Scott Thompson and his diagram of what social capital looks like on paper. Thompson plans to explore, among many things, how social capital works on the ground in rural America. (Diagram and photo ...

“Good evening,” Jacqueline Mattis says, setting a glass of water down on a podium in the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan. The audience, mostly white and middle-aged, ...

Three women laugh together, standing outside in the sunlight. Source: Priscilla Du Preez / Unsplash If you have spent time in an organization (or in graduate study of sociology or economics), you have ...

Fittingly for the new age of social science, the data come from Facebook—which allows for the kind of sophisticated network analysis that previous generations of scholars could have only dreamed of.

Meghan recently interviewed for a job on her college campus. She is very talented, and her GPA is among the highest in her class. Yet, her interview prevented her from getting hired. Meghan replied to ...