Social Science–Based Pathways to Reduce Social Inequality in Youth Outcomes and Opportunities at Scale

Andrew Nalani, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Prudence L. Carter

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Abstract

Despite a recent call for an expanded research agenda that is more likely to produce tangible societal reductions in inequality, efforts to articulate how social scientists can actually pursue this agenda remain few and far between. The central question this article addresses is, What can social scientists do to deliver the forms of knowledge that may lead to a reduction of social inequalities in youth outcomes and opportunities at large scale? Drawing on conceptualizations of inequality that pay attention to mechanisms of distributional and relational inequality, and examples of initiatives from a diverse array of the social sciences, the authors delineate six pathways for the kind of research that may generate reductions in youth inequality at scale. The authors conclude with a set of proposals for what academic institutions can do to train and support researchers to carry out this research agenda.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalSocius
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Keywords

  • inequality
  • opportunity
  • reduction
  • scale
  • youth

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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