sociology
Discover the history of homemade sugar skulls, home altars, and fantastical spirit animals.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
All religions have totems, rites, and taboos that are considered “sacred.” Émile Durkheim believed society is largely underpinned by them.
The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
Time and again, studies have found a connection between authoritarian ideals and meaning in life — a notion backed up by historical documents.
In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
The infamous misogynist had some profound insights on romance.
More than pay or advancement, people are seeking a better fit between their own and corporate values.
Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
How do you recover after an economic apocalypse? It is not what you know, but who you know.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
Do right and wrong depend on culture, or does morality transcend place and time?
A genetic study of British Columbia grizzly bears finds a weird link to local human languages.
Hospitals often deal with the aftermath of gun violence, but they can play a key role in preventing it.
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Three ideas could help create the police force that Americans want.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.
English is a dynamic language, and this summer’s new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we’re living.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
Two-thirds of romances start out as friendships.
Most schools use a semester system, but a new study suggests that they should switch to quarters.
Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries.
Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.
When the mutual relatives of two royal families died, the countries were likelier to go to war.
As air pollution increases, so does violent crime.
As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.