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Do Hiring Practices Penalize Women and Benefit Men for Having Children?
Lena Hipp discusses the effects of parenthood on hiring processes in the prototypical conservative welfare state. Read the…
Vaccine Refusal and Pharmaceutical Acquiescence
Jennifer Reich discusses the strategies parents use to pharmaceutically manage their children’s health, even when espousing a larger rejection of pharmaceutical interventions like childhood vaccines.
Scholarly culture: How books in adolescence enhance adult literacy, numeracy and technology skills
Joanna Sikora discusses why immersing children in book-oriented environments benefits their later educational achievement, attainment and occupational standing.…
Advancing Universalism in Neoliberal Times?
Ben Spies-Butcher discusses the politics of universalism in the context of neoliberal reform to benefit systems. Image courtesy…
What You Do Versus Who You Are
Patricia McMullin discusses the role that home-learning activities (HLAs) play in the relationship between social origin and cognitive…
Early Careers of Dropouts
Alexander Patzina discusses the timing of dropping out and the importance of training firms on career progression
Please in My Backyard: Quiet Mobilization in Support of Fracking
Colin Jerolmack and Edward T. Walker discuss how a rural, white, mixed-income Pennsylvania community adopted a please-in-my-backyard stance toward shale gas extraction (fracking)
Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies
In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided with growing economic inequality,…
Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Michael Messner discusses the five ordinary men who have done extraordinary work as peace activists, recounting what led…
Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to discuss the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries
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