sociology

I like asking friends who grew up rich what small things about their lives were different. I asked one whether any of his friends had crappy cars. “Not really. Maybe one.” He meant an older Honda Civic. I meant a car where more than two of the doors or windows don’t open, or one you can’t take on the highway. Another friend told me he wouldn’t know where to get a $5,000 car. Everyone knows there’…

We need to stop worrying about intelligent machines and start building intelligent societies.

By Tanya Sakzewski  Today marks 25 years since 9/11, the deadliest terror attacks in the US, which claimed almost 3,000 … The post 9/11: a legacy of conspiracy theories and Islamophobia first appeared on Media Diversity Institute . The post 9/11: a legacy of conspiracy theories and Islamophobia appeared first on Media Diversity Institute .

This paper examines the systematic erasure of Palestinian culture and history through the theoretical lens of "cultural gaslighting"—a concept defined as the social and historical mechanisms that produce abusive mental environments in settler-colonial cultures to advance cultural genocide and dispossession. Drawing on Elena Ruiz's framework of cultural gaslighting, Anibal Quijano's analysis of ep…

IntroductionThe rapid expansion of algorithmic management in the gig economy has sparked widespread concerns over workers’ behavioral resistance to algorithmic constraints, yet the underlying psychological mechanism between perceived algorithmic control and workers’ anti-algorithm behavior remains underexplored. This study examines the mechanism linking perceived algorithmic control to workers’ a…

IntroductionUnderstanding the risk factors linked to violent extremism remains a central challenge in radicalization research. This study examined which risk factors are most robustly associated with radical intentions–the willingness to use violence in support of an ideology.MethodsUsing general-population samples from 40 countries (N = 10,407) and a complementary sample of incarcerated jihadist…

How repeated attacks turn ordinary civilian life into externally controlled life — and why mental-health research may be missing part of the harm

In 2017, Alex Campbell, a sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, offered his students the assignment of a lifetime: Could they solve a notorious series of cold-case murders that had stumped law enforcement for more than three decades? He warned them up front: “This is going to be the hardest class you’ve ever […]

New research suggests that holding demanding, child-centered parenting attitudes doesn't discourage people from having kids. Instead, embracing these intensive ideals is strongly linked to a greater desire to become a parent or expand a family.

This study examined the relationship between digital capital and social alienation, conceptualized as a multidimensional construct, among undergraduate students in the United Arab Emirates. A cross-sectional survey design was employed using a convenience sample of 320 undergraduate students enrolled at a government-affiliated university in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Data were c…

This study investigated the narrative frames of disability and their associations with disability identity in the context of China. Specifically, it explored the sense of Self-worth, Life Meaning, Perceived Discrimination, and Disability Denial in people with disabilities and the complex relationships between media narratives, impairment, and social constraints. Through framing analysis, this stu…

Why do strong male bodies repeatedly become associated with right-wing politics, from modern physical culture and historical fascism to contemporary bodybuilding, powerlifting, the manosphere, and Active Clubs? Drawing on historical scholarship, sporting regulations, and contemporary studies of platforms and organizations, this study proposes a mechanism-based account of structural rightward prod…

arXiv:2510.16853v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous AI agents capable of complex planning and action mark a shift beyond today's generative tools. As these systems enter political and economic life, who can access them, how capable they are, and how many can be deployed will shape distributions of power and opportunity. We define this emerging challenge as "agentic inequality": dispari…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-69908-2 Association of organisational culture and internal participation with job satisfaction among physiotherapists: a cross-sectional study

Wealth has a color in American higher education, and the gap between elite institutions and historically Black colleges reveals how philanthropy reinforces inequality.

A national survey of 1,027 US adolescents aged 13 to 17 found that nearly one in four reported using mobile food delivery services during school hours, while almost half used them after school. Fast food and sugar-sweetened beverages were among the most commonly ordered items through delivery apps overall, while students also raised concerns about cost, inequality, safety, and disruption at schoo…