Teresa A Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa A Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Opting Out
Science
Science is organized human activity that methodically studies the natural world and documents the findings. Merton described science as being governed by norms of communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, and organized skepticism. Counternorms have been documented, with sanctions developed against scientific misconduct. Scientific knowledge is organized by fields and revised as the scientific community accepts new knowledge through competitio…
Degendering Leadership in Higher Education
The Fragile Middle Class
Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that h…
The Fragile Middle Class
Learning to Be Latino
A Perfect Mess
The Fragile Middle Class
Since 1997, the number of American families filing for federal bankruptcy annually has exceeded one million. By most measures, those who file are members of the middle class—a group that has long provided stability and vitality for the American economic system. This raises the troubling question: why, during the most remarkable period of prosperity in our history, are unprecedented numbers of Americans encountering such serious financial trouble?…
Greedy Institutions, Overwork, and Work-Life Balance
Teresa Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia, offered her thoughts on 'Greedy Institutions' and the work-life balance in her AKD Distinguished Lecture at the August 2013 meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City. We appreciate Dr. Sullivan's willingness to revise her address for publication in Sociological Inquiry. In the age of smart phones and 24/7 accountability, her thoughts on these issues-particularly at …
Minority Talent Loss and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law
Objective. This article examines how knowledge about the Texas top 10 percent law influences college enrollment decisions of high achieving minority and nonminority students. Methods. Using a representative survey of graduates from Texas public high schools in 2002, we compare self‐reported and transcript‐verified class rank and estimate probit models to assess the likelihood that top‐ranked minority students know about the law. Results. Family s…
The Fragile Middle Class
Une prospérité précaire
Precarious prosperity. Concerning critical financial situations in the middle class. The 1990s were a period of great prosperity in the United States and yet, paradoxically, personal bankruptcies rose sharply during this time period. This study analyses data from questionnaires completed by bankrupt debtors to learn the reasons for their bankruptcies. Job problems were the leading cause of bankruptcy, but divorce, medical debts, housing problems,…
Ending a Career in the Auto Industry
Economics
Part Ii
This paper begins by developing a language for ethical discourse on immigration and then examining the extent to which choices may be made at the micro-level and at the macro-level. States and individuals are examined as actors who are variously described as making choices or being choiceless. The concepts of cultural distance, reciprocity, the role of the individual and of the state and their interrelationships are evaluated in the perspective o…
Immigration and the Ethics of Choice
This paper begins by developing a language for ethical discourse on immigration and then examining the extent to which choices may be made at the micro-level and at the macro-level. States and individuals are examined as actors who are variously described as making choices or being choiceless. The concepts of cultural distance, reciprocity, the role of the individual and of the state and their interrelationships are evaluated in the perspective o…
Bankruptcy and the Family
No abstract available for this article
Teaching Evaluation by Peers
After Ellis Island
The Social Organization of Work
Sociology and Its Publics
Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circles these are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most aut…
Immigration Reform and the Latino Small Service Sector
Immigration reform is a policy of particular concern within the low‐wage service sector and among self‐employed ethnic entrepreneurs. This study uses U. S. Census microdata to show that Latino entrepreneurs differ in earnings by nativity and industry. Although foreign‐born entrepreneurs usually have lower earnings than native‐born Latino entrepreneurs, the situation reverses itself among restaurateurs and small retailers. The study then uses data…
Bending the Law
Making the Graduate Curriculum Explicit
Graduate programs and undergraduate programs have different objectives. The undergraduate program is designed to reproduce knowledge and to instill a certain canon of informatic. in students, who then will assume many different roles outside the university. The graduate program is designed both to produce knowledge and to reproduce the faculty, or at least to produce researchers capable of reproducing the faculty.1 Thus, the graduate program seek…
Interactive Population Statistical System
Sociology of Science
