Adia Harvey Wingfield writes for the Harvard Business Review about how organizations are failing Black workers and how to do better.

“The fragmented nature of the region presents particular challenges to educational reform, especially if that reform is interested in lessening inequality,” said Odis Johnson Jr., an associate professor in Washington University’s sociology and education departments and director of its education graduate studies program. He welcomed the idea of one website that would offer students the full range of their options to make informed choices, but he said he’s curious how the organization will engage existing schools.

Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed, inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” But can “illegality” be socially constructed?

In the eyes of many white Americans, just knowing an immigrant’s national origin is enough to believe they are probably undocumented, said Ariela Schachter, study co-author and assistant professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Antonio French, publisher of Northsider and Odis Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology at WashU, join Katy to discuss what has changed since 2014, and what hasn't.

In just a few years, students have come to think of the sociology department as a home, as their own special place at the university.

Union supporters were able to rest easy on the primary night of Tuesday, August 7. Early in the evening, news outlets reported that the “right to work” initiative on the ballot was trailing badly, and many counties where it was expected to fail hadn’t yet tallied their votes.

Frank Edwards PhD, Michael H. Esposito MA, and Hedwig Lee PhD use novel data and methods to estimate police-involved mortality risk in the United States. They contribute to the project of explicating racial disparities in police-involved deaths by describing the role of place.

Odis Johnson, associate professor of education and of sociology, both in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a two-year grant of nearly $300,000 to explore how national datasets can be used to promote broader participation of underrepresented race-gender groups in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

Corporate codes of conduct have become the only game in town. The global economy is governed through private regulation. Companies contract auditors to monitor labour and environmental practices in their supply chains.

Adia Harvey Wingfield, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has found that for black workers, emotional labor takes on a different tenor than it does for white workers.