Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research: Issues of Race and Class

Most students in the United States attend suburban schools. However, most education research focuses on urban school districts. This may be in part because many of the core issues that currently drive education research—issues of race and class inequities, social mobility, immigration, English learning—are believed to be “urban” challenges. In this article, we argue that the changing nature of suburban schools and communities, and the history of their creation as education spaces, make them advantageous locations for education researchers to study many pressing issues and expand the ways we understand the intersections of race, place and inequality. We argue that education scholarship across multiple disciplinary orientations, theoretical foci, and substantive concerns can benefit from a deeper engagement with suburban education spaces and the issues and opportunities associated with them.

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Current Research on Alternative Medicine and Women's Health Research Issues

Alternative and Complementary Therapies ◽

10.1089/107628002753447923 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 40-43

Author(s):

Tori Hudson

Keyword(s):

Alternative Medicine ◽

Women’S Health ◽

Women's Health ◽

Health Research ◽

Research Issues ◽

Women’S Health Research

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American Politics and Political Science in an Era of Growing Racial Diversity and Economic Disparity

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592715003199 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 7-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rodney E. Hero

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

American Politics ◽

Racial Diversity ◽

The Political ◽

Class Inequality ◽

Research Issues ◽

Economic Disparity ◽

Race And Class ◽

Politics And Political Science

Political science should play a larger role in grappling with the political roots, meanings, and implications of the various levels and unique configurations of class inequality and racial diversity that have characterized the last several decades of U.S. history. I offer some observations about the discipline’s research, or lack thereof, and indicate suggestions about how we might think about and do more in these respects.I will come at these concerns by noting some developments that influenced the present in social and political terms and other events in political science; identifying intellectual guideposts that may help how we think about research issues of our day; considering why race and class are not studied (more); acknowledging how the questions have been studied, as well as noting some reservations about these; and providing several examples from the research in which I have been involved, both directly and indirectly, that suggest how we might or can study these questions.

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