Sociology of science deals with the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity. Science is a cultural tradi tion, preserved and transmitted from generation to generation partly because it is valued in its own right, and partly because of its wide technological applications. Its most distinguishing characteristic is that the primary purpose of its cultivators, the scientists, is t…
Labor force composition and underemployment trends, 1969?1980
Measuring underemployment and inequality in the work force
Introductory Sociology through Literature
Responding to Student Diversity-Sociology Through Literature: The course, offered for four semesters at the University of Texas at Austin, has two objectives: (1) to illustrate the sociological perspective through materials already familiar to students; and (2) to give students practice identifying sociological content in new contexts. The initial learning task is to grasp a sociological concept well enough to find an example of it in a literary …
The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants
Teresa A. Sullivan, The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants: A Comparison of Cubans and Mexicans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1045-1062
Greedy Institutions, Overwork, and Work-Life Balance
Teresa Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia, offered her thoughts on 'Greedy Institutions' and the work-life balance in her AKD Distinguished Lecture at the August 2013 meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City. We appreciate Dr. Sullivan's willingness to revise her address for publication in Sociological Inquiry. In the age of smart phones and 24/7 accountability, her thoughts on these issues-particularly at …
The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants
This study analyzes the occupational prestige of women workers born in Cuba or Mexico who were at least 25 years of age at the time of their immigration to the U.S. The dependent variable is NORC prestige scores; independent variables are age, U.S. experience, South residence, weeks worked, and schooling. Predicted prestige scores, controlled for social class, narrow the prestige score gap between Cuban and Mexican women, but increase the gap bet…
Opting Out
Minority Talent Loss and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law
Objective. This article examines how knowledge about the Texas top 10 percent law influences college enrollment decisions of high achieving minority and nonminority students. Methods. Using a representative survey of graduates from Texas public high schools in 2002, we compare self‐reported and transcript‐verified class rank and estimate probit models to assess the likelihood that top‐ranked minority students know about the law. Results. Family s…
Making the Graduate Curriculum Explicit
Graduate programs and undergraduate programs have different objectives. The undergraduate program is designed to reproduce knowledge and to instill a certain canon of informatic. in students, who then will assume many different roles outside the university. The graduate program is designed both to produce knowledge and to reproduce the faculty, or at least to produce researchers capable of reproducing the faculty.1 Thus, the graduate program seek…
Women and Minority Workers in the New Economy
Two scenarios, one optimistic and one pessimistic, contrast the effects of the New Economy. The optimistic scenario assumes that a 'leading edge' of women and minorities will be recruited for new and better jobs. Persistence of the traditional labor force position of women and minorities generates the pessimistic scenario. The two scenarios are used to derive three predictions about the number and content of jobs in the New Economy and the demogr…
Bankruptcy and the Family
No abstract available for this article
A Perfect Mess
Teaching Evaluation by Peers
Confronting the problem
Une prospérité précaire
Precarious prosperity. Concerning critical financial situations in the middle class. The 1990s were a period of great prosperity in the United States and yet, paradoxically, personal bankruptcies rose sharply during this time period. This study analyses data from questionnaires completed by bankrupt debtors to learn the reasons for their bankruptcies. Job problems were the leading cause of bankruptcy, but divorce, medical debts, housing problems,…
Immigration and the Ethics of Choice
This paper begins by developing a language for ethical discourse on immigration and then examining the extent to which choices may be made at the micro-level and at the macro-level. States and individuals are examined as actors who are variously described as making choices or being choiceless. The concepts of cultural distance, reciprocity, the role of the individual and of the state and their interrelationships are evaluated in the perspective o…
Sociology and Its Publics
Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circles these are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most aut…
As We Forgive Our Debtors
Sisters at Work
This article examines occupational differentiation of American Catholic sisters both prior to and following the Second Vatican Council. The pre- Vatican II era is characterized in terms of mechanical solidarity such that a common group identity and culture based on work is shared. By contrast, apostolic sisters of the post-Vatican II period seem to exemplify the concept of organic solidarity; there is more variation with regard to occupations and…
