Debating the American Dream

Legalized Inequalities

The Journey Into Adulthood in Uncertain Times

Beyond White Picket Fences

Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons

The well-being of individuals routinely depends on their success in obtaining goods and avoiding ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other national policies are designed to ensure the ...

The sweeping political and economic changes of the past decade--including the spread of democracy...

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Financial Reform: Preventing the...

The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, ...

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, esp...

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Using Administrative Data for Sc...

As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever ...

Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Sect...

Focusing on issues of particular importance to black people, and confronting the rich variety and...

Scientific progress often begins with the difficult task of preparing informed, conclusive review...

While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains ...

Bureaucracy, confusing paperwork, and complex regulations--or what public policy scholars Pamela ...

One of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 1999 Accepted wisdom about the opportuniti...

The United States is an immigrant nation--nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident tha...

Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9 11, but its origins go back much further. ...

Harriet Presser shows that nonstandard works schedules are both highly prevalent among American f...

If all politics is local, then so is almost everything else, argues sociologist Gary Alan Fine. W...

Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financia...

In recent years crackdowns on immigrant labor and a shrinking job market in California, Arizona, ...

Life is unpredictable. Control over one's time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredicta...

In 1978, determined to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs, Congress overwhelmi...

The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood

In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the 'highest-incom...

Leon Festinger's forty-year scrutiny of that 'curious animal, the modern human being' fundamental...

Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a bla...

The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is ex...

Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepen...

Profiles how the dramatic growth in incarceration came about and the toll it is taking on the soc...

As women moved into the formal labor force in large numbers over the last forty years, care work ...

Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social DemographyHonor...

After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System

Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of p...

The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s seemed to mark a historical turning point in advancing the...

Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing

National news reports periodically proclaim that American life is lonelier than ever, and new boo...

Americans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion ...

The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-...

Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemploy...

Inequality in income, earnings, and wealth has risen dramatically in the United States over the p...

Perhaps the most alarming phenomenon in American cities has been the transformation of many neigh...

Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches

The Great Recession was the most disastrous economic upheaval in the U.S. since the Great Depress...