B Cornwell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12365 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Cornwell |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | Cornwell |
| ASSINATURA | CORNWELL B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3204-1213 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 844 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Friends and Fortunes
Durable social connections are priceless resources for support, companionship, and opportunity. They make life worth living. However, not everyone has equal access to these seemingly free social resources. Like many other valuable things in life, 'social capital' is both a source and a consequence of inequality throughout the population – something that reinforces the status quo and existing social hierarchies. In Friends and Fortunes, the author…
Long-Term Impacts of Incarceration Exposure and Social Network Stability in Later Life
Does incarceration have long-term impacts on the social life of individuals as they age? This article examines whether and how previous incarceration exposure influences the close social circle in later adulthood. Based on a longitudinal data of 1,308 individuals, we find that individuals with incarceration exposure have more network turnover over a 10-year period. Moreover, for older adults who had incarceration exposure, their frequency of cont…
Inequality and Social Ties
What is the relationship between inequality and social ties? Do personal networks, group memberships, and connections to social resources help level the playing field, or do they reinforce economic disparities? We examine two core empirical issues: the degree of inequality in social ties and their consolidation with income. Using 142,000 person-wave observations from 15 high-quality U.S. data sets, we measure the quantity and quality of social ti…
Social Connectedness of Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected many aspects of social life, especially among older adults who may face cognitive impairments. Concerning this combination of circumstances, the study evaluates the degree to which data collection on social connectedness among older adults might be affected by the social complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We use data from the National Social Life, Health and Agin…
I Love You to Death
Research on 'the widowhood effect' shows that mortality rates are greater among people who have recently lost a spouse. There are several medical and psychological explanations for this (e.g., 'broken heart syndrome') and sociological explanations that focus on spouses' shared social-environmental exposures. We expand on sociological perspectives by arguing that couples' social connections to others play a role in this phenomenon. Using panel dat…
Neighborhood conditions and social network turnover among older adults
Social network-structural position and obesity
Social networks and advice for new mothers
Sequence analysis
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Network Structure in Small Groups and Survival in Disasters
People in disaster and emergency situations (e.g., building fires) tend to adhere to the social obligations and expectations that are embedded in their preexisting roles and relationships. Accordingly, people survive or perish in groups—specifically, alongside those to whom they were connected before the situation emerged. This article uses social network analysis to expand on this collective behavior account. Specifically, we consider structural…
Tracking Egocentric Social Network Change Across Three Rounds of National Survey Data
These data provide new insights into the dynamic nature of networks in later life. Data limitations, and directions for future research, are discussed
Social network influences on new mothers' infant sleep adjustments
Tied Infections
Expanding on recent research on the transmission of COVID-19 via social networks, this article argues that exposure to familial and other close contacts who already have the disease may increase the severity of one's subsequent illness. We hypothesize that having family members or close contacts who were diagnosed with COVID-19 before one's own diagnosis exacerbates illness severity due to several potential mechanisms including changes in availab…
The Small-World Network of College Classes
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, many universities shifted to online instruction and now face the question of whether and how to resume in-person instruction. This article uses transcript data from a medium-sized American university to describe three enrollment networks that connect students through classes and in the process create social conditions for the spread of infectious disease: a university-wide network, an undergraduate-onl…
Homeostasis Revisited
There is an overwhelming tendency toward either maintaining or rebalancing previous structures and levels of both personal network connectedness and community involvement. This results in overall homeostasis. We close by discussing the need for a unifying theoretical framework that can explain these patterns
Structural cohesion and embeddedness in two-mode networks
The detection of structural cohesion is a key utility of social network analysis, but little work has been done to refine the detection of structural cohesion in two-mode networks. Most work on cohesion in two-mode networks either: (1) attempts to detect cohesion in such networks using one-mode projections (which can be problematic for reasons we discuss); or (2) focuses on restrictive substructures like bi-cliques to identify cohesive subgroups.…
