By Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality The pandemic has exposed so clearly how families everywhere in this country struggle to …
Read More >Out today, The Trouble with Passion probes the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion.” This data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, …
Read More >By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds I was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an …
Read More >This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission. Immigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, …
Read More >Gordon Young has focused his journalism work on his hometown in Michigan as it deals with the Flint Water Crisis When I traveled to my hometown of Flint, Michigan in the summer of …
Read More >by Clif Stratton This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Studies Association in Toronto. UC Press authors share insight into their research and stories that reflect …
Read More >Erica Kohl-Arenas, author of the forthcoming The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty, places the Ford Foundation under the microscope on this recent article on OpenDemocracy. “Past philanthropic efforts to address inequality …
Read More >Last week at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, the Commonwealth Club hosted a conversation with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In fame and Marianne Cooper, the lead researcher on Sandberg’s book and author …
Read More >UC Press staff and editors are having a great time at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s annual meeting, Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals. Here are some of …
Read More >by Rachel Heiman One afternoon, while working as an “ethnographic babysitter” during fieldwork on middle class anxieties amid the lead up to the economic crisis, I was driving 11-year old Doug to …
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