Greater perceived neighborhood cohesion in childhood (measured at age 10) and at the time of the baseline interview (measured among people ranging in age from 51 to 89, or among people from late ...

Harsh discipline, by contrast, violates these principles. When parents yell, threaten, or punish without explanation, children don’t feel heard or respected. They may obey in the moment out of fear, ...

Happy New Year!🍾 New & Noteworthy Countries with generous parental leave policies are thought to be good for women and mothers; but a study from Jennifer Hook and Meiying Li cautions that long paid ...

Christie W. sent in an idea that inspired me to revive our pointlessly gendered products post. It’s a fun one. I’ve added Christie’s submission — a super-pink for-her version of a continuous positive ...

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… ...

Studies of Americans’ unconscious beliefs shows that most people — white and black — think black people are dangerous and both average folks and police are quicker to shoot black than white people.

Robin H., Tomi L., and Kate McL. asked us to talk about the new movie, Avatar. Tomi thought the gender politics were great, with men and women as equals fighting and ruling side-by-side. I think she’s ...

These images were all used (along with lots of others) in a 2003 campaign in which PETA, obviously, compared modern agricultural practices and eating meat with the Holocaust: I assume it will not ...

Two new submissions inspired me to revive this post from 2008. Part of the privilege of being white is having a society that considers you the norm and is, therefore, organized around you. A really ...

This graphic works as well as it does in part because it evokes the too-delicate feel of a champagne glass in hand. All that wealth resting on so little. The shape does what a data table alone cannot ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...