The Social Structure of Time
Research on time use has seen several major developments in recent years. These include the adoption of exciting new technologies (e.g., smartphones, wearable Global Positioning System devices) that track behavior in real time, as well as a growing international database-the Multinational Time Use Study-that has surpassed one million days' worth of harmonized time-diary data. These developments are transforming our understanding of the social pat…
A Longitudinal Examination of Factors Associated with Network Bridging Among YMSM
Structural holes and bridging in two-mode networks
Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children
ObjectiveThe authors examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.BackgroundRecent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. The authors consider whether this network i…
Patterns of Social Affiliations and Healthcare Engagement Among Young, Black, Men Who Have Sex With Men
Network dynamics of HIV risk and prevention in a population-based cohort of young Black men who have sex with men
Critical to the development of improved HIV elimination efforts is a greater understanding of how social networks and their dynamics are related to HIV risk and prevention. In this paper, we examine network stability of confidant and sexual networks among young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). We use data from uConnect (2013–2016), a population-based, longitudinal cohort study. We use an innovative approach to measure both sexual and conf…
Sexual Behavior and Social Networks
Social Sequence Analysis
Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions, trajectories and other ordered phenomena. Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time scale and can be used in many different fields, including sociology, communication, information science and psychology. Social Sequence Analysis aims …
The Social Network Approach in Gerontological Research
The Social Connectedness of Older Adults
For decades, scholars have wrestled with the assumption that old age is characterized by social isolation. However, there has been no systematic, nationally representative evaluation of this possibility in terms of social network connectedness. In this article, we develop a profile of older adults' social integration with respect to nine dimensions of interpersonal networks and voluntary associations. We use new data from the National Social Life…
The health benefits of network growth
Independence Through Social Networks
These findings raise important questions about the relational advantages older women have over older men, including greater autonomy, and contradict stereotypes about women having more closely knit, kin-centered networks than men
Social Networks in the NSHAP Study
The data reiterate the relevance of social networks to older adults' health. We close by discussing how the NSHAP measures might be employed in future analyses of health
Assessment of Social Network Change in a National Longitudinal Survey
These data provide new insight into the dynamic nature of networks in later life, revealing norms of network turnover, expansion, and weakening. Data limitations are discussed
The Social Structure of Time
Research on time use has seen several major developments in recent years. These include the adoption of exciting new technologies (e.g., smartphones, wearable Global Positioning System devices) that track behavior in real time, as well as a growing international database-the Multinational Time Use Study-that has surpassed one million days' worth of harmonized time-diary data. These developments are transforming our understanding of the social pat…
Social Disadvantage and Network Turnover
Additional work is needed to shed light on the role played by race- and class-based segregation on group differences in social network turnover. Social gerontologists should examine the role these differences play in explaining the link between social disadvantage and important outcomes in later life, such as health decline
Union Members and Voluntary Associations
Prevailing conceptions of organizational embeddedness emphasize linkages to exchange partners via elites and contracts. What is neglected, the authors argue, is the nature and potential impact from the voluntary associations of rank-and-file members with the panoply of organizations in their daily lives, including churches, PTAs, and sports teams. The functions of these organizations provide contexts in which individuals trade information and for…
Sequence analysis
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Access to Expertise as a Form of Social Capital
Social capital theory suggests that individuals can access resources through their relationships with others. While research in this area typically focuses on the potential benefits of having high-status network alters, the authors emphasize that relationships with experts, in particular, provide access to specialized knowledge. Expertise may be accessed through formal, contractual means. But individuals who have an expert within their network of…
The Dynamic Properties of Social Support
