Where someone grows up is profoundly important for their life chances. It influences things like the schools they attend, the jobs, parks and community resources they have access to and the peers they interact with.
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2019
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Studies of the societal effects of prison often focus on the imprisoned: their physical and mental health, job prospects after release, their likelihood of returning to jail.
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2019
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How is the racial composition of gentrifiers associated with retail development in gentrifying neighborhoods?
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2019
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Analyzing the data on 10,077 citizen complaints lodged against the Chicago Police Department between 2011 and 2014, a pair of New York University researchers has found that just 2 percent of allegations made by black Chicagoans ...
Social Sciences
Jun 7, 2019
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The College Board recently revealed a new "adversity score" that it plans to use as part of the SAT in order to reflect students' social and economic background.
Social Sciences
May 22, 2019
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How much does growing up in a healthy and cohesive community, or lack thereof, contribute to later long-term economic and social success in adulthood? Quite a lot, it would seem. Two Harvard sociologists, Robert Manduca and ...
Efforts to ban such questions show promise to ease re-entry into workforce for increasing number of Americans with criminal histories
Economics & Business
Feb 22, 2019
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Growing up in Michigan, Courtney Bonam moved from the predominantly black community of Oak Park to the predominantly white town of Ann Arbor. Her new middle school, which had the largest racial minority enrollment in the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2018
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The inspiration for a new book by Jeffrey Lane that examines how social media impacts the lives of black teenagers grew out of his involvement with a community initiative to engage teens online as a way of building a safer ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2018
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Young black males feel less safe when they go to neighborhoods with a larger white population than occurs in areas they normally visit, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2018
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