DALLAS — Andrea Laurent-Simpson, an SMU sociologist and research assistant professor, argues that pets have become part of the American family. During the COVID pandemic, families have been adopting ...

The death of Irving Louis Horowitz, on March 21, gives us a chance to consider what sociology, and publishing, have lost. Not just the man, but alternative visions of those fields that we should still ...

“The Sociologist’s Eye” is an exploration into the nature of human social life, describing the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it.

Frederick Wherry, a professor of sociology at Princeton, calls himself an "accidental sociologist." Growing up in South Carolina with his twin sister and four brothers, he wanted to be a civil rights ...

In early 2018, after a year of confusion over why Donald Trump had been elected, Clemson sociologist Andrew Whitehead and two colleagues provided compelling evidence — which I wrote about here — that ...