Lala Carr Steelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 86447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lala Carr Steelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lala Carr |
| FAMILY NAME | Steelman |
| SIGNATURE | STEELMAN L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 745 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Equity, Emotion, and Household Division of Labor Response
Building upon insights generated by social psychological scholarship on equity, emotions, and identity, we use the General Social Survey (1996) Modules on Emotion and Gender and the National Survey of Family and Households (1992—1994) to investigate the relationship between perceived inequity in the household division of labor and emotion. These surveys enable us to assess the degree to which patterns identified in short-term laboratory studies o…
From Molehills Mountains Made: An Examination of Red and Blue State Cultural Stereotypes
Since 2000, in the USA Republican voting states have been called red and the Democrat ones called blue. We explore whether or not the cultural stereotype that red states harbour more virtuous constituents than blue states has merit. We relate the extent to which electoral votes were cast for George Bush during the 2004 election, a variable that we specify as the degree of redness, to a scale of moral conduct at the state level. This scale is a co…
Naughty or nice: Equity, gender and behavior
Revisiting Reuben Hill's Theory of Familial Response to Stressors: The Mediating Role of Mental Outlook for Offspring of Divorce
With data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), the authors probe the link between parental and second‐generation divorce. They investigate whether parental divorce and offspring's subsequent marital behavior are related to mental outlook. Existing literature maintains that children who experience parental divorce are more likely to divorce than their counterparts, yet explanations for this pattern remain contested. Drawing …
Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we identify parental age as influential in the parental provision of economic resources, social capital and cultural capital to adolescents, as well as in parental educational expectations for their children. At the bivariate level, the relationship is curvilinear, suggesting that having comparatively young or old parents is disadvantageous to teenagers, at least with regard to re…
The long-term effects of ability grouping in mathematics: A national investigation
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When the rubber meets the road: Effects of Urban and Regional Residence on Principle and Implementation Measures of Racial Tolerance
Seeing their surroundings: The Effects of Neighborhood Setting and Race on Maternal Distress
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration: Recent Advances and Challenges
Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational and other status outcomes. New developments challenge this conventional wisdom, thus offering an opening for dialogue on this topic. We identify the utility and implications of studying the consequences of sibling configuration within sociology, across disciplines, and for pu…
Color-Blind: The Treatment of Race and Ethnicity in Social Psychology
Matthew O. Hunt, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, Color-Blind: The Treatment of Race and Ethnicity in Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 4, Special Millenium Issue on the State of Sociological Social Psychology (Dec., 2000), pp. 352-364
All My Children: The Consequences of Sibling Group Characteristics on the Marital Happiness of Young Mothers
In this research, we investigate how children shape maternal marital happiness. The findings reveal that the otherwise negative effects of sibship size are altered by the gender composition of the sibling group. Having sons tends to reduce the negative impact of sibling group size. Solving for main effects in the interactions that include sibship size by the gender composition of the sibling group, we find that having all sons affords the most be…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development: Comment on Guo and VanWey
Rebel without A Cause Or Effect: Birth Order and Social Attitudes
The enduring effects of an individual's birth order have been subject to a long and lively debate in sociology and other disciplines. Recently, in response to Sulloway's (1996) Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, interest has increased in the possible effects of birth order on social attitudes. Using quantitative, historical data, Sulloway found that birth order is a better predictor of social attitudes than is gender…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development
Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children
Journal Article Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children* Brian Powell, Brian Powell Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lala Carr Steelman Lala Carr Steelman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 4, June 1995, Pages 1465–1486, https://doi.org/1…
The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out: Sibship Density and Educational Progress
