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Sandra Susan Smith

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Publications -  25
Citations -  4587

Sandra Susan Smith is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social capital & Interpersonal ties. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 24 publications receiving 3080 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra Susan Smith include New York University.

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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

Jay J. Van Bavel, +42 more
TL;DR: Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
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"Don't put my name on it": Social capital activation and job-finding assistance among the black urban poor

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ in-depth interviews of 105 low-income African-Americans to understand the social context within which social capital activation occurs in the black urban poor and find that deficiencies in access to mainstream ties and institutions explain persistent joblessness.
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Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities

TL;DR: The authors examine race, ethnic and gender wage inequalities in a social capital theoretical framework, by analyzing differences in the mobilization of different groups of people in the same social capital framework, and find that race and ethnic groups are more likely to be discriminated.
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Race and Trust

TL;DR: A review of the trust literature that deals with race can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the social conditions within which trust becomes relevant and outline the distinctive contours of the three most common conceptualizations of trust: generalized, particularized, and strategic.