Margarita Mooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Mooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mooney |
| SIGNATURE | MOONEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Human Agency and Mental Illness
How might critical realism provide a better metatheoretical framework to understand the complex causality behind experiences of mental illness? How do we understand the agency of people suffering from mental illness? Prior work on critical realism and disability has argued that critical realism helps move past one or another form of reductionist explanations for illness, whether that is biological, environmental or psychological. But using a crit…
Relationships with God among Young Adults: Validating a Measurement Model with Four Dimensions
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults?
STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD The stress process model as outlined by Pearlin (1989) and Wheaton (1985) posits that acute stressors such as major traumas or life events (death of a loved one, unemployment) tax the ability of a person to respond and may adversely affect their mental health. Although much research focuses on the mediators or the outcomes of stressors, it is particularly important to study exposure to stressful life event…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Although understandings of the human person are foundational to social science theory and research, sociologists reflect less on the characteristics of personhood than we do concepts such as structure and culture. 1 Although sociologists rarely engage in ontological debates about personhood, the social sciences nonetheless often contain unstated views of the person that give rise to conflicting accounts of human motivation and the interaction bet…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
Narratives, Religion, and Traumatic Life Events Among Young Adults
This paper contributes to the growing sociological interest in resilience by using a virtue ethics framework to examine distinct ways young adults respond to stressful life events. Based on interviews with 26 young adults in nine U.S. states, I argue that resilience differs from coping. Coping implies people have mitigated the negative effects of a traumatic event. I define resilience as a dynamic process oriented toward a telos that encompasses …
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
Religion as A Context of Reception: The Case of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration and Civic Engagement in Miami – Edited by Alex Stepick, Terry Rey, and Sarah J. Mahler
Une Laïcité 'Légitme: La France et ses religions d'État ['Legimiate'Laicité: France and its State Religions]
Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
Based on fieldwork in Haiti and in three cities of the Haitian diaspora--Miami, Montreal, and Paris--this study offers a vivid portrait of the power of faith for immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews and including rich details of everyday life, Margarita Mooney explores the struggles and joys of Haitian Catholics in these three very different cities. She finds that religious narratives, especially those about transformation and redemption, …
Neither colorblind nor oppositional: Perceived minority status and trajectories of academic adjustment among Latinos in elite higher education
As more Latinos experience upward social mobility, it is increasingly necessary to challenge oppositional cultural assumptions to explain how perceived minority status barriers may influence their academic achievement. The present study builds on previous work that identified 3 distinct minority status orientations among Latino college students entering elite colleges-which the authors call assimilation, accommodation, and resistance. Using data …
Profiles of Latino Adaptation at Elite Colleges and Universities
Drawing on frameworks of blocked opportunity, social identity, and immigrant adaptation processes, we tested competing hypotheses about Latino achievement, focusing on variation in the ways in which Latino students at elite colleges perceive and navigate minority status. Using data from 916 participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, cluster analyses identify three profiles of perceived opportunity and social exclusion. Students…
Structures de médiation et intégration des immigrants haïtiens à Paris
Dans le présent article, j’utilise les chiffres officiels du gouvernement français et des entretiens avec des immigrants haïtiens pour analyser les voies que les Haïtiens ont utilisées pour entrer en France et s’y installer. Malgré l’absence de canaux légaux d’immigration des Haïtiens en France, le chiffre de la population haïtienne en France est passé, au cours des 20 dernières années, de quelques milliers d’immigrants, surtout dans les professi…
The Effects of America's Three Affirmative Action Programs on Academic Performance
Although affirmative action programs for minority students form just one of several criteria for preferential admissions to American colleges and universities, little research has compared the impact of other large “affirmative actions” programs such as those for athletes and legacies. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), a sample of nearly 4,000 students in 28 elite American colleges and universities, we develop m…
Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States
This analysis uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) to study black immigrants and natives attending selective colleges and universities in the United States. In the NLSF, 747 black students were of native origin, and 281 were of immigrant origin, yielding an overall immigrant percentage of 27 percent. The overrepresentation of immigrants was higher in private than in public institutions and within more selective rathe…
The Catholic Bishops Conferences of the United States and France: Engaging Immigration as a Public Issue
The secularization paradigm in the social sciences led many scholars to presume that religious organizations no longer had a public role in society. The author argues that one pressing public issue today, immigration, has become a strategic site on which the Catholic church has reasserted its prophetic voice in society, in particular calling for more humane treatment of undocumented immigrants and greater intercultural dialogue. The author compar…
God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
