BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 25: Climate activists gather on a "Global Day of Action" organized by the Fridays for Future climate change movement during the coronavirus pandemic on September 25, 2020 ...

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Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

Two women hug during a remembrance ceremony outside of City Hall on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Highland Park, Ill. Taking a tough-on-crime stance, whether on the campaign trail or filing legislation, ...

This post was updated Nov. 9 at 11:25 p.m. UCLA became the first UC campus to launch an academic department dedicated to labor studies this fall. UCLA Labor Studies – which was previously an ...

Corporations, billionaires and celebrities are all shrill champions of social justice causes — so why haven’t the problems been solved? That’s the central question that sociologist Musa Al-Gharbi aims ...

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

Business leaders have a new mandate: focus on core audiences and the issues that matter most to their companies, and help to solve social problems. Daryl Brewster, CEO of Chief Executives For ...

Social media is central in many of our lives, but few would say that’s a good thing. Despite its initial promise, swathes of Europeans feel the technology has had a negative impact on society. While ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.