Twitter’s design promotes avoidance as the solution to hostility, but it also needs space for restorative activity that could genuinely resolve conflict.
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Paulo Freire’s concept of “conscientization”, or critical consciousness, helps us better understand the lives of young Palestinians, particularly those living in Lebanese refugee camps.
Concerns about socioeconomic well-being were the main reason why people voted for a certain political party.
A sociologist asked public high school teachers to draw maps of the neighborhood where they teach. Those with more detailed maps also made stronger cultural connections with their students.
Loudly proclaiming your dislikes isn’t snobbery. There can be a power and poetry to putrescence.
Social disadvantage can cause stress that leads to changes in ‘connectivity’ between brain regions, potentially harming adolescents’ ability to plan, set goals, and self-reflect.
Can college professors rap their way into academic publishing? One professor makes an album to prove they can.
In Nigeria, the unmarried, the unemployed, the less educated and those from the northern parts of the country were most susceptible to psychological challenges associated with COVID-19 lockdown.
Living near oil and gas production can affect mental health, driving stress and feelings of depression.
Many people experience love differently. But regardless of the differences in how it’s experienced and how it changes over time, humans are social creatures who are deeply fascinated by it.
Understanding isolation’s effects on regular people, rather than those certified to have ‘the right stuff,’ will help prepare us for the future, whether another pandemic or interplanetary space travel.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
There’s no need to raid the supermarket today, but gathering supplies is a reasonable response to the prospect of disaster
A large body of sociological research has found that in North America, young Asian men are twice as likely as Asian women to be single.
Some people are growing weary with romantic and dystopian visions of the future. Instead, our focus is on now.
Real-life adherents to the Mandela Effect veer into conspiratorial thinking. But they do hit on an important truth: Our understanding of history is malleable.
Whether due to Trump or unhappiness with the mainstream media, Americans say that they are avoiding the news more than before.
A sociologist spent time as a volunteer firefighter – and learned more about how institutional culture can shape a person’s behavior.
There’s a strand of radical feminist thought that claims porn causes misogyny. So four researchers decided to test this idea – and descended on a porn expo to study the beliefs of the male attendees.
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, threatens to slash funding to sociology and philosophy departments. It was just the opening shot in a new battle against the humanities.
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