducted to quantitatively investigate the influences of the presence of social relationsh…
A critique of the official report on the evacuation of the World Trade Center: Continued Doubts
This paper criticises the conclusions and the unanswered questions in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s official report on the evacuation of the World Trade Center in New York City, United States, on 11 September 2001. It reviews the extent to which the report disregards several conventional statistical methods and comments on the NIST's refusal to share the machine-readable data file with the scientific community for re…
Commemorating Chile's Coup: The Dynamics of Collective Behavior
This article examines the dynamics of collective behavior in Santiago, Chile every September 11, the date of the 1973 coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. It uses a multiple-method strategy that includes participant observation, personal interviews, and content analysis of three major newspapers during the period 2003-8. The theoretical approach emphasizes time and space coordinates of specified social actors, sociocultural emerge…
Better Disaster Statistics: The Lisbon Earthquake
Inaccurate published statistics are often due to faulty information about a disaster, to the different accounting methods used by organizations, and to the lack of consensus among researchers and agencies about how to define key terms. Until recently, damage estimates for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake steadily increased due to the influence of ideological and emotional factors, as well as to the geographical/temporal distance from the event. New cal…
Contributions of social science to agent-based models of building evacuation
This paper describes the general characteristics of the agent-based models (ABM) approach to the simulation of building evacuations, and offers details of some popular computer codes for building evacuation. Contemporary ABM computer programming emphasising the characteristics of individuals and their propensities to act should be supplemented with codes informed by group-level dimensions such as norms, values, commitments to lines of action, lea…
Normative Collective Behavior in The Station Building Fire
Objective. This article offers a test of the normative explanation of collective behavior by examining the fire at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island that killed 100 and injured nearly 200 persons. Methods. Information on all persons at the club comes from content analysis of documents from the Rhode Island Police Department, the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General, and The Providence Journal . We use negative binomial regression to te…
Search and rescue in collapsed structures: Engineering and Social Science Aspects
This paper discusses the social science and engineering dimensions of search and rescue (SAR) in collapsed buildings. First, existing information is presented on factors that influence the behaviour of trapped victims, particularly human, physical, socioeconomic and circumstantial factors. Trapped victims are most often discussed in the context of structural collapse and injuries sustained. Most studies in this area focus on earthquakes as the ty…
Magnetic Imagery: War-Related Ribbons as Collective Display
The collective display of particular symbols represents an emergent form of social movement participation. This study documents the patterns of the collective display of one such symbol; the magnetic war-related ribbon (WRR). Using bivariate and multivariate analyses of a sample of 8,100 vehicles, we studied the relationships between WRR display and measures of political affiliation, patriotism, and war support. The results find that that WRR dis…
Sports Fan Violence in North America
The Sociology of Collective Behavior
Local search and rescue teams in the United States
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide background information on a rarely studied response capability of communities across the USA, local, mostly volunteer search and rescue (SAR) teams. Design/methodology/approach Information on local teams was collected from January 2005 until February 2006 through internet searches, online SAR organization lists, and by e‐mailing a survey to local teams. A smaller, previously used database was used t…
Managing volunteers: Fema's Urban Search and Rescue programme and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response
In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders. Because volunteers can be both a help and a hindrance in disaster response, they pose a paradox to professional responders at the scene. Through focus group interviews and in‐depth st…
Repression and Mobilization
Los desastres en Latinoamerica: Vulnerabilidad y resistencia (Disaster in Latin America: Vulnerability and Resistance)
Benigno E. Aguirre, Los desastres en Latinoamérica: vulnerabilidad y resistencia (Disaster in Latin America: Vulnerability and Resistance), Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2004), pp. 485-510
Testing the Effects of Collectively Expected Durations of Migration: The Naturalization of Mexicans and Cubans
This study tests a hypothesis that Mexican foreign-born immigrants who came to the United States for economic reasons naturalize less often than Cubans who immigrate for political reasons. It uses information from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Latino Sample, a national sample of 7,453 respondents from the 1989 Latino National Political Survey (LNPS) and the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Ordinal logistic regression is used to e…
Sustainable Development” as Collective Surge
