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Week 14: Networks and Equality
Content for the week of Monday, April 21, 2025
Tuesday
Assignment Due:
Readings:
- Fernandez, R. M., & Fernandez-Mateo, I. (2006). Networks, Race, and Hiring. American Sociological Review, 71(1), 42–71. Read the introduction (pp. 42–47) and the Summary and Conclusion (pp. 65–67)
- Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et al. Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility. Nature 608, 108–121 (2022).
- (Optional) Sunstein, C. R. (1991). Why markets don’t stop discrimination. Social Philosophy and Policy, 8(02), 22–37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001114
Lecture video:
[12:50]- Slides
Thursday
Assignments Due:
- Rough draft of Final Project on Brightspace and sent to your “peers”
- Saturday: Feedback sent back to your “peers”
Class Schedule:
- No class - work on Final Project