Sara R Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 82600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara R Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara R |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9353-4287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 50 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
An Evaluation of Projection Methods for Detailed Small Area Projections
Managing and minimizing online survey questionnaire fraud
With the increasing sophistication of online survey tools and the necessity of distanced research during the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of online questionnaires for research purposes has proliferated. Still, many researchers undertake online survey research without knowledge of the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing survey questionnaire fraud nor familiarity with measures used to identify fraud once it has occurred. This research note is b…
Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections
Population projections provide predictions of future population sizes for an area. Historically, most population projections have been produced using deterministic or scenario-based approaches and have not assessed uncertainty about future population change. Starting in 2015, however, the United Nations (UN) has produced probabilistic population projections for all countries using a Bayesian approach. There is also considerable interest in subnat…
Models and measures of learning outcomes for non-technical skills in simulation-based medical education
Simulations are increasingly used to enhance ‘non-technical’ skills (NTS) in medical education but little is known about the effectiveness of many simulations. The field lacks robust outcome measures and there is lack of clarity about educationally relevant conceptual and operational dimensions of NTS to support instrument development and testing. Our study addresses this dual gap through a multi-component design focusing on three key NTS: interp…
María G.RendónStagnant Dreamers
Through a longitudinal ethnographic study of two Los Angeles neighborhoods and their young adult Latino residents, María Rendón systematically collected and analyzed compelling evidence to render an important argument for reframing social science perspectives about the social mechanisms shaping life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Rendón's account revisits two arguments about the urban underclass and Mexican second-generation immigr…
Global Perspectives on Social Institutions, Organizations, and Relations
Green- or rose-coloured lenses for Globalization Matters ? Transdisciplinary epistemic practices and paradigmatic transformations in ecologies and equalities
For the global studies scholar, the lofty ambitions in Globalization Matters are challenging ones. Since ours is a collective endeavour, the global studies community needs just a few more practical footholds to systematically fill critical gaps in our knowledge without being overwhelmed by the complexities of globalities and globalizations. I attempt to rearticulate the strength of Steger and James' framework and propose an illustration that enco…
The Transnationalized Social Question
I wish I were a plumber
This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu's class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by moral claims based on varying transnational mobility strategies. The authors draw their results from qualitative interviews with 45 Hong Kong respond…
Global Studies Versus International Studies
The intellectual antecedents of international studies scholarship and the efforts to enclose it within academia bounded the research enterprise closely to a predominantly US-centric, international relations, and international systems perspective on world order. Investments by the US government and leading foundations led to the strengthening of interdisciplinary area studies and international studies curricular programs. These investments coincid…
Weather-Related Hazards and Population Change
Environmental determinists predict that people move away from places experiencing frequent weather hazards, yet some of these areas have rapidly growing populations. This analysis examines the relationship between weather events and population change in all U.S. counties that experienced hurricanes and tropical storms between 1980 and 2012. Our database allows for more generalizable conclusions by accounting for heterogeneity in current and past …
Methods That Matter
Undocumented fears
Economic Shock and Migration
Classic migration theory predicts that individual and household migration decisions are partially responsive to economic pushes from origin communities and pulls from destinations. Recent theorizing argues that this basic relationship is fundamentally influenced by the experiences accumulated within migrant streams, connecting potential migrants with future migrants between origin and destination. Drawing upon a 16-year study of migrant departure…
How Do Social Service Providers View Recent Immigrants? Perspectives from Portland, Maine, and Olympia, Washington
This article explores how social service providers in two small, geographically distinct cities-Portland, Maine, and Olympia, Washington-understand the importance of welcoming and incorporating new immigrants in their cities. We focus on how providers characterize their responsibilities, how they understand the importance of responding to new immigrants, and what they describe as the challenges and opportunities presented by recent immigration to…
Global Governance of Food
New Perspectives on Immigrant Contexts of Reception
