R. Salvador Oropesa's Information
POSITION TITLE: Professor of Sociology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Families; immigration; health; Latin America/Caribbean.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Processes
Demographic Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1987-1990 Strategic Planning and Research Associate, DDB Needham Worldwide, Inc., Chicago Division (promoted to Supervisor, 1989)
1990-1996 Assistant Professor of Sociology; Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
1996-2004 Associate Professor of Sociology & Demography; Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
2004-present Professor of Sociology & Demography; Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1978-1980 University of Washington Graduate Opportunities Program Fellowship
1985 Grant to participate as Professional Associate in the Sixteenth Summer Session Seminar on Population, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii and Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China
1986 University of Washington Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship
1988-1989 Funded participant in 16-week seminar sponsored by the Chicago Council of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and Northwestern University
1993 Named to the "List of Excellent Honors Instructors" by the University Scholars Program, The Pennsylvania State University
Runner-up for the 1995 Outstanding Article Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
1999-2001 Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
2001-Present Associate Editor, Journal of Family Issues
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Guest, A.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(1984).
"Problem-Solving Strategies of Local Areas in the Metropolis."
American Sociological Review 49(6):828-840.
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Lee, B.A.
,
R.S. Oropesa
,
B.J. Metch
and
A. Guest
(1984).
"Testing the Decline of Community Thesis: Neighborhood Organizations in Seattle, 1929 and 1979."
American Journal of Sociology 89(5):1161-1188.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1985).
"Subjective Relative Affluence and Expected Family Size."
Sociology and Social Research 69(4):501-515.
Guest, A.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(1986).
"Informal Social Ties and Political Activity in the Metropolis."
Urban Affairs Quarterly 21(4):550-574.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1986).
"Social Class, Economic Marginality, and the Image of Stratification."
Sociological Focus 19(3):229-243.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1987).
"Local and Extra-Local Orientations in the Metropolis."
Sociological Forum 2(1):90-117.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1989).
"Neighborhood Associations, Political Repertoires and Neighborhood Exits."
Sociological Perspectives 32(4):435-452.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1989).
"The Social and Political Foundations of Effective Neighborhood Improvement Associations."
Social Science Quarterly 70(3):723-743.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1992).
"Social Structure, Social Solidarity and Involvement in Neighborhood Improvement Associations."
Sociological Inquiry 62(2):107-118.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1993).
"Female Labor Force Participation and Time Saving Technology: A Case Study of the Microwave from 1978 to 1989."
Journal of Consumer Research 19:567-579.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1993).
"Using the Service Economy to Relieve the Double Burden."
Journal of Family Issues 14:438-473.
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Lee, B.A.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
J.W. Kanan
(1994).
"Neighborhood Context and Residential Mobility."
Demography 31(2):249-270.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
D.T. Lichter
and
R.N. Anderson
(1994).
"Marriage Markets and the Paradox of Mexican American Nuptiality."
Journal of Marriage & the Family 56(4):889-907.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1995).
"Consumer Possessions, Consumer Passions, and Subjective Well-Being."
Sociological Forum 10(2):215-244.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1995).
"The Ironies of Human Resource Mobilization by Neighborhood Associations."
Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 24:234-252.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1996).
"Normative Beliefs About Marriage and Cohabitation: A Comparison of Non-Latino Whites, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans."
Journal of Marriage & the Family 58(1):49-62.
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Oropesa, R.S.
(1997).
"Development and Marital Power in Mexico."
Social Forces 75(4):1291-1318.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(1997).
"Immigrant Legacies: Ethnicity, Generation, and Children's Familial and Economic Lives."
Social Science Quarterly 78(2):399-416.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(1997).
"In Search of the New Second Generation: Strategies for Identifying Second-Generation Children and Understanding Their Acquisition of English."
Sociological Perspectives 40(3):429-455.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
D. Llanes
(1998).
"Schooling, Work, and Idleness among Mexican and Non-Latino White Adolescents."
Social Science Research 27(4):457-480.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
B.K. Gorman
(1999).
