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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

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?

A Drop in American Gun Violence
Nov. 2, 2023

Some progress has been made on firearm violence in recent decades.

In the U.S., geography is fate. A new book on poverty seeks to change that
Aug. 8, 2023

“Where you live should not decide/ Whether you live or whether you die.”

What the Best Places in America Have in Common
Aug. 5, 2023
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Written by Kathryn Edin

And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country

Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do
July 12, 2023

Dr. Khan is a professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton who studies culture, inequality, gender and elites.

In new book, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond urges individuals to commit to abolishing American poverty
April 12, 2023

In the prologue to his latest book, Matthew Desmond bluntly assesses who we are in the United States, “the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy.”

Arun Hendi, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,
Jan. 17, 2023

was recently awarded a $2.6 million grant over the next five years from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institute of Health.

The Government Gave Out Bad Loans. Students Deserve a Bailout.
Aug. 24, 2022

At least 43 million Americans have student loan debt, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until now, there’s been no hope of a…