Although sociologists have identifiedfactors associated with the timing of births, little is known about the consequences of the spacing of births. Several perspectives imply a negative effect of close spacing of siblings on educational attainment, but these perspectives differ in the mechanisms used to explain this effect. We use data from the High School and Beyond survey to investigate the effect of spacing on high school attrition and post-se…
Doing the Right Thing: Race and Parental Locus of Responsibility for Funding College
Les AA. comparent les reponses de parents blancs a celle de minorites, concernant la question de savoir ou les parents situent la responsabilite de l'investissement a l'universite, s'ils favorisent les strategies specifiques d'investissement gouvernemental ou s'ils ont epargne pour l'education de leurs enfants
Sociological Studies of Child Development: A Research Annual. Volume 4: Perspectives on and of Children
Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education
Although sociologists and economists have been widely concerned with parental investment in children, that investment has rarely been examined directly. The Parent Survey of the High School and Beyond data set provides material for examining the traits of parents and children that shape parental payment for higher education. Parents' reported willingness and ability to pay, along with savings for children's future education, are shaped first by t…
Beyond Sibship Size: Sibling Density, Sex Composition, and Educational Outcomes
Acquiring Capital for College: The Constraints of Family Configuration
We investigate the influence of size of sibling group and ordinal position on financial arrangements for college. While this analysis has implications for the status attainment and human capital perspectives, it also represents a direct test of the resource dilution hypothesis. Analyzing a sample of 3279 subjects from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972, we estimate the association between the number of siblings and …
The Liability of Having Brothers: Paying for College and the Sex Composition of the Family
Although sibship size has become a standard measure in the study of academic achievement and attainment, logical and theoretically meaningful extensions of this variable often have been ignored. Sex composition-the number of brothers and the number of sisters-is one such extension. This article reports on a study of the impact of sex composition on strategies for funding a college education. Data on 454 seniors at two large universities confirm t…
Becoming a Run Away: From the Accounts of Youthful Runners
Parker, R. A., Hugh Bevan, Mary Evans, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Holman Iris Knight, Martin Manby, Mia Kellmer Pringle, Jane Rowe, George Thomas, Judith Unell and Baroness Young, Caring for Separated…
"PARKER, R. A., Hugh Bevan, Mary Evans, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Holman Iris Knight, Martin Manby, Mia Kellmer Pringle, Jane Rowe, George Thomas, Judith Unell and Baroness Young, CARING FOR SEPARATED CHILDREN." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 18(3), pp. 500–501
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration: Recent Advances and Challenges
Until recently, social scientists were headed to consensus over the impact of the structural parameters of the sibling group, especially size and birth order, on educational and other status outcomes. New developments challenge this conventional wisdom, thus offering an opening for dialogue on this topic. We identify the utility and implications of studying the consequences of sibling configuration within sociology, across disciplines, and for pu…
The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out: Sibship Density and Educational Progress
Although sociologists have identifiedfactors associated with the timing of births, little is known about the consequences of the spacing of births. Several perspectives imply a negative effect of close spacing of siblings on educational attainment, but these perspectives differ in the mechanisms used to explain this effect. We use data from the High School and Beyond survey to investigate the effect of spacing on high school attrition and post-se…
Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education
Although sociologists and economists have been widely concerned with parental investment in children, that investment has rarely been examined directly. The Parent Survey of the High School and Beyond data set provides material for examining the traits of parents and children that shape parental payment for higher education. Parents' reported willingness and ability to pay, along with savings for children's future education, are shaped first by t…
Acquiring Capital for College: The Constraints of Family Configuration
We investigate the influence of size of sibling group and ordinal position on financial arrangements for college. While this analysis has implications for the status attainment and human capital perspectives, it also represents a direct test of the resource dilution hypothesis. Analyzing a sample of 3279 subjects from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972, we estimate the association between the number of siblings and …
Familial Influence on the Intellectual Attainment of Children
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. Taylor, D. Garth, Paul B. Sheatsley, and Andrew M. Greeley 1978 Attitudes toward racial integration. Scientific American 238:42-49. U.S. Bureau of the Census 1980 Statistical Abstract of the United Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Vanneman, Reeve D. and Thomas F. Pettigrew 1972 and relative deprivation in the urban United States. Race 13:461-86. Wilson, …