Conventional Numbers” in Immigration Research
Since 1980, more than a dozen estimates of the number of Dominicans living in the U.S. or abroad have converged on 500,000. Both the 1980 U.S. Census and the 1981 Dominican Republic Census counts, however, suggest there were fewer than 200,000 at that time. Seven years later, estimates, even of the available “pool” of Dominican migrants, are well below 500,000, and it is difficult to justify empirically an estimate of more than 300,000. This arti…
Estimating Labor Absorption With Published Data
Large population cohorts will need to be productively absorbed into the work force in coming years in order to provide for their old age. Appropriate data and techniques for measuring labour absorption have been scarce. This article suggests two techniques for analysing the data recommended with first priority for censuses by the United Nations. Censuses are used because virtually every country conducts a census while few can afford labour force …
Developing Demographic Literacy and Evaluation Skills
Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Teresa A. Sullivan, Developing Demographic Literacy and Evaluation Skills: Techniques for the Introductory Demography Course, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 83-91
Sociology of Science
Sociology of science deals with the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity. Science is a cultural tradi tion, preserved and transmitted from generation to generation partly because it is valued in its own right, and partly because of its wide technological applications. Its most distinguishing characteristic is that the primary purpose of its cultivators, the scientists, is t…
Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations
Male and Female Graduate Students
Entry into the American Labor Force
Sociological Theories of the Economy
Occupations and Society
Downgrading Computer Workers
The growth of computers has led to contradictory expectations about the downgrading of the computer labor force. This article tests three implications of the downgrading argument using data from Public Use Samples: the changing mix of computer occupations between professional/technical and clerical jobs; the changing prestige distinctions among computer workers; and the mobility among higher and lower skilled categories. The findings show that in…
Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs
Employment of Blacks in the South
The Sociology of Science in Europe. Robert K. Merton , Jerry Gaston
Loving, Parenting and Dying
Introductory Sociology through Literature
Responding to Student Diversity-Sociology Through Literature: The course, offered for four semesters at the University of Texas at Austin, has two objectives: (1) to illustrate the sociological perspective through materials already familiar to students; and (2) to give students practice identifying sociological content in new contexts. The initial learning task is to grasp a sociological concept well enough to find an example of it in a literary …
Converts, Dropouts, Returnees
Converts, Dropouts, Returnees: A Study of Religious Change among Catholics, by Dean R. Hoge and Young Catholics in the United States and Canada, by Joan L. Fee, Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready, Teresa A. Sullivan Get access Patrick H. McNamara Patrick H. McNamara The University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 381–383, https:…
A Supply-Side View of the Melting PotA Piece of the Pie
Fieldwork in the Oligopoly
Social scientists have discussed at length the protection of individual subjects but have paid little attention to collective subjects (for example, see Sjoberg 1967; Wax 1971; Diener and Crandall 1978). However, if researchers are to study the corporation and the corporate elite (Useem 1979), and if they are to bring the firm back into the mainstream of organizational research (Baron and Bielby 1980), they must also consider the protection of co…
Young Catholics in the United States and Canada
Labor force composition and underemployment trends, 1969?1980
Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question. Marcia Guttentag , Paul F. Secord
The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants
This study analyzes the occupational prestige of women workers born in Cuba or Mexico who were at least 25 years of age at the time of their immigration to the U.S. The dependent variable is NORC prestige scores; independent variables are age, U.S. experience, South residence, weeks worked, and schooling. Predicted prestige scores, controlled for social class, narrow the prestige score gap between Cuban and Mexican women, but increase the gap bet…
The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants
Teresa A. Sullivan, The Occupational Prestige of Women Immigrants: A Comparison of Cubans and Mexicans, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1045-1062
The Dilemma of American Immigration
State Policies and Internal Migration
The Dilemma of American Immigration
The Dilemma of American Immigration
Confronting the problem
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