Bruce Rankin
Biographic Data
| ID | 222326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Rankin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Rankin |
| SIGNATURE | RANKIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Education and symbolic violence in contemporary Turkey
This article examines the perceptions of education in Turkey, which refer to a nebulous package of formal education and a cultured stance. Guided by the literature on symbolic violence, we argue that underprivileged groups misrecognize arbitrary hierarchies by considering them just and inevitable. Elite tastes have been internalized by other groups in a particular historical context of education and culture. We investigate the historical roots of…
Cultural omnivorousness in Turkey
Recent cultural consumption research has drawn attention to the emergence of the high status 'cultural omnivore,' that is, individuals who consume a wide range of cultural products, including the expected 'high culture,' but more 'popular' forms as well. Initially reported in studies conducted in the developed West, this study broadens the basis of comparison by investigating the case of Turkey - a non-western, predominantly Muslim, developing co…
Needs and Supports in Transitional Housing for People Living with HIV/Aids in Ontario, Canada
There is a paucity of research on transitional housing for people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and even less so within the Canadian context. The present work addresses that gap and reports on the results from the Transitional Housing Study, a province wide community-based research collaboration involving PHA, service providers, and university researchers in Ontario Canada. This article answers the following research questions: What supports do resi…
Inner City
The Social Impact of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis on Neighborhoods, Households, and Individuals in Turkey
A Cultural Map of Turkey
There is a growing body of empirical research on national patterns of cultural consumption and how they are related to social stratification. This paper helps to broaden the basis of comparison by focusing on cultural patterns in Turkey, a developing, non-Western, and predominantly Muslim context. Our analysis of cultural tastes and activities using data from a new nationally-representative survey shows three broad cultural clusters that clearly …
Gender Role Attitudes of Female Students in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul
Economic Crises and the Social Structuring of Economic Hardship
Drawing on a growing cross-national literature on the social impact of economic crises, this paper investigates the social structuring of economic hardship among urban households in Turkey following the 2001 economic crisis. My goal is to compare the Turkish crisis to other recent crises, particularly in Latin America and Asia, and to assess competing claims about the vulnerability of different social groups. Using data from the study entitledTur…
Economic Crisis and Marital Problems in Turkey
This paper applied the family stress model to the case of Turkey in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis. Using structural equation modeling and a nationally representative urban sample of 711 married women and 490 married men, we tested whether economic hardship and the associated family economic strain on families resulted in greater marital problems. Our results showed a modified family stress model applies to Turkey. In contrast to most previ…
Religiosity, the headscarf, and education in Turkey
Previous research highlights the continuing relevance of family culture in explaining educational inequalities in Turkey, especially patriarchal beliefs and practices that discourage investment in the education of girls. We extend that research by introducing two much‐debated, but empirically untested, aspects of family culture – parental religiosity and headscarf preferences. An analysis of a nationally representative sample of 15–19 year olds i…
Unemployment, Economic Strain and Family Distress
This essay focuses on economic hardship in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis and the impact of the resulting economic strain on individual and family distress (i.e., stress, emotional distress, physical health, and marital problems). Previous research on the impact of the economic crisis in Turkey has relied on small and non-representative samples or was limited to descriptive analyses. This research analyzes a nationally representative sample…
Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods
This is a study of successful youth development in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago - a study of how children living in the worst neighborhoods develop or fail to develop the values, competencies and commitments that lead to a productive, healthy responsible adult life. While there is a strong focus on neighborhood effects, the study employs a multicontextual model examining both the direct effects of the neighborhood ecolo…
Does it pay to participate? Neighborhood-based organizations and the social development of urban adolescents
Gender Inequality in Schooling
Drawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of Turkish youths, it assesses the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and postprimary school attainment. The results show that while locality, family resources, and family structure and culture influence the education of b…
Modernity, Traditionality, and Junior High School Attainment in Turkey
How Low-Income Women Find Jobs and its Effects on Earnings
This article focuses on how low-income urban women find work and the effect it has on subsequent earnings. The results show that although most find jobs through strongly tied informal contacts-a method usually associated with lower quality jobs-tie strength has no effect on earnings. The social resource perspective is supported by an earnings penalty associated with unemployed contacts. Subgroup analyses show only minor racial and ethnic differen…
Social Contexts and Urban Adolescent Outcomes
