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Tag: Inequality

Paying for the Good Stuff

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 18, 2018

When Robert Dingwall was younger, sociology departments routinely taught a course on ‘industry,’, ‘work’ or ‘economic life.’ "Most of this turf has now been abandoned to business schools in the form of organization studies, where it increasingly struggles to resist the expansion of finance and accounting studies," he says, and to our detriment.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, News, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Bank of England, Economics, productivity, Public Sociology, Sociology | Leave a comment

Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: November 28, 2017

Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

Posted in Impact, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Academy of Social Sciences, Campaign for Social Science, expertise, Lecture, Louise Richardson, Populism | Leave a comment

Do Women Count in Economics?

By Homa Zarghamee, Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin | Published: September 20, 2017

By one estimate of U.S. universities, there are about 300,000 fewer women students in the field of economics than there should be if sexism were not so rampant.

Posted in News | Also tagged Economics, Gender Gap | Leave a comment

Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

By Robert Dingwall | Published: July 13, 2017

How well do sociology departments in the UK teach sociology that originated in the UK? Asking that surprisingly hard question may produce usable insights for academic Britain, argues our Robert Dingwall.

Posted in Brexit, International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Research, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Economics, Social Science, Sociology, Teaching | Leave a comment

Overcoming the Politics and Economics of Social and Economic Fragmentation in the Name of Kids

By Timothy Smeeding | Published: June 12, 2017

The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?

Posted in News, Public Policy | Also tagged Child Allowance, Poverty, Timothy Smeeding | Leave a comment

Activist-Scholar Award Goes to Economist Samuel Myers Jr.

By Social Science Space | Published: April 13, 2017

The Urban Affairs Association will present this year's Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award to Samuel Myers Jr., an economist who has pioneered methods that prove the pervasiveness of inequality.

Posted in Public Policy, Recognition | Also tagged Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award, Urban Affairs Association | Leave a comment

Sociology’s (Selective) Diversity

By Robert Dingwall | Published: January 3, 2017

Our Robert Dingwall reflects on Tinder's in-house sociologist and on the just-announced New Year's Honours list to question just how diverse are current understandings of diversity.

Posted in International Debates, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy, Recognition | Also tagged Diversity, Policy, Public honors, Public honours, Social Recognition, Social Science, Sociology | Leave a comment

University Amenities and University Food Banks

By Michelle L. Stack | Published: February 1, 2016

Is it possible, asks our Michelle Stack, to have an excellent university that is inequitable?

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debates | Also tagged University Rankings | Leave a comment

Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists

By Gaja Maestri | Published: September 22, 2015

The revised edition of Danny Dorling’s book 'Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists,' provides an analysis of contemporary issues and practices underpinning inequality and a concise interpretation of the main causes of the persistence of injustice in rich countries, together with possible solutions.

Posted in Bookshelf | Also tagged Book Review, Danny Dorling, Injustice | Leave a comment

Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps

By Suzanne Bouffard | Published: September 8, 2015

The absolute difference between what someone else is getting compared to what you get matters less than how feel about any disparity, according to a review of 'relative deprivation' research in the journal 'Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences.'

Posted in PIBBS | Also tagged Relative Deprivation | Leave a comment

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Tag: Inequality

Do Women Count in Economics?

Overcoming the Politics and Economics of Social and Economic Fragmentation in the Name of Kids

Activist-Scholar Award Goes to Economist Samuel Myers Jr.

University Amenities and University Food Banks

Book Review: Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists

Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps

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