Brian Gran
Biographic Data
| ID | 238432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Gran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gran |
| SIGNATURE | GRAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0923-4412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Depressive Symptoms in Later Life in China: Situating “Long Arm” of Child Physical Maltreatment Within a Family Context
Objective: This article intends to reveal the long-term effects of physical maltreatment in childhood on depressive symptoms in later life in China. Methods: Data were drawn from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). 8676 respondents aged 45 and older were included in the study. In this study, we use ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models to estimate the long-term impact on children of physical punishment from their…
Forum: Youth as Boundary Actors in International Studies
Youth represent a great part of humanity and have always been active and intriguing political actors, yet youth remain sidelined in international studies. Issues of social identity perception and its consequences have been embraced by post-positivist approaches in international studies. Yet, while race, gender, and class challenges are shaking the discipline, age is a key research gap. To fill this gap, the conceptual departure of this forum is t…
The Right to Science: Then and Now
That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international co-operation, human dignity and othe…
Hospital Community Benefit in Rural Appalachia: One More Gap
Non-profit hospitals are important anchors in Appalachian communities, in part because of the concentration of health care dollars within these institutions. Community benefit efforts of these hospitals, therefore, have the potential to fill gaps in public health and social service provision in underserved areas with documented health disparities and access barriers. To date, however, we do not fully understand how community benefit practices var…
Are Equity‐Promoting Paternity Leave Policies Associated With Higher Rates of Parenthood
Objective This study aims to explore how equitable paternity leave policy may combine with other family policy to impact fertility levels. Background The decision to start a family is personal but takes place in the context of policies that vary in level of support. Although policies offering fathers paid leave from work are expected to promote gender equity and make family formation easier, these policies have been implemented with little eviden…
Sociology for Human Rights: Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods
No Kid Is an Island: Privacy Scarcities and Digital Inequalities
This article examines how digital inequalities give rise to privacy practices and resource acquisition strategies among disadvantaged youths. Based on in-depth interview data, the article probes the hidden costs of digital inequality among high school students in an agricultural belt of California. The analysis pays special attention to high-achieving students engaging in capital-enhancing activities such as schoolwork and college applications ne…
An International Framework of Children's Rights
It is widely perceived that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Committee established to monitor the Convention's national implementations are key parts of globally supported norms and processes. The Committee has established procedures that national governments are expected to follow as they enforce the Convention. Rather than accept this vision prima facie, this review critically asks whether the world society surrounding ch…
Is What's Best for Dads Best for Families? Paternity Leave Policies and Equity Across Forty-Four Nations
In a global economy, paternity leave policies represent one of the most significant expansions of the welfare state that seek to help fathers respond to socio-economic pressures on their work and families. Policy makers who strongly promote socio-economic equity may respond to these global changes with new policy formulae meant to encourage involvement of fathers in their families. Nevertheless, scholars have limited understanding of who benefits…
Children for sale? The blurred boundary between intercountry adoption and sale of children in the United States
Purpose – Intercountry adoptions (hereafter ICAs) in the USA are a form of sale of children. According to international policy, sale of children is an illicit social practice that involves improper financial gains by at least one party. Sale of children is a threat to legitimate ICA. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the policy and practice of ICAs in the USA, including pricing arrangements, demonstrate that US ICAs, which can have humanita…
Movements for Human Rights: Locally and Globally
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
A child’s right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications
The right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications (REBSPA) is under debate. The efforts of a U.N. Expert, the U.N. CESCR, an AAAS coalition, and scholars have shed light on and raised awareness of this right. Deserving more attention is children’s REBSPA. Young people stand to gain significantly from REBSPA, yet little is known about how this right may impact children’s interests. This article examines young people’s REBSPA …
Children's Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field
Making a ‘Case’: Applying Visual Sociology to Researching Eminent Domain
Comparing Children's Rights: Introducing the Children's Rights Index
Children's rights continue to be subject of international debates. Moving past these debates can be facilitated with an international measure of children's rights. This article introduces the Children's Rights Index, an international measure of children's rights for over 190 countries. The Children's Rights Index consists of two civil rights, two political rights, two social rights, and two economic rights. This article presents country scores on…
Public and Private Social Policy: Health and Pension Policies in a New Era
Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international perspective
Public or Private Management? A Comparative Analysis of Social Policies in Europe
Across the world, political leaders and policy experts frequently use the labels ‘public’ and ‘private’ to organize social policies. A line seemingly separates public from private efforts, with social policies publicly organized in some countries and privately organized in others. According to this perspective, a public social policy is undertaken by government or deals with a public matter. When a social policy is private, non‐public actors and …
Vulnerability and Human Rights
The Preconditions and Consequences of Social Movement Actions: Opinions of Immigrant Assimilation among Local Polity Members in France
