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Sociology

Selected Works

2011

Social justice

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'Passion For Justice’, Ken Margolies Aug 2011

'Passion For Justice’, Ken Margolies

Ken Margolies

[Excerpt] Drawing on my experience and contacts, I advise and assist ILR students who are interested in working in the labor movement or other social justice organizations. Today's students seem more focused and practical than those from my undergraduate years, but—most important—they have the same passion for justice.


Black Visibility, City Size, And Social Control, Pamela Jackson Jul 2011

Black Visibility, City Size, And Social Control, Pamela Jackson

Pamela Irving Jackson

The research reported in this article tests the hypothesis that the relationship between the public fiscal commitment to policing and minority group size is not the same in small cities as it is in large cities. The results of a comparison of all cities in the United States that were greater than 50,000 in population in 1970 with those that were between 25,000-50,000 at that time indicates that the impact of the relative size of the black population on social control efforts differs in both strength and form in the two subpopulations. In large cities percent black has a significant …