Journal Article The Dynamic Properties of Social Support: Decay, Growth, and Staticity, and Their Effects on Adolescent Depression Get access Benjamin Cornwell Benjamin Cornwell Ohio State University Direct correspondence to Benjamin Cornwell, Department of Sociology The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1353. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Network Position and Sexual Dysfunction
This article combines relational perspectives on gender identity with social network structural perspectives on health to understand men's sexual functioning. The authors argue that network positions that afford independence and control over social resources are consistent with traditional masculine roles and may therefore affect men's sexual performance. For example, when a heterosexual man's female partner has more frequent contact with his con…
The Myth of 'Moral Panic
In this paper, the authors call into question the idea of moral panic and delineate the rudiments of an alternate model of deviance construction and moral public discourse, using LSD prohibition as a working example. In developing their model, the authors draw on research on people in disasters and collective behavior. In keeping with these traditions, they argue that, when faced with emergent social threats, members of society seek to clarify am…
Homeostasis Revisited
There is an overwhelming tendency toward either maintaining or rebalancing previous structures and levels of both personal network connectedness and community involvement. This results in overall homeostasis. We close by discussing the need for a unifying theoretical framework that can explain these patterns
Social Disadvantage and Instability in Older Adults' Ties to Their Adult Children
ObjectiveThe authors examine whether racial and socioeconomic factors influence older adults' likelihood of experiencing instability in their social network ties with their adult children.BackgroundRecent work shows that socially disadvantaged older adults' social networks are more unstable and exhibit higher rates of turnover, perhaps due to greater exposure to broader social-environmental instability. The authors consider whether this network i…
Social network bridging potential and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in later life
Network Bridging Potential in Later Life
Objective. Much work in social gerontology has examined older adults' social connectedness, but we know little about the extent to which older adults occupy positions of power and independence in their networks. The author uses health and life-course frameworks to understand older adults' prospects of occupying bridging positions between otherwise unconnected individuals. Methods. Egocentric social network data were collected from a nationally re…
Network Mixing and Network Influences Most Linked to HIV Infection and Risk Behavior in the HIV Epidemic Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
Objectives. We evaluated network mixing and influences by network members upon Black men who have sex with men. Methods. We conducted separate social and sexual network mixing analyses to determine the degree of mixing on risk behaviors (e.g., unprotected anal intercourse [UAI]). We used logistic regression to assess the association between a network “enabler” (would not disapprove of the respondent’s behavior) and respondent behavior. Results. A…
Network dynamics of HIV risk and prevention in a population-based cohort of young Black men who have sex with men
Critical to the development of improved HIV elimination efforts is a greater understanding of how social networks and their dynamics are related to HIV risk and prevention. In this paper, we examine network stability of confidant and sexual networks among young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). We use data from uConnect (2013–2016), a population-based, longitudinal cohort study. We use an innovative approach to measure both sexual and conf…
The Power of Integration
Amuch-theorized but seldom-tested theory is that elites achieve cohesion via the social network they form through their affiliations with local clubs, religious institutions, civic groups, and other voluntary associations. But few scholars have considered how increasing diversity with respect to elites' gender, race, and social class may undermine such cohesion. We use primary data from interviews with 312 elites in a large Midwestern city to con…
Spousal Network Overlap as a Basis for Spousal Support
The role social network structure plays in facilitating flows of support between spouses is often overlooked. This study examined whether levels of support between spouses depended on the degree of overlap between spouses' networks. Network overlap may enhance spouses' support capacities by increasing their understanding of each other's support needs and their ability to coordinate support for each other. Data on 1,490 married older adults from t…
Status on Trial
The American jury is heralded as an institution that is simultaneously representative and egalitarian. However, jury studies conducted 50 years ago found that white, upper-class men dominate jury deliberations, presumably due to their higher status outside of the jury room. Logistic regression analysis of dyadic influence inside the jury room updates this research. Results indicate that today upper-class jurors alone — not men, not whites — are r…
Revisiting Norton Long's Ecology of Games
