Social Inequality and Status Attainment

上野幸司佛罗里达州立大学地位获得是指人们在地位等级中获得地位的过程。社会人口背景强烈影响地位获得的成功程度，从而在社会群体中产生和再现不平等。本研究将性取向视为社会人口背景的一个维度，并探讨性取向是否以及如何影响社会地位的获得。统计分析使用国家青少年健康纵向研究（添加健康）波1到4进行。地位取得的成功程度是由教育资格、职业声望和收入来衡量的。该项目通过评估同性经历（吸引力、约会关系和性接触）的连续性和变化，特别关注性取向的动态方面，并通过跟踪青年完成中学和高等教育、进入劳动力市场和承担家庭角色，突出了地位获得的动态方面。该项目将确定哪些因素导致了性取向和地位获得结果之间的关系，以及哪些因素加剧或缓和了这种关系。更广泛的影响本研究试图对社会学学科做出三个主要贡献。首先，本研究将以性取向为研究重点，扩展现有的关于地位获得过程中社会不平等的知识，主要集中在种族、性别和家庭社会经济阶层作为不平等的社会决定因素。其次，该研究将增加对性发展与地位获得之间关系的理解。在过去关注异性恋发展的研究的基础上，该研究考察了同性性发展对地位获得的影响。第三，通过将性发展和地位获得的个体差异作为多样性的维度，研究结果将增加对性少数群体多样性的认识。

SES-1060988Koji UenoFlorida State UniversityStatus attainment refers to the process in which people obtain positions in the status hierarchy. Sociodemographic background strongly affects the level of success in status attainment, which produces and reproduces inequality across social groups. This study considers sexual orientation as a dimension of sociodemographic background and investigates whether and how sexual orientation influences status attainment. Statistical analysis is conducted using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Waves 1 through 4. The level of success in status attainment is measured by educational qualifications, occupational prestige, and earnings. The project pays special attention to the dynamic aspect of sexual orientation by assessing the continuity and change in same-sex experience (attraction, dating relationships, and sexual contact), and it highlights the dynamic aspect of status attainment by tracing youth as they complete secondary and postsecondary education, enter the labor force, and take on family roles. The project will identify what factors give rise to the relationship between sexual orientation and status attainment outcomes and what factors exacerbate or moderate the relationship.Broader ImpactsThis study seeks to make three major contributions to the discipline of sociology. First, focusing on sexual orientation, the research will extend the existing knowledge about social inequality in the status attainment process, which has mainly concentrated on race, gender, and family socioeconomic class as social determinants of inequality. Second, the study will increase understanding about the relationship between sexual development and status attainment. Extending the past research that focused on heterosexual development, the study examines the impact of same-sex sexual development on status attainment. Third, research findings will increase knowledge about the diversity within the sexual minority population by considering individual differences in sexual development and status attainment as dimensions of diversity.