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- Surreal or Hyperreal? Applying Theory to DisasterThis link opens in a new window By Karen Sternheimer How often do you use the word “surreal” to describe an unusual or otherwise mind-boggling experience? That’s the word that kept coming to mind when visiting the remains of my home for the first time two months... May 5, 2025
- We Need More Empathy for the Emotions of AnimalsThis link opens in a new window By Amanda Gernentz, Sociology Graduate Student, Texas Woman’s University There is an episode of the kid’s show Rugrats that is burned into my brain. It’s called “A Dog’s Life,” and features scenes from the Pickles family dog’s point of view.... Apr 28, 2025
- Teaching and Learning during CatastropheThis link opens in a new window By Stacy Torres The unease that greets me each morning, as I brace myself for the latest chaos erupting in higher education, listening to the radio and eating my oatmeal, feels both new and strangely familiar. I recognize this dread... Apr 21, 2025
- Minimalism after Losing “Everything”This link opens in a new window By Karen Sternheimer Over the years, I’ve written about minimalism a lot on this site. After losing my home and most of my possessions in the Los Angeles fire storm in January 2025, I am now officially a minimalist. Before... Apr 14, 2025
- Privilege in DisasterThis link opens in a new window By Karen Sternheimer As I write, it’s been a few months since losing my home in the Los Angeles-area firestorm. In addition to my regular job, I now effectively have a part-time job working to settle insurance claims, get our... Apr 7, 2025
- On Being a Temporary Local: Sociological Lessons from DisplacementThis link opens in a new window By Karen Sternheimer As I recently wrote, I lost my home in the Los Angeles firestorm of January 2025. We are staying in a neighborhood about 25 miles away; while still within the city limits, the neighborhood is far different... Mar 31, 2025
- A Complete Unknown: Art and Activism in Uncertain TimesThis link opens in a new window By Rob Eschmann A Complete Unknown, a 2024 film nominated for 8 Oscars, explores the life and music of Bob Dylan (played by Timotheé Chalamet), as he makes the personal and professional choices that would go on to define him.... Mar 24, 2025
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- Grin and Wear It?This link opens in a new windowNov 20, 2023
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- Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths of Urban and Suburban LifeThis link opens in a new window A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees. Apr 23, 2025
- Andrew A. Beveridge, Who Found the Unexpected in Census Data, Dies at 79This link opens in a new window With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing. Apr 17, 2025
- Los jóvenes votan por Trump, pero eso no cambia su ideologíaThis link opens in a new window Sentirse empoderado es diferente del crecimiento numérico. Mar 27, 2025
- Have Young People Really Turned MAGA?This link opens in a new window Feeling empowered is different from numerical growth. Mar 26, 2025
- Book Review: ‘The Social Genome,’ by Dalton Conley; ‘The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,’ by Henry GeeThis link opens in a new window Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be more downsides than we think. Mar 23, 2025
The Society Pages
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and supported by individual donors.
- Jon Wynn on writing fictionThis link opens in a new window In this episode we are joined by Jonathan Wynn, Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jon joins us to discuss The Set Up, his debut work of fiction that both thrills and educates. Jon shares his experience writing a work of fiction, reflects on how theorists including W.E.B. Du Bois and Erving Goffman […] May 10, 2025
- Clippings | May 5th, 2025 | TSP Media ReportThis link opens in a new window Peter Hepburn Michel Anteby Ellis Monk David Yamane Tristan Bridges May 5, 2025
- Election Fallout and Increased Infant Health DisparitiesThis link opens in a new window Paola Langer, Caitlin Patler, and Erin Hamilton, “Skip Nav Destination Research Article| August 01 2024 Adverse Infant Health Outcomes Increased After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Among Non-White U.S.-born and Foreign-born Mothers,” Demography, 2024 An infant’s hand gripping an adult’s finger, in black and white. “Grayscale Photography of Baby Holding Finger” by Pixabay is licensed under […] May 1, 2025
- TSP Tuesdays | April 29th, 2025This link opens in a new window New & Noteworthy This week’s Clippings by Mallory Harrington includes: Our latest Discovery by Eleanor Nickel covers research by David Jonathan Knight on African American and Afro-Latino men who spend their formative years cycling through U.S. prisons, and how growing up behind bars fuses identity to confinement, turning adulthood milestones into carceral experiences that constrain […] Apr 29, 2025
- “Can We Still Come to Class If We Want To?”This link opens in a new window In the Fall of 2024, I attempted to give students a “research day.” assuming they would appreciate the extra time to work independently. My goal was to provide enough time for them to dive deeper into their individual research projects. However, instead of relief, my announcement was met with awkward hesitation. One student quipped, “Can […] Apr 29, 2025