We argue that important, overlooked differences in what we call the 'cultural armature' of Portland, Maine, and Danbury, Connecticut help explain the variation in how each city received new immigrants in recent years. Portland has a long history of contact with the outside world and used its cosmopolitan character to promote urban redevelopment and welcome immigrants from a range of countries of origin. Danbury's small-town, insular outlook, and …
Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities
Introduction
Unexpected Outcomes of Thai Cassava Trade
Tracing the Thai cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) trade network, between 1960 and 2000, offers a compelling example of global complexity at work. The emergence of Thailand's dominance of world export markets caught the world by surprise. The opening up of a European market for cassava was supposed to be met by Brazilian and Indonesian producers. Instead, Thailand took over the market by 1975. Several factors facilitated this emergence including: ent…
The Global Complexity Framework
Until recently, attempts to understand and then manage or influence global complexity and local dynamics have bumped up against a limited set of paradigms that can account for both. In turn, these paradigms have sometimes hindered our empirical observation by limiting our focus to one global system at a time or honing in on the dynamics of particular localities without comprehensively accounting for a variety of global systems. Nevertheless, a fe…
Conclusion
The original call for papers for the ‘Trading Morsels’ conference asked authors to address the social and environmental consequences of the globalization of agriculture by focusing on an important traded commodity and a major geographical link in that commodity’s trade. During the course of the conference itself, and in subsequent discussions, we learned that the globalization of agriculture is a complicated story that does not always or easily l…
Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies
The Migration and Development Prism
The inexorable link between migration and development is paradoxically both taken for granted and a challenging puzzle. Describing interdependent dynamic processes, the study of both offers opportunities to theorize and observe social change. The body of knowledge that has come to include studies of both migration and development has enriched the individual fields of migration and development. In the development field, concerned with the processe…
Population and the Environment
The relationship between population and environment is a topic that has garnered attention from many disciplines, including sociology, economics, ecology, history, anthropology, demography, and geography. An early and important essay, which continues to serve as an intellectual starting point for characterizing the population and environment relationship, is T. R. Malthus's “First Essay on Population” (1798). In it, Malthus draws a direct link be…
Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship
A review of the sociological research about gender and migration shows the substantial ways in which gender fundamentally organizes the social relations and structures influencing the causes and consequences of migration. Yet, although a significant sociological research has emerged on gender and migration in the last three decades, studies are not evenly distributed across the discipline. In this article, we map the recent intellectual history o…
Gendered Migrant Social Capital
Employing longitudinal data from Thailand to replicate studies of cumulative causation, we extend current knowledge by measuring frequency of trips, duration of time away, level of network aggregation (village or household), and sex composition of migrant networks to estimate a model of prospective migration among men and women in Thailand. We find that trips and duration of time away have distinct influences upon migration; that household level …
Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand
This paper blends quantitative with qualitative data in an investigation of community and contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. Specifically, it develops an explanation of 1) method dominance within villages, coupled with 2) marked differences between villages in the popularity of particular methods. The quantitative analysis demonstrates the importance of village location and placement of family planning services for patterns of contracep…
Does remarriage expand perceptions of kinship support among the elderly
Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice
How does family planning accessibility affect contraceptive choice? In this paper we use techniques of spatial analysis to develop measures of family planning accessibility, and evaluate the effects of these geographically derived measures in a multilevel statistical model of temporary method choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. In our analyses we combine spatial data obtained from maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) readings with sociodemographic…
Weather-Related Hazards and Population Change
Environmental determinists predict that people move away from places experiencing frequent weather hazards, yet some of these areas have rapidly growing populations. This analysis examines the relationship between weather events and population change in all U.S. counties that experienced hurricanes and tropical storms between 1980 and 2012. Our database allows for more generalizable conclusions by accounting for heterogeneity in current and past …
New Perspectives on Immigrant Contexts of Reception
