Face-off with pro-Beijing candidate gauged public support for opposition groups after candidates ousted, barred.

Despite the messages we hear from social scientists, policymakers, and the media, black Americans do in fact get married―and many of these marriages last for decades. Marriage in Black offers a progressive perspective on black marriage that rejects talk of black relationship “pathology” in order to provide an understanding of enduring black marriage that is […]

The First Annual International Forum for Development Eric Hershberg & Christy Thornton * Introduction: Toward a People-Centered Approach to Development Deepak Nayyar & Ha-Joon Chang Part 1: Development and Globalization * Globalization, Development and Democracy José Antonio Ocampo * The Priority of Human Development Gustav Ranis & Frances Stewart * Realizing Rights: Challenges for the […]

Looking for diverse perspectives to explain the profound economic and social transformations taking place in Latin America? Real World Latin America brings together the best recent reporting on the region from Dollars & Sense and NACLA Report on the Americas. Thirty-eight well-researched and clearly-written articles will give students a thorough introduction to Latin American economic […]

Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession. While the postcolonial Indian state dispossessed land mostly for public-sector industry and infrastructure, since the 1990s state governments have become land brokers for private real […]

In a Washington Post article, “Why Education Matters to Your Health – Literally”, Professor Cherlin speculates that racial differences also might be a matter of expectation.

The demonstrations are a part of a much larger cycle of grievance by the public against Iran’s ruling elite, says Johns Hopkins University sociologist Ryan Calder, an expert in Islamic Studies who covered the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as a journalist.

Meredith appears on Life in The Balance to discuss “The Short Fall into Homelessness: How Society Fails our Most Vulnerable”

The Fall 2017 Issue of Johns Hopkins University Arts & Sciences Magazine is out and many of our faculty appear inside.

Congratulations to Sahan Savas Karatasli for receiving the Sociology of Development Section of ASA Honorable Mention Article Award for 2017. “The Capitalist World-Economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500–2008.” Sociology of Development 3(2):163-96.