The purpose of this article is to examine a surge in the sciences surrounding the use of the concept of sustainable development. Data come from the annual frequencies of publications in various disciplines that use the concept of sustainable development as well as from a content analysis of documents. The article concludes that the surge was characterized by the use by scientists of established concepts in a new way, a form of cultural emergence;…
Social Control in Cuba
Why has the Cuban government been so successful in its system of social control, and why might that system's effectiveness now be on the wane? This study argues that Cuba combines formal and informal systems of control that simultaneously emphasize openness and rigidity. The formal system is geared to block all antihegemonic acts, particularly those that, if left unchecked, could become symbolic acts encouraging similar behavior that the authorit…
Does Race Matter Among Cuban Immigrants? An Analysis of the Racial Characteristics of Recent Cuban Immigrants
Information on Cuban immigrants from the recent 'Measuring Cuban Opinion Project' survey is used to determine the extent to which race matters. We use multivariate binomial logistic regression models to determine if race can be predicted by key demographic and economic characteristics of the respondents, their use of mass media outlets in Cuba, their evaluation of and integration to the Cuban state and their participation in the dissidence in the…
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America
The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes
Preface Gender? Why Women?: An Introduction to Women and Disaster by Elaine Enarson and Betty Hearn Morrow Perspectives on Gender and Disaster The Neglect of Gender in Disaster Work: An Overview of the Literature by Alice Fothergill Gender Inequality, Vulnerability, and Disaster: Issues in Theory and Research by Robert Bolin, Martina Jackson, and Allison Crist The Perspective of Gender: A Missing Element in Disaster Response by Joe Scanlon Social…
Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity
Structural and Assimilationist Explanations of Asian American Intermarriage
Sean-Shong Hwang, Rogelio Saenz, Benigno E. Aguirre, Structural and Assimilationist Explanations of Asian American Intermarriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 758-772
Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples
In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been devoted to the survival of ethnicity among multiracial people in the United States. This concern is especially evident in the case of the offspring of Asian-Anglo couples. While scholars have speculated on the extent to which Asian ethnicity will continue to persist among multiracial children, little empirical work has addressed this concern. In this analysis, we use a multilevel model t…
Why Do They Return? Abused Wives in Shelters
A statistical analysis based on a study of battered wives in shelters was done. As predicted before the study, the wives' economic dependence on their husbands almost always ensured that they would return to their husbands. Another finding was that respondents who considered the shelters useful had a higher probability of returning to their husbands. A review of the literature is included
Structural and Individual Determinants of Outmarriage Among Chinese-, Filipino-, and Japanese-Americans in California
This study combines structural factors of intergroup relations with personal assimilation factors to examine Asian American intermarriage in California, We conduct a multilevel logistic regression analysis of outmarriage among Chinese, Filipinos, and Japanese in 14 California metropolitan statistical areas with high con centrations of Asian Americans by using the 1980 Census Public-Use Microdata Sample. The results show that Asian intermarriage i…
The SES Selectivity of Interracially Married Asians
The SES Selectivity of Interracially Married Asians
How do outmarried Asians compare to their inmarried counterparts and to their spouses in terms of socioeconomic status? We attempt to answer this question by testing hypotheses derived from assimilation, exchange, and economic theories. The study is conducted using a representative U.S. sample of married Asians. Results based on multinomial logit analyses indicate that Asian women with lower educational attainment have a higher propensity to outm…
In Search of Asian War Brides
Because of the long presence of U.S. soldiers in Asia, war-bride marriages involving servicemen and Asian women have been formed throughout the century. The literature, however, contains little empirically sound information on Asian war brides. This analysis develops a methodology to identify war brides and applies it to estimate the number of war brides from the six major Asian groups, using the national 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample. Further…
The Collective Behavior of Fads: The Characteristics, Effects, and Career of Streaking
Stable URL:http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224%28198808%2953%3A4%3C569%3ATCBOFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-OAmerican Sociological Review is currently published by American Sociological Association.Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available athttp://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtainedprior permission, you may not…
Testing the Effects of Collectively Expected Durations of Migration: The Naturalization of Mexicans and Cubans
This study tests a hypothesis that Mexican foreign-born immigrants who came to the United States for economic reasons naturalize less often than Cubans who immigrate for political reasons. It uses information from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Latino Sample, a national sample of 7,453 respondents from the 1989 Latino National Political Survey (LNPS) and the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Ordinal logistic regression is used to e…
Managing volunteers: Fema's Urban Search and Rescue programme and interactions with unaffiliated responders in disaster response
