In demography, our most common population projection tool is called cohort component projection. This tool treats different age groups (cohorts) separately, applying rates representing the three ...

Abdelilah Farah (Moroccan Sociologist) wrote a commentary piece for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace explaining ...

“I do have a very strong commitment to the stories, and so I think I fully embrace being an advocate. I am always an advocate for the way of doing, seeing, hearing, perceiving, experiencing, embodying ...

Peters argues that this pattern exists because disabled bodies are already viewed as abnormal and “disorderly” by society, ...

A briefing paper prepared by Liana Christin Landivar, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, and Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania for the Council on Contemporary Families online ...

Heard of the Hot Ones? It's a YouTube interview series where celebrities are asked questions while eating spicy hot wings. You might get hungry but it's a good place to learn semi-structured interview ...

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more… ...

This past winter, during an especially large snowfall, my Facebook and Twitter streams became inundated with grainy photos that shared a similarity beyond depicting massive amounts of snow: many of ...

One manifestation of white supremacy is the use of whiteness as the standard of beauty. When whiteness is considered superior, white people are considered more attractive by definition and, insofar as ...

As far as I can figure it, Halloween costumes come in three categories: scary, funny, or fantastical. This is why dressing up like another “race” or “culture” for Halloween is racist. A “Mexican Man,” ...

Four decades ago, the United States launched a grand policy experiment. The nation began locking up an unprecedented share of its citizens, increasing its rate of incarceration by more than 400% over ...