Nov 26, 2024 · Across rural America, communities are grappling with a silent yet deadly crisis: fentanyl contamination in the drug supply. In 2022 -2023 over 100,000 people in the US died from overdose. With an unregulated drug supply, fentanyl has become the primary driver of overdose deaths across the United States.

Apr 18, 2024 · Skateboarding has boomed globally over the last decade, and researchers have been quick to examine how intersecting social markers like race, gender, and age can influence people’s participation in this action sport. Yet, little research has considered disabled people’s participation in skateboarding and adaptive action sports, such as wheelchair motocross (WCMX), despite increased uptake ...

Jan 16, 2025 · In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Neil McLaughlin, Professor of Sociology at McMaster University and author of Erich Fromm and the Global Public Sociology (2023). In our conversation, Neil discusses the rise, fall, and potential resurgence of the writings of Erich Fromm.

Jan 28, 2011 · In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as something that is done peculiarly to Black people (as examples, see here, here, and here).. The history of U.S. discrimination against the Irish, however, offers an interesting comparative data point.

Nov 5, 2024 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

May 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared.The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.

Jun 15, 2023 · Frances Goldschieder, Eva Bernhardt, and Trude Lappegård. 2015. “The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior.” Population and Development Review 41(2):207–39.. This article examines trends associated with the second demographic transition (SDT) and compares them with the on-going gender revolution, arguing that there may be some ...

May 3, 2018 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Jul 30, 2020 · The COVID-19 pandemic brought most sports in North America and around the world to an abrupt halt in March 2020. (Photo via Boston Globe). In March 2020, COVID-19 abruptly halted sport as we know it across almost all ages, levels, and communities in North America and much of the world.

Sep 13, 2018 · This year, I have lectured and spoken to students in 16 cities across Asia, Australia, Europe, and the US. I often begin with a prompt asking these (mostly young) people to name me the first few local and international ‘internet celebrities’ off the top of their heads.