2 great sociology articles today in the NYTimes

I generally don’t post links to these anymore on here (though I do include what I’m reading in the widget to the right), but these two articles were too good not to post. The first is by Paul Krugman, who does a great job illustrating that race still matters in the U.S. The second is by a sociologist at Berkeley, Jerome Karabel, who discusses

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via FoxyTunesclass stratification in education. Both are relatively short, but excellent illustrations of sociological topics.