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- Cohort succession explains most change in literary culture https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v9-8-184/ 23 comments
- Cross country study of racial discrimination in hiring https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-18-467/ 4 comments
- The release of Netflix’s '13 Reasons Why'—a fictional series about the aftermath of a teenage girl’s suicide—caused a temporary spike in ER visits for self-harm among teenage girls in the United States. https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10-33-930/ 761 comments science
- Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v9-18-454/ 305 comments science
- Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring (Finding: France and Sweden are worst; Germany is best, followed by US-Norway tie) https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-18-467/ 15 comments economics
- Study find USA has one of the lowest rates of racial discrimination across 9 countries in Europe and North America https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-6/june/SocSci_v6_467to496.pdf 65 comments science
- Individuals who hold higher-status social positions are less snobbish about genres of art, but more snobbish about objects within the genres. This means, for example, that higher-status individuals listen to rap and rock, but enjoy Kendrick Lamar and Bob Dylan and dislike Flo Rida and KISS https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v8-12-230/ 24 comments science
- Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring: France has the highest discrimination rates, followed by Sweden. We find smaller differences among Great Britain, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, the United States, and Germany. https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-18-467/ 13 comments science
- Students whose routes to school pass through areas with high rates of violent crime are shown to have increased absenteeism and lower test scores, graduation rates https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v6-5-118/ 27 comments science
- Parent–child correlations in education reflect one-sixth genetic transmission and five-sixths social inheritance http://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-vol2-6-82/ 6 comments science