Past Scholars | 2011 to 2012

Natalia Sarkisian

Boston College

Research Initiative:

Social Inequality

Sarkisian will write a book examining how social class and race shape kin support in the United States. Sarkisian will focus on whether poverty boosts or weakens kin ties by examining three central questions: How do economic resources affect individuals’ ties to extended families? What mechanisms link economic disadvantage to kin support? Does giving and receiving kin support help or hinder economic mobility?

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Social Inequality

Since 2001, the Foundation’s Social Inequality program has examined the social and political consequences of rising economic inequality. The program has investigated a variety of areas of social life, from education and health care to intergenerational mobility, to determine whether the increasing financial gap between the rich and poor has also exacerbated social inequalities of the kind that amplify and entrench economic differences.

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