Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2024年11月17日 · In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Georg Simmel’s Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms (first published in 1908). Be sure to check out Dan’s co-authored essay on Simmel’s three concepts of form ...

2024年10月30日 · A young man holding a pamphlet labeled “The Truth”, donning a red, striped tie and tin-foil hat. “Conspiracy Nut” by Will is licensed under CC BY 2.0 on Flickr. Is there “a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together”?

2024年10月24日 · Green grass with morning dew clinging and glowing in the sunlight. Image by Nandhu Kumar from Pexels is licensed under Pexels license.. When a crime is committed, the harm done to victims and communities can rarely be …

2023年6月15日 · Frances Goldschieder, Eva Bernhardt, and Trude Lappegård. 2015. “The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior.” Population and Development Review 41(2):207–39.. This article examines trends associated with the second demographic transition (SDT) and compares them with the on-going gender revolution, arguing that there may be some ...

2012年2月27日 · I know I'm late on this post, but Bernays did not fabricate this idea out of thin air. In the 1900s, in particular pre-war Greenwich Village, rebellious women, many of whom called themselves feminists, consciously smoked in public as a protest of male dominated culture.

2013年6月21日 · While many American eugenicists railed about the threats posed by hordes of “dysgenic” immigrants (non-white, often, but also people from “undesirable” countries and bloodlines of all sorts), the core of eugenical science was …

2014年5月31日 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared.The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.

2018年1月3日 · In last week’s much-anticipated conversation between Barack Obama and Prince Harry, the pair turned to the topic of social media.Here’s what Obama said: “Social media is a really powerful tool for people of common interests to …

2024年5月1日 · I love sociology majors. They have a unique perspective as they try to apply recently learned concepts and methods while grappling to understand the sometimes-broken systems in our society so they can change them from within and address the disparities they’ve noticed in their daily lives.