Nicholas Pedriana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Pedriana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedriana |
| SIGNATURE | PEDRIANA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing U.S. Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Fair Housing Legislation
In 1964–68, the U.S. Congress enacted comprehensive legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment (1964 Civil Rights Act), voting (1965 Voting Rights Act), and housing (1968 Fair Housing Act). A half-century later, most scholars concur that voting rights was by far the most successful, fair housing was a general failure, and Title VII fell somewhere in between. Explanations of civil rights effectiveness in political sociology that emphasiz…
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
We analyze the timing and extent to which major newspapers in the United States ceased publishing sex-segregated help wanted columns. We situate our study within a specific scholarly literature in organizational sociology and the sociology of law interested in patterns of organizational compliance with U.S. employment law. More specifically, this article is conceptually and theoretically organized around the concept of the “legal field,” defined …
From Protective to Equal Treatment
The author develops the concept of legal framing to expand theoretical knowledge on the cultural and symbolic processes that enable, constrain, and transform social movements. Merging insights from social movement theory, the sociology of law, and law and society scholarship, the author argues that law is a type of “master frame,” and that mobilizing law’s “constitutive” symbols and categories is a central, yet routinely overlooked, way in which …
Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns
This article considers one way to construct 'analytic' narratives in historical sociology. The author grounds his approach in ongoing methodological debates over temporality and sequence in historical processes and the assumed trade-off between historical particularity and causal generality. He promotes narratives that exploit both the sequential/ eventful and contextual properties of analytic time, with an approach that combines and builds on tw…
Help Wanted NOW
Journal Article Help Wanted NOW: Legal Resources, the Women's Movement, and the Battle Over Sex-Segregated Job Advertisements Get access Nicholas Pedriana Nicholas Pedriana Louisiana State University Direct correspondence to: Nicholas Pedriana, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University, 126 Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar…
The Strength of a Weak Agency
This article analyzes the anomalous case of early Title VII enforcement to challenge the standard political‐institutional (PI) account of state capacity. Title VII prohibited employment discrimination, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was granted scant enforcement resources. Yet the early EEOC aggressively enforced and developed Title VII. To solve the anomaly, the authors integrate insights from the literatures on social movements…
Political Culture Wars 1960s Style
This article empirically examines contextually conditioned construction of symbolic resources during political debate over the 1969 revised Philadelphia Plan–a crucial moment in the shaping of federal equal employment law. Tying together political sociology's concept of policy feedback with legal and cultural sociology's concept of culture as a resource, the article explains how actors who were hampered by the explicit language used to embed equa…
Political Culture Wars 1960s Style
This article empirically examines contextually conditioned construction of symbolic resources during political debate over the 1969 revised Philadelphia Plan–a crucial moment in the shaping of federal equal employment law. Tying together political sociology's concept of policy feedback with legal and cultural sociology's concept of culture as a resource, the article explains how actors who were hampered by the explicit language used to embed equa…
From Protective to Equal Treatment
The author develops the concept of legal framing to expand theoretical knowledge on the cultural and symbolic processes that enable, constrain, and transform social movements. Merging insights from social movement theory, the sociology of law, and law and society scholarship, the author argues that law is a type of “master frame,” and that mobilizing law’s “constitutive” symbols and categories is a central, yet routinely overlooked, way in which …
The Strength of a Weak Agency
This article analyzes the anomalous case of early Title VII enforcement to challenge the standard political‐institutional (PI) account of state capacity. Title VII prohibited employment discrimination, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was granted scant enforcement resources. Yet the early EEOC aggressively enforced and developed Title VII. To solve the anomaly, the authors integrate insights from the literatures on social movements…
Help Wanted NOW
Journal Article Help Wanted NOW: Legal Resources, the Women's Movement, and the Battle Over Sex-Segregated Job Advertisements Get access Nicholas Pedriana Nicholas Pedriana Louisiana State University Direct correspondence to: Nicholas Pedriana, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University, 126 Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar…
From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing U.S. Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Fair Housing Legislation
In 1964–68, the U.S. Congress enacted comprehensive legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment (1964 Civil Rights Act), voting (1965 Voting Rights Act), and housing (1968 Fair Housing Act). A half-century later, most scholars concur that voting rights was by far the most successful, fair housing was a general failure, and Title VII fell somewhere in between. Explanations of civil rights effectiveness in political sociology that emphasiz…
Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns
This article considers one way to construct 'analytic' narratives in historical sociology. The author grounds his approach in ongoing methodological debates over temporality and sequence in historical processes and the assumed trade-off between historical particularity and causal generality. He promotes narratives that exploit both the sequential/ eventful and contextual properties of analytic time, with an approach that combines and builds on tw…
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
We analyze the timing and extent to which major newspapers in the United States ceased publishing sex-segregated help wanted columns. We situate our study within a specific scholarly literature in organizational sociology and the sociology of law interested in patterns of organizational compliance with U.S. employment law. More specifically, this article is conceptually and theoretically organized around the concept of the “legal field,” defined …
Political Culture Wars 1960s Style
This article empirically examines contextually conditioned construction of symbolic resources during political debate over the 1969 revised Philadelphia Plan–a crucial moment in the shaping of federal equal employment law. Tying together political sociology's concept of policy feedback with legal and cultural sociology's concept of culture as a resource, the article explains how actors who were hampered by the explicit language used to embed equa…
Help Wanted NOW
Journal Article Help Wanted NOW: Legal Resources, the Women's Movement, and the Battle Over Sex-Segregated Job Advertisements Get access Nicholas Pedriana Nicholas Pedriana Louisiana State University Direct correspondence to: Nicholas Pedriana, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University, 126 Stubbs Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar…
The Strength of a Weak Agency
This article analyzes the anomalous case of early Title VII enforcement to challenge the standard political‐institutional (PI) account of state capacity. Title VII prohibited employment discrimination, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was granted scant enforcement resources. Yet the early EEOC aggressively enforced and developed Title VII. To solve the anomaly, the authors integrate insights from the literatures on social movements…
Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns
This article considers one way to construct 'analytic' narratives in historical sociology. The author grounds his approach in ongoing methodological debates over temporality and sequence in historical processes and the assumed trade-off between historical particularity and causal generality. He promotes narratives that exploit both the sequential/ eventful and contextual properties of analytic time, with an approach that combines and builds on tw…
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
We analyze the timing and extent to which major newspapers in the United States ceased publishing sex-segregated help wanted columns. We situate our study within a specific scholarly literature in organizational sociology and the sociology of law interested in patterns of organizational compliance with U.S. employment law. More specifically, this article is conceptually and theoretically organized around the concept of the “legal field,” defined …
From Protective to Equal Treatment
The author develops the concept of legal framing to expand theoretical knowledge on the cultural and symbolic processes that enable, constrain, and transform social movements. Merging insights from social movement theory, the sociology of law, and law and society scholarship, the author argues that law is a type of “master frame,” and that mobilizing law’s “constitutive” symbols and categories is a central, yet routinely overlooked, way in which …
From Legal Doctrine to Social Transformation? Comparing U.S. Voting Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Fair Housing Legislation
In 1964–68, the U.S. Congress enacted comprehensive legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment (1964 Civil Rights Act), voting (1965 Voting Rights Act), and housing (1968 Fair Housing Act). A half-century later, most scholars concur that voting rights was by far the most successful, fair housing was a general failure, and Title VII fell somewhere in between. Explanations of civil rights effectiveness in political sociology that emphasiz…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Regulation and Compliance Studies (3 works) · Centrality (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)