Dr. Ainsworth joined the sociology faculty at Georgia State University in the Fall of 1999, after receiving his PhD in Sociology from The Ohio State University. He is a member of both the Race and Urban, and Family and the Life Course conce
ntrations.
His research addresses issues related to social stratification, race and ethnic relations, sociology of education, and the family. He has recently published work in the American Sociological Review (1 , 2), Social Forces, Sociology of Education, The Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Race and Society. His work addresses issues such as 1) the oppositional culture explanation for racial disparities in educational performance, 2) the mediation of neighborhood effects
on educational outcomes, 3) the differential returns to cultural capital across racial groups, 4) the effectiveness of bilingual education, 5) child well being in single-parent households, and 6) the relationship between labor market structure, participat
ion in vocational education, and occupational trajectories. Some of this research was funded by the American Educational Research Association.
At Georgia State he teaches various undergraduate classes including Wealth, Power, and Inequality, Race and Ethnic Relations, Educational Sociology, and Social Research Methods. At the graduate level he teaches Race and Ethnic Relations, Soci
ology of Education, and the Proseminar in Sociology. |
