The sociology of culture explores the production, transmission and transformation of cultural meanings, practices and identities through everyday social interactions. It examines how artefacts, ...

In a world of polarizing viewpoints, Ilana Redstone Akresh, associate professor in sociology, wanted to provide a space for discussion. Akresh created SOC 396: Free Speech, Viewpoint Diversity, and ...

The American Sociologist, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 2009), pp. 228-232 (5 pages) The paper examines the sociology of culture in Australia and New Zealand, with particular emphasis on the antipodean ...

W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, cited numerous studies about the state of the family and the benefits a stable marriage provides. W. Bradley ...

Why are poor people poor? For years, many scholars blamed it on a culture of poverty — the idea that behavior and attitudes played a key role. Then, the concept was blasted as blaming the victim, and ...

Focusing on Mind, Self and Society, I contend that George Herbert Mead's theory is incapable of explaining the interactions in a song by Oscar Brown Jr., "The Snake," and that a satisfactory ...

Researchers from the HSE Institute of Education conducted a sociological study at four small, non-selective universities and ...

Here’s the key to understanding the importance of company culture and how to scale it: corporations are people. I don’t mean that in the legalistic way we’ve been arguing about since the late 19th ...

Sociology graduate students at the University of Colorado confessed in recent student-generated climate surveys overwhelming dissatisfaction with the department’s culture. Some university employees ...