Feb 28, 2024 · A Black woman walking on a sidewalk. Photo by Ono Kosuki under Pexels license.. Black History Month was expanded in 1976 upon the historical precedence of “Negro History Week” in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, the second Black American to receive a Ph.D. from Havard (with the first Black American being W.E.B. Du Bois).In honor of Black History Month, here are a few pieces from The Society ...

May 1, 2024 · Connections. In this Everyday Sociology blog post, Sternheimer (2024) discusses the ways people become group members that might be helpful to first-year students having trouble acclimatizing to campus.January 22, 2025

Available Now Give Methods a Chance offers a unique multimedia introduction to research methods. This volume, which builds on podcast interviews available at TheSocietyPages.org, introduces readers to some of the most creative, exciting, and influential researchers in sociology.These stories from the field are designed to demystify the research process and show how methods are put into action.

About Sociology Toolbox. Todd Beer, PhD, is a faculty member in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College, a wonderful liberal arts college north of Chicago.

Oct 14, 2014 · Gustafson: Social scientists concerned about social inequality should turn their attention to poverty, especially child poverty. Scholars can play a role in informing students and the public of the very fact that child poverty is widespread, can take opportunities to study the long-term effects of child poverty on families and society, and can use their skills to study the effectiveness of ...

Apr 8, 2024 · But when we look across the whole span of childhood, we see something quite different. Sociologists Susan L. Brown, Bart Stykes, and Wendy Manning described the family structure pathways experienced from birth to age 12 among adolescents in 2006-2010. They found that only 3 percent of children always lived with a single parent. Even among those born to a single parent, only 17 percent stayed ...

Mar 22, 2024 · Intro textbooks typically devote little attention to environmental sociology. Check out this The Society Pages post from 2019 on helping students think sociologically about climate change. Link to a module you can use in your Intro class included!

In the weeks since Newark, New Jersey’s Democratic mayor Cory Booker admitted he found the early attack ads of this general election cycle to be “nauseating” and that, in implicit contrast to President Obama, he saw the public benefits of private equity firms like Bain Capital, his comments have been used as a Republican fundraising tool and excoriated by liberal critics.

Nov 25, 2024 · In this episode, TSP board members, Leo LeBarre, Abigail Palmer, and Jacob Otis talk with Associate Professor, MacArthur Genius, and Sociologist Dr. Reuben Miller on his book Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. Dr.Miller shares insights from his book (and some insights not included in the book) and invites listeners to become active in their communities to ...

What We Publish. First Publics publishes:. First-person “Reflections” on teaching as public sociology. Reflections should be short (800-1000 words), and accessible pieces that engage in some way with the politics and practices of teaching as public sociology, particularly from first-hand experience.