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15 Articles Tagged Sociology

Sociology
January 19 2023

Do you teach Sociology?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover a wide range of sociological subjects from criminal justice, family, race, class, and gender to social change, social institutions, and sociological theory.   Criminal Justice Family   Race / Class / Gender   Social Change   Social Institutions    Sociological Theory

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Do you teach Sociology?

Sociology
January 19 2023
General
July 13 2022

Carmen Rita Wong, author of Why Didn’t You Tell Me?, on Identity, Race, Culture & Belonging

In her memoir, Why Didn’t You Tell Me?, Carmen Rita Wong contends with questions of culture, race, family, and belonging, from the Harlem and Chinatown of her childhood to the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire following her mother’s remarriage. Following Carmen from her coming of age through adulthood, when her mother’s long-held secrets

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Carmen Rita Wong, author of Why Didn’t You Tell Me?, on Identity, Race, Culture & Belonging

General
July 13 2022
Disability Studies Psychology Sociology
March 30 2022

Psychologist Devon Price on Autism and the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Contributed by Devon Price, PhD, author of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity I didn’t find out I was Autistic until after I completed my PhD in psychology in my mid-20s. Aside from a few brief mentions of the disability in a graduate-level developmental psychology class, I hadn’t learned Autism in my psychology

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Psychologist Devon Price on Autism and the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Disability Studies Psychology Sociology
March 30 2022
History
November 16 2021

Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian, Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled

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Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

History
November 16 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021

Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong will be awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings, a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and

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Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
March 4 2021

Freedom after Thirty-Four Years in Prison

Benjamine Spencer was convicted of murder in 1987—a crime he did not commit. Due to the tireless advocacy of Centurion Ministries over the past twenty years, his conviction has finally been reevaluated, and he is expected to be released after 34 years. His case is one of several that is profiled at length in Jim

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Freedom after Thirty-Four Years in Prison

Humanities & Social Sciences
March 4 2021
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
August 11 2020

Cornell Professor Kate Manne on the Pursuit of Gender Justice

Contributed by Kate Manne, author of Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women CW: This post contains descriptions of misogynistic and sexual violence On Friday May 23, 2014, I was an assistant professor just finishing up my first year of teaching at Cornell University. Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I saw reports of a horrible crime

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Cornell Professor Kate Manne on the Pursuit of Gender Justice

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
August 11 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020

David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Contributed by David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth Climate change is not a single subject, or a single story, but the theater in which all human life is now conducted, transforming and reordering nearly every aspect of modern life—our infrastructure and our migration patterns, our cities and our energy systems and our agriculture, our

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David Wallace-Wells on the Science and “Humanities” of Climate Change

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
January 6 2020
Business & Economics Humanities & Social Sciences
September 2 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Beaten Down, Worked Up

In recent years, corporate profits have skyrocketed in the United States. Workers often haven’t seen the same good fortune as their employers, with wages on average remaining stagnate or seeing only slight increases after inflation. In this excerpt from Beaten Down, Worked Up, reporter Steven Greenhouse shares the struggles faced by many Americans, their stories

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FROM THE PAGE: Beaten Down, Worked Up

Business & Economics Humanities & Social Sciences
September 2 2019
General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

According to an analysis by the Williams Institute in 2016, 1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender, with young adults (ages 18 to 24) most likely to say they are transgender. Sociologist Arlene Stein spent a year following the lives of four transgender young adults, capturing their experiences as they transitioned from

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FROM THE PAGE: Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity

General Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 10 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
October 11 2018

Nadia Murad, Author of THE LAST GIRL, Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

On Friday, October 5, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that it had decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” Murad recounts her extraordinary

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Nadia Murad, Author of THE LAST GIRL, Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
October 11 2018
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Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
October 9 2018

Shane Bauer Tackles the Private Prison Industry in AMERICAN PRISON

In 2014, investigative journalist Shane Bauer took an entry-level, $9/hour job as a guard at Winn Correctional Facility, a private prison in rural Louisiana. For the next four months, he reported for work outfitted with a hidden recording device, ready to capture the reality of life in private prisons for guards and inmates alike. For

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Shane Bauer Tackles the Private Prison Industry in AMERICAN PRISON

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
October 9 2018
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