Casey Borch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casey Borch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casey |
| FAMILY NAME | Borch |
| SIGNATURE | BORCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Socioeconomic Differences among Blacks in America: Over Time Trends
Popularity and adolescent friendship networks: Selection and influence dynamics
This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to enhance their status through befriending higher status adolescents, whereas higher status adolescents strive to maintain their status by keeping lower st…
Peer Selection and Socialization in Adolescent Depression: The Role of School Transitions
The Self-Organizing Social Mind
Using Affordable Technology to Decrease Digital Inequality: Results from Birmingham's One Laptop Per Child XO laptop project
School systems in the United States are increasingly integrating computers into the classroom. Yet, we know little about the factors that determine successful adoption, use, and attitudes toward the computers. The City Council of Birmingham, Alabama is the first in the United States to provide One Laptop Per Child XO laptops to all students in first-fifth grades in the Birmingham City School System. The purpose of this study is to present the sur…
The Military Metropolis: Defense Dependence in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
Other-Sex Friendships in Late Adolescence: Risky Associations for Substance Use and Sexual Debut
Adolescents' friendships with other-sex peers serve important developmental functions, but they may also facilitate engagement in problem behavior. This study examines the unique contributions of other-sex friendships and friends' behavior to alcohol use, smoking, and initiation of sexual intercourse among late adolescent girls and boys. A total of 320 adolescents (53% girls; 33% racial/ethnic minorities) provided sociometric nominations of frien…
Go Forth and Multiply: Revisiting Religion and Fertility in the United States, 1984-2008
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
About Face: The Association Between Facial Appearance and Status Attainment Among Military Personnel
This research assesses the extent to which facial appearance is related to occupational status attainment. Through the use of Internet technology, a diverse random sample of research participants viewed Navy boot camp photographs and rated sailors across nine dimensions. Sailors who were rated highly attractive were also thought to be intelligent and to possess leadership qualities. And, consistent with social expectancy theory and status general…
Chapter Eleven. Teletechnology And Internal Dialogue
This chapter shows that Mead presents the mind in a paradoxical manner, manifesting in the form of constraint and openness, or what is termed, self-regulation and self-control. It proposes an expansion of Mead's ideas that incorporates Mills' notion of the cultural apparatus and Foucault's notion of surveillance. The chapter introduces and develops two new concepts that reflect these additions: the panoptic idol and the cosmetic panopticism. It i…
The role of attractiveness and aggression in high school popularity
What Predicts Religious Participation and Giving? Implications for Religion in the United States
In this article, we test whether or not positive/negative sanctioning increases religious behavior. Using data from the 1998 congregational module of the General Social Survey we find that, net of other predictors, immediate positive sanctions (receiving help from the congregation) and immediate negative sanctions (receiving criticism from the congregation) significantly increase the amount of money given by respondents to religious organizations…
Differences in Earnings among Black and White African Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000: A Cross-Sectional and Temporal Analysis
This study examines the earnings of African immigrants across three waves of U.S. Census data (1980, 1990, and 2000). The authors find that the U.S. labor market favors White male immigrants, followed by Black male and White female immigrants, and finally Black women. The authors also find that male immigrants earned more per hour than female immigrants regardless of race. Considering change over time, this study finds that the earnings gap betwe…
Predicting Patterns of Exchange in Economic Exchange Networks
Reconsidering Explanations for Regional Convergence in Voter Registration and Turnout in the United States, 1956–2000 1
In the United States, voter turnout rates have been declining for the last 4 decades; however, this pattern differs substantially by region. Southern states have actually seen a fairly dramatic increase in turnout since the 1950s and currently the South and non‐South have almost identical rates of voter registration and turnout. Using a series of Heckman probit models, which examine voting as a two‐step process of registering and casting a vote, …
Developmental trajectories of adolescent popularity: A growth curve modelling analysis
Growth curve modelling was used to examine developmental trajectories of sociometric and perceived popularity across eight years in adolescence, and the effects of gender, overt aggression, and relational aggression on these trajectories. Participants were 303 initially popular students (167 girls, 136 boys) for whom sociometric data were available in Grades 5–12. The popularity and aggression constructs were stable but non‐overlapping developmen…
Peer-driven HIV interventions for drug injectors in Russia: First year impact results of a field experiment
Alienation in the United States: Uniform or Group-Specific Change
Power, Embedded Games, and Coalition Formation
Applications of game theory frequently presume but do not show that social structures contain games. This study shows that multiple games are embedded in strong power structures and that power is exercised because 1) the game of those low in power contains a dilemma whereas 2) the game of those high in power does not. As in previous analyses, we find those low in power play the Prisoner's Dilemma game. New to this analysis is the discovery that t…
Does Power Affect Perception in Social Networks? Two Arguments and an Experimental Test
