Class Struggle in the USA
The public believes that class conflict is rising. Two-thirds of Americans say there are strong conflicts between the rich and the poor in America, according … Read More
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A Feminist’s Work is Never Done
An interview with Joan Acker, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. Acker's work has been on the cutting edge of feminist scholarship for more than 35 years. Acker talks about such topics as her theoretical training, welfare reform, feminist sociology, and her informal campaign to end football. Read More
Banking on the Poor
Sociologist Dwight Haase explores how one man’s efforts to help his village neighbors evolved into a global corporate market--with unintended consequences. Haase provides insight into how the microfinance movement turned into an industry. Read More
Race and Residence from the Telescope to the Microscope
In a companion piece to 'The Waning of American Apartheid?,' Maria Krysan explores the underlying reasons why segregation is so stubborn. Read More
Falling Upward
Conley reflects on income inequality in the United States, and how our collective investment in the market likely ensures its perpetuation and growth. Read More
The Waning of American Apartheid?
Racial residential segregation has a long and persistent history in the United States. Data from the most recent decade give hope that housing patterns and racial attitudes are moving—albeit slowly—toward integration. Read More
The Irony Of Understanding
A veteran reflects on the circumstances that have caused his own path to diverge so widely from that of another brother-in-arms. Read More
Welfare-to-Work Doesn’t Really Work
Two analyses of welfare policy as it has played out for over a decade shows how welfare-to-work programs fail to meet the basic needs of their participants and their communities. Read More
My Hollywood and the Nanny Book Phenomenon
By and large, the recent crop of nanny-tales ignores the realities of childcare workers (and their employers), relying instead on messages of racial and cultural superiority and assurances that money cannot buy happiness. Read More
The Wire goes to college
It’s been years since the last episode of The Wire, a crime drama set in Baltimore, Maryland, aired on HBO, but its dedicated fan base, … Read More