Rebel without A Cause Or Effect: Birth Order and Social Attitudes
The enduring effects of an individual's birth order have been subject to a long and lively debate in sociology and other disciplines. Recently, in response to Sulloway's (1996) Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, interest has increased in the possible effects of birth order on social attitudes. Using quantitative, historical data, Sulloway found that birth order is a better predictor of social attitudes than is gender…
Beyond Sibship Size: Sibling Density, Sex Composition, and Educational Outcomes
Color-Blind: The Treatment of Race and Ethnicity in Social Psychology
Matthew O. Hunt, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, Color-Blind: The Treatment of Race and Ethnicity in Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 4, Special Millenium Issue on the State of Sociological Social Psychology (Dec., 2000), pp. 352-364
Advancing Age, Advantaged Youth: Parental Age and the Transmission of Resources to Children
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we identify parental age as influential in the parental provision of economic resources, social capital and cultural capital to adolescents, as well as in parental educational expectations for their children. At the bivariate level, the relationship is curvilinear, suggesting that having comparatively young or old parents is disadvantageous to teenagers, at least with regard to re…
The Liability of Having Brothers: Paying for College and the Sex Composition of the Family
Although sibship size has become a standard measure in the study of academic achievement and attainment, logical and theoretically meaningful extensions of this variable often have been ignored. Sex composition-the number of brothers and the number of sisters-is one such extension. This article reports on a study of the impact of sex composition on strategies for funding a college education. Data on 454 seniors at two large universities confirm t…
Equity, Emotion, and Household Division of Labor Response
Building upon insights generated by social psychological scholarship on equity, emotions, and identity, we use the General Social Survey (1996) Modules on Emotion and Gender and the National Survey of Family and Households (1992—1994) to investigate the relationship between perceived inequity in the household division of labor and emotion. These surveys enable us to assess the degree to which patterns identified in short-term laboratory studies o…
Seeing their surroundings: The Effects of Neighborhood Setting and Race on Maternal Distress
Unconfounding the Confluence Model: A Test of Sibship Size and Birth-Order Effects on Intelligence
This paper explores the theoretical validity of the confluence model in explaining the effects of sibship size and birth order on intelligence. Using a nationally representative sample the effects of age, sex, marital disruption, socioeconomic status, race, and other potentially confounding variables, unincorporated in other studies, are controlled. The results suggest that (a) the inverse relation between sibship size and IQ lessens for the econ…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development: Comment on Guo and VanWey
Sibling Structure and Parental Sex-Typing of Children's Household Tasks
A theoretical argument concerning the relationship between the sibling structure and parental sex-typing of children's tasks is developed and tested using data from two nationally representative surveys of adults. We hypothesize that as the number of sons in the family increases (holding constant the number of daughters), the sex-typing of traditionally female tasks will decrease. However, as the number of daughters increases, sex-typing of tradi…
Testing an Undertested Comparison: Maternal Effects on Sons' and Daughters' Attitudes toward Women in the Labor Force
Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, Testing an Undertested Comparison: Maternal Effects on Sons' and Daughters' Attitudes toward Women in the Labor Force, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 349-355
Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children
Journal Article Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children* Brian Powell, Brian Powell Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lala Carr Steelman Lala Carr Steelman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 4, June 1995, Pages 1465–1486, https://doi.org/1…
The Social and Academic Consequences of Birth Order: Real, Artifactual, or Both
Cross-tabular and multiple regression techniques were used in this study of the impact of birth order on the social skills and academic performance of children and adolescents in the US. The data were obtained from Cycles II and III of the National Health Examination Surveys. The sample universes of Cycles II and III consist of children ages 6-11 and youth ages 12-17 respectively. The sampling technique used to select persons for inclusion in the…
When the rubber meets the road: Effects of Urban and Regional Residence on Principle and Implementation Measures of Racial Tolerance
Doing the Right Thing: Race and Parental Locus of Responsibility for Funding College
