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Forrest Stuart has been named a 2020 fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Social scientists found that homicide victims killed in Chicago’s predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods received less news coverage than those killed in mostly white neighborhoods.
The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and…
As the 75th anniversary nears of World War II formally ending in Asia, Stanford sociologist Gi-Wook Shin discusses how the conflict was never fully resolved in the region and the problems that still persist today.
September 2, 1945, is…
Barbara Kiviat’s article, “The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores,” has won the Best Article Award from ASA’s Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity and received an Honorable Mention,…
Aaron Horvath has won the 2020 Shils-Coleman Award for Best Student Paper from the Section on Theory of the American Sociological Association for his paper, "From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational supererogation and the transformation…