We argue that important, overlooked differences in what we call the 'cultural armature' of Portland, Maine, and Danbury, Connecticut help explain the variation in how each city received new immigrants in recent years. Portland has a long history of contact with the outside world and used its cosmopolitan character to promote urban redevelopment and welcome immigrants from a range of countries of origin. Danbury's small-town, insular outlook, and …
Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities
Methods That Matter
Agency, Accountability, and Embedded Relations
Designing Your Community-Based Learning Project
Marion Carter, Estela Rivero, Wendy Cadge, Sara Curran, Designing Your Community-Based Learning Project: Five Questions to Ask about Your Pedagogical and Participatory Goals, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 158-173
Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections
Population projections provide predictions of future population sizes for an area. Historically, most population projections have been produced using deterministic or scenario-based approaches and have not assessed uncertainty about future population change. Starting in 2015, however, the United Nations (UN) has produced probabilistic population projections for all countries using a Bayesian approach. There is also considerable interest in subnat…
How Do Social Service Providers View Recent Immigrants? Perspectives from Portland, Maine, and Olympia, Washington
This article explores how social service providers in two small, geographically distinct cities-Portland, Maine, and Olympia, Washington-understand the importance of welcoming and incorporating new immigrants in their cities. We focus on how providers characterize their responsibilities, how they understand the importance of responding to new immigrants, and what they describe as the challenges and opportunities presented by recent immigration to…
Common Property Systems, Migration, and Coastal Ecosystems
Common property systems are a critical institution mediating the relationship between population change and environmental outcomes, especially in coastal and marine ecosystems. Evidence from El Salvador; Goa, India; and the Solomon Islands demonstrates how the social structures and institutions stemming from patterns of human migration variably influence environmental out-comes through their effects on common property resource institutions. In ea…
Undocumented fears
Completing the Picture
I wish I were a plumber
This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu's class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by moral claims based on varying transnational mobility strategies. The authors draw their results from qualitative interviews with 45 Hong Kong respond…
An Evaluation of Projection Methods for Detailed Small Area Projections
Interactions between Coastal and Marine Ecosystems and Human Population Systems
Uneven Development in North Carolina? Job Quality Differences Between Local and Nonlocal Firms1
Do outside firms come to North Carolina or, more generally, to the rural South to take advantage of the low-wage unorganized local relations of production? Do they disrupt local labor market arrangements? We use data from a survey of North Carolina employees to examine labor market and job quality differences between local and outside firms and also the organization of regional labor markets. Results, based on multiple regression models, suggest …
Green- or rose-coloured lenses for Globalization Matters ? Transdisciplinary epistemic practices and paradigmatic transformations in ecologies and equalities
For the global studies scholar, the lofty ambitions in Globalization Matters are challenging ones. Since ours is a collective endeavour, the global studies community needs just a few more practical footholds to systematically fill critical gaps in our knowledge without being overwhelmed by the complexities of globalities and globalizations. I attempt to rearticulate the strength of Steger and James' framework and propose an illustration that enco…
Introduction
Unexpected Outcomes of Thai Cassava Trade
Tracing the Thai cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) trade network, between 1960 and 2000, offers a compelling example of global complexity at work. The emergence of Thailand's dominance of world export markets caught the world by surprise. The opening up of a European market for cassava was supposed to be met by Brazilian and Indonesian producers. Instead, Thailand took over the market by 1975. Several factors facilitated this emergence including: ent…
Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies
Uneven Development in North Carolina? Job Quality Differences Between Local and Nonlocal Firms1
Do outside firms come to North Carolina or, more generally, to the rural South to take advantage of the low-wage unorganized local relations of production? Do they disrupt local labor market arrangements? We use data from a survey of North Carolina employees to examine labor market and job quality differences between local and outside firms and also the organization of regional labor markets. Results, based on multiple regression models, suggest …
Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand
This paper blends quantitative with qualitative data in an investigation of community and contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. Specifically, it develops an explanation of 1) method dominance within villages, coupled with 2) marked differences between villages in the popularity of particular methods. The quantitative analysis demonstrates the importance of village location and placement of family planning services for patterns of contracep…
Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice
How does family planning accessibility affect contraceptive choice? In this paper we use techniques of spatial analysis to develop measures of family planning accessibility, and evaluate the effects of these geographically derived measures in a multilevel statistical model of temporary method choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. In our analyses we combine spatial data obtained from maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) readings with sociodemographic…
Population and Development
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Designing Your Community-Based Learning Project
Marion Carter, Estela Rivero, Wendy Cadge, Sara Curran, Designing Your Community-Based Learning Project: Five Questions to Ask about Your Pedagogical and Participatory Goals, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 158-173
Population, Consumption, and Environment
Interactions between Coastal and Marine Ecosystems and Human Population Systems
Population, Consumption, and Environment
Interactions between Coastal and Marine Ecosystems and Human Population Systems
Funding Initiatives, Research Results, and Policy Recommendations
Markets, Population Dynamics, and Coastal Ecosystems
Our synthesis focuses on how markets influence the population and environment relationship within coastal ecosystems by considering the differential valuing of environmental resources and ecosystem services through 3 perspectives: livelihood, globalization, and public goods and externalities. These are not new perspectives when considering how markets shape demographic and environmental outcomes. However, we suggest that the insight offered by vi…
Funding Initiatives, Research Results, and Policy Recommendations
Common Property Systems, Migration, and Coastal Ecosystems
Common property systems are a critical institution mediating the relationship between population change and environmental outcomes, especially in coastal and marine ecosystems. Evidence from El Salvador; Goa, India; and the Solomon Islands demonstrates how the social structures and institutions stemming from patterns of human migration variably influence environmental out-comes through their effects on common property resource institutions. In ea…
Markets, Population Dynamics, and Coastal Ecosystems
Our synthesis focuses on how markets influence the population and environment relationship within coastal ecosystems by considering the differential valuing of environmental resources and ecosystem services through 3 perspectives: livelihood, globalization, and public goods and externalities. These are not new perspectives when considering how markets shape demographic and environmental outcomes. However, we suggest that the insight offered by vi…
Common Property Systems, Migration, and Coastal Ecosystems
Common property systems are a critical institution mediating the relationship between population change and environmental outcomes, especially in coastal and marine ecosystems. Evidence from El Salvador; Goa, India; and the Solomon Islands demonstrates how the social structures and institutions stemming from patterns of human migration variably influence environmental out-comes through their effects on common property resource institutions. In ea…
Agency, Accountability, and Embedded Relations
Engendering migrant networks
This article compares the impact of family migrant and destination-specific networks on international and internal migration. We find that migrant networks are more important for international moves than for internal moves and that female networks are more important than male networks for moves within Mexico. For moves to the United States, male migrant networks are more important for prospective male migrants than for female migrants, and female…
Engendering Migrant Networks
This article compares the impact of family migrant and destination-specific networks on international and internal migration. We find that migrant networks are more important for international moves than for internal moves and that female networks are more important than male networks for moves within Mexico. For moves to the United States, male migrant networks are more important for prospective male migrants than for female migrants, and female…
Does remarriage expand perceptions of kinship support among the elderly
Completing the Picture
Gendered Migrant Social Capital
Employing longitudinal data from Thailand to replicate studies of cumulative causation, we extend current knowledge by measuring frequency of trips, duration of time away, level of network aggregation (village or household), and sex composition of migrant networks to estimate a model of prospective migration among men and women in Thailand. We find that trips and duration of time away have distinct influences upon migration; that household level …
Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
A Handbook for Social Science Field Research
PART I: Selecting the Right Tools Overview 1. Archives The Past is Another Country by Robert Vitalis Bibliography 2. Case Studies Case-Based Research by Andrew Schrank: Bibliography 3. Ethnographic Methods Ethnography: Theory and Methods by Alma Gottlieb Bibliography 4. Oral Histories Oral Histories as Methods and Sources by Tamara Giles-Vernick: Bibliography 5. Focus Groups Focus Group Interviews by Susan Short Bibliography 6. Surveys and Second…
Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship
A review of the sociological research about gender and migration shows the substantial ways in which gender fundamentally organizes the social relations and structures influencing the causes and consequences of migration. Yet, although a significant sociological research has emerged on gender and migration in the last three decades, studies are not evenly distributed across the discipline. In this article, we map the recent intellectual history o…
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