Multilevel data are used to assess how three interrelated contexts-family, peer group, and neighborhood-influence the social functioning of urban African-American adolescent youth, a group believed to be especially "at-risk" due to high rates of exposure to contextual disadvantage and its associated ills. The analysis is designed to test the various pathways that neighborhoods influence, both directly and indirectly (via their impact on families …
Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families
Journal Article Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families Get access Bruce H. Rankin, Bruce H. Rankin Harvard University Direct all correspondence to Bruce Rankin, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Neighborhood Poverty, Family Characteristics, and Commitment to Mainstream Goals
A causal model is used to understand the direct and mediated effects of neighborhood disadvantage and family structure on youth expectations. Using data obtained from face-to-face interviews with African American mothers and their children, we demonstrate that the employment expectations of adolescents are significantly lower in both nonintact and welfare homes in comparison to youth in other households. In addition, neighborhood disadvantage is …
The Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Adolescent Development
A conceptual framework for studying emerging neighborhood effects on individual development is presented, identifying specific mechanisms and processes by which neighborhood disadvantage influences adolescent developmental outcomes. Using path analyses, the authors test the hypothesis that these organizational and cultural features of neighborhoods mediate the effects of ecological disadvantage on adolescent development and behavior; they then es…
The Cost of Being Black in the Black Belt
Explanations of earnings differentials typically center on individual differences that affect the status attainment process or on the opportunity structure of local labor markets. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the quality of both the labor force and labor market vary significantly by region, resulting in substantial regional differences in earnings. Using 1980 Public Use Micro Sample data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, this p…
Race, Region, and Earnings
Using data from the 1980 Public-Use Micro Sample (PUMS) A-file, we examine the effect of region on black and white earnings within the Black Belt and the rest of the South. We find that Black Belt residence depresses earnings for both blacks and whites, more or less equally. There was no support for the hypothesis that there would be a greater penalty to being black in the Black Belt, compared to being black in the non-Black Belt South. It is the…
Social Contexts and Urban Adolescent Outcomes
Multilevel data are used to assess how three interrelated contexts-family, peer group, and neighborhood-influence the social functioning of urban African-American adolescent youth, a group believed to be especially "at-risk" due to high rates of exposure to contextual disadvantage and its associated ills. The analysis is designed to test the various pathways that neighborhoods influence, both directly and indirectly (via their impact on families …
Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families
Journal Article Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families Get access Bruce H. Rankin, Bruce H. Rankin Harvard University Direct all correspondence to Bruce Rankin, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Race, Region, and Earnings
Using data from the 1980 Public-Use Micro Sample (PUMS) A-file, we examine the effect of region on black and white earnings within the Black Belt and the rest of the South. We find that Black Belt residence depresses earnings for both blacks and whites, more or less equally. There was no support for the hypothesis that there would be a greater penalty to being black in the Black Belt, compared to being black in the non-Black Belt South. It is the…
The Cost of Being Black in the Black Belt
Explanations of earnings differentials typically center on individual differences that affect the status attainment process or on the opportunity structure of local labor markets. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the quality of both the labor force and labor market vary significantly by region, resulting in substantial regional differences in earnings. Using 1980 Public Use Micro Sample data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, this p…
Economic Crisis and Marital Problems in Turkey
This paper applied the family stress model to the case of Turkey in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis. Using structural equation modeling and a nationally representative urban sample of 711 married women and 490 married men, we tested whether economic hardship and the associated family economic strain on families resulted in greater marital problems. Our results showed a modified family stress model applies to Turkey. In contrast to most previ…
Does it pay to participate? Neighborhood-based organizations and the social development of urban adolescents
Gender Inequality in Schooling
Drawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of Turkish youths, it assesses the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and postprimary school attainment. The results show that while locality, family resources, and family structure and culture influence the education of b…
A Cultural Map of Turkey
There is a growing body of empirical research on national patterns of cultural consumption and how they are related to social stratification. This paper helps to broaden the basis of comparison by focusing on cultural patterns in Turkey, a developing, non-Western, and predominantly Muslim context. Our analysis of cultural tastes and activities using data from a new nationally-representative survey shows three broad cultural clusters that clearly …
Neighborhood Poverty, Family Characteristics, and Commitment to Mainstream Goals
A causal model is used to understand the direct and mediated effects of neighborhood disadvantage and family structure on youth expectations. Using data obtained from face-to-face interviews with African American mothers and their children, we demonstrate that the employment expectations of adolescents are significantly lower in both nonintact and welfare homes in comparison to youth in other households. In addition, neighborhood disadvantage is …
