sociology

Personal Perspective: How tourism, capitalism, and our desire to profit can turn paradise into a product while overlooking the people and communities who call it home.

The telephone is 150 years old this year. The invention paved the way for indirect forms of instant communication, transforming how the socially driven brain operated in the world.

The goal of this comparative paper is to study the behavioral and professional orientations of two generational cohorts at Tirana Business University: Millennials (Class of 2018) and Generation Z (Class of 2025). The research explores how generational context shapes professional identity, workplace expectations, and early-stage career attitudes, including interest in public and political leadersh…

Explore the effects of Black Friday and consumerism on society. Discover how we can reflect on our habits and make meaningful changes. Read more!

Welcome to Our August Interview Series, Allison! Allison, it is genuinely wonderful to welcome you back to our interview series. We still remember our last conversation with you, where you shared your story with such honesty, courage, and warmth. Your journey, your advocacy, and the way you spoke about creating a better world for neurodivergent... The post An Interview with Allison Bruning on Tra…

A 1990-to-2021 survey comparison found a steep contraction in American men’s friendship networks, although a change from phone to online interviewing makes the exact magnitude less certain.

Some standing safety requirements succeed only through continued nonviolation while offering no final compliant endpoint. Research explains intentional violations through multiple motives and work-system conditions, but the temporal organization of continued nonviolation remains under-specified. This paper defines a Negative Task as a practical requirement applying to an actor in which success co…

"She's your mom." "They're your family." "Blood is thicker than water." For generations, these familiar idioms have illustrated what Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith, co-authors of the 2022 book "Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents" (NYU Press), term compulsory kinship: the social expectation that biological and legal family ties must be preserved at all costs. In…

The U.S. returned more than 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday, marking the first such flight since the Trump administration legally ended Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians.

In dozens of states around the country, people are vandalizing, blocking and taking down Flock cameras. The surge in this type of activity underscores the growing resistance to this police surveillance technology.

Last July, Yuval Noah Harari, one of the most widely read thinkers of our time, spoke about AI at a corporate event. His claim was a bold one: calling AI a tool is wrong. A tool cannot decide on its own, and it cannot invent anything new. The printing press could not choose what to print, and the bomb could not choose where to fall. Today's AI can. So it is not a tool but an agent. He went a step…

IntroductionSports and physical activities play a key role in young people's physical, social, and moral development. However, the outcomes of this development may vary according to several factors, including age, gender, nationality, years of practice (YOP), and training tier, defined by athletes' training and performance levels. Therefore, this study aimed to examine how young athletes' values …

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08642-6 Exploring mixed and female co-facilitation in an intervention program for perpetrators of intimate partner violence

The fact that so few former workers hold elected office means that working-class interests often fall by the wayside in the world’s political institutions

A new survey reveals that Gen Z is significantly more likely than older generations to support using shoutdowns, blockades, and violence to silence public speakers, regardless of whether the young adults attend college.

Earthquake Early Warning Systems (EEWS) are now operational across multiple jurisdictions, including Canada, issuing messages designed to trigger protective behaviour such as Drop-Cover-Hold-On in the seconds before damaging waves arrive. Because most recipients will have no prior experience of an EEW alert, the experiential background they bring to a first alert is general earthquake comprehensi…

This article explains why turnover is increasing in field service organizations and how AI can be used to address it.