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Sociology
"Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world."
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White's actions. It has become known as the "Twinkie defense."
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
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Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.
Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.
People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
Smaller family networks, more great-grandparents, and fewer cousins.
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
Exile is a kind of death of who you once were.
To see a true cross-section of American society, head to Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, IHOP, Chili’s, and Olive Garden.
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.