Les AA. comparent les reponses de parents blancs a celle de minorites, concernant la question de savoir ou les parents situent la responsabilite de l'investissement a l'universite, s'ils favorisent les strategies specifiques d'investissement gouvernemental ou s'ils ont epargne pour l'education de leurs enfants
The long-term effects of ability grouping in mathematics: A national investigation
All My Children: The Consequences of Sibling Group Characteristics on the Marital Happiness of Young Mothers
In this research, we investigate how children shape maternal marital happiness. The findings reveal that the otherwise negative effects of sibship size are altered by the gender composition of the sibling group. Having sons tends to reduce the negative impact of sibling group size. Solving for main effects in the interactions that include sibship size by the gender composition of the sibling group, we find that having all sons affords the most be…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development
Social Location, Significant Others and Body Image Among Adolescents
Relatively little is known about factors that influence the extent to which self-perceptions of attractiveness diverge from the evaluations of other observers. Examined in this study are socialfactors that affect the self-evaluations of body weight provided by more than 6500 adolescents. Data are obtained from Cycle III of the National Health Examination Survey. Our findings suggest that adolescents tend to denigrate rather than enhance their bod…
Becoming a Run Away: From the Accounts of Youthful Runners
Unconfounding the Confluence Model: A Test of Sibship Size and Birth-Order Effects on Intelligence
This paper explores the theoretical validity of the confluence model in explaining the effects of sibship size and birth order on intelligence. Using a nationally representative sample the effects of age, sex, marital disruption, socioeconomic status, race, and other potentially confounding variables, unincorporated in other studies, are controlled. The results suggest that (a) the inverse relation between sibship size and IQ lessens for the econ…
Family Structure and IQ: Artifact of Condition at Birth
Familial Influence on the Intellectual Attainment of Children
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. Taylor, D. Garth, Paul B. Sheatsley, and Andrew M. Greeley 1978 Attitudes toward racial integration. Scientific American 238:42-49. U.S. Bureau of the Census 1980 Statistical Abstract of the United Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Vanneman, Reeve D. and Thomas F. Pettigrew 1972 and relative deprivation in the urban United States. Race 13:461-86. Wilson, …
Testing an Undertested Comparison: Maternal Effects on Sons' and Daughters' Attitudes toward Women in the Labor Force
Brian Powell, Lala Carr Steelman, Testing an Undertested Comparison: Maternal Effects on Sons' and Daughters' Attitudes toward Women in the Labor Force, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 349-355
Fundamentalism and Sexism: A Reanalysis of Peek and Brown
Journal Article Fundamentalism and Sexism: A Reanalysis of Peek and Brown Get access Brian Powell, Brian Powell Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lala Carr Steelman Lala Carr Steelman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 4, June 1982, Pages 1154–1158, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.4.1154 Publishe…
Sex Differences in the Impact of the Number of Older and Younger Siblings on IQ Performance
The authors present evidence that reassesses a recent hypothesis put forth by Paulhus and Shaffer (1981), that females are less likely than males to show decrements in intellectual growth normally associated with larger number of siblings. Using data from a large, nationally representative sample of children, our results contradict this hypothesis. Our data reveal that females are slightly less likely than males to show declines in verbal IQ perf…
Family Size and Birth order as Factors on the IQ Performance of Black and white Children
Originally developed by Zajonc and Markus (1975), the confluence model attempts to explain the intellectual growth of children as a function of the family structures in which children are reared. Using data extracted from Cycle II of ihe National Health Examination Survey, we analyze the effects of two of the most frequently investigated indicators offamily structure; the number of siblings and birth-order on the Wechsler vocabulary and the Wechs…
Sibling Structure and Parental Sex-Typing of Children's Household Tasks
A theoretical argument concerning the relationship between the sibling structure and parental sex-typing of children's tasks is developed and tested using data from two nationally representative surveys of adults. We hypothesize that as the number of sons in the family increases (holding constant the number of daughters), the sex-typing of traditionally female tasks will decrease. However, as the number of daughters increases, sex-typing of tradi…
The Social and Academic Consequences of Birth Order: Real, Artifactual, or Both
Cross-tabular and multiple regression techniques were used in this study of the impact of birth order on the social skills and academic performance of children and adolescents in the US. The data were obtained from Cycles II and III of the National Health Examination Surveys. The sample universes of Cycles II and III consist of children ages 6-11 and youth ages 12-17 respectively. The sampling technique used to select persons for inclusion in the…