In the aftermath of disasters it is not uncommon for a large number of individuals, ranging from professional technical responders to untrained, albeit well meaning, volunteers, to converge on site of a disaster in order to offer to help victims or other responders. Because volunteers can be both a help and a hindrance in disaster response, they pose a paradox to professional responders at the scene. Through focus group interviews and in‐depth st…
The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior in Cuba
This paper uses information from a content analysis of Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist party, and from interviews with Cuban refugees to study how the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, and other mass organizations structure collective behavior are conventionalized. There is also a description of the main forms taken by collective behavior in Cuba: the joyful crowd, …
Cuban Mass Migration and the Social Construction of Deviants
Methodological, Ideological, and Conceptual-Theoretical Criticisms of the Field of Collective Behavior: A Critical Evaluation and Implications for Future Study
Criticisms of the field of collective behavior can be categorized as either methodological, ideological, or conceptual-theoretical. For methodological problems we examine the views that research on collective behavior is hampered because collective behavior is unpredictable, transitory, fluid, diffuse, complex, and uncontrolled. For ideological problems we look at the claims that the unsatisfactory state of the field of collective behavior is the…
Organizational Adaptation To Crises: Mechanisms Of Coordination And Structural Change
Sustainable Development” as Collective Surge
The purpose of this article is to examine a surge in the sciences surrounding the use of the concept of sustainable development. Data come from the annual frequencies of publications in various disciplines that use the concept of sustainable development as well as from a content analysis of documents. The article concludes that the surge was characterized by the use by scientists of established concepts in a new way, a form of cultural emergence;…
Normative Collective Behavior in The Station Building Fire
Objective. This article offers a test of the normative explanation of collective behavior by examining the fire at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island that killed 100 and injured nearly 200 persons. Methods. Information on all persons at the club comes from content analysis of documents from the Rhode Island Police Department, the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General, and The Providence Journal . We use negative binomial regression to te…
Social Control in Cuba
Why has the Cuban government been so successful in its system of social control, and why might that system's effectiveness now be on the wane? This study argues that Cuba combines formal and informal systems of control that simultaneously emphasize openness and rigidity. The formal system is geared to block all antihegemonic acts, particularly those that, if left unchecked, could become symbolic acts encouraging similar behavior that the authorit…
Does Race Matter Among Cuban Immigrants? An Analysis of the Racial Characteristics of Recent Cuban Immigrants
Information on Cuban immigrants from the recent 'Measuring Cuban Opinion Project' survey is used to determine the extent to which race matters. We use multivariate binomial logistic regression models to determine if race can be predicted by key demographic and economic characteristics of the respondents, their use of mass media outlets in Cuba, their evaluation of and integration to the Cuban state and their participation in the dissidence in the…
The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes
Preface Gender? Why Women?: An Introduction to Women and Disaster by Elaine Enarson and Betty Hearn Morrow Perspectives on Gender and Disaster The Neglect of Gender in Disaster Work: An Overview of the Literature by Alice Fothergill Gender Inequality, Vulnerability, and Disaster: Issues in Theory and Research by Robert Bolin, Martina Jackson, and Allison Crist The Perspective of Gender: A Missing Element in Disaster Response by Joe Scanlon Social…
The Human Ecology of Tornadoes
This paper offers an empirical test of the impact of human ecological patterns and other known correlates on tornado occurrence. It uses the National Severe Storms Forecast Center’s information on tornadoes from 1950 through 1990 and employs ecological data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Environmental Protection Agency. The results show that metropolitan and other urban counties have higher odds of tornado occurrence than rural counti…
Husbands' Marriage Order and the Stability of First and Second Marriages of White and Black Women
The effect of previous marital history-particularly the husband's marriage order -on the stability offirst and second marriages of white and black women is evaluated. Data for analysis are a subset of the National Survey of Family Growth, a stratified probability sample of9797 civilian noninstitutionalized women. Multiple linear regressions relate a marital-stability scale to a set of independent variables. The most important predictor of the ins…
Sports Fan Violence in North America
Better Disaster Statistics: The Lisbon Earthquake
Inaccurate published statistics are often due to faulty information about a disaster, to the different accounting methods used by organizations, and to the lack of consensus among researchers and agencies about how to define key terms. Until recently, damage estimates for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake steadily increased due to the influence of ideological and emotional factors, as well as to the geographical/temporal distance from the event. New cal…
