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Sociology 102: Police Violence, #BlackLivesMatter and the Covid-19 Pandemic.
June 14, 2020

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.

Book Review: 'The Social Genome' by Dalton Conley; 'The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
March 24, 2025

What if We Select Ourselves Out of Existence?

What Makes a Kid a Strong Reader
March 20, 2025

Dalton Conley Is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University andAuthor of the Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture

University of Texas Conference on Viviana Zelizer’s Work
Feb. 24, 2025

Social studies of money have prompted a renewed look at the intersections between economic and non-economic worlds. The assumed universal fungibility of money has been displaced by the notion of monetary plurality: materially and symbolically heterogeneous, monies contribute to producing varied social realities. The study of the new monetary…

Paris Conference honoring Viviana Zelizer’s Work to occur 1/23/25
Jan. 20, 2025

Quelle est la nature générale de la relation entre facteurs économiques et non économiques, entre le prix et la valeur, dans la vie sociale?

WATCH | Student debt "feels like quicksand." Is loan forgiveness the answer?
Sept. 3, 2024

WATCH | Student debt "feels like quicksand." Is loan forgiveness the answer?

WATCH | What your credit score actually means
Sept. 3, 2024

WATCH | What your credit score actually means

WATCH | As college cost passes $90K, 'the middle class is losing ground'
Sept. 3, 2024

As college cost passes $90K, 'the middle class is losing ground'

Why America fell for guns
April 15, 2024

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

Guggenheim Fellowship to Kim Lane Scheppele
April 12, 2024

Seven Princeton faculty members have received 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships, the largest faculty cohort since 2017. This year's recipients are...