Online via UI Library electronic subscription, Authors analyzed why some social movement organizations were more successful than others in gaining media attention. They drew upon organizational survey data from a representative sample of 187 local environmental organizations in North Carolina with complete news coverage of those organizations in 11 major daily newspapers in the state during the two years following the survey.
INTERPAKS, Analyzes data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Finds little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking. Considers the possibility that the status-trial relationships varied systematically across communities, with mixed results. While there were lower zero-order correlations between status and trial for cultivators in high resource, low inequality communities, analysis of interactions between community characteristics and individual level measures was not particularly informative.
Journal Article, Uses data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican adults to examine the extent of skin color based social stratification in contemporary Mexico. Despite extreme ambiguity in skin color classification, the author finds considerable agreement among survey interviewers about who belongs to three skin color categories. The results also provide evidence of profound social stratification by skin color. Individuals with darker skin tone have significantly lower levels of educational attainment and occupational status, and they are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to be affluent, even after controlling for other individual characteristics.
