Tag: Inequality

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.

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.

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?

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

It’s Time to Take the Measure of Social Mobility

By Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor | Published: January 2, 2015

Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn't actively monitored its residents' social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.

Social Work’s Ambitious Agenda for Promoting Equality

By Michael Todd, Social Science Space editor | Published: July 8, 2014

Seeing a world awash in inequality, three global bodies representing social workers and their educators have united to put addressing these problems on the planet's front burner.

Posted in Public Policy | Also tagged Social Work, Social Work Education | 1 Comment

Angus Deaton on Health and Inequality

By Social Science Bites | Published: December 4, 2013

Angus Deaton is a social scientist and the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. His Princeton colleague, the philosopher Peter Singer, argues that aid is vital to combat the terrible mortality rates in some countries. Angus Deaton disagrees..

The effect of reverse discrimination on the young

By Grace Conyers | Published: November 27, 2013

I’m not a huge fan of the topic of racial and gender discrimination. The heated debates that go around it have always made me uncomfortable because I couldn’t care less what gender or race someone is, isn’t or, in the case of gender, has changed to. However, while teaching a couple weeks ago a little […]

Posted in International Debates, News | Also tagged Humanities, Well-being | Leave a comment

‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

By Camille Gamboa | Published: June 17, 2013

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 29, 2013

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

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