Congregational Size and The Decline of Sectarian Commitment: The Case of The Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America
The analysis of membership and activity data among Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America during 1950–1976 partially supports a number of hypotheses derived from the traditional Troeltsch-Weber church sect model. Over a period of twenty-six years, the average congregation increased in size and levels of commitment decreased. In addition, the relative proportion of those members who were highly committed decreased over time as congregation…
The Emergence of Transdisciplinary Research and Disaster Science
This article intends to bring attention to the emerging specialty of disaster science (DS), as well as to introduce a newly created system of computer simulation to facilitate transdisciplinary integration that would allow for the interphase of computer simulation platforms developed by scientists in the different professions engaged in the study of disasters. The next section discusses the origins of DS and the characteristics of the scientists …
Differential Migration of Cuban Social Races: A Review and Interpretation of the Problem
In the aftermath of the 1959 revolutionary triumph there began a massive impelled migration to the United States, paralleled in Cuban history only by the great exodus during the nineteenth-century wars of independence. Close to 500,000 Cubans had migrated to the United States by 1972. The migration has shifted in size and has occurred intermittently since 1959, a consequence of the turbulent relations between the United States and Cuban governmen…
Women in the Cuban Bureaucracies: 1968-1974
This paper analyzes the latent consequences of presumptions of equality under communist ideology for the achievement of such equality by women, and provides a set of data which documents that despite the ideological claims, equality at certain levels of the bureaucracy has not been achieved and seems to be dependent upon changes in the cultural belief system of the Cubans regarding appropriate sex role differences
Congregational Size and The Decline of Sectarian Commitment: The Case of The Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America
The analysis of membership and activity data among Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America during 1950–1976 partially supports a number of hypotheses derived from the traditional Troeltsch-Weber church sect model. Over a period of twenty-six years, the average congregation increased in size and levels of commitment decreased. In addition, the relative proportion of those members who were highly committed decreased over time as congregation…
Organizational Adaptation To Crises: Mechanisms Of Coordination And Structural Change
Repeat induced abortion: Single, married and divorced women
This examination of the effects of marital status on repeat abortion assesses, by multiple classification analysis, the importance of a set of predictors of repeat abortion (age, education, occupation, residence, religion, social support for the abortion, attitudes towards abortion, ambivalence to the abortion, source of idea of the abortion, referral source, contraceptive use) in a clinic sample of 984 single, married and divorced women. The dif…
The Residential Patterning of Latin American and Other Ethnic Populations in Metropolitan Miami
Past studies of urban ethnic residential patterns have focused mainly on European immigrant populations of our large, old, northern industrial centers. These studies have shown in general that (1) residential dissimilarity is a pervasive feature of ethnic settlement; (2) residential dissimilarity among ethnic groups, according to various indicators, denotes the social distance among groups; (3) social status differences only partly explain reside…
Organizational Change and Religious Commitment: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Cuba, 1938-1965
Analysis of membership and activity data of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba during 1938–1965 indicates two general trends. During the first period of 1938–1947, the membership increased from roughly 100 to 4000 members while the average activism levels (amount of religious activity per member) gradually decreased. This lessening in religious commitment was associated with an increase in the size of the congregations, which had the effect of dimin…
Abusers of Clients of Women's Shelter: Their Socialization and Resources
This is a study of men who abuse women. The respondents were residents of a shelter for battered wives during 1977-1978. The study assesses the effect of the abusers' social resources and socialization experiences on their use of violence against the respondents. Abusers with military experience and criminal records used a greater number of different types of violence against their victims than their counterparts without these socialization exper…
Husbands' Marriage Order and the Stability of First and Second Marriages of White and Black Women
The effect of previous marital history-particularly the husband's marriage order -on the stability offirst and second marriages of white and black women is evaluated. Data for analysis are a subset of the National Survey of Family Growth, a stratified probability sample of9797 civilian noninstitutionalized women. Multiple linear regressions relate a marital-stability scale to a set of independent variables. The most important predictor of the ins…
Methodological, Ideological, and Conceptual-Theoretical Criticisms of the Field of Collective Behavior: A Critical Evaluation and Implications for Future Study
Criticisms of the field of collective behavior can be categorized as either methodological, ideological, or conceptual-theoretical. For methodological problems we examine the views that research on collective behavior is hampered because collective behavior is unpredictable, transitory, fluid, diffuse, complex, and uncontrolled. For ideological problems we look at the claims that the unsatisfactory state of the field of collective behavior is the…