A new branch of the social movements literature calls attention to the lack of research on the unintended consequences rather than intended outcomes of social movements. This paper examines one of these potential unintended consequences: negative attitudes toward the intended beneficiaries of the movement. The paper departs from past analysis of public opinion, however, by focusing on the views of local polity members. Specifically, the paper ana…
Abortion, motherhood, and mental health: Medicalizing reproduction in the United States and Britain
A Second Opinion: Rethinking the Public-Private Dichotomy for Health Insurance
Does the public-private dichotomy effectively describe health insurance systems in the advanced industrialized democracies? Is the boundary separating the public and private sectors accurate for studies of social policy formation and cutback? This article has three goals. The first is to discuss reasons for reconsidering the public-private dichotomy, as it applies to health insurance systems. The second is to offer a reconceptualization of the pu…
The office of the children's ombudsperson: Children's rights and social-policy innovation
Charitable choice policy and abused children: The benefits and harms of going beyond the public‐private dichotomy
Charitable Choice Policy, the heart of President Bush’s Faith‐Based Initiative, is the direct government funding of religious organizations for the purpose of carrying out government programs. The Bush presidential administration has called for the application of Charitable Choice Policy to all kinds of social services. Advocates for child‐abuse victims contend that the Bush Charitable Choice Policy would further dismantle essential social servic…
Market and Community: The Basis of Social Order, Revolution, and Relegitimation
Complexity, Generality, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) offers researchers the opportunity to combine the intensiveness of case-oriented research strategies and the extensiveness of variable-oriented approaches in a single framework. QCA is specifically designed for a moderate number of cases, too few for variable-oriented research designs and too many for in-depth, case-oriented analysis. To illustrate QCA's applicability to moderate-sized data sets, we analyze …
Comparing Children's Rights: Introducing the Children's Rights Index
Children's rights continue to be subject of international debates. Moving past these debates can be facilitated with an international measure of children's rights. This article introduces the Children's Rights Index, an international measure of children's rights for over 190 countries. The Children's Rights Index consists of two civil rights, two political rights, two social rights, and two economic rights. This article presents country scores on…
An International Framework of Children's Rights
It is widely perceived that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Committee established to monitor the Convention's national implementations are key parts of globally supported norms and processes. The Committee has established procedures that national governments are expected to follow as they enforce the Convention. Rather than accept this vision prima facie, this review critically asks whether the world society surrounding ch…
Forum: Youth as Boundary Actors in International Studies
Youth represent a great part of humanity and have always been active and intriguing political actors, yet youth remain sidelined in international studies. Issues of social identity perception and its consequences have been embraced by post-positivist approaches in international studies. Yet, while race, gender, and class challenges are shaking the discipline, age is a key research gap. To fill this gap, the conceptual departure of this forum is t…
The office of the children's ombudsperson: Children's rights and social-policy innovation
A child’s right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications
The right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications (REBSPA) is under debate. The efforts of a U.N. Expert, the U.N. CESCR, an AAAS coalition, and scholars have shed light on and raised awareness of this right. Deserving more attention is children’s REBSPA. Young people stand to gain significantly from REBSPA, yet little is known about how this right may impact children’s interests. This article examines young people’s REBSPA …
No Kid Is an Island: Privacy Scarcities and Digital Inequalities
This article examines how digital inequalities give rise to privacy practices and resource acquisition strategies among disadvantaged youths. Based on in-depth interview data, the article probes the hidden costs of digital inequality among high school students in an agricultural belt of California. The analysis pays special attention to high-achieving students engaging in capital-enhancing activities such as schoolwork and college applications ne…
Is What's Best for Dads Best for Families? Paternity Leave Policies and Equity Across Forty-Four Nations
In a global economy, paternity leave policies represent one of the most significant expansions of the welfare state that seek to help fathers respond to socio-economic pressures on their work and families. Policy makers who strongly promote socio-economic equity may respond to these global changes with new policy formulae meant to encourage involvement of fathers in their families. Nevertheless, scholars have limited understanding of who benefits…
Children for sale? The blurred boundary between intercountry adoption and sale of children in the United States
Purpose – Intercountry adoptions (hereafter ICAs) in the USA are a form of sale of children. According to international policy, sale of children is an illicit social practice that involves improper financial gains by at least one party. Sale of children is a threat to legitimate ICA. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the policy and practice of ICAs in the USA, including pricing arrangements, demonstrate that US ICAs, which can have humanita…
Children's Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field
Public or Private Management? A Comparative Analysis of Social Policies in Europe
Across the world, political leaders and policy experts frequently use the labels ‘public’ and ‘private’ to organize social policies. A line seemingly separates public from private efforts, with social policies publicly organized in some countries and privately organized in others. According to this perspective, a public social policy is undertaken by government or deals with a public matter. When a social policy is private, non‐public actors and …
The Preconditions and Consequences of Social Movement Actions: Opinions of Immigrant Assimilation among Local Polity Members in France
A new branch of the social movements literature calls attention to the lack of research on the unintended consequences rather than intended outcomes of social movements. This paper examines one of these potential unintended consequences: negative attitudes toward the intended beneficiaries of the movement. The paper departs from past analysis of public opinion, however, by focusing on the views of local polity members. Specifically, the paper ana…
