Sociology – The Conversation

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone cannot treat.

Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it’s an important line of research.

A growing number of women are choosing to be ‘defiantly single’, yet the stigma against them persists.

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.

The religion gap between American men and women may be narrowing, a scholar explains – reflecting a seeming ‘God gap’ in US politics.

Strong religious beliefs often shape disapproval of abortion – in the abstract. But when young women are actually deciding whether to terminate a pregnancy, faith’s role is more complex.

College students need to learn how to talk about religion with people of different faiths, two scholars write.

More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.

Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of what family should be.

A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.

Do you love using the laughing-crying emoji? If so, you’re probably a Millennial.

There’s no evidence of widespread, systematic discrimination against white Americans. Just ask them.

From a synagogue’s 5K to Appalachia’s Hillbilly Days, shared celebrations pull strangers together.

In the 1930s, when iconic vet James Herriot was practicing, almost all vets were male.

One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.

A researcher examines the bad press surrounding absinthe which led to its ban in France in 1915, while drawing parallels with more recent, ‘scathing’ examples of scapegoating and social control.

When a hobby becomes something larger, with a focus on improving skills and developing deep knowledge, it can deliver surprising rewards.

When does a shooting become terrorism? A Texas case could help define the answer.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from both, but is stranger than either.

The recent spate of executive orders around sex and gender impact nonbinary Americans, as well as trans Americans who identify as a man or a woman.