sociology

You may have heard men on social media complaining about women using the "6-6-6 dating rule," Has dating really become such a numbers game? And if so, what should you do about it?

Pull up the most recent data on how Americans rate their own lives, and a strange thing happens to the political map. The reds and the blues, the coasts and the heartland, the places that cannot agree on anything: line up their life satisfaction, their depression rates, their trust in the people next door, and the differences start to blur. Nearly everyone is doing worse. And nearly everyone is d…

TL;DR — A real wedding asked guests for charity donations instead of gifts. That single-couple prototype became Love That Gives Back : a multi-tenant platform where anyone can spin up a registry for any celebration, guests donate to verified charities through Stripe, leave a moderated public message, and every euro is tracked on an append-only ledger. The original wedding is the live flagship cam…

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Paper 3 is Debates in Contemporary Society. Section A focuses on Globalisation and the Digital Social World, while Section B requires students to choose one option: Crime and Deviance, Education, or Religion, Belief and Faith. The Crime and Deviance option focuses on how crime and deviance are socially constructed, measured, socially […]

The Scholars Incubator Program offered by the Social Sciences Lab MENA (SSL MENA) is a prestigious international research development initiative designed to support, mentor, and empower emerging scholars in the fields of social sciences and MENA-focused research. This program is not just a short-term training course—it is a structured academic incubation ecosystem that provides junior […] The pos…

Caitlin Squier-Roper, 45, recently discovered an intriguing club on Instagram: Philly Cooks a Book, a monthly meetup where locals prepare and share an assigned recipe from a specified cookbook. She could’ve enrolled through the group’s social media and shown up to a meeting, dish in hand, not knowing a single soul. So she held off […]

AQA A-level Sociology includes Theory and Methods across both Paper 1 and Paper 3. The theory and debates material asks students to understand key sociological perspectives, including consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories; debates about modernity and postmodernity; the relationship between theory and methods; whether sociology can be scientific; debates about objectivity, sub…

Source: United Press International - Health News American public support for LGBTQ+ rights has fallen slightly over the past few years, with 65% showing support for same-sex marriage now as opposed to 71% in 2022-2023, a Gallup poll released Wednesday shows. The percentage of U.S. residents saying that gay or lesbian relations are "morally acceptable" also fell to 62%—the lowest level since 2016.…

Inside New York’s notorious jail complex, nearly 2,000 incarcerated people watched Game 1 of the NBA finals, arguing calls, roasting celebrity fans and sharing in a rare citywide moment It’s nearly half past eight on Wednesday evening and approximately 30 men in tan uniforms drift into the common area of a housing unit deep inside the George R Vierno Center, an 850-bed jail and one of eight activ…

Women coaches routinely overlooked, undermined and denied opportunities despite qualifications, say experts Women are being shut out of careers in sport by entrenched sexism, discrimination and workplace bullying, MPs have been told. Female coaches are routinely overlooked, undermined and denied opportunities despite their qualifications, experts told a parliamentary select committee on Thursday.…

New manager achieved much at Bournemouth with style reminiscent of Jürgen Klopp’s counterpress There comes a point in most discussions when all the detail and complications fall away and the issue can be crystalised into a single straightforward question. For Liverpool that became: do they have more chance of challenging for the league title next season under Arne Slot or Andoni Iraola? Put like …

What we must learn from the murders of Henry Nowak in Southampton and Barnaby Webber in Nottingham is that kneejerk assumptions either way are dangerous Emma Webber brought one of her son’s old T-shirts to the hearings into how he died. Holding on to Barney’s clothes is comforting, as is sometimes sleeping in his bed. He was only 19, a student walking home at night with his friend Grace O’Malley-…

Families have been left in despair after 39 pupils and seven teachers were kidnapped from classrooms in Oyo state, a part of the country previously considered relatively peaceful Sitting on a wooden bench under the tree near her home, Aduke Balogun’s gaze is fixed on the road. Her eyes are red from crying and a lack of sleep. Last month her daughter, Kehinde Kasosara, was forcefully abducted from…

A 20-year analysis of US neighborhood foodscapes found that food swamps became more common from 2003 to 2023, while food deserts showed little improvement. Rural communities and people relying on public transport faced the greatest barriers to reaching healthy food retailers.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has proposed sweeping changes to the rules that govern federal financial assistance, including research grants. Sociologists are urged to submit public comments on the proposed rule by July 13, 2026.

In 1970, nearly half of all Black individuals in the U.S. resided in a large city. Over the past 50 years, that number has fallen to merely 25 percent, while the share living in the suburbs of large cities rose from 16 to 36 percent. This demographic shift is as large as the post-World War II wave of the Great Migration, according to University of Notre Dame economist Evan Mast, who set out to st…

Exclusive: Greater Lincolnshire mayor walks out on cabinet minister after row over social media role in community tensions Andrea Jenkyns walked out of a meeting with a cabinet minister and several other metropolitan mayors on Thursday after a heated discussion about the murder of Henry Nowak and the civil unrest that has followed. The Reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire walked out of the meetin…

Your Biometric Data Is Already Being Sold: The Cyberpunk Present We talk about cyberpunk futures like they're coming in 2040. We theorize about neural implants and corporate surveillance states like science fiction. But there's a problem with that timeline: the infrastructure is already here, operating in plain sight, largely unregulated, and generating billions in revenue. Your biometric data—yo…

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73874-8 Many climate models now include economic variables, and this study shows how also integrating powerful social and cultural forces can dramatically alter predictions of both social and climate dynamics, and their diverse manifestation in world regions.

BackgroundPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use (AU) frequently co-occur, yet little is known about how family drinking patterns shape trauma exposure and PTSD risk in non-Western and Indigenous adolescent populations. Taiwan’s multi-ethnic eastern region—home to Amis and Atayal Indigenous groups—provides a unique context for examining culturally specific trauma pathways.ObjectiveT…