sociology

Sociologist Jennifer Carlson interviewed 50 gun sellers to find out why so many Americans flock toward firearms.

Sociologist Mark Rank shows how the United States systematically produces economic vulnerability.

Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.

The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.

Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk’s sociological study offers some clues.

Its residents are the most diverse in the US. For decades, sociologist Stephen Klineberg has tracked their views.

In poor communities like the one where I live and work, evictions are not the exception. They’re the norm.

Sociologists are reputed to be masters of suspicion, and many keep their distance from religious belief and practice. Robert Bellah’s field was the sociology of religion, and the longtime University of California, Berkeley professor—who died last week—certainly knew the value of “distance” in this and all human sciences. But as he studied people of faith and their practice—whether in “Tokugawa Religion” in Japan (his doctoral dissertation subject) or in America—he discerned integrity and value in the faith(s) of many.

According to Robert Wuthnow, well-educated Americans have reconfigured their religious language in terms of reasonableness—and thus retained a place for the supernatural in everyday life.

Christian Smith offers a way between the idea that young adults are the great hope of our nation and the idea that they are crazed idiots.

"There is a middle ground between fanaticism and relativism."