Listen to Jon Wynn discuss how he “tweaked the formula” for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory via this “Give Theory a Chance” podcast!

Following a co-hosted symposium on the Weimar Republic, the Guthrie generously invited the Center for Holocaust and Genocide ...

Daniel Chambliss joins us to discuss The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers, first published in Sociological Theory in 1989. This episode is the debut of ...

As a part of our Teaching Theory Special Series, First Publics invited Drs. Wesley Longhofer and Daniel Winchester, authors ...

Rachel Shillitoe, co-author of Growing up Godless. Photo credit Anna Strhan. AMW: Your research highlights how non-religious ...

Eman Abdelhadi and Anna Fox, “Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies,” ...

New & Noteworthy Diverse Gender Beliefs Amongst Muslim Americans by Francesca Bernardino highlights new research on how Muslim Americans construct gender ideologies amid Islamophobic stereotypes. The ...

Despite growing acceptance and legal recognition, scholarly work about marriage has often overlooked the voices of LGBTQ+ ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

Every once in a while the internet is abuzz being horrified by vintage ads for Lysol brand douche. The ads seem to suggest that women are repulsing their husbands with odorous vaginas caused by ...

In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as ...