Tyler McDaniel

Doing gender and the surname choices of married women Marital surname choices reflect deeply embedded, often unspoken gender norms. According to the marital exchange/bargaining approach, women are more li…

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.

As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
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True integration requires genuine connection, whether this is formed in the neighborhood, the school, or some other location. One upside of this paper is that when these spaces are integrated, that integration likely spills into other spaces too.

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The findings suggest that as neighborhoods continue to change through processes such as gentrification, it is possible for neighbors to remain segregated in terms of where they spend time, go to school, and so on.

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These maps illustrate levels of ethnoracial segregation in LA in the early 2000’s. While residential segregation has declined slightly since then, and much has changed in regards to how families choose schools, integration remains elusive.

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When we start in segregated spaces, this leads to a “cycle of segregation.”

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I interpret this through the *social structural sorting perspective*, which says that our own experiences - including the places we travel throughout the day, and the people we interact with in these settings - shape which options we consider when looking for a home or school.

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I find that families in Los Angeles are more likely to enroll in schools near previous activities, and that the level of segregation/integration they experience in activities is associated with their school enrollments.

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In a paper in @sociusjournal.bsky.social, I look at how activity spaces are related to school enrollments over time, and what this implies for school segregation in the era of school choice.

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