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Candidates for 2018 ASA Election
ASA announces the 2018 slate of candidates for ASA officers and committees. Ballots will be sent in April 2018.
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2018 ASA President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
"Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology at Duke University, is more than a dedicated scholar. He is a mentor to many."
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Big Data May Amplify Existing Police Surveillance Practices
With access to more personal data than ever before, police have the power to solve crimes more quickly. But, in practice, the influx of information tends to amplify existing practices. The big data landscape is changing quickly. Can our political and social systems and regulations keep up?
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Join or Renew for 2018!
The ASA online application and renewal site is now open for 2018 membership.
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Summer 2017 Contexts Online Free until Nov. 4
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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ASA President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Responds to Chief Justice John Roberts
Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, during oral arguments in the gerrymandering case Gill v Whitford, referred to social science as "sociological gobbledygook." ASA President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has responded in a letter, the content of which is below. You can also download a pdf of the letter here.
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U.S. has 5 percent of world's population, but had 31 percent of its public mass shooters from 1966-2012
Despite having only about 5 percent of the world's population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to research presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
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Understanding Race After Charlottesville
Race and white supremacy - topics many sociologists devote a great deal of research to and know well - have, again, become front page topics after violence broke out in Charlottesville last month. On Monday, September 18, the American Sociological Association, American Historical Association, American Anthropological Association, and Society for Applied Anthropology
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