Colby King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colby King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colby |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina Upstate |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7582-0375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
New Urban Sociology
The concept of a “new urban sociology” refers to a paradigm shift in urban sociology that began in the 1970s and established a dominant approach. This approach emphasizes Marxist and post‐Marxist urban political economy (class, race, gender, agenda‐setting major businesses in commerce, banking, and real estate, and the involvement of government officials at all levels in influencing, if not determining, the outcomes of social activities in settle…
Urban Frontier
Urban frontier refers to spaces in or around a city in which (re)settlement and new forms of economic development are emerging, often as a result of incoming capital investment associated with an often racialized political struggle between long‐standing and newly settled residents. Turner and Wade were among the first to describe the urban frontier. Smith's examinations of gentrification revealed how the frontier terminology invokes images of man…
Image of the City
The image of the city is an ever‐evolving representation of a city's character, unique for each observer, and is socially constructed based on the observer's mental maps of both objectively and subjectively observed characteristics of the city. A term originally coined by Kevin Lynch, the “image of the city” is comprised of both the stationary elements of design and the mobile elements represented by the people and social activities within the ci…
A different perspective on post-industrial labor market restructuring in Detroit and Pittsburgh
The Midwestern cities of Pittsburgh and Detroit are often held up as quintessential examples of post-industrial urban trajectories—one positive (Pittsburgh) and one negative (Detroit). In this paper, we investigate the structural economic shifts reshaping work opportunities in these two urban regions in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, using a shift share analysis of changes in occupational distributions from 2009 to 2016. Through this …
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own
New Urban Sociology
The concept of a “new urban sociology” refers to a paradigm shift in urban sociology that began in the 1970s and established a dominant approach. This approach emphasizes Marxist and post‐Marxist urban political economy (class, race, gender, agenda‐setting major businesses in commerce, banking, and real estate, and the involvement of government officials at all levels in influencing, if not determining, the outcomes of social activities in settle…
Urban Frontier
Urban frontier refers to spaces in or around a city in which (re)settlement and new forms of economic development are emerging, often as a result of incoming capital investment associated with an often racialized political struggle between long‐standing and newly settled residents. Turner and Wade were among the first to describe the urban frontier. Smith's examinations of gentrification revealed how the frontier terminology invokes images of man…
Image of the City
The image of the city is an ever‐evolving representation of a city's character, unique for each observer, and is socially constructed based on the observer's mental maps of both objectively and subjectively observed characteristics of the city. A term originally coined by Kevin Lynch, the “image of the city” is comprised of both the stationary elements of design and the mobile elements represented by the people and social activities within the ci…
A different perspective on post-industrial labor market restructuring in Detroit and Pittsburgh
The Midwestern cities of Pittsburgh and Detroit are often held up as quintessential examples of post-industrial urban trajectories—one positive (Pittsburgh) and one negative (Detroit). In this paper, we investigate the structural economic shifts reshaping work opportunities in these two urban regions in the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, using a shift share analysis of changes in occupational distributions from 2009 to 2016. Through this …
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
A Liberal Arts Curriculum that Situates Science While Promoting STEM Graduation
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Higher education (3 works)