Discussions of trans youth and their families typically focus on relationships with parents: how parents allow, promote, or ...

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota ...

Recently, reports have suggested this poses a barrier to voting for many disabled Americans, since churches make up 20% of ...

Participants were asked to rate their level of anger about climate change on a scale of 0 to 100. The paper’s authors also ...

A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, California State University, Los Angeles ...

Back in 1963, when her husband committed suicide, Katherine Graham took over The Washington Post, the newspaper her father had founded. When the Washington Post made the Fortune 500 list in 1972, she ...

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, activists and policy makers are advocating for fundamental reforms to stop police violence. Requiring police to carry their own liability insurance is an ...

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.

RACE AND ETHNICITY: Teaching an introduction to sociology course? Teaching a race and ethnicity course? POLICE KILLING OF BLACKS: Data for 2015, 2016, 2017 Download charts that examine the race, ...

Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught. Also available on Amazon. The book can best ...

Professor Vidal, who taught at the University of Minnesota from 1972 until his retirement in 2003, is widely known as an innovative, original, and productive scholar in the field of Latin American ...

In the late 1800s, male Chinese immigrants were brought to the U.S. to work on the railroads and as agricultural labor on the West Coast; many also specialized in laundry services. Some came willingly ...