Department of Sociology
COMING FALL 2020: This course will examine the historic moment in which we are living in order to introduce students to the concept of race and discipline of sociology.
In this contribution to the “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” series, Patricia Fernández-Kelly connects the killing of George Floyd, and the powerful public responses to it, to both the current social conditions of the pandemic and the broader historical structural dimensions of racism in US society. Fernández-Kelly draws on a range of...
In many parts of the country, black and white Americans continue to live in very different worlds. This distinctive feature of American inequality is not an accidental development but rather a result of policy choices.
Given the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, schools across the country have canceled their in-person commencement exercises. To celebrate the graduates whose final years of school have been upended, former first lady Michelle Obama and former president Barack Obama are taking part in a YouTube special. This is Mrs. Obama’s address to the Class of 2020.
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40 million Americans are worried about being evicted right now. Professor of Sociology at Princeton University Matthew Desmond joins Stephanie Ruhle...
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The spiraling disaster of President Trump’s handling of coronavirus — which is helping produce a new surge of cases and a forecast of worsening...
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Being a single mom in graduate school before the pandemic was no simple feat. A typical day would begin at 7 a.m., when my 3-year-old would loudly...
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The machine learning techniques scientists use to predict outcomes from large datasets may fall short when it comes to projecting the outcomes of...
Colloquium Series: Race and Covid-19
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From the South Side of Chicago to Guantanamo Bay: A Global Reckoning with Police Torture
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The Small World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus
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The Black Death America Treats as Normal
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Making Markets on the Margins: Housing Finance Agencies and the Racial Politics of Credit Expansion