Gender Role Attitudes of Female Students in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul
Modernity, Traditionality, and Junior High School Attainment in Turkey
The Social Impact of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis on Neighborhoods, Households, and Individuals in Turkey
Unemployment, Economic Strain and Family Distress
This essay focuses on economic hardship in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis and the impact of the resulting economic strain on individual and family distress (i.e., stress, emotional distress, physical health, and marital problems). Previous research on the impact of the economic crisis in Turkey has relied on small and non-representative samples or was limited to descriptive analyses. This research analyzes a nationally representative sample…
How Low-Income Women Find Jobs and its Effects on Earnings
This article focuses on how low-income urban women find work and the effect it has on subsequent earnings. The results show that although most find jobs through strongly tied informal contacts-a method usually associated with lower quality jobs-tie strength has no effect on earnings. The social resource perspective is supported by an earnings penalty associated with unemployed contacts. Subgroup analyses show only minor racial and ethnic differen…
Cultural omnivorousness in Turkey
Recent cultural consumption research has drawn attention to the emergence of the high status 'cultural omnivore,' that is, individuals who consume a wide range of cultural products, including the expected 'high culture,' but more 'popular' forms as well. Initially reported in studies conducted in the developed West, this study broadens the basis of comparison by investigating the case of Turkey - a non-western, predominantly Muslim, developing co…
Education and symbolic violence in contemporary Turkey
This article examines the perceptions of education in Turkey, which refer to a nebulous package of formal education and a cultured stance. Guided by the literature on symbolic violence, we argue that underprivileged groups misrecognize arbitrary hierarchies by considering them just and inevitable. Elite tastes have been internalized by other groups in a particular historical context of education and culture. We investigate the historical roots of…
Economic Crises and the Social Structuring of Economic Hardship
Drawing on a growing cross-national literature on the social impact of economic crises, this paper investigates the social structuring of economic hardship among urban households in Turkey following the 2001 economic crisis. My goal is to compare the Turkish crisis to other recent crises, particularly in Latin America and Asia, and to assess competing claims about the vulnerability of different social groups. Using data from the study entitledTur…
Religiosity, the headscarf, and education in Turkey
Previous research highlights the continuing relevance of family culture in explaining educational inequalities in Turkey, especially patriarchal beliefs and practices that discourage investment in the education of girls. We extend that research by introducing two much‐debated, but empirically untested, aspects of family culture – parental religiosity and headscarf preferences. An analysis of a nationally representative sample of 15–19 year olds i…
Race, Region, and Earnings
Using data from the 1980 Public-Use Micro Sample (PUMS) A-file, we examine the effect of region on black and white earnings within the Black Belt and the rest of the South. We find that Black Belt residence depresses earnings for both blacks and whites, more or less equally. There was no support for the hypothesis that there would be a greater penalty to being black in the Black Belt, compared to being black in the non-Black Belt South. It is the…
The Cost of Being Black in the Black Belt
Explanations of earnings differentials typically center on individual differences that affect the status attainment process or on the opportunity structure of local labor markets. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the quality of both the labor force and labor market vary significantly by region, resulting in substantial regional differences in earnings. Using 1980 Public Use Micro Sample data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, this p…
The Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Adolescent Development
A conceptual framework for studying emerging neighborhood effects on individual development is presented, identifying specific mechanisms and processes by which neighborhood disadvantage influences adolescent developmental outcomes. Using path analyses, the authors test the hypothesis that these organizational and cultural features of neighborhoods mediate the effects of ecological disadvantage on adolescent development and behavior; they then es…
Neighborhood Poverty, Family Characteristics, and Commitment to Mainstream Goals
A causal model is used to understand the direct and mediated effects of neighborhood disadvantage and family structure on youth expectations. Using data obtained from face-to-face interviews with African American mothers and their children, we demonstrate that the employment expectations of adolescents are significantly lower in both nonintact and welfare homes in comparison to youth in other households. In addition, neighborhood disadvantage is …
Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families
Journal Article Neighborhood Poverty and the Social Isolation of Inner-City African American Families Get access Bruce H. Rankin, Bruce H. Rankin Harvard University Direct all correspondence to Bruce Rankin, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Social Contexts and Urban Adolescent Outcomes
Multilevel data are used to assess how three interrelated contexts-family, peer group, and neighborhood-influence the social functioning of urban African-American adolescent youth, a group believed to be especially "at-risk" due to high rates of exposure to contextual disadvantage and its associated ills. The analysis is designed to test the various pathways that neighborhoods influence, both directly and indirectly (via their impact on families …
