Social Inequality and Status Attainment

SES-1060988上野浩二佛罗里达州立大学地位的获得是指人们在地位层次结构中获得职位的过程。 社会人口背景对取得地位的成功程度有很大影响，这在社会群体中产生和再现了不平等。 本研究将性取向视为社会人口学背景的一个维度，并探讨性取向是否以及如何影响地位的获得。 统计分析是使用国家青少年健康纵向研究（添加健康）波1至4进行的。 社会地位的成功程度是由教育水平、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中学后教育、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。 该项目将确定什么因素引起的性取向和地位获得的结果之间的关系，什么因素加剧或缓和的关系。更广泛的影响本研究旨在使社会学学科的三个主要贡献。 首先，以性取向为重点，这项研究将扩大现有的知识，社会不平等的地位获得过程中，主要集中在种族，性别和家庭社会经济阶层的社会决定因素的不平等。 其次，这项研究将增加对性发展和地位获得之间关系的理解。 该研究扩展了过去专注于异性恋发展的研究，探讨了同性性发展对地位获得的影响。 第三，研究结果将增加对性少数群体内部多样性的认识，将性发育和地位获得方面的个体差异视为多样性的各个方面。

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.