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American Sociological Review (February 2015)
2014 Presidential Address: Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality (Annette Lareau)
Category Taken-for-Grantedness as a Strategic Opportunity: The Case of Light Cigarettes, 1964 to 1993 (Greta Hsu and Stine Grodal)
Can Ratings Have Indirect Effects? Evidence from the Organizational Response to Peers’ Environmental Ratings (Amanda J. Sharkey and Patricia Bromley)
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Consumers Increasingly Face Companies' Creative Smoke and Mirrors, Study Finds (Feb. 18, 2015)
Keep Your Enemies Close? Study Finds Greater Proximity to Opponents Leads to More Polarization (Feb. 2, 2015)
Many Religious People View Science Favorably, But Reject Certain Scientific Theories (Jan. 29, 2015)
Majority of Young Women and Men Prefer Egalitarian Relationships, Study Shows (Jan. 20, 2015)
American Sociological Review named "journal of distinction" by Association of Business Schools
Contexts magazine (Winter 2015) online free until March 22
The 2013 ASA Annual Report is now available for download.
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