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Media Coverage of Domestic Violence More Likely to Excuse White vs. Black...
Controversy erupted in 2014 when video of National Football League (NFL) player Ray Rice violently punched his fiancé (now wife) and dragged her unconscious body from an elevator. Most recently,...
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Atheists Still America’s Most Disliked Group, Now Along with Muslims
Originally posted at The Society Pages’ Discoveries. Ten years ago, sociologist Penny Edgell and her colleagues published a surprising finding: atheists were the most disliked minority group in the...
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“A Princess is Kind of a Bad Ass”: When Feminist Moms Pick Up the Pen
Sometimes there’s nothing to do but take matters into our own hands. Danielle Lindemann, a mother and sociologist, decided to do just that. After discovering that one of her daughter’s books required...
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Women are less happy than men in marriage, so why does the media insist...
To Post Secret, a project that collects personal secrets written artistically onto postcards, someone recently sent in the following bombshell: “Ever since we started getting married and buying...
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The Architecture of Gentrification; Or, The Dining Rooms are Coming
The dining rooms are coming. It’s how I know my neighborhood is becoming aspirationally middle class. My neighborhood is filled with “shotgun” houses. Probably from West Africa, they are designed for a...
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STI Transmission: Wives, Whores, and the Invisible Man
Flashback Friday. Monica C. sent along images of a pamphlet, from 1920, warning soldiers of the dangers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In the lower right hand corner (close up below), the...
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What can the history of divorce tell us about the future of marriage?
A different version of this post was originally published at Timeline. To get some perspective on the long term trend in divorce, we need to check some common assumptions. Most importantly, we have to...
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Adventures in garbage-millennial confirmation bias
Originally posted at Scatterplot. There are few things more satisfying than finding another reason that millennials are the worst. They’re narcissistic, coddled, unpatriotic, racist, and nervous about...
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“Start a family” began to mean “have children” more recently than you think
Originally posted at Family Inequality. It looks like the phrase “start a family” started to mean “have children” (after marriage) sometime in the 1930s and didn’t catch on till the 1940s or 1950s,...
View ArticleSex and love in and after college, a Q&A exchange
Cross-posted at Center for Love and Sex. The Director of Center for Love and Sex, Sari Cooper, had the wonderful idea of doing a Q&A exchange. I recently wrote a book about sex in college, American...
View ArticleLonely Hearts: Estranged Fathers on Father’s Day
I work with one of the most heartbroken groups of people in the world: fathers whose adult children want nothing to do with them. While every day has its challenges, Father’s Day—with its parade of...
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Is it ethical to give your child “every advantage”?
Flashback Friday. Stiff competition for entrance to private preschools and kindergartens in Manhattan has created a test prep market for children under 5. The New York Times profiled Bright Kids NYC....
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Package Pirates & The Rules of the Gift
The rise of online shopping at the holiday season highlights some pretty Grinchy behavior. Local news and home security companies have been trumpeting market research about so-called “porch pirates”...
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Fragile Families in Lilo and Stitch
For centuries, nations have expanded geographically and economically by taking land and labor from indigenous people. One of the narratives used to justify this colonialist expansion portrays...
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Hopeful Research on Romance
It’s Valentine’s Day, and my social media feed is more snarky than smarmy. The Hallmark holiday gets us thinking about love, but it also highlights our unquestioned assumptions about romantic...
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