Sociology

In a recent issue (Vol. 67, No. 2), we published a new translation, by Matthew Carey, of Claude Lévi-Strauss's seminal but often overlooked essay “The Mathematics of Man, [...]

This is the repository for the Academic Priors Project, a research project aiming to understand whether cognitive biases or individual differences in cognitive style can [...]

Scientific research is often characterized by schools of thought. We investigate whether these divisions are associated with differences in researchers’ cognitive traits [...]

Existing scholarship on China's industrial politics in the early post-Mao era has not paid adequate attention to the tension between two seemingly contradictory tendencie [...]

How does social science insulate police from social movements’ demand for abolition? We explore this through a content analysis of policing social science research funded [...]

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is primarily transmitted through in-person interactions, and so its growth in urban space is a complex function of human mobility behaviors that cann [...]

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These files enable users to reproduce analyses from the study titled "Differential impact [...]

Fears about the destabilizing impact of misinformation online have motivated individuals and platforms to respond. Individuals have increasingly challenged others’ online [...]

Replication Code and Data to recreate tables and graphs from "New OMB's race and ethnicity standards will affect how Americans self-identify." (2024-10-04)

In March 2024, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved major changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions used by all federal agencies, [...]

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According to the U.S. Census, the multiracial population grew 276 percent between 2010 and 2020 and now represents 10.2 percent of the national population. Some believe t [...]

Using novel Internet search data from Baidu Index, this study examines for the first time the nationwide distribution of city-level intensity of online suicidal ideation [...]

This study aimed to examine the healthcare labour demand and supply elasticity regarding wage in the National Health Service (NHS) in England amid a labour crisis. A simu [...]

As planned relocation becomes an increasingly utilized climate adaptation strategy, guidance for effective practice consistently emphasizes the importance of “community” [...]

Many sentient beings suffer serious harms due to a lack of moral consideration. Importantly, such harms could also occur to a potentially astronomical number of morally c [...]

A view of corruption as disembedded from society and history is predominant today. In this view, corruption is basically the same thing everywhere and inherently a bad th [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a disruptive technology, promising to grant a significant economic and strategic advantage to nations that harness its power. Chin [...]

The influence of digital information technologies on politics has sparked vigorous debate in recent years. Many contend that the removal of traditional gatekeepers has [...]

Social relationships play a crucial role in shaping the health and well-being of older adults. Despite extensive research on the benefits of social connectedness, changin [...]

Despite decades of research and policy efforts, socioeconomic disparities in educational outcomes persist in the United States. In this dissertation, I examine these d [...]

Developmental science has increasingly scrutinized how environmental hazards influence child outcomes, but few studies examine how contaminants affect disparities in earl [...]

This thesis examines the idea that China once heralded as a rising superpower, may have passed its prime. It dissects the country's contemporary challenges, which the glo [...]

When is inequality felt as social difference? Charles Tilly argued that it is not simply the extent of inequality that matters but how it is organized. I build on this a [...]

My dissertation, titled Words from the Ground: Social Interaction and Communal Solidarity in Community Gardens, looks at social interactions within seven community garden [...]