The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior in Cuba
This paper uses information from a content analysis of Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist party, and from interviews with Cuban refugees to study how the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, and other mass organizations structure collective behavior are conventionalized. There is also a description of the main forms taken by collective behavior in Cuba: the joyful crowd, …
Why Do They Return? Abused Wives in Shelters
A statistical analysis based on a study of battered wives in shelters was done. As predicted before the study, the wives' economic dependence on their husbands almost always ensured that they would return to their husbands. Another finding was that respondents who considered the shelters useful had a higher probability of returning to their husbands. A review of the literature is included
Marriage Order and the Quality and Stability of Marital Relationships: A Test of Lewis and Spanier's Theory
This paper presents a partial test of Lewis and Spanier's (1979) theory. The theory posits a primary positive relationship between marital quality and marital stability as well as the intervening effects on that relationship of external pressures to remain married and alternative attractions to the marriage partner. In this paper we demonstrate the importance of four combinations of marriage orders (husband and wife in first marriage; husband and…
Elderly Mexican Americans: Nativity and Health Access
Information from the 1976 Survey of Income and Education are used to explore nativity differences in the levels of functional impairment and access to some kinds of medical resources among elderly Mexican Americans. The data indicate that foreign-born status is weakly associated with greater functional disability. It is more strongly associated with some differences in access to medical resources. Some implications for policy and long-term care a…
Elderly Mexican Americans: Nativity and Health Access
Letitia T. Alston, Benigno Aguirre, Elderly Mexican Americans: Nativity and Health Access, The International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Special Issue: Migration and Health (Autumn, 1987), pp. 626-642
The Collective Behavior of Fads: The Characteristics, Effects, and Career of Streaking
Stable URL:http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224%28198808%2953%3A4%3C569%3ATCBOFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-OAmerican Sociological Review is currently published by American Sociological Association.Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available athttp://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtainedprior permission, you may not…
Occupational Prestige in the Health Care Delivery System
Benigno E. Aguirre, Fredric D. Wolinsky, John Niederauer, Verna Keith, Lih-Jiuan Fann, Occupational Prestige in the Health Care Delivery System, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1989), pp. 315-329
The Human Ecology of Tornadoes
This paper offers an empirical test of the impact of human ecological patterns and other known correlates on tornado occurrence. It uses the National Severe Storms Forecast Center’s information on tornadoes from 1950 through 1990 and employs ecological data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Environmental Protection Agency. The results show that metropolitan and other urban counties have higher odds of tornado occurrence than rural counti…
In Search of Asian War Brides
Because of the long presence of U.S. soldiers in Asia, war-bride marriages involving servicemen and Asian women have been formed throughout the century. The literature, however, contains little empirically sound information on Asian war brides. This analysis develops a methodology to identify war brides and applies it to estimate the number of war brides from the six major Asian groups, using the national 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample. Further…
Cuban Mass Migration and the Social Construction of Deviants
Structural and Individual Determinants of Outmarriage Among Chinese-, Filipino-, and Japanese-Americans in California
This study combines structural factors of intergroup relations with personal assimilation factors to examine Asian American intermarriage in California, We conduct a multilevel logistic regression analysis of outmarriage among Chinese, Filipinos, and Japanese in 14 California metropolitan statistical areas with high con centrations of Asian Americans by using the 1980 Census Public-Use Microdata Sample. The results show that Asian intermarriage i…
The Central American Refugee Issue in Brownsville, Texas
The SES Selectivity of Interracially Married Asians
The SES Selectivity of Interracially Married Asians
How do outmarried Asians compare to their inmarried counterparts and to their spouses in terms of socioeconomic status? We attempt to answer this question by testing hypotheses derived from assimilation, exchange, and economic theories. The study is conducted using a representative U.S. sample of married Asians. Results based on multinomial logit analyses indicate that Asian women with lower educational attainment have a higher propensity to outm…
Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples
In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been devoted to the survival of ethnicity among multiracial people in the United States. This concern is especially evident in the case of the offspring of Asian-Anglo couples. While scholars have speculated on the extent to which Asian ethnicity will continue to persist among multiracial children, little empirical work has addressed this concern. In this analysis, we use a multilevel model t…
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