Three worlds of old-age decommodification
Neighbourhood Organizations and the Welfare State.Shlomo Hasson , David Ley
International Counter Urbanization
Poverty: A Global Review
Three worlds of old-age decommodification
Faces of poverty; Children in courts: Public policymaking and federal court decisions; Whose welfare? AFDC and elite politics
Faces of poverty; Children in courts: Public policymaking and federal court decisions; Whose welfare? AFDC and elite politics
European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective from 1850 to the Present
Rights and ratios? Evaluating the relationship between social rights and immigration
Since 1960 citizens of many industrialised democracies have obtained greater rights, including access to social welfare programmes. Several countries have also offered similar rights to immigrants. Some researchers hypothesise that, as a result of extending rights to immigrants, these countries face constraints in relation to the reduction of immigration flows. We evaluate this rights-based hypothesis by comparing long-term immigration of childre…
A Second Opinion: Rethinking the Public-Private Dichotomy for Health Insurance
Does the public-private dichotomy effectively describe health insurance systems in the advanced industrialized democracies? Is the boundary separating the public and private sectors accurate for studies of social policy formation and cutback? This article has three goals. The first is to discuss reasons for reconsidering the public-private dichotomy, as it applies to health insurance systems. The second is to offer a reconceptualization of the pu…
The office of the children's ombudsperson: Children's rights and social-policy innovation
Charitable choice policy and abused children: The benefits and harms of going beyond the public‐private dichotomy
Charitable Choice Policy, the heart of President Bush’s Faith‐Based Initiative, is the direct government funding of religious organizations for the purpose of carrying out government programs. The Bush presidential administration has called for the application of Charitable Choice Policy to all kinds of social services. Advocates for child‐abuse victims contend that the Bush Charitable Choice Policy would further dismantle essential social servic…
Market and Community: The Basis of Social Order, Revolution, and Relegitimation
Complexity, Generality, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) offers researchers the opportunity to combine the intensiveness of case-oriented research strategies and the extensiveness of variable-oriented approaches in a single framework. QCA is specifically designed for a moderate number of cases, too few for variable-oriented research designs and too many for in-depth, case-oriented analysis. To illustrate QCA's applicability to moderate-sized data sets, we analyze …
The Preconditions and Consequences of Social Movement Actions: Opinions of Immigrant Assimilation among Local Polity Members in France
A new branch of the social movements literature calls attention to the lack of research on the unintended consequences rather than intended outcomes of social movements. This paper examines one of these potential unintended consequences: negative attitudes toward the intended beneficiaries of the movement. The paper departs from past analysis of public opinion, however, by focusing on the views of local polity members. Specifically, the paper ana…
Abortion, motherhood, and mental health: Medicalizing reproduction in the United States and Britain
Vulnerability and Human Rights
Public and Private Social Policy: Health and Pension Policies in a New Era
Exploring the increasing involvement of the private sector in social policy, this collection examines the complex relationship between the public and private sectors from an international perspective
Public or Private Management? A Comparative Analysis of Social Policies in Europe
Across the world, political leaders and policy experts frequently use the labels ‘public’ and ‘private’ to organize social policies. A line seemingly separates public from private efforts, with social policies publicly organized in some countries and privately organized in others. According to this perspective, a public social policy is undertaken by government or deals with a public matter. When a social policy is private, non‐public actors and …
Comparing Children's Rights: Introducing the Children's Rights Index
Children's rights continue to be subject of international debates. Moving past these debates can be facilitated with an international measure of children's rights. This article introduces the Children's Rights Index, an international measure of children's rights for over 190 countries. The Children's Rights Index consists of two civil rights, two political rights, two social rights, and two economic rights. This article presents country scores on…
Making a ‘Case’: Applying Visual Sociology to Researching Eminent Domain
Children's Rights and International Development: Lessons and Challenges from the Field
A child’s right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications
The right to enjoy benefits of scientific progress and its applications (REBSPA) is under debate. The efforts of a U.N. Expert, the U.N. CESCR, an AAAS coalition, and scholars have shed light on and raised awareness of this right. Deserving more attention is children’s REBSPA. Young people stand to gain significantly from REBSPA, yet little is known about how this right may impact children’s interests. This article examines young people’s REBSPA …
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
Is What's Best for Dads Best for Families? Paternity Leave Policies and Equity Across Forty-Four Nations
In a global economy, paternity leave policies represent one of the most significant expansions of the welfare state that seek to help fathers respond to socio-economic pressures on their work and families. Policy makers who strongly promote socio-economic equity may respond to these global changes with new policy formulae meant to encourage involvement of fathers in their families. Nevertheless, scholars have limited understanding of who benefits…
Children for sale? The blurred boundary between intercountry adoption and sale of children in the United States
Purpose – Intercountry adoptions (hereafter ICAs) in the USA are a form of sale of children. According to international policy, sale of children is an illicit social practice that involves improper financial gains by at least one party. Sale of children is a threat to legitimate ICA. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the policy and practice of ICAs in the USA, including pricing arrangements, demonstrate that US ICAs, which can have humanita…
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