Mark Lagory
Biographic Data
| ID | 650579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Lagory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Lagory |
| SIGNATURE | LAGORY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Household, and Neighborhood Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women in Jefferson County, Alabama
Objectives. We examined individual, household, and neighborhood correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) before and during pregnancy. Methods. We used multilevel modeling to investigate IPV among 2887 pregnant women in 112 census tracts who sought prenatal care in 8 public clinics in Jefferson County, Alabama, from 1997 through 2001. Data were collected from the Perinatal Emphasis Research Center project, the 2000 Census, and the local Sheri…
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression
Just Thinking about It: Social Capital and Suicide Ideation among Homeless Persons
Suicide ideation is a sensitive indicator of personal well-being. While ideation occurs in roughly 3 percent of the US population annually, in this study rates are 10 times higher. This article explores the role of social capital in mediating negative life circumstances on ideation for a sample of 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern US metropolitan area. Our results imply that social capital does not function the same way for homeless per…
Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Problem Behavior Among Disadvantaged Children
Depressive Symptomatology, Exposure to Violence, and the Role of Social Capital Among African American Adolescents
Focusing on the role of capital as both personal and social resources for adolescents, the authors examined depressive symptomatology among a sample of 10- to 18-year-old African American youths (N=1,538). In addition to gender and age differences, adolescents exposed to threatening environments (school, neighborhood, home) reported more depressive symptoms. Social capital had a significant inverse relationship with adolescent depression; self-es…
The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Placing” Health in an Urban Sociology: Cities as Mosaics of Risk and Protection
Central to urban sociology is the assumption that place matters. Yet, urban sociology has virtually ignored the role of place in understanding a critical aspect of personal and collective well–being—health. This article attempts to synthesize major sociological theories of health, within an urban ecological framework, in an effort to provide insight into how the distinct spatial qualities of neighborhoods impact the health risks, beliefs, and beh…
Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape
Social Capital and Mental Distress in an Impoverished Community
According to recent investigations of social capital, this social resource represents a key ingredient in a community’s capacity to respond to environmental challenges and promote change. This article investigates the significance of social capital for the health and well‐being of inner‐city residents using data collected from a sample of household decisionmakers residing in a high‐poverty, racially segregated urban neighborhood in a mid‐sized so…
Life Chances and Choices: Assessing Quality of Life among the Homeless
A Weberian lifestyles approach is employed to examine differences in quality of life among the homeless. Using a systematic random sample of 161 homeless people in a mid-sized, Southern metropolitan area, the study focuses on the impact of life chances and social choices on aspects of quality of life in this severely challenged population. Regression results show that a number of life chance and social choice variables affect general and domain-s…
Dangerous places: Exposure to violence and its mental health consequences for the homeless
The association between exposure to violence and symptoms of mental health problems among 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern metropolitan area was examined. Results indicated a significant relationship between witnessing violence and the reporting of mental health symptoms; no relationship was found between criminal victimization and symptom reporting. Implications for clinical practice and social policy are discussed
The Myth of the Migrant Homeless: An Exploration of the Psychosocial Consequences of Migration
While migration status is frequently used to differentiate homeless subgroups, little empirical work has explored sociological distinctions between migrant and nonmigrant homeless. This article attempts to fill the gap in the literature by comprehensively examining differences in the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics, psychological and social resources, life stressors and circumstances, and psychological well-being. We use a rand…
Gender Differences in Social Support: Mental Health Consequences among the Homeless
We examine gender differences in patterns of social support among the homeless, testing genderspecific mediation models of the effects of social supports on psychological distress for a systematic sample of 150 homeless men and women in Birmingham, Alabama. Our research demonstrates that homeless women receive both more instrumental and more expressive support. These supports, however, do not advantage homeless women. The distress process appears…
Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support
Journal Article Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support Get access Susan R. Sherman, Susan R. Sherman Susan R. Sherman, PhD, is Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare and Faculty Research Associate, Ringel Institute of Gerontology, State University of New York at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. Russell A. Ward, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York a…
