Research Areas

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Power and Justice

This area examines social inequality along multiple dimensions including race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, gender, class and other dimensions.
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Social Demography and Migration

This area examines social inequality along multiple dimensions including race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, gender, class and other dimensions.
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Health and the Life Course

This area uses sociological approaches to understand health as a manifestation of broader structures of social inequality and study health and aging over the life course as a social process.
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Work and the Economy

This area studies inequality in work arrangements within the context of the changing nature of work and the economy.