This research investigates competing arguments about the relationship between power and perception in social networks. One line of research predicts that occupants of structurally advantaged positions have more accurate perceptions of ties in their networks (i.e., who is tied to whom); another line asserts that lower-power actors have more accurate perceptions. On the basis of previous work, we suggest that any relationship between power and perc…
Assessing the Effects of Urbanism and Regionalism on Gender-Role Attitudes, 1974-1998
In this article, we analyze the effects of urbanism and Southern regionalism on traditional gender-role attitudes. Our main dependent variable is an index of gender traditionalism constructed from four items asked across several years from 1974 to 1998 by the General Social Survey. As in previous research and consistent with the classical theoretical propositions of Wirth and Stouffer, we find that people living in more urban areas are more likel…
When the rubber meets the road: Effects of Urban and Regional Residence on Principle and Implementation Measures of Racial Tolerance
Popularity and adolescent friendship networks: Selection and influence dynamics
This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to enhance their status through befriending higher status adolescents, whereas higher status adolescents strive to maintain their status by keeping lower st…
Assessing the Effects of Urbanism and Regionalism on Gender-Role Attitudes, 1974-1998
In this article, we analyze the effects of urbanism and Southern regionalism on traditional gender-role attitudes. Our main dependent variable is an index of gender traditionalism constructed from four items asked across several years from 1974 to 1998 by the General Social Survey. As in previous research and consistent with the classical theoretical propositions of Wirth and Stouffer, we find that people living in more urban areas are more likel…
Does Power Affect Perception in Social Networks? Two Arguments and an Experimental Test
This research investigates competing arguments about the relationship between power and perception in social networks. One line of research predicts that occupants of structurally advantaged positions have more accurate perceptions of ties in their networks (i.e., who is tied to whom); another line asserts that lower-power actors have more accurate perceptions. On the basis of previous work, we suggest that any relationship between power and perc…
Differences in Earnings among Black and White African Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000: A Cross-Sectional and Temporal Analysis
This study examines the earnings of African immigrants across three waves of U.S. Census data (1980, 1990, and 2000). The authors find that the U.S. labor market favors White male immigrants, followed by Black male and White female immigrants, and finally Black women. The authors also find that male immigrants earned more per hour than female immigrants regardless of race. Considering change over time, this study finds that the earnings gap betwe…
When the rubber meets the road: Effects of Urban and Regional Residence on Principle and Implementation Measures of Racial Tolerance
Socioeconomic Differences among Blacks in America: Over Time Trends
The role of attractiveness and aggression in high school popularity
Alienation in the United States: Uniform or Group-Specific Change
Reconsidering Explanations for Regional Convergence in Voter Registration and Turnout in the United States, 1956–2000 1
In the United States, voter turnout rates have been declining for the last 4 decades; however, this pattern differs substantially by region. Southern states have actually seen a fairly dramatic increase in turnout since the 1950s and currently the South and non‐South have almost identical rates of voter registration and turnout. Using a series of Heckman probit models, which examine voting as a two‐step process of registering and casting a vote, …
Peer Selection and Socialization in Adolescent Depression: The Role of School Transitions
Predicting Patterns of Exchange in Economic Exchange Networks
Other-Sex Friendships in Late Adolescence: Risky Associations for Substance Use and Sexual Debut
Adolescents' friendships with other-sex peers serve important developmental functions, but they may also facilitate engagement in problem behavior. This study examines the unique contributions of other-sex friendships and friends' behavior to alcohol use, smoking, and initiation of sexual intercourse among late adolescent girls and boys. A total of 320 adolescents (53% girls; 33% racial/ethnic minorities) provided sociometric nominations of frien…
Go Forth and Multiply: Revisiting Religion and Fertility in the United States, 1984-2008
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
Power, Embedded Games, and Coalition Formation
Applications of game theory frequently presume but do not show that social structures contain games. This study shows that multiple games are embedded in strong power structures and that power is exercised because 1) the game of those low in power contains a dilemma whereas 2) the game of those high in power does not. As in previous analyses, we find those low in power play the Prisoner's Dilemma game. New to this analysis is the discovery that t…
The Military Metropolis: Defense Dependence in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
About Face: The Association Between Facial Appearance and Status Attainment Among Military Personnel
This research assesses the extent to which facial appearance is related to occupational status attainment. Through the use of Internet technology, a diverse random sample of research participants viewed Navy boot camp photographs and rated sailors across nine dimensions. Sailors who were rated highly attractive were also thought to be intelligent and to possess leadership qualities. And, consistent with social expectancy theory and status general…
Does Power Affect Perception in Social Networks? Two Arguments and an Experimental Test
This research investigates competing arguments about the relationship between power and perception in social networks. One line of research predicts that occupants of structurally advantaged positions have more accurate perceptions of ties in their networks (i.e., who is tied to whom); another line asserts that lower-power actors have more accurate perceptions. On the basis of previous work, we suggest that any relationship between power and perc…
Assessing the Effects of Urbanism and Regionalism on Gender-Role Attitudes, 1974-1998
