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1. Contexts: The Limits of Education

   Features include "Wedding Cake Woes", "Serial Killers and Sex Workers", "Mental Health and Police Killings", and "Truth-Spots."

2. Income Inequality Is Changing How Parents Invest in Their Kids, Widening Class Divides in the U.S.

   A new study shows that rising income inequality in the U.S. has led affluent parents to increase spending on their children, widening the gap in child investment along class lines. The results suggest that income inequality erodes the equality of opportunity by increasing gaps between children from a young age.  

3. Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds

   Features include "Why Sociology needs Science Fiction", "The Struggle to Save Abortion Care", "Invisible Inequality "Wounded Warriors", "When the Personal is Political - and Infectious", and "Global Capitalism in the Age of Trump."

4. Sociology's Greatest Hits of 2018

   From a study on the impact of racial resentment on political ideology to analysis of issues including minority college admissions, the success of lying demagogues, and public opposition to “religious freedom” laws, the most downloaded sociological research published in the American Sociological Association’s journals in 2018 spanned a wide range of topics and social concerns.

5. Contagious Addiction: Opioid Prescriptions Increase Likelihood of Family Members’ Use

   Contact: Naomi Paiss, Communications Director, at (202) 247-9859, npaiss@asanet.org, or (202) 440-0875 (cell); Johanna Olexy, Senior Communications Associate, at (202) 247-9873, communications@asanet.org, or (202) 251-6251 (cell).

   Washington, DC.  While opioid addiction and abuse continues to figure as the most serious public health emergency in the U.S., academic research is increasingly able to identify some of its causes.

6. Sociologists Available to Discuss Education and Schools During the Pandemic

   Contact: Johanna Olexy, ASA Director of Communications, at (202) 247-9873, communications@asanet.org

7. New Deal Housing Programs Dramatically Increased Contemporary Segregation

   Contact: Johanna Olexy, ASA Director of Communications, at (202) 247-9873, communications@asanet.org 

   Study finds Depression-Era Housing Agencies’ Impact on Race Stretched into the 21st Century.

   Housing programs adopted during the New Deal increased segregation in American cities and towns, creating racial disparities that continue to characterize life in the 21st century, finds a new study by New York University sociologist Jacob Faber.

8. Childhood Poverty, Parental Abuse Cost Adults Their Health for Years to Come

   Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.

   "Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."

9. Couples That Split Childcare Duties Have Higher Quality Relationships and Sex Lives

   Heterosexual couples that split childcare duties have higher quality relationships and sex lives than those who don't, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). 

10. Daughters of Interracial Parents More Likely Than Sons to Identify as Multiracial

    Daughters of interracial parents are more likely than sons to identify as multiracial, and this is especially true for children of black-white couples, according to a new study in the February issue of the American Sociological Review.