In the current volume of ‘The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,’ the editors ask: is the current census ethno-racial classification system doing a good job? Does it accurately reflect who we are, enabling us to track important social phenomena? Does it provide statistics helpful to understanding demographic dynamics and who we are likely to become in the years ahead?
This free collection of content from SAGE Publishing provides context in the wake of pivotal events, such as the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, that highlight the societal fault lines in the U.S. and across the globe.
In his 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award lecture, noted social scientist William Julius Wilson offer his “Reflections on American Race Relations in the Age of Donald Trump,”
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Harvard’s Jennifer Hochschild explains to interviewer David Edmonds some of the pertinent data points from her years of using quantitative and qualitative analysis to map the racial, ethnic and class cleavages in America’s demography.
New research conducted earlier in the current U.S. presidential campaign confirms the role that racial anxiety is playing for many white voters.
Brief educational interventions that draw on social psychology can have a big impact on seemingly intractable inequities in the classroom because students’ thoughts and feelings about school affect their experiences of it.
Grad sudents looking for a professor to be a mentor had a better chance of getting a positive response – or a response at all – if they were white and male, according to a new study that broke down findings by discipline and whether a school was public or private.
Whether a manager is black or white, male or female, the stereotypes that persist in today’s workplace can affect perceptions of managerial […]
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