Ilana Redstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4269003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilana Redstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilana |
| FAMILY NAME | Redstone |
| SIGNATURE | REDSTONE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1484-0049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From empirical hypothesis to moral commitment
This paper traces how a specific assumption—that racial disparities indicate institutional discrimination—migrated from a legal principle established in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) into the sociology’s foundational premise, reshaping how the discipline thinks about group identity, harm, justice, and knowledge. The paper shows how this assumption was transmitted through professional socialization, fused with a moral commitment that made challe…
Ideological Conditioning in Education
Public trust in education has reached historic lows, driven partly by persistent allegations of ideological bias. Conservative groups claim schools indoctrinate students with progressive viewpoints; many educators dismiss these concerns as politically motivated attacks. This impasse has made understanding the problem, let alone addressing it, nearly impossible. This paper offers a way forward through the concept of ideological conditioning: the p…
Response to Commentaries
Democracy and the problem of certainty
Unassailable Ideas
Colleges and universities in the United States play a profoundly important role in American society. Currently, that role is being hampered by a climate that constrains teaching, research, hiring, and overall discourse. There are three core beliefs that define this climate. First, any initiative framed as an antidote to historical societal ills is automatically deemed meritorious, and thus exempted from objective scrutiny of its potential effecti…
The declining earnings gap between young women and men in the United States, 1979-2018
Coming to stay
Using the New Immigrant Survey Pilot, we compare answers to the census question on year of arrival in the United States with answers to questions about the dates and durations of earlier U.S. trips. We show that the year identified by the census does not correspond to the year of either the first or the last U.S. trip. Because many immigrants enter and leave the United States several times before becoming legal immigrants, the census question pro…
Coming to stay
Using the New Immigrant Survey Pilot, we compare answers to the census question on year of arrival in the United States with answers to questions about the dates and durations of earlier U.S. trips. We show that the year identified by the census does not correspond to the year of either the first or the last U.S. trip. Because many immigrants enter and leave the United States several times before becoming legal immigrants, the census question pro…
Democracy and the problem of certainty
The declining earnings gap between young women and men in the United States, 1979-2018
Coming to stay
Using the New Immigrant Survey Pilot, we compare answers to the census question on year of arrival in the United States with answers to questions about the dates and durations of earlier U.S. trips. We show that the year identified by the census does not correspond to the year of either the first or the last U.S. trip. Because many immigrants enter and leave the United States several times before becoming legal immigrants, the census question pro…
Unassailable Ideas
Colleges and universities in the United States play a profoundly important role in American society. Currently, that role is being hampered by a climate that constrains teaching, research, hiring, and overall discourse. There are three core beliefs that define this climate. First, any initiative framed as an antidote to historical societal ills is automatically deemed meritorious, and thus exempted from objective scrutiny of its potential effecti…
The declining earnings gap between young women and men in the United States, 1979-2018
Response to Commentaries
Democracy and the problem of certainty
From empirical hypothesis to moral commitment
This paper traces how a specific assumption—that racial disparities indicate institutional discrimination—migrated from a legal principle established in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) into the sociology’s foundational premise, reshaping how the discipline thinks about group identity, harm, justice, and knowledge. The paper shows how this assumption was transmitted through professional socialization, fused with a moral commitment that made challe…
Ideological Conditioning in Education
Public trust in education has reached historic lows, driven partly by persistent allegations of ideological bias. Conservative groups claim schools indoctrinate students with progressive viewpoints; many educators dismiss these concerns as politically motivated attacks. This impasse has made understanding the problem, let alone addressing it, nearly impossible. This paper offers a way forward through the concept of ideological conditioning: the p…
Sociology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Community Survey (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Belief system (1 work)