Journal Article God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community, by Kenneth J. Guest. New York: New York University Press, 2003, 219 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paper) Get access Margarita Mooney Margarita Mooney Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Fall 2004, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712259 Publis…
Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that while French anti-racist rhetorics, both elite and popul…
Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States
This analysis uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) to study black immigrants and natives attending selective colleges and universities in the United States. In the NLSF, 747 black students were of native origin, and 281 were of immigrant origin, yielding an overall immigrant percentage of 27 percent. The overrepresentation of immigrants was higher in private than in public institutions and within more selective rathe…
Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that while French anti-racist rhetorics, both elite and popul…
The Effects of America's Three Affirmative Action Programs on Academic Performance
Although affirmative action programs for minority students form just one of several criteria for preferential admissions to American colleges and universities, little research has compared the impact of other large “affirmative actions” programs such as those for athletes and legacies. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), a sample of nearly 4,000 students in 28 elite American colleges and universities, we develop m…
Profiles of Latino Adaptation at Elite Colleges and Universities
Drawing on frameworks of blocked opportunity, social identity, and immigrant adaptation processes, we tested competing hypotheses about Latino achievement, focusing on variation in the ways in which Latino students at elite colleges perceive and navigate minority status. Using data from 916 participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, cluster analyses identify three profiles of perceived opportunity and social exclusion. Students…
Relationships with God among Young Adults: Validating a Measurement Model with Four Dimensions
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Religion as A Context of Reception: The Case of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Neither colorblind nor oppositional: Perceived minority status and trajectories of academic adjustment among Latinos in elite higher education
As more Latinos experience upward social mobility, it is increasingly necessary to challenge oppositional cultural assumptions to explain how perceived minority status barriers may influence their academic achievement. The present study builds on previous work that identified 3 distinct minority status orientations among Latino college students entering elite colleges-which the authors call assimilation, accommodation, and resistance. Using data …
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
The Catholic Bishops Conferences of the United States and France: Engaging Immigration as a Public Issue
The secularization paradigm in the social sciences led many scholars to presume that religious organizations no longer had a public role in society. The author argues that one pressing public issue today, immigration, has become a strategic site on which the Catholic church has reasserted its prophetic voice in society, in particular calling for more humane treatment of undocumented immigrants and greater intercultural dialogue. The author compar…
Structures de médiation et intégration des immigrants haïtiens à Paris
Dans le présent article, j’utilise les chiffres officiels du gouvernement français et des entretiens avec des immigrants haïtiens pour analyser les voies que les Haïtiens ont utilisées pour entrer en France et s’y installer. Malgré l’absence de canaux légaux d’immigration des Haïtiens en France, le chiffre de la population haïtienne en France est passé, au cours des 20 dernières années, de quelques milliers d’immigrants, surtout dans les professi…
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that while French anti-racist rhetorics, both elite and popul…
God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
Journal Article God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community, by Kenneth J. Guest. New York: New York University Press, 2003, 219 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paper) Get access Margarita Mooney Margarita Mooney Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Fall 2004, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712259 Publis…
Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States
This analysis uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) to study black immigrants and natives attending selective colleges and universities in the United States. In the NLSF, 747 black students were of native origin, and 281 were of immigrant origin, yielding an overall immigrant percentage of 27 percent. The overrepresentation of immigrants was higher in private than in public institutions and within more selective rathe…
The Catholic Bishops Conferences of the United States and France: Engaging Immigration as a Public Issue
The secularization paradigm in the social sciences led many scholars to presume that religious organizations no longer had a public role in society. The author argues that one pressing public issue today, immigration, has become a strategic site on which the Catholic church has reasserted its prophetic voice in society, in particular calling for more humane treatment of undocumented immigrants and greater intercultural dialogue. The author compar…
The Effects of America's Three Affirmative Action Programs on Academic Performance
Although affirmative action programs for minority students form just one of several criteria for preferential admissions to American colleges and universities, little research has compared the impact of other large “affirmative actions” programs such as those for athletes and legacies. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), a sample of nearly 4,000 students in 28 elite American colleges and universities, we develop m…
Profiles of Latino Adaptation at Elite Colleges and Universities
Drawing on frameworks of blocked opportunity, social identity, and immigrant adaptation processes, we tested competing hypotheses about Latino achievement, focusing on variation in the ways in which Latino students at elite colleges perceive and navigate minority status. Using data from 916 participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, cluster analyses identify three profiles of perceived opportunity and social exclusion. Students…
Structures de médiation et intégration des immigrants haïtiens à Paris
Dans le présent article, j’utilise les chiffres officiels du gouvernement français et des entretiens avec des immigrants haïtiens pour analyser les voies que les Haïtiens ont utilisées pour entrer en France et s’y installer. Malgré l’absence de canaux légaux d’immigration des Haïtiens en France, le chiffre de la population haïtienne en France est passé, au cours des 20 dernières années, de quelques milliers d’immigrants, surtout dans les professi…
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
Based on fieldwork in Haiti and in three cities of the Haitian diaspora--Miami, Montreal, and Paris--this study offers a vivid portrait of the power of faith for immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews and including rich details of everyday life, Margarita Mooney explores the struggles and joys of Haitian Catholics in these three very different cities. She finds that religious narratives, especially those about transformation and redemption, …
Neither colorblind nor oppositional: Perceived minority status and trajectories of academic adjustment among Latinos in elite higher education
As more Latinos experience upward social mobility, it is increasingly necessary to challenge oppositional cultural assumptions to explain how perceived minority status barriers may influence their academic achievement. The present study builds on previous work that identified 3 distinct minority status orientations among Latino college students entering elite colleges-which the authors call assimilation, accommodation, and resistance. Using data …
Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration and Civic Engagement in Miami – Edited by Alex Stepick, Terry Rey, and Sarah J. Mahler
Une Laïcité 'Légitme: La France et ses religions d'État ['Legimiate'Laicité: France and its State Religions]
Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America
Religion as A Context of Reception: The Case of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris
In this article, I use cross‐national comparative and ethnographic methods to explore how religion influences the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into the US , Quebec and France. First, I explore the ideological, legal and institutional forces that shape religion‐state differentiation in the US , Quebec and France. Using census and immigration data from each site as well as interviews with Haitian leaders and government officials in Miami, Mo…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults?
STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD The stress process model as outlined by Pearlin (1989) and Wheaton (1985) posits that acute stressors such as major traumas or life events (death of a loved one, unemployment) tax the ability of a person to respond and may adversely affect their mental health. Although much research focuses on the mediators or the outcomes of stressors, it is particularly important to study exposure to stressful life event…
Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
Although understandings of the human person are foundational to social science theory and research, sociologists reflect less on the characteristics of personhood than we do concepts such as structure and culture. 1 Although sociologists rarely engage in ontological debates about personhood, the social sciences nonetheless often contain unstated views of the person that give rise to conflicting accounts of human motivation and the interaction bet…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
Narratives, Religion, and Traumatic Life Events Among Young Adults
This paper contributes to the growing sociological interest in resilience by using a virtue ethics framework to examine distinct ways young adults respond to stressful life events. Based on interviews with 26 young adults in nine U.S. states, I argue that resilience differs from coping. Coping implies people have mitigated the negative effects of a traumatic event. I define resilience as a dynamic process oriented toward a telos that encompasses …
Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive‐Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities
Much social theory tends to emphasize the external goods of social practices, often neglecting the internal goods of those practices. For example, many analyses of religious rituals over‐emphasize the instrumental and individualistic ends of prayer and liturgy by describing such religious practices as effective means for achieving external ends like positive emotions, psychological benefits, social status, or social capital. By contrast, we use a…
The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants’ Educational Experiences 1990–2002
The 1990s marked the beginning of a new era of immigration in terms of volume and settlement patterns and also witnessed significant changes in the social contexts confronting immigrants. These changes could have significant repercussions for immigrant youth. While previous research on high school dropout behavior suggests immigrant youth are faring better in US schools, our research provides a less optimistic outlook. Using the National Educatio…
Human Agency and Mental Illness
How might critical realism provide a better metatheoretical framework to understand the complex causality behind experiences of mental illness? How do we understand the agency of people suffering from mental illness? Prior work on critical realism and disability has argued that critical realism helps move past one or another form of reductionist explanations for illness, whether that is biological, environmental or psychological. But using a crit…
Relationships with God among Young Adults: Validating a Measurement Model with Four Dimensions
Experiencing a relationship with God is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of personal religiosity for both affiliated and unaffiliated young adults, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to develop measures appropriate to its latent, multidimensional quality. This paper presents a new model for measuring relationships with God based on religious role theory, attachment to God theory, and insights from interview-based studies, whic…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (11 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works)