Social Sciences
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Can We Trust the Police to Intervene in Fellow Officer Misconduct?
Anjuli Verma, assistant professor of politics, coauthored an op-ed for The Jurist about whether the police can be trusted to intervene in cases of misconduct by fellow officers.
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Be not dismayed when feeling helpless in today’s America
John Brown Childs, professor emeritus of sociology, published an op-ed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about reasons to feel hopeful during these troubling times.
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5 reasons to make sure recess doesn't get short shrift when school resumes in person
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, coauthored an opinion piece for The Conversation about the importance of recess that appeared in the Houston Chronicle.
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Why Some Black-Owned U.S. Businesses Are Hardest Hit by Coronavirus Shutdowns
Economist Rob Fairlie's work on the impact of the pandemic on black-owned businesses continues to get widespread media attention, including from Reuters, the Financial Times, PBS Newshour, CBS News, USA Today, Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Vox, The Hill, and the Associated Press.
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How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right
The Nation mentioned social scientist Julie Guthman's book Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism in a lengthy article about diet, politics, and meat consumption.
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Elon Musk: An Eccentric Visionary?
Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies and director of the Institute for Social Transformation, was interviewed by German public television for a story about Elon Musk.
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The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968
Research by Economics Professor Rob Fairlie was featured in a Washington Post story about the wealth gap between black and white Americans, which is as wide today as it was in 1968.
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Want to Fix Urban Sprawl? Ditch the Cul-de-Sac
Adam Millard-Ball of Environmental Studies had his work about urban sprawl featured in Wired magazine.
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Number of working black business owners falls 40 percent, far more than other groups amid coronavirus
The Washington Post reported new findings by economist Rob Fairlie about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on black-owned businesses.
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UCSC Autism Researchers to Journalists: Do Better
Psychology Professor Nameera Akhtar and alumna Noa Lewin were featured in a Good Times article about new research into media depictions of autism.
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Fear sent her Chinatown restaurant spiraling. The challenges to reopening feel ‘just impossible.’
Research by economist Robert Fairlie was cited in a Washington Post article about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Asian-owned businesses.
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Coronavirus Makes Juvenile Jails Look Like Adult Prisons
Psychology Professor Craig Haney was quoted in a Ms. magazine article about the conditions facing incarcerated juveniles around the country since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.