Because the ecology of games (Long, 1958) is generally a qualitative perspective, it rarely has been applied as a means of empirically analyzing the management of community affairs. Here we pair the perspective's emphasis on key actors' goals with a conceptualization of local issues as reference points for the structure of local games. To illustrate, we examine the building of Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1990s using this approa…
Work Schedules and Community Ties
Little is known about how work schedules affect social connectedness beyond family relationships. The authors use detailed time diary data from 12,140 respondents in the 2008 through 2010 American Time Use Surveys to examine how work schedules affect six forms of community involvement. Results show that night and evening shift work reduces community involvement, but only on weekdays. Daytime shifts reduce community involvement when they are very …
The Small-World Network of College Classes
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, many universities shifted to online instruction and now face the question of whether and how to resume in-person instruction. This article uses transcript data from a medium-sized American university to describe three enrollment networks that connect students through classes and in the process create social conditions for the spread of infectious disease: a university-wide network, an undergraduate-onl…
Images of Sport in Popular Nonsport Magazines
This research aims to analyze the relationship between sport and the gender order in society by focusing on sport-related images (N = 312) found in popular nonsport men's and women's magazines (N = 46). We find that sport images are often found in both men's and women's nonsport magazines, though these images are more common in magazines that target men. Interestingly, the types of sports portrayed differ greatly depending on the audience. Advert…
The Myth of 'Moral Panic
In this paper, the authors call into question the idea of moral panic and delineate the rudiments of an alternate model of deviance construction and moral public discourse, using LSD prohibition as a working example. In developing their model, the authors draw on research on people in disasters and collective behavior. In keeping with these traditions, they argue that, when faced with emergent social threats, members of society seek to clarify am…
The Healthy Homeless Minority
In this paper, we address health differences between homeless whites and minorities. 526 homeless adults are analyzedjrom a sample taken from shelters in a large, Midwestern metropolis. Using the SF-36 (Short Form 36) Health Questionnaire and health questions designed uniquely for the homeless, differences are explored descriptively and then analyzed using multiple regression. Whites are homeless longer, are more likely to have mental illness dia…
Revisiting Norton Long's Ecology of Games
Because the ecology of games (Long, 1958) is generally a qualitative perspective, it rarely has been applied as a means of empirically analyzing the management of community affairs. Here we pair the perspective's emphasis on key actors' goals with a conceptualization of local issues as reference points for the structure of local games. To illustrate, we examine the building of Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1990s using this approa…
Bonded Fatalities
I build on previous findings in disaster research with a quantitative examination of individual-level fatality risk in a fire evacuation. Using data concerning people who were present at the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire of 1977, I show that the probability of an individual perishing in the fire was a function of the relational and ecological properties of their evacuation environment. Logistic regression analyses suggest that individuals for wh…
The Dynamic Properties of Social Support
Journal Article The Dynamic Properties of Social Support: Decay, Growth, and Staticity, and Their Effects on Adolescent Depression Get access Benjamin Cornwell Benjamin Cornwell Ohio State University Direct correspondence to Benjamin Cornwell, Department of Sociology The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1353. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Bonded Fatalities
I build on previous findings in disaster research with a quantitative examination of individual-level fatality risk in a fire evacuation. Using data concerning people who were present at the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire of 1977, I show that the probability of an individual perishing in the fire was a function of the relational and ecological properties of their evacuation environment. Logistic regression analyses suggest that individuals for wh…
Richer and Whiter
This research examines the role magazines play as part of popular culture in the reproduction of inequality. We analyze statistics and images that magazine publishers make available to advertisers through media kits (n = 63). We hypothesize that race, class, and gender logic within the industry affect what information is presented to advertisers and that this information emphasizes what editors and publishers believe to be the characteristics of …
Union Members and Voluntary Associations
Prevailing conceptions of organizational embeddedness emphasize linkages to exchange partners via elites and contracts. What is neglected, the authors argue, is the nature and potential impact from the voluntary associations of rank-and-file members with the panoply of organizations in their daily lives, including churches, PTAs, and sports teams. The functions of these organizations provide contexts in which individuals trade information and for…
