ABSTRACT. Carceral logics have long been implicated for their role in (re)productions of otherness, that in settler colonial contexts such as Canada are of

ABSTRACT. Scholarship on the far right often treats Christianity as the dominant religious frame structuring contemporary white nationalist politics. I arg

ABSTRACT. Parental incarceration is a common childhood experience with potential consequences for education, yet causal evidence of its effect in classroom

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ABSTRACT. Gender-neutral pronouns, such as they/them, have been studied as a site of identity affirmation and, at other times, contestation for non-binary

Abstract. Workers in care occupations and industries in the United States earn less than counterparts with similar personal characteristics in other jobs.

Abstract. Racial-ethnic disparities in poverty are an important form of inequality in older age. Recent scholarship on racial-ethnic poverty gaps demonstra

Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class

Abstract. Intersectionality has transformed our understanding of how multiple axes of power mutually shape social inequalities. However, significant questi

Abstract. Squatting as contentious politics has been well studied globally, expanding knowledge of how everyday people resist injustices, strive to remake

Abstract. Understanding why particular behavior is encoded in law or other systems of rules has been a core topic of sociology since its inception. Althoug

Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai

Abstract. Previous studies of dietary acculturation explain how immigrants’ diets change over time, but they don't tell us why. In response to calls for ad

Abstract. Organizations are increasingly engaging in concerted efforts to mitigate bias in processes such as performance evaluations. However, little resea

ABSTRACT. In the summer of 2020, the heightened visibility of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police catalyzed reform effort

ABSTRACT. Sociologists traditionally use integration as the framework for studying the benefits and shortcomings of refugee resettlement, which is consider

ABSTRACT. Prior research on residential selection generally assumes households find housing by actively searching for it. This assumption has led scholars

Abstract. Both family composition and teachers’ perceptions of parents are important for student success. However, we know little about whether teachers’ p

Abstract. What do work career dynamics in contemporary labor settings tell us about how racism operates in ways that go beyond the explicitly exclusionary

Abstract. In public education, racially segregated schools are now often understood as a natural result of a messy mix of failed policies and parent decisi

Abstract. Scholars have only begun exploring how cisgenderism and its byproduct, cissexism, shape organizational processes and how classification systems p

Abstract. Law enforcement’s increased presence in U.S. public schools has significantly affected Black students’ access to opportunities and their overall

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Abstract. Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how co

Abstract. Do religious commitments hinder support for gender equality and contribute to the stalled gender revolution as a social problem? Answering this q

Abstract. As immigration enforcement increases, so does the detention of immigrants facing the threat of deportation. Detained without the support of a pub

Abstract. Despite growing research dedicated to investigating the mental health of Black boys, few directly examine experiences with their perceptions and

Abstract. Relatively little scholarship centers the experiences of Black youth to understand how young people interact with their neighborhood contexts, ev

Abstract. Fewer than half of America’s college students complete their bachelor’s degrees. To many, cost seems to be the crucial barrier. Sociologists of e

Abstract. Scholars posit that lower-income undergraduates experience “cultural mismatch,” which undermines their sense of belonging, promotes withdrawal fr

Abstract. Evidence suggests that Americans became more sympathetic toward people who experienced sexual harassment as the MeToo movement surged. Yet how co

Abstract. Black children are disproportionately represented among the children of incarcerated mothers and fathers in the United States. Research has large

Abstract. Relatively little scholarship centers the experiences of Black youth to understand how young people interact with their neighborhood contexts, ev