Over the last four decades, the financial circumstances into which children have been born have increasingly determined where they have ended up as adults. But an expansive new study, based on billions of social media connections, has uncovered a powerful exception to that pattern that helps explain why certain places offer a path out of poverty.
For poor children, living in an area where people have more friendships that cut across class lines significantly increases how much they earn in adulthood, the new research found.
sociology is just doing the math that proves liberals are wrong, over and over and over
I have a friend who works in public health and she complains that all of her papers are essentially reruns of ones published twenty years ago with recommendations that have never been acted upon.
Bro, you should see sociology. We're just finding new ways to dress up Marx , Mauss and Weber and seeing if the people in power will like it this time.
And anthropology is just doing sociology with more interviews, and attempting to undo all the racism that it helped cause in the early 1900's.
And the Replication Crisis