The criminal defendant is an undertheorized social actor in the era of mass criminalization. This article introduces two complementary frameworks to stimulate theory-building on defendants’ subjectivi...

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Appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.  The Department of Sociology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a faculty app...

Harassment, including sexual harassment, in the workplace poses a significant threat to workers’ wellbeing and contributes to social inequities. Organizations play a pivotal role in both enabling and ...

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The study found that streets patrolled by the nonprofit street ambassadors have overall decreased crime.

Abstract. Cities across the United States are experimenting with civilian-led alternatives to policing, yet rigorous evidence of their effectiveness remain

Professor Robb Willer and Associate Professor Jackelyn Hwang were recognized as leading individual contributors in the Computational Social Science Rankings, a metrics-based assessment of publication ...

Article: A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race | Sociological Science | Posted July 9, 2026

PhD student Angela He has received the Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Consumers and Consumption Section. The national award goes to the graduate student paper (publis...

Michelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award fro...

In a political science course, undergrads surveyed their own generation – and found more optimism about bridging divides than in any other age group.

Professor Forrest Stuart has been awarded the Peterson-Krivo Mentoring Prize, presented jointly by the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section and the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological As...

David Rehkopf has been named as the new director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. He will begin his tenure later this summer.“I am honored to continue the vital work that the center has been doing...

Associate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...

Blyss cleveland on the controversy surrounding the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women.

2026 AM: 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists

We examine the cultural, psychological and societal impacts of Trump's immigration policies and how Latinos in the Bay Area are responding.

Robb Willer has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is one of five Stanford scholars awarded the fellowship.

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Although literature on immigrants’ ethnic and racial identity formation has generally assumed the dominance of host-country schemas about race and ethnicity, recent scholarship argues that immigran...

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