Week 14: Networks and Equality

Content for the week of Monday, April 20, 2026

Tuesday

Assignment Due:

• R Lab 8 - Calculating network statistics
• Reading Review

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