Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing
ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies, but few clear …

Social life increasingly occurs in digital environments and continues to be mediated by
digital systems. Big data represents the data being generated by the digitization of social life …

We use data on police-involved deaths to estimate how the risk of being killed by police use
of force in the United States varies across social groups. We estimate the lifetime and age …

Many cities around the world have claimed that the enforcement of lockdown measures to
contain the spread of COVID-19 and the corresponding limitations of human activities led to …

America's rural-urban divide seemingly has never been greater, a point reinforced by large
geographic disparities in support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. But it is …

Does low–level policing increase during gentrification? If so, are police responding to
increased crime, increased demand by new residents, or are they attempting to “clean up” …

In Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind
shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences …

The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities
provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood …

The randomized experiment has achieved the status of the gold standard for estimating
causal effects in criminology and the other social sciences. Although causal identification is …

Past research indicates that Sociology is a low-consensus discipline, where different
schools of thought have distinct expectations about suitable scientific practices. This division …