inEducation: Sociology

The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops.

Three men of Opinion debate Trump’s appeal.

Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

Bonds between men and women may be eroding when we need them most.

For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.

Our society is losing sight of qualities that kept America strong, like responsibility and civility but also the capacity to feel shame.

Many of Harvard’s Generation Z say “sellout” is not an insult.

In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors.

The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.

New data projects are linking social issues with global warming. Here’s what that means for these New York communities.

Mothers have been exhausted since the beginning of time, but some difficulties are specific to the millennial generation.

Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

“Kinkeeping” plays a crucial role in a family’s health and well-being, and it’s still predominantly done by women.

New research suggests people tend to be lonelier in young adulthood and late life. But experts say it doesn’t have to be that way.

In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.

Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.

Black Americans remain the only racial group with a homeownership rate below 50 percent.

Never had our culture made the claiming of complaint such an animating force.

A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.

In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.