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Disrupting the Racial Wealth Gap

Understanding the profound intersections of race and wealth opens a window to our past, how advantage and disadvantage are passed along through family wealth, and how racial stratification is constructed and maintained.

Multigenerational Attainments, Race, and Mortality Risk among Silent Generation Women

Multigenerational Attainments, Race, and Mortality Risk among Silent Generation Women

This study extends health disparities research by examining racial differences in the relationships...

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This activity does an excellent job of illustrating the difficulties of low-wage labor and poverty. Students are tasked with choosing between three jobs. Students then have to make it through the month without going broke.

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114th ASA Annual Meeting

The 2019 ASA Annual Meeting will be held August 10-13 in New York City. The submission site for the 2019 Annual Meeting is now open.

 

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Sociological and Philosophical Associations Send Letter to Brazil Regarding Efforts to Defund University Departments

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ASA Letter Regarding Stanford University Press

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ASA Launches 2019 Member-Get-A-Member Campaign

The ASA challenges its members to encourage their colleagues, students, and others interested in the discipline of sociology to join ASA...
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2019 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology

The 2019 edition of the ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology is now available! A best seller for many years, this invaluable...
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Applications Invited for JHSB Editorship

The ASA Committee on Publications invites applications from qualified candidates to serve as the next editor(s) of the Journal of Health...

Call for Applications: Editor, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Individual and team applications are invited for the position of editor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

“Broken Windows,” Lower Grades

New research from two sociologists demonstrates that this sort of aggressive policing has a negative impact on the scholastic performance...
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Winter 2019 Contexts Online Free until April 7

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. It's the public face of sociology.
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Letter Regarding Proposed Funding Cuts for Higher Education in Alaska

A letter sent to government officials of Alaska by the ASA, along with 31 other professional societies, states "we express deep concern...
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New Edition of the ASA Style Guide

The sixth edition of the ASA Style Guide is the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for...
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