How Low-Income Women Find Jobs and its Effects on Earnings
This article focuses on how low-income urban women find work and the effect it has on subsequent earnings. The results show that although most find jobs through strongly tied informal contacts-a method usually associated with lower quality jobs-tie strength has no effect on earnings. The social resource perspective is supported by an earnings penalty associated with unemployed contacts. Subgroup analyses show only minor racial and ethnic differen…
Modernity, Traditionality, and Junior High School Attainment in Turkey
Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods
This is a study of successful youth development in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago - a study of how children living in the worst neighborhoods develop or fail to develop the values, competencies and commitments that lead to a productive, healthy responsible adult life. While there is a strong focus on neighborhood effects, the study employs a multicontextual model examining both the direct effects of the neighborhood ecolo…
Does it pay to participate? Neighborhood-based organizations and the social development of urban adolescents
Gender Inequality in Schooling
Drawing on recent research on education in developing countries, this article examines gender inequality in schooling in Turkey. Using a nationally representative sample of Turkish youths, it assesses the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and postprimary school attainment. The results show that while locality, family resources, and family structure and culture influence the education of b…
Religiosity, the headscarf, and education in Turkey
Previous research highlights the continuing relevance of family culture in explaining educational inequalities in Turkey, especially patriarchal beliefs and practices that discourage investment in the education of girls. We extend that research by introducing two much‐debated, but empirically untested, aspects of family culture – parental religiosity and headscarf preferences. An analysis of a nationally representative sample of 15–19 year olds i…
Unemployment, Economic Strain and Family Distress
This essay focuses on economic hardship in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis and the impact of the resulting economic strain on individual and family distress (i.e., stress, emotional distress, physical health, and marital problems). Previous research on the impact of the economic crisis in Turkey has relied on small and non-representative samples or was limited to descriptive analyses. This research analyzes a nationally representative sample…
Economic Crisis and Marital Problems in Turkey
This paper applied the family stress model to the case of Turkey in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis. Using structural equation modeling and a nationally representative urban sample of 711 married women and 490 married men, we tested whether economic hardship and the associated family economic strain on families resulted in greater marital problems. Our results showed a modified family stress model applies to Turkey. In contrast to most previ…
Economic Crises and the Social Structuring of Economic Hardship
Drawing on a growing cross-national literature on the social impact of economic crises, this paper investigates the social structuring of economic hardship among urban households in Turkey following the 2001 economic crisis. My goal is to compare the Turkish crisis to other recent crises, particularly in Latin America and Asia, and to assess competing claims about the vulnerability of different social groups. Using data from the study entitledTur…
Gender Role Attitudes of Female Students in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools in Istanbul
A Cultural Map of Turkey
There is a growing body of empirical research on national patterns of cultural consumption and how they are related to social stratification. This paper helps to broaden the basis of comparison by focusing on cultural patterns in Turkey, a developing, non-Western, and predominantly Muslim context. Our analysis of cultural tastes and activities using data from a new nationally-representative survey shows three broad cultural clusters that clearly …
Inner City
The Social Impact of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis on Neighborhoods, Households, and Individuals in Turkey
Needs and Supports in Transitional Housing for People Living with HIV/Aids in Ontario, Canada
There is a paucity of research on transitional housing for people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and even less so within the Canadian context. The present work addresses that gap and reports on the results from the Transitional Housing Study, a province wide community-based research collaboration involving PHA, service providers, and university researchers in Ontario Canada. This article answers the following research questions: What supports do resi…
Cultural omnivorousness in Turkey
Recent cultural consumption research has drawn attention to the emergence of the high status 'cultural omnivore,' that is, individuals who consume a wide range of cultural products, including the expected 'high culture,' but more 'popular' forms as well. Initially reported in studies conducted in the developed West, this study broadens the basis of comparison by investigating the case of Turkey - a non-western, predominantly Muslim, developing co…
Education and symbolic violence in contemporary Turkey
This article examines the perceptions of education in Turkey, which refer to a nebulous package of formal education and a cultured stance. Guided by the literature on symbolic violence, we argue that underprivileged groups misrecognize arbitrary hierarchies by considering them just and inevitable. Elite tastes have been internalized by other groups in a particular historical context of education and culture. We investigate the historical roots of…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)