In this article, we analyze the effects of urbanism and Southern regionalism on traditional gender-role attitudes. Our main dependent variable is an index of gender traditionalism constructed from four items asked across several years from 1974 to 1998 by the General Social Survey. As in previous research and consistent with the classical theoretical propositions of Wirth and Stouffer, we find that people living in more urban areas are more likel…
When the rubber meets the road: Effects of Urban and Regional Residence on Principle and Implementation Measures of Racial Tolerance
Developmental trajectories of adolescent popularity: A growth curve modelling analysis
Growth curve modelling was used to examine developmental trajectories of sociometric and perceived popularity across eight years in adolescence, and the effects of gender, overt aggression, and relational aggression on these trajectories. Participants were 303 initially popular students (167 girls, 136 boys) for whom sociometric data were available in Grades 5–12. The popularity and aggression constructs were stable but non‐overlapping developmen…
Peer-driven HIV interventions for drug injectors in Russia: First year impact results of a field experiment
Alienation in the United States: Uniform or Group-Specific Change
Power, Embedded Games, and Coalition Formation
Applications of game theory frequently presume but do not show that social structures contain games. This study shows that multiple games are embedded in strong power structures and that power is exercised because 1) the game of those low in power contains a dilemma whereas 2) the game of those high in power does not. As in previous analyses, we find those low in power play the Prisoner's Dilemma game. New to this analysis is the discovery that t…
Reconsidering Explanations for Regional Convergence in Voter Registration and Turnout in the United States, 1956–2000 1
In the United States, voter turnout rates have been declining for the last 4 decades; however, this pattern differs substantially by region. Southern states have actually seen a fairly dramatic increase in turnout since the 1950s and currently the South and non‐South have almost identical rates of voter registration and turnout. Using a series of Heckman probit models, which examine voting as a two‐step process of registering and casting a vote, …
Predicting Patterns of Exchange in Economic Exchange Networks
Chapter Eleven. Teletechnology And Internal Dialogue
This chapter shows that Mead presents the mind in a paradoxical manner, manifesting in the form of constraint and openness, or what is termed, self-regulation and self-control. It proposes an expansion of Mead's ideas that incorporates Mills' notion of the cultural apparatus and Foucault's notion of surveillance. The chapter introduces and develops two new concepts that reflect these additions: the panoptic idol and the cosmetic panopticism. It i…
The role of attractiveness and aggression in high school popularity
What Predicts Religious Participation and Giving? Implications for Religion in the United States
In this article, we test whether or not positive/negative sanctioning increases religious behavior. Using data from the 1998 congregational module of the General Social Survey we find that, net of other predictors, immediate positive sanctions (receiving help from the congregation) and immediate negative sanctions (receiving criticism from the congregation) significantly increase the amount of money given by respondents to religious organizations…
Differences in Earnings among Black and White African Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000: A Cross-Sectional and Temporal Analysis
This study examines the earnings of African immigrants across three waves of U.S. Census data (1980, 1990, and 2000). The authors find that the U.S. labor market favors White male immigrants, followed by Black male and White female immigrants, and finally Black women. The authors also find that male immigrants earned more per hour than female immigrants regardless of race. Considering change over time, this study finds that the earnings gap betwe…
Using Affordable Technology to Decrease Digital Inequality: Results from Birmingham's One Laptop Per Child XO laptop project
School systems in the United States are increasingly integrating computers into the classroom. Yet, we know little about the factors that determine successful adoption, use, and attitudes toward the computers. The City Council of Birmingham, Alabama is the first in the United States to provide One Laptop Per Child XO laptops to all students in first-fifth grades in the Birmingham City School System. The purpose of this study is to present the sur…
The Military Metropolis: Defense Dependence in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
Other-Sex Friendships in Late Adolescence: Risky Associations for Substance Use and Sexual Debut
Adolescents' friendships with other-sex peers serve important developmental functions, but they may also facilitate engagement in problem behavior. This study examines the unique contributions of other-sex friendships and friends' behavior to alcohol use, smoking, and initiation of sexual intercourse among late adolescent girls and boys. A total of 320 adolescents (53% girls; 33% racial/ethnic minorities) provided sociometric nominations of frien…
Go Forth and Multiply: Revisiting Religion and Fertility in the United States, 1984-2008
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
About Face: The Association Between Facial Appearance and Status Attainment Among Military Personnel
This research assesses the extent to which facial appearance is related to occupational status attainment. Through the use of Internet technology, a diverse random sample of research participants viewed Navy boot camp photographs and rated sailors across nine dimensions. Sailors who were rated highly attractive were also thought to be intelligent and to possess leadership qualities. And, consistent with social expectancy theory and status general…
Peer Selection and Socialization in Adolescent Depression: The Role of School Transitions
The Self-Organizing Social Mind
Popularity and adolescent friendship networks: Selection and influence dynamics
This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to enhance their status through befriending higher status adolescents, whereas higher status adolescents strive to maintain their status by keeping lower st…
Socioeconomic Differences among Blacks in America: Over Time Trends
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