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly as Person/Environment Interaction
Despite lower victimization, older people express greater fear of crime. The causes and consequences of such fear are investigated for a 1980 sample of 1,185 persons aged 60+. Fear of crime is a response to both personal vulnerability and locational cues. Fear reduces subjective well-being, but has little relation to activity patterns. While social resources have little bearing on fear of crime and its consequences, variations by sex and personal…
Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People
Russell A. Ward, Mark LaGory, Susan R. Sherman, Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 138-149
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design
Professionals and Urban Form
Professionals and Urban Form
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design
Urban Social Space
Toward a Sociology of Space: The Constrained Choice Model
Traditional ecology has been criticized because of its failure to link ecological factors to microscopic social variables. That criticism has led to increasing interest in, but only limited theoretical development toward, an egocentric approach. The paper attempts to develop a rudimentary theory of micro ecology. It presumes that two elemental macro ecological variables, density and segregation, have significance for human interaction. These elem…
The Age Segregation Process: Explanation for American Cities
There is considerable variation among metropolitan areas in the extent of residential age segregation. The effects of variables derived from three possible explanations of age segregation-ecological, cultural, and political models-are assessed through path- analytic techniques. A significant amount of the variation in age segregation can be accounted for by variables indexing the tightness of local housing markets, population growth, suburbanizat…
The Determinants of Human Migration
A systematic analytical and empirical approach to understanding the determinants of geographic mobility in the United States is developed herein.This book seeks to afford new insight into the migration process, and, by so doing, endeavors to be not only of interest but also of great pragmatic value to both researchers and policy makers.The book consists of three parts.The first part is primarily aimed at developing a rigorous analytical model of …
Structural Correlates of Black-White Occupational Differentiation: Will U. S. Regional Differences in Status Remain
Mark LaGory, Robert J. Magnani, Structural Correlates of Black-White Occupational Differentiation: Will U. S. Regional Differences in Status Remain?, Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Dec., 1979), pp. 157-169
Social Capital and Mental Distress in an Impoverished Community
According to recent investigations of social capital, this social resource represents a key ingredient in a community’s capacity to respond to environmental challenges and promote change. This article investigates the significance of social capital for the health and well‐being of inner‐city residents using data collected from a sample of household decisionmakers residing in a high‐poverty, racially segregated urban neighborhood in a mid‐sized so…
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression
Just Thinking about It: Social Capital and Suicide Ideation among Homeless Persons
Suicide ideation is a sensitive indicator of personal well-being. While ideation occurs in roughly 3 percent of the US population annually, in this study rates are 10 times higher. This article explores the role of social capital in mediating negative life circumstances on ideation for a sample of 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern US metropolitan area. Our results imply that social capital does not function the same way for homeless per…
Life Chances and Choices: Assessing Quality of Life among the Homeless
A Weberian lifestyles approach is employed to examine differences in quality of life among the homeless. Using a systematic random sample of 161 homeless people in a mid-sized, Southern metropolitan area, the study focuses on the impact of life chances and social choices on aspects of quality of life in this severely challenged population. Regression results show that a number of life chance and social choice variables affect general and domain-s…
Placing” Health in an Urban Sociology: Cities as Mosaics of Risk and Protection
Central to urban sociology is the assumption that place matters. Yet, urban sociology has virtually ignored the role of place in understanding a critical aspect of personal and collective well–being—health. This article attempts to synthesize major sociological theories of health, within an urban ecological framework, in an effort to provide insight into how the distinct spatial qualities of neighborhoods impact the health risks, beliefs, and beh…
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Household, and Neighborhood Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women in Jefferson County, Alabama
Objectives. We examined individual, household, and neighborhood correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) before and during pregnancy. Methods. We used multilevel modeling to investigate IPV among 2887 pregnant women in 112 census tracts who sought prenatal care in 8 public clinics in Jefferson County, Alabama, from 1997 through 2001. Data were collected from the Perinatal Emphasis Research Center project, the 2000 Census, and the local Sheri…
