• We examine the consequences of ethnic labels that represent different SES subtypes. • The ethnic label Black signals lower social class and status than African-American. • Whites rated a Black employee to be lower status than an African-American employee. • Articles that used Black (vs. African-American) had a more negative emotional tone. • Whites perceived a Black suspect more negatively th...

MIT Student Professor David Jones & Professor David Kaiser STS.003 The Rise of Modern Science Paper 1 Alchemy & Chemistry; A Rose by Any Other Name. Most people today consider alchemy to be some sort of archaic black art; sorcerers working in secret chambers to transmute lead into gold. Chemistry, on the other hand, is regarded as one of the most important branches of experimental science. Is t...

Editor's Note: Be sure to take a look at this article's companion piece, also by Jessica and Susan, entitled "Metadata Projects and Standards," for an overview of the variety of emerging and often conflicting projects for standardizing electronic resources. Also see the extensive list of metadata project and resource links referenced in the text. For a look into how an organization actually app...

als science, he considered several postdoc positions. But most last just 2 or 3 years, and he knew that he might need to relocate for a second (or third) temporary position before landing a tenure-track professorship. Would Emily, a lawyer, have to take a new bar exam and rebuild her practice in state after state? She had considered returning to school to study the equality issues that had so e...