Environmental regulation is undergoing radical changes, posing a direct threat to America’s health and potentially deepening inequality.  Since the spring of 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed sharp cuts in the testing of children for lead exposure, and the Interior Department directed the National Academy of Sciences to cease studying the health effects of a common mining technique that deposits toxic minerals in ground waters.  Meanwhile, recent investigative reports have documented that the appointment of top regulators with conflicting business interests at the EPA continues apace. ... Read more about Truly Toxic

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Matthew Desmond has won the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction for “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City".... Read more about Evicted receives National Book Critics Circle Award

"[Sociology] may not have the ear of presidents but may actually do a better job of explaining what has gone wrong in large swaths of the United States and other advanced nations in recent years."... Read more about What if Sociologists had as much influence as Economists?

In an article in LA Weekly, Jared Schachner discusses findings of a new study co-authored with Robert J. Sampson and Robert D. Mare (UCLA).... Read more about Minority Neighborhoods at the Bottom of L.A.'s Economic Ladder Tend to Stay There

Congratulations to Professor William Julius Wilson who has been awarded the 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advance our understanding of pressing social issues.

A study by Robert J. Sampson urges greater attention to strengthening social structure in cities.  Read more in the Harvard Gazette article published February 17, 2017. (Photo by Rose Lincoln.)

In the classroom and on the streets, students learn how the city has evolved on issues ranging from justice to geography.... Read more about The way Boston changed

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond was chosen as one of the top ten books of 2016 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

In a new study, published in the current issue of the American Sociological Review, I investigate how publicized cases of police violence against unarmed black men — most prominently the 2004 beating of Frank Jude by white police officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — affected 911 calls in Milwaukee. Coauthored with fellow...