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The road to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics has been a long and winding one, says Stanford sociologist

The 2020 Summer Olympics have begun this week but public support among the Japanese public for the games has been generally low and their mood…

Jackelyn Hwang was the winner of the 2020 Jane Addams Award for best article. Jackelyn’s innovative research agenda examines the relationship between how neighborhoods change and the persistence of neighborhood inequality by race and class in US…

Matthew Clair has been named a co-winner of the 2021 Michael Harrington Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

This award is given to a scholar or organization that by their actions advances our understanding of poverty…

Tomás Jiménez and Jia Lynn Yang discuss "Does America Really Want to Be a Nation of Immigrants?" during the 11th annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Lecture.

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Genetic ancestry test results shape race self-identification, Stanford researchers find

People who have taken a genetic ancestry test are more likely to report multiple races when self-identifying on surveys, according to Stanford sociologists…

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