What are some of the key reasons students drop out of college? How can identifying the sociological roots of the problem help us to develop effective policies to address it?
What do contemporary data show us about the relationship between family income and academic achievement, as measured by variables like educa-tional attainment or SAT scores? How do sociolo-gists explain the relationship? What are strengths and weaknesses of their arguments?
What is the current state of racial segregation in U.S. public schools? How has it changed since the civil rights era of the 1960s? What sociological factors help explain high levels of racial segre-gation in schools? How can the United States address high levels of racial segregation in our schools?
How is unemployment in the United States mea-sured? What aspects of this phenomenon does the unemployment rate measure and what aspects does it fail to capture?
What effects might the expansion of automation and artificial intelligence have on the U.S. and global workforce? What evidence of the effect is available today? What sectors of the labor market may be affected in the future?
