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Claude S. Fischer

Claude Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.

Articles

Fixing inequality is about more than addressing the income gap.

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Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

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Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

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Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.

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Historical segregation turns out to have been greater than we thought—and it hasn't gone away.

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Lily Tomlin and Julia Garner in Grandma.

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Systematic, reliable evidence that Americans converse less in person than before is hard to find.
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Americans seem likelier than other Westerners to believe the world is fair.

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In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.

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Trends in American Opinion

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The less affluent are increasingly leading “non-standard” lives.
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The instability of the white working class.

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Forum Responses

Public opinion doesn't support equal outcomes.
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