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Study Finds Evidence of Racial and Class Discrimination Among Psychotherapists

A new study suggests that psychotherapists discriminate against prospective patients who are black or working class.

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Community characteristics play an important role in perpetuating teen suicide clusters and thwarting prevention efforts, according to a new...

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Given the volume and importance of the work performed by community college faculty, the valuation of their work is not nearly as strong as...

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Join by September 30 and ASA will extend your membership through 2017! The American Sociological Association invites you to join ASA. While...

Daughters of interracial parents are more likely than sons to identify as multiracial, and this is especially true for children of black-...

As part of Peer Review Week (September 19-25), Rory McVeigh, co-editor of ASA's flagship journal, the American Sociological Review , writes...

The Journal of World-Systems Research has released a special issue on "Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System,"...

Young African-Americans from some of the country’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods are drawn to for-profit post-secondary trade schools,...

‘I had to change hours. . . I felt really sick, it just hit me, it hit all of us.’ These are the words that Colin used to describe the...

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Applications are invited for the editorships of Contexts magazine, the ASA Rose Series in Sociology, and Social Psychology Quarterly . The...

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

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