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Holding Fast
The fight over immigration reform and immigrants' rights in the U.S. has been marked by sharp swings in both public sentiment and official enforcement. In 2006, millions of Latino …
Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential …
Indicators of Trends in American Education
Assembles, collates, and analyzes data bearing on trends in American education. The author presents the basic data on school enrollment, retention, and attainment, indicating …
New Economic Sociology
As the American economy surged in the 1990s, economic sociology made great strides as well. Economists and sociologists worked across disciplinary boundaries to study the booming …
Fictive Kinship
Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or American citizens. Family reunification-policies that seek to …
Whom Can We Trust?
Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions-such as community organizations, banks, and local governments. Not …
Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates
Each year, millions of high school students consider whether to continue their schooling and attend and complete college. Despite evidence showing that a college degree yields …
Pre-Election Polling
Since 1948, when pollsters unanimously forecast a Dewey victory over Truman, media-sponsored polls have proliferated, accompanied by a growing unease about their accuracy. …
In Defense of Youth
In recent years the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in the area of juvenile law and the growing public awareness of the delinquency problem have brought about drastic …
Whither Opportunity?
As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of …
Questions About Questions
The social survey has become an essential tool in modern society, providing crucial measurements of social change, describing social life, and guiding government policy. But the …
Framing Immigrants
While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public is largely unfamiliar with the particulars of immigration policy. Given that public opinion on the topic is …