Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and
spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical …

Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same
time there are far too many of them to fit in this review. It may be a good thing that this …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

Previous research on personality traits and political attitudes has largely focused on the
direct relationships between traits and ideological self-placement. There are theoretical …

This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective
presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth …

The goal of this paper is to introduce community gardening as a promising method of
furthering well-being and resilience on multiple levels: individual, social group, and natural …

" Race in the Schoolyard is a wonderful book for social scientists studying race, education,
and childhood studies. The book showcases the talents of a gifted fieldworker whose …

The contact hypothesis proposes that interaction between members of different groups
reduces intergroup prejudice if--and only if--certain optimal conditions are present. For over …

An infamous yet fictional American once said that in the United States we are all free to live
in our own separate sections. Archie Bunker, the mouthpiece for this observation, expressed …

This article examines how out‐group perceptions among Asian Americans, blacks, Latinos,
and whites vary with the racial composition of their surroundings. Previous research on the …