Social Location, Significant Others and Body Image Among Adolescents
Relatively little is known about factors that influence the extent to which self-perceptions of attractiveness diverge from the evaluations of other observers. Examined in this study are socialfactors that affect the self-evaluations of body weight provided by more than 6500 adolescents. Data are obtained from Cycle III of the National Health Examination Survey. Our findings suggest that adolescents tend to denigrate rather than enhance their bod…
The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance: A Political History, 1887-1893
Parker, R. A., Hugh Bevan, Mary Evans, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Holman Iris Knight, Martin Manby, Mia Kellmer Pringle, Jane Rowe, George Thomas, Judith Unell and Baroness Young, Caring for Separated…
"PARKER, R. A., Hugh Bevan, Mary Evans, Michael Fitzgerald, Robert Holman Iris Knight, Martin Manby, Mia Kellmer Pringle, Jane Rowe, George Thomas, Judith Unell and Baroness Young, CARING FOR SEPARATED CHILDREN." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 18(3), pp. 500–501
Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years
Based on a year-long micro-ethnography of a nursery school, this book presents a unique approach to childhood socialization by focusing directly upon the social, interactive, and communicative processes that make up the world of young children. It contains micro-sociolinguistic analyses of videotaped peer interactive episodes which are the basis of explanations of children's development and use of social concepts such as status, role, norms, and …
Becoming a Run Away: From the Accounts of Youthful Runners
Acquiring Capital for College: The Constraints of Family Configuration
We investigate the influence of size of sibling group and ordinal position on financial arrangements for college. While this analysis has implications for the status attainment and human capital perspectives, it also represents a direct test of the resource dilution hypothesis. Analyzing a sample of 3279 subjects from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972, we estimate the association between the number of siblings and …
The Liability of Having Brothers: Paying for College and the Sex Composition of the Family
Although sibship size has become a standard measure in the study of academic achievement and attainment, logical and theoretically meaningful extensions of this variable often have been ignored. Sex composition-the number of brothers and the number of sisters-is one such extension. This article reports on a study of the impact of sex composition on strategies for funding a college education. Data on 454 seniors at two large universities confirm t…
Beyond Sibship Size: Sibling Density, Sex Composition, and Educational Outcomes
Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education
Although sociologists and economists have been widely concerned with parental investment in children, that investment has rarely been examined directly. The Parent Survey of the High School and Beyond data set provides material for examining the traits of parents and children that shape parental payment for higher education. Parents' reported willingness and ability to pay, along with savings for children's future education, are shaped first by t…
Sociological Studies of Child Development: A Research Annual. Volume 4: Perspectives on and of Children
The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out: Sibship Density and Educational Progress
Although sociologists have identifiedfactors associated with the timing of births, little is known about the consequences of the spacing of births. Several perspectives imply a negative effect of close spacing of siblings on educational attainment, but these perspectives differ in the mechanisms used to explain this effect. We use data from the High School and Beyond survey to investigate the effect of spacing on high school attrition and post-se…
Doing the Right Thing: Race and Parental Locus of Responsibility for Funding College
Les AA. comparent les reponses de parents blancs a celle de minorites, concernant la question de savoir ou les parents situent la responsabilite de l'investissement a l'universite, s'ils favorisent les strategies specifiques d'investissement gouvernemental ou s'ils ont epargne pour l'education de leurs enfants
Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children
Journal Article Feeling the Pinch: Child Spacing and Constraints on Parental Economic Investments in Children* Brian Powell, Brian Powell Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lala Carr Steelman Lala Carr Steelman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 73, Issue 4, June 1995, Pages 1465–1486, https://doi.org/1…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development: Comment on Guo and VanWey
Rebel without A Cause Or Effect: Birth Order and Social Attitudes
The enduring effects of an individual's birth order have been subject to a long and lively debate in sociology and other disciplines. Recently, in response to Sulloway's (1996) Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives, interest has increased in the possible effects of birth order on social attitudes. Using quantitative, historical data, Sulloway found that birth order is a better predictor of social attitudes than is gender…
Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development
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