NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist at UCSF, who has studied whether the option to put a child up for adoption alleviates the need for a woman to get an abortion. In oral ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with sociologist Matthew Desmond about his new book, "Poverty, by America." He says poverty persists in the U.S. because the rest of our society benefits from it. Why does a ...

I've been studying anxiety all my life, because I have it. I remember being knotted up with anxiety on the eve of one birthday, worried sick because time was passing so fast and I had yet to ...

A sociologist criticized calls on the left for Americans to cut off family members and other loved ones who voted for President-elect Donald Trump, saying such measures were extreme and unhealthy for ...

In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are ...

Peter Worsley, who has died aged 88, was a social scientist of remarkable range and influence. A social anthropologist turned sociologist, he did much to define and popularise the idea, first ...

Do you sign your pets' names to your holiday card? Have you ever sent your dog to day care? Do you shop regularly for cat or dog toys? Welcome to a new breed of American family—the multispecies family ...

Pauline Bart, a sociologist whose pathbreaking studies of women’s depression, gender inequality and violence against women made her a bridge between second-wave feminism and the historically ...

Sudhir Venkatesh was hardly the sort of person you'd expect to find wandering around the housing projects of inner-city Chicago. "With my pony-tail and tie-dyed shirt, I must have looked pretty out of ...