Sociology
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What one company’s shift towards data centers says about Imperial County’s lithium industry
Chris Benner, a professor of sociology and environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, comments on challenges to Imperial County’s emerging lithium industry.
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How Trump administration science cuts muffled one NIH institute
Jennifer Reardon, a professor of sociology and the founding director of the Science and Justice Research Center, has studied how dangerous ideas from eugenics can easily resurge. “It didn’t just go away; genomics has inherited that,” she said. “And so, if you take the thin structures we created to try to mitigate against that, and…
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Kids are missing out on one of their best chances at learning
During play, kids learn “how to collaborate, how to communicate, how to resolve conflict,” said Rebecca London, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has worked on recess research.
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H-2A Visas Are Not The Solution to Trump’s Mass Deportation of Farmworkers
Rosa Maria Navarro, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, wrote an opinion article for Time Magazine about farm labor issues and U.S. immigration policy.
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What Santa Cruz voters should know about Measures B and C
Steve McKay, a UC Santa Cruz sociology professor who has researched the city’s housing affordability problem, believes Measure C would help address this issue—in part, by signaling to the state that Santa Cruz is taking real steps to solve its housing crisis.
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Recess Can Boost Student Learning. 9 Ways to Make It Matter
As Rebecca London, a community-engagement researcher and professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, points out, “You can’t just throw 400 kids out on a play yard for 20 minutes with a couple of balls and expect it to go well.”
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Getting Recess Right: A Researcher Shares Best Practices
Community-engaged researcher and professor of sociology Rebecca London recently spoke to Education Week about the role of recess. She addressed both best practices for recess—like how to structure it and when to schedule it—as well as the big-picture ramifications
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In high-cost Santa Cruz County, a generation of young workers increasingly turns to unions
Young local workers once viewed service jobs as temporary steppingstones. Now, more than 80% told UC Santa Cruz researchers that they are open to unionizing, motivated by both economic pressures and a broader vision of workplace democracy.
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What Jesse Jackson and Zohran Mamdani Have in Common
Michael McCarthy, leader of the Community Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz says organizers have always known that “in order to build a movement, you need to address specific yet important concerns that affect only some parts of your coalition while also speaking to the issues shared by everyone you want to draw into your…
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UCSC study links immigration status to COVID deaths, survival rate
“This was the first study to really link immigration status and make it possible to link legal immigration status to excess death rates,” said Alicia Riley, and associate professor of sociology and core faculty member in the Global and Community Health Program.
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Hamptons real estate scam allegations raised red flags for years
The lawsuits filed by many of the homebuyers are also notable because they involve plaintiffs who had the cash to purchase homes but lacked access to traditional lenders, said Juan Manuel Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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New FAIR Plan data reveals problem with zoning restrictions in California
UC Santa Cruz researchers argue that rapid population growth and development in WUIs throughout the country, but especially in California, has been driven by an affordable housing crisis.