"Immigration and Infant Health: Birth Outcomes of Immigrant and Native Women." In
Hernandez, D.J.
(Ed.)
, Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance.
Washington, D.C.:
National Academy Press.
(pp. 244-285)
Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
,
D. Llanes
and
B.K. Gorman
(1999).
"Does Americanization Have Adverse Effects on Health?: Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes among Puerto Ricans."
Social Forces 78(2):613-641.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
B.K. Gorman
(2000).
"Migration and Infant Death: Assimilation or Selective Migration among Puerto Ricans?."
American Sociological Review 65:888-909.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
B.K. Gorman
(2000).
"Ethnicity, Immigration, and Beliefs about Marriage as a Tie that Binds." In
Waite, L.J.
,
C. Bachrach
,
M. Hindin
,
E. Thomson
and
A. Thornton
(Eds.)
, Ties that Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation.
Hawthorne, CA:
Aldine de Gruyter.
Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2000).
"From Austerity to Prosperity? Migration and Child Poverty among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Demography 37(3):323-338.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
,
M. Inkley
and
B.K. Gorman
(2000).
"Prenatal Care among Puerto Ricans on the United States Mainland."
Social Science & Medicine 51(12):1723-1739.
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Gorman, B.K.
,
N.S. Landale
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Poverty, Insurance, and Well-Baby Care among Mainland Puerto Rican Children."
Social Biology 48(1-2):67-85.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Father Involvement in the Lives of Mainland Puerto Rican Children: Contributions of Nonresident, Cohabiting, and Married Fathers."
Social Forces 79(3):945-968.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2001).
"Migration, Social Support and Perinatal Health: An Origin-Destination Analysis of Puerto Rican Women."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 42(2):166-183.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
A.L. Davila
(2001).
"Poverty, Prenatal Care, and Infant Health in Puerto Rico."
Social Biology 48(1-2):44-66.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2002).
"White, Black or Puerto Rican? Racial Self-Identification among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Social Forces 81:231-254.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2002).
"Nonresponse in Follow-Back Surveys of Ethnic Minority Groups: An Analysis of the Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study."
Maternal and Child Health Journal 6(1):49-58.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
T.S. Kenkre
(2002).
"Structure, Process, and Satisfaction With Obstetricians: An Analysis of Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Medical Care Research and Review 59(4):412-439.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
T.S. Kenkre
(2003).
"Income Allocation in Marital and Cohabiting Unions: The Case of Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Journal of Marriage and the Family 65(4):910-926.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2004).
"The Future of Marriage and Hispanics."
Journal of Marriage and Family 66(4):901-920.
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Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2005).
"What Does Skin Color Have To Do With Infant Health? An Analysis of Low Birth Weight Among Mainland and Island Puerto Ricans."
Social Science and Medicine 61(2):379-391.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2005).
"Equal Access to Income and Union Dissolution among Mainland Puerto Ricans."
Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):173-190.
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Landale, N.S.
,
B.K. Gorman
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2006).
"Selective Migration and Infant Mortality among Puerto Ricans."
Maternal and Child Health Journal 10(4):351-360.
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Landale, N.S.
,
R.S. Oropesa
and
C. Bradatan
(2006).
"Hispanic Families in the United States: Family Structure and Process in an Era of Family Change." In
Tienda, M.
and
F. Mitchell
(Eds.)
, Hispanics and the Future of America.
Washington, DC:
National Academy Press.
(pp. 138-178)
Landale, N.S.
and
R.S. Oropesa
(2007).
"Hispanic Families: Stability and Change."
Annual Review of Sociology 33:381-405.
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Oropesa, R.S.
,
N.S. Landale
and
M.J. Greif
(2008).
"From Puerto Rican to Pan-Ethnic in New York City."
Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(7):1315-1339.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
N.S. Landale
(2009).
"Why Do Immigrant Youths Who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? School Enrollment among Mexicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
Sociology of Education 82(3):240-266.
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Oropesa, R.S.
and
L.I. Jensen
(Forthcoming).
"Dominican Immigrants and Discrimination in a New Destination: The Case of Reading, Pennsylvania."
City & Community.
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