A new Rice University study showcases the severity of discriminatory behavior toward Asians and Asian Americans driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social Sciences
May 23, 2022
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The rollout of remote teaching in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic was haphazard, under-resourced, inequitably delivered, contributed to student and teacher stress and may exacerbate digital and social inequality, ...
Education
May 18, 2022
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All social inequalities, by definition, involve one group that has more and another that has less. Do people prefer describing inequalities in terms of advantage or disadvantage?
Social Sciences
May 18, 2022
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Neoliberalism, which calls for free-market capitalism, regressive taxation, and the elimination of social services, has resulted in both preference and support for greater income inequality over the past 25 years, shows a ...
Social Sciences
May 11, 2022
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Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealth inequality in animals ...
Evolution
May 3, 2022
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Despite increasing female employment and diminishing differences between men and women in career expectations, the gender pay gap is persistent. An analysis in the Journal of Economic Surveys that included 39 relevant studies ...
Economics & Business
Apr 20, 2022
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Early in the Cold War era, "social sciences were criticized for not being really scientific—for being ideological and political in ways that may seem to have been disguised as science," says Mark Solovey, a professor in ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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Despite the highly publicized 2020 murder of George Floyd and subsequent calls for change, many people of non-African descent around the world have yet to consider the lasting impacts of anti-Black racism.
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people's social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2022
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A new study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, does not support the assumption that grandparents would always participate more in a grandchild's life during difficult circumstances.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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