Social Science Space

Contrary to some loudly voiced claims, both advocacy and science are (and long have been) at the core of our discipline.

With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.

Racially integrated schools offer a number of benefits for students: they are able to expand their cultural outlooks, gain new friends, learn about those who are different, and get better educations at schools with better resources than they would otherwise attend. However, students may struggle with making friends, interacting across racial lines, developing an ethnic identity and with academic achievement

New research finds support for school projects differs according to the race and age of the recipients.

The American Anthropological Association  presents the science, history and lived experience of race in the United States in Smithsonian National […]

With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, many prominent public figures declared that America had […]

New research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that when it comes to dating, cyberspace is as segregated as […]