Sandra Susan Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Susan Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 612 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
Sandra Susan Smith a, Jonathan Simon b, Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 1-27
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
People with a criminal record face substantial demand-side employment barriers that have clear implications for whether or not they search for work and what strategies they use. We know relatively little, however, about whether and how penal contact affects patterns of job search and how search patterns affect search success. Using the 2001-2011 waves of the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), we find that penal con…
"Change" Frames and the Mobilization of Social Capital for Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job information and influence privilege? Drawing from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 126 ethnoracially diverse jobholders at one large, public sector employer, I show that jobholders' assistance relied on the cultural frames for action they deployed. Two frames dominated discussion-the second chance frame and…
Want, Need, Fit: The Cultural Logics of Job-Matching Assistance
Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector employer, the authors link job contacts' patterns of assistance to three distinct cultural logics of job-matching assistance-defensive individualism, particularism, and matchmaking-which differed along three dimensions: (a) the primary criteria upon which help was contingent, …
Unanticipated Gains
Intraracial harassment on campus: Explaining Between- And Within-Group Differences
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), we examine both between- and within-group differences in the odds of feeling intraracially harassed. Specifically, we investigate the effects of colleges' and universities' racial composition as well as the nature of students' associations with non-group members, including involvement in racially homogeneous campus organizations, ethnoracial diversity of friendship networks, and interraci…
A Test of Sincerity: How Black and Latino Service Workers Make Decisions about Making Referrals
The author draws from in-depth interviews with thirty-nine black and Latino custodial and food service workers at the University of California, Berkeley, to determine how workers make decisions about making job referrals. Interviews were revelatory. Drawing from widely available and institutionalized scripts about what makes a good worker, jobholders assessed jobseekers' orientation toward work as well as what effect this orientation might have o…
Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor
Examining the impact of welfare reform, labor market conditions, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the employment of black and white single mothers
Don't put my name on it: Social Capital Activation and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor
From a social capital theoretical perspective, deficiencies in access to mainstream ties and institutions explain persistent joblessness among the black urban poor. Little problematized, however, is the extent to which access leads to mobilization and the social context within which social capital activation occurs. Employing in‐depth interviews of 105 low‐income African‐Americans, this work advances the literature in two ways. First, it suggests…
Exploring the efficacy of African-Americans' job referral networks: A study of the obligations of exchange around job information and influence
Although the work of William Julius Wilson has done much to shed light on the role that social capital, or the lack thereof, has played in perpetuating joblessness among the urban poor, major gaps remain. Specifically, research in the urban poverty literature has almost exclusively theorized and measured social capital in terms of the poor's network structure and composition. Thus, it is widely believed that the paucity of social capital among th…
Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities
Drawing on a social capital theoretical framework, I examine race, ethnic, and gender wage inequalities. Specifically, I extend past research by analyzing differences in the mobilization of different types of job contacts, what these types of contacts and their level of influence “buy” job seekers in the labor market, and the extent to which differences in social resources explain between-group variations in wages. Four aspects of job contacts ar…
Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African-Americans: Closeness among Black Students at a Predominantly White University
A case study of black college students at a predominantly white liberal arts college is employed to question continuing assumptions in sociological research that blacks represent social, cultural, and economic homogeneity and that intraracial relations are close and without conflict. The article examines the extent to which black students feel close to other black students on campus, rely on one another for need satisfaction and social interactio…
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Don't put my name on it: Social Capital Activation and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor
From a social capital theoretical perspective, deficiencies in access to mainstream ties and institutions explain persistent joblessness among the black urban poor. Little problematized, however, is the extent to which access leads to mobilization and the social context within which social capital activation occurs. Employing in‐depth interviews of 105 low‐income African‐Americans, this work advances the literature in two ways. First, it suggests…
Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities
Drawing on a social capital theoretical framework, I examine race, ethnic, and gender wage inequalities. Specifically, I extend past research by analyzing differences in the mobilization of different types of job contacts, what these types of contacts and their level of influence “buy” job seekers in the labor market, and the extent to which differences in social resources explain between-group variations in wages. Four aspects of job contacts ar…
Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African-Americans: Closeness among Black Students at a Predominantly White University
A case study of black college students at a predominantly white liberal arts college is employed to question continuing assumptions in sociological research that blacks represent social, cultural, and economic homogeneity and that intraracial relations are close and without conflict. The article examines the extent to which black students feel close to other black students on campus, rely on one another for need satisfaction and social interactio…
A Test of Sincerity: How Black and Latino Service Workers Make Decisions about Making Referrals
The author draws from in-depth interviews with thirty-nine black and Latino custodial and food service workers at the University of California, Berkeley, to determine how workers make decisions about making job referrals. Interviews were revelatory. Drawing from widely available and institutionalized scripts about what makes a good worker, jobholders assessed jobseekers' orientation toward work as well as what effect this orientation might have o…
Want, Need, Fit: The Cultural Logics of Job-Matching Assistance
Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector employer, the authors link job contacts' patterns of assistance to three distinct cultural logics of job-matching assistance-defensive individualism, particularism, and matchmaking-which differed along three dimensions: (a) the primary criteria upon which help was contingent, …
