The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a
special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics:(a) marriage …

Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar
actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

This article explores how the efficiency of Internet search is changing the way Americans
find romantic partners. We use a new data source, the How Couples Meet and Stay …

In the millennium's inaugural decade, 2 interrelated trends influenced research on America's
families of color: the need for new knowledge about America's growing ethnic/racial minority …

Embeddedness in social networks is increasingly seen as a root cause of human
achievement, social stratification, and actor behavior. In this article, we review sociological …

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These
gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American …

Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided,
immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one …