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In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (University of California Press, 2020), Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with coll…
In Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure (Oxford University Press 2018), Barbara J. Risman uses her …
Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of …
Fantasy sports have the opportunity to provide a sporting community in which gendered physical presence plays no role—a space where men and women can …
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex m…
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the wom…
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear …
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. Fro…
American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in Ameri…
The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as man…
Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invo…
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-in…
The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and…
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all…
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critical…
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap,…
Christopher D. Bader and Joseph O. Baker's book Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters (University of California Press, 2019) …