sociology

Mark Regnerus | 17 January 2020 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: discrimination, LGBT, sociology

Loneliness is a human catastrophe – and it’s getting worse

Barbara Kay | 12 August 2019 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: aging, loneliness, sociology

The new scientific silence on child-adult sex and the age of consent

Mark Regnerus | 29 September 2017 | FEATURES |  

tags: child abuse, consent, sociology

How did UTexas sociologist Mark Regnerus get to be so hated?

Denyse O'Leary | 31 August 2016 | FEATURES |  

tags: Mark Regnerus, same-sex parenting, shame-storming, sociology

A study of gay parenting exploded when it hit the media

Do we live in a new age of barbarism?

Stjepan Mestrovic | 10 September 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: book reviews, bullying, sociology

How we rationalise bullying, and destroy social bonds.

Faster, faster! