Undergraduates Tian Chen Zeng and Alan Aw worked with Marcus Feldman, a professor of biology, to show how social structure could explain a genetic puzzle about humans of the Stone Age.
Morris “Buzz” Zelditch Jr., a professor emeritus of sociology, taught at Stanford for more than half a century and was chairman of the Department of Sociology twice.
A new approach for reducing gender inequality in the workplace has shown promise in a pilot project at several companies. It combines existing tools and adds an evaluation of places where biases could creep in to a company’s procedures.
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Stanford faculty are leading a new initiative to help the World Health Organization and humanitarian NGOs revamp the medical response system in communities impacted by war.
In a study involving nearly 9,000 Airbnb users, Stanford scholars propose that implementing features that emphasize a user’s reputation can offset harmful social bias.
In his new book, sociologist Tomás Jiménez turns the conventional analysis of assimilation on its head and dissects the phenomenon from the perspective of Silicon Valley’s established population.
Students enrolled in Ending Poverty with Technology explored answers to the question: Can we harness new technologies to reduce poverty and inequality?
Stanford’s Center on Poverty and Inequality’s annual “State of the Union” report found profound and persisting inequalities in the United States in areas like employment, health and housing.
History doctoral student Samuel Clowes Huneke analyzed several police files from the 1940s that illuminate the limited toleration some lesbians found during the Nazi regime.
A group of Stanford experts are encouraging more researchers who study social interaction to conduct studies that examine online environments and use big data.
The Lane Center hosted the 5th Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference gathering innovative leaders to tackle economic, social, health and environmental issues.
The key to bridging the broad ideological division in the United States is for both sides to work on understanding the core values that the other holds dear.
When Girl Scouts participated in energy-saving education programs, they improved their energy-use behaviors and influenced their families to do so as well.
Scientists have found that while individuals exhibit increasing preferences for those with similar traits in deciding whom to marry, there are not similar changes in how genetics are associated within spousal pairs.
In five experiments, Stanford sociologist Robb Willer found that popular support for the Tea Party derives in part from perceived threats to the status of whites in America.
PhD student Anne Sanquini studies how to motivate people to take action to protect homes and schools against earthquakes. She was in Nepal when the temblor hit.
Musicologist Nate Sloan's investigation of Harlem Renaissance jazz portrays a diverse, multisensory experience where music, place and race influenced each other in profound and lasting ways.