Status on Trial
The American jury is heralded as an institution that is simultaneously representative and egalitarian. However, jury studies conducted 50 years ago found that white, upper-class men dominate jury deliberations, presumably due to their higher status outside of the jury room. Logistic regression analysis of dyadic influence inside the jury room updates this research. Results indicate that today upper-class jurors alone — not men, not whites — are r…
Reconsidering Peer Influences on Delinquency
Labor markets and organizations
The Protestant Sect Credit Machine
The new economic sociology contends that personal relationships and trust play key roles in structuring economic activity. Max Weber's 1906 essay, 'Churches and Sects,' epitomizes the new economic sociology argument. The piece not only details the origins of and individual motivations behind social capital formation in sects, it also shows how congregation-based social capital facilitated the emergence of capitalism in America. I supplement Weber…
The Social Connectedness of Older Adults
For decades, scholars have wrestled with the assumption that old age is characterized by social isolation. However, there has been no systematic, nationally representative evaluation of this possibility in terms of social network connectedness. In this article, we develop a profile of older adults' social integration with respect to nine dimensions of interpersonal networks and voluntary associations. We use new data from the National Social Life…
Access to Expertise as a Form of Social Capital
Social capital theory suggests that individuals can access resources through their relationships with others. While research in this area typically focuses on the potential benefits of having high-status network alters, the authors emphasize that relationships with experts, in particular, provide access to specialized knowledge. Expertise may be accessed through formal, contractual means. But individuals who have an expert within their network of…
Good health and the bridging of structural holes
Network Bridging Potential in Later Life
Objective. Much work in social gerontology has examined older adults' social connectedness, but we know little about the extent to which older adults occupy positions of power and independence in their networks. The author uses health and life-course frameworks to understand older adults' prospects of occupying bridging positions between otherwise unconnected individuals. Methods. Egocentric social network data were collected from a nationally re…
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Social Networks in the NSHAP Study
The data reiterate the relevance of social networks to older adults' health. We close by discussing how the NSHAP measures might be employed in future analyses of health
Independence Through Social Networks
These findings raise important questions about the relational advantages older women have over older men, including greater autonomy, and contradict stereotypes about women having more closely knit, kin-centered networks than men
Network Position and Sexual Dysfunction
This article combines relational perspectives on gender identity with social network structural perspectives on health to understand men's sexual functioning. The authors argue that network positions that afford independence and control over social resources are consistent with traditional masculine roles and may therefore affect men's sexual performance. For example, when a heterosexual man's female partner has more frequent contact with his con…
Spousal Network Overlap as a Basis for Spousal Support
The role social network structure plays in facilitating flows of support between spouses is often overlooked. This study examined whether levels of support between spouses depended on the degree of overlap between spouses' networks. Network overlap may enhance spouses' support capacities by increasing their understanding of each other's support needs and their ability to coordinate support for each other. Data on 1,490 married older adults from t…
Switching Dynamics and the Stress Process
This article shows how maintaining social relationships can be a daily hassle that has implications for the stress process, depending on how often individuals transition, or “switch,” between various social roles and social settings throughout the day. I use nationally representative time-diary data on 7,662 respondents from the 2010 American Time Use Survey to measure individual rates of switching behavior and to examine how it relates to percei…
Network Mixing and Network Influences Most Linked to HIV Infection and Risk Behavior in the HIV Epidemic Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
Objectives. We evaluated network mixing and influences by network members upon Black men who have sex with men. Methods. We conducted separate social and sexual network mixing analyses to determine the degree of mixing on risk behaviors (e.g., unprotected anal intercourse [UAI]). We used logistic regression to assess the association between a network “enabler” (would not disapprove of the respondent’s behavior) and respondent behavior. Results. A…
Assessment of Social Network Change in a National Longitudinal Survey
These data provide new insight into the dynamic nature of networks in later life, revealing norms of network turnover, expansion, and weakening. Data limitations are discussed
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