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly as Person/Environment Interaction
Despite lower victimization, older people express greater fear of crime. The causes and consequences of such fear are investigated for a 1980 sample of 1,185 persons aged 60+. Fear of crime is a response to both personal vulnerability and locational cues. Fear reduces subjective well-being, but has little relation to activity patterns. While social resources have little bearing on fear of crime and its consequences, variations by sex and personal…
Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support
Journal Article Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support Get access Susan R. Sherman, Susan R. Sherman Susan R. Sherman, PhD, is Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare and Faculty Research Associate, Ringel Institute of Gerontology, State University of New York at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. Russell A. Ward, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York a…
Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People
Russell A. Ward, Mark LaGory, Susan R. Sherman, Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 138-149
The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective
The Myth of the Migrant Homeless: An Exploration of the Psychosocial Consequences of Migration
While migration status is frequently used to differentiate homeless subgroups, little empirical work has explored sociological distinctions between migrant and nonmigrant homeless. This article attempts to fill the gap in the literature by comprehensively examining differences in the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics, psychological and social resources, life stressors and circumstances, and psychological well-being. We use a rand…
Toward a Sociology of Space: The Constrained Choice Model
Traditional ecology has been criticized because of its failure to link ecological factors to microscopic social variables. That criticism has led to increasing interest in, but only limited theoretical development toward, an egocentric approach. The paper attempts to develop a rudimentary theory of micro ecology. It presumes that two elemental macro ecological variables, density and segregation, have significance for human interaction. These elem…
Gender Differences in Social Support: Mental Health Consequences among the Homeless
We examine gender differences in patterns of social support among the homeless, testing genderspecific mediation models of the effects of social supports on psychological distress for a systematic sample of 150 homeless men and women in Birmingham, Alabama. Our research demonstrates that homeless women receive both more instrumental and more expressive support. These supports, however, do not advantage homeless women. The distress process appears…
Structural Correlates of Black-White Occupational Differentiation: Will U. S. Regional Differences in Status Remain
Mark LaGory, Robert J. Magnani, Structural Correlates of Black-White Occupational Differentiation: Will U. S. Regional Differences in Status Remain?, Social Problems, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Dec., 1979), pp. 157-169
The Age Segregation Process: Explanation for American Cities
There is considerable variation among metropolitan areas in the extent of residential age segregation. The effects of variables derived from three possible explanations of age segregation-ecological, cultural, and political models-are assessed through path- analytic techniques. A significant amount of the variation in age segregation can be accounted for by variables indexing the tightness of local housing markets, population growth, suburbanizat…
The Determinants of Human Migration
A systematic analytical and empirical approach to understanding the determinants of geographic mobility in the United States is developed herein.This book seeks to afford new insight into the migration process, and, by so doing, endeavors to be not only of interest but also of great pragmatic value to both researchers and policy makers.The book consists of three parts.The first part is primarily aimed at developing a rigorous analytical model of …
Urban Social Space
Toward a Sociology of Space: The Constrained Choice Model
Traditional ecology has been criticized because of its failure to link ecological factors to microscopic social variables. That criticism has led to increasing interest in, but only limited theoretical development toward, an egocentric approach. The paper attempts to develop a rudimentary theory of micro ecology. It presumes that two elemental macro ecological variables, density and segregation, have significance for human interaction. These elem…
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design
Professionals and Urban Form
Professionals and Urban Form
Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design
Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People
Russell A. Ward, Mark LaGory, Susan R. Sherman, Neighborhood and Network Age Concentration: Does Age Homogeneity Matter for Older People?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 138-149
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly as Person/Environment Interaction
Despite lower victimization, older people express greater fear of crime. The causes and consequences of such fear are investigated for a 1980 sample of 1,185 persons aged 60+. Fear of crime is a response to both personal vulnerability and locational cues. Fear reduces subjective well-being, but has little relation to activity patterns. While social resources have little bearing on fear of crime and its consequences, variations by sex and personal…
Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support
Journal Article Women as Caregivers of the Elderly: Instrumental and Expressive Support Get access Susan R. Sherman, Susan R. Sherman Susan R. Sherman, PhD, is Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare and Faculty Research Associate, Ringel Institute of Gerontology, State University of New York at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. Russell A. Ward, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York a…
Gender Differences in Social Support: Mental Health Consequences among the Homeless
We examine gender differences in patterns of social support among the homeless, testing genderspecific mediation models of the effects of social supports on psychological distress for a systematic sample of 150 homeless men and women in Birmingham, Alabama. Our research demonstrates that homeless women receive both more instrumental and more expressive support. These supports, however, do not advantage homeless women. The distress process appears…
Dangerous places: Exposure to violence and its mental health consequences for the homeless
The association between exposure to violence and symptoms of mental health problems among 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern metropolitan area was examined. Results indicated a significant relationship between witnessing violence and the reporting of mental health symptoms; no relationship was found between criminal victimization and symptom reporting. Implications for clinical practice and social policy are discussed
The Myth of the Migrant Homeless: An Exploration of the Psychosocial Consequences of Migration
While migration status is frequently used to differentiate homeless subgroups, little empirical work has explored sociological distinctions between migrant and nonmigrant homeless. This article attempts to fill the gap in the literature by comprehensively examining differences in the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics, psychological and social resources, life stressors and circumstances, and psychological well-being. We use a rand…
Life Chances and Choices: Assessing Quality of Life among the Homeless
A Weberian lifestyles approach is employed to examine differences in quality of life among the homeless. Using a systematic random sample of 161 homeless people in a mid-sized, Southern metropolitan area, the study focuses on the impact of life chances and social choices on aspects of quality of life in this severely challenged population. Regression results show that a number of life chance and social choice variables affect general and domain-s…
Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape
Social Capital and Mental Distress in an Impoverished Community
According to recent investigations of social capital, this social resource represents a key ingredient in a community’s capacity to respond to environmental challenges and promote change. This article investigates the significance of social capital for the health and well‐being of inner‐city residents using data collected from a sample of household decisionmakers residing in a high‐poverty, racially segregated urban neighborhood in a mid‐sized so…
Placing” Health in an Urban Sociology: Cities as Mosaics of Risk and Protection
Central to urban sociology is the assumption that place matters. Yet, urban sociology has virtually ignored the role of place in understanding a critical aspect of personal and collective well–being—health. This article attempts to synthesize major sociological theories of health, within an urban ecological framework, in an effort to provide insight into how the distinct spatial qualities of neighborhoods impact the health risks, beliefs, and beh…
The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Problem Behavior Among Disadvantaged Children
Depressive Symptomatology, Exposure to Violence, and the Role of Social Capital Among African American Adolescents
Focusing on the role of capital as both personal and social resources for adolescents, the authors examined depressive symptomatology among a sample of 10- to 18-year-old African American youths (N=1,538). In addition to gender and age differences, adolescents exposed to threatening environments (school, neighborhood, home) reported more depressive symptoms. Social capital had a significant inverse relationship with adolescent depression; self-es…
Just Thinking about It: Social Capital and Suicide Ideation among Homeless Persons
Suicide ideation is a sensitive indicator of personal well-being. While ideation occurs in roughly 3 percent of the US population annually, in this study rates are 10 times higher. This article explores the role of social capital in mediating negative life circumstances on ideation for a sample of 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern US metropolitan area. Our results imply that social capital does not function the same way for homeless per…
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Household, and Neighborhood Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women in Jefferson County, Alabama
Objectives. We examined individual, household, and neighborhood correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) before and during pregnancy. Methods. We used multilevel modeling to investigate IPV among 2887 pregnant women in 112 census tracts who sought prenatal care in 8 public clinics in Jefferson County, Alabama, from 1997 through 2001. Data were collected from the Perinatal Emphasis Research Center project, the 2000 Census, and the local Sheri…
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mental health (7 works)