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Jan Voelkel's recent research on morality and politics discussed in the New York Times

"There has been a remarkable erosion in public tolerance of 'offensive expression about race, gender and religion,' according to a paper Dennis Chong and Morris Levy, political scientists at the University of Southern California, and Jack Citrin, a political scientist at Berkeley, presented in September at the annual meeting of the American Poli

New York Times discusses Jan Voelkel and Robb Willer's paper on support for democracy

"As Trump rose to the presidency, one explanation that swept political science was the power of polarization, specifically a phenomenon known as affective polarization, but a keen group of scholars now suggests that this approach is inadequate."

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"There has been a remarkable erosion in public tolerance of 'offensive expression about race, gender and religion,' according to a paper Dennis Chong and Morris Levy, political scientists at the University of Southern California, and Jack Citrin, a political scientist at Berkeley, presented in September at the annual meeting of the American Poli

"As Trump rose to the presidency, one explanation that swept political science was the power of polarization, specifically a phenomenon known as affective polarization, but a keen group of scholars now suggests that this approach is inadequate."

Free school meal programs don’t just feed hungry kids — they’re a major win for moms Priya Fielding-Singh is an assistant professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah and the author of the forthcoming book “

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Aliya Saperstein comments on Pew's findings on multiracialism in America for the Washington Post and also in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio's Central Time.

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A new Stanford report describes how poverty can be permanently reduced in the Golden State. Billed as the Equal Opportunity Plan, this approach focuses on creating equal opportunities for children at the most critical points in their lives.

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Mao at his death left China backward but, ironically, ready for reform, Stanford scholar says.

Stanford sociology Professor Andrew Walder found that, unwittingly, Mao Zedong's long campaign against "capitalist tendencies" in the Chinese Communist…

John W. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, wins the 2015 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

This award honors those ASA member scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and…

Stanford magazine has revealed what faculty members do when they are not teaching, advising and doing research. Among their pastimes? Wizardry, collecting, piloting, sculpting and visiting baseball parks.

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Census Shows Sharply Growing Numbers of Hispanic, Asian and Multiracial Americans Overall population growth slowed substantially over the past decade, but the number of multiracial Americans more than doubled.
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