This August, Michèle Lamont began a term as the 108^th President of the American Sociological Association. This honor came with a number of responsibilities, including organizing the 2017 ASA Annual Meeting. She chose as a theme “Culture, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion across the Globe.” Participants can look forward to plenary sessions on topics such as “Dignity, Morality, and the Bridging of Group Boundaries,” “The Politics of Distribution and Recognition,” “The Pursuit of Inclusion through Law, Policies, and Narratives,” and much more.... Read more about Culture and Inequality through Various Prisms

Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, in their article "Why Diversity Programs Fail" (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2016), discuss their research analyzing data from 829 firms over three decades.... Read more about Why Diversity Programs Fail - And What Works Better

Jared Schachner received a 2016 grant from the Joint Center for Housing Studies Student Research Program for his research project, “Residential Mobility, Housing, and Pathways of Urban Inequality in Greater Los Angeles,” with Robert J. Sampson.... Read more about Jared Schachner wins Harvard JCHS summer 2016 grant

Progress towards gender equality was substantial on many fronts in the decades leading up to the 1990s. Since then, movement towards gender equality has slowed. The gender wage gap has narrowed at a slower pace in the past 20 years, and the same can be said for occupational sex segregation. Postindustrial societies show variation in these patterns and in the consequences that ensue.... Read more about Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies

Matthew Desmond was selected by the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, and the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine to receive the 2016 Human Security Award.... Read more about Desmond to receive Human Security Award

Anthony Jack was featured in a Harvard Gazette series that showcases some of Harvard’s stellar graduates.  ... Read more about Toward a Path Less Riddled

Doctoral candidate Caitlin Daniel explores the economics of feeding a family. See the article...

Sociologists Jonathan Mijs and Michèle Lamont and Elyas Bakhtiari describe how citizens in countries which, like the U.S., rolled out neoliberal policies in the 1990s and 2000s, have come to draw strong exclusionary lines between themselves and people at society’s margins, specifically Muslim immigrants and the poor.... Read more about Neoliberal policies go hand in hand with social exclusion

"The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths" For blacks and Hispanics, frail neighborhoods undercut education, health, and jobs... Read more about The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

"The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power" is sixth in a Harvard Gazette...

 Matthew Desmond's new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Penguin Random House, March 2016) was reviewed in the New York Times on Sunday, February 26 and on February 19.  See ...

 "Why poor children can't be picky eaters" by Caitlin Daniel was published in the New York Times Opinion Pages (February 16, 2016).

Discrimination in hiring continues to limit the opportunities available to racial minorities. How do job seekers respond to this reality? Some argue that job seekers tailor their searches in ways that allow them to avoid discrimination. Others suggest that job seekers adapt by casting a wider net in their search. Until now, we have known little about this process, largely because no existing data source has closely followed individuals through their job search.... Read more about Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process

Mary C. Brinton was interviewed about women in the workforce and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In survey.... Read more about Women in the Workforce