Exploring the efficacy of African-Americans' job referral networks: A study of the obligations of exchange around job information and influence
Although the work of William Julius Wilson has done much to shed light on the role that social capital, or the lack thereof, has played in perpetuating joblessness among the urban poor, major gaps remain. Specifically, research in the urban poverty literature has almost exclusively theorized and measured social capital in terms of the poor's network structure and composition. Thus, it is widely believed that the paucity of social capital among th…
Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
People with a criminal record face substantial demand-side employment barriers that have clear implications for whether or not they search for work and what strategies they use. We know relatively little, however, about whether and how penal contact affects patterns of job search and how search patterns affect search success. Using the 2001-2011 waves of the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), we find that penal con…
Examining the impact of welfare reform, labor market conditions, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the employment of black and white single mothers
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
Sandra Susan Smith a, Jonathan Simon b, Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 1-27
"Change" Frames and the Mobilization of Social Capital for Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job information and influence privilege? Drawing from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 126 ethnoracially diverse jobholders at one large, public sector employer, I show that jobholders' assistance relied on the cultural frames for action they deployed. Two frames dominated discussion-the second chance frame and…
Intraracial harassment on campus: Explaining Between- And Within-Group Differences
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), we examine both between- and within-group differences in the odds of feeling intraracially harassed. Specifically, we investigate the effects of colleges' and universities' racial composition as well as the nature of students' associations with non-group members, including involvement in racially homogeneous campus organizations, ethnoracial diversity of friendship networks, and interraci…
Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities
Drawing on a social capital theoretical framework, I examine race, ethnic, and gender wage inequalities. Specifically, I extend past research by analyzing differences in the mobilization of different types of job contacts, what these types of contacts and their level of influence “buy” job seekers in the labor market, and the extent to which differences in social resources explain between-group variations in wages. Four aspects of job contacts ar…
Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African-Americans: Closeness among Black Students at a Predominantly White University
A case study of black college students at a predominantly white liberal arts college is employed to question continuing assumptions in sociological research that blacks represent social, cultural, and economic homogeneity and that intraracial relations are close and without conflict. The article examines the extent to which black students feel close to other black students on campus, rely on one another for need satisfaction and social interactio…
Exploring the efficacy of African-Americans' job referral networks: A study of the obligations of exchange around job information and influence
Although the work of William Julius Wilson has done much to shed light on the role that social capital, or the lack thereof, has played in perpetuating joblessness among the urban poor, major gaps remain. Specifically, research in the urban poverty literature has almost exclusively theorized and measured social capital in terms of the poor's network structure and composition. Thus, it is widely believed that the paucity of social capital among th…
Don't put my name on it: Social Capital Activation and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor
From a social capital theoretical perspective, deficiencies in access to mainstream ties and institutions explain persistent joblessness among the black urban poor. Little problematized, however, is the extent to which access leads to mobilization and the social context within which social capital activation occurs. Employing in‐depth interviews of 105 low‐income African‐Americans, this work advances the literature in two ways. First, it suggests…
Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor
Examining the impact of welfare reform, labor market conditions, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the employment of black and white single mothers
Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
A Test of Sincerity: How Black and Latino Service Workers Make Decisions about Making Referrals
The author draws from in-depth interviews with thirty-nine black and Latino custodial and food service workers at the University of California, Berkeley, to determine how workers make decisions about making job referrals. Interviews were revelatory. Drawing from widely available and institutionalized scripts about what makes a good worker, jobholders assessed jobseekers' orientation toward work as well as what effect this orientation might have o…
Unanticipated Gains
Intraracial harassment on campus: Explaining Between- And Within-Group Differences
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF), we examine both between- and within-group differences in the odds of feeling intraracially harassed. Specifically, we investigate the effects of colleges' and universities' racial composition as well as the nature of students' associations with non-group members, including involvement in racially homogeneous campus organizations, ethnoracial diversity of friendship networks, and interraci…
Want, Need, Fit: The Cultural Logics of Job-Matching Assistance
Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector employer, the authors link job contacts' patterns of assistance to three distinct cultural logics of job-matching assistance-defensive individualism, particularism, and matchmaking-which differed along three dimensions: (a) the primary criteria upon which help was contingent, …
"Change" Frames and the Mobilization of Social Capital for Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job information and influence privilege? Drawing from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 126 ethnoracially diverse jobholders at one large, public sector employer, I show that jobholders' assistance relied on the cultural frames for action they deployed. Two frames dominated discussion-the second chance frame and…
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
Sandra Susan Smith a, Jonathan Simon b, Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 1-27
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
People with a criminal record face substantial demand-side employment barriers that have clear implications for whether or not they search for work and what strategies they use. We know relatively little, however, about whether and how penal contact affects patterns of job search and how search patterns affect search success. Using the 2001-2011 waves of the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), we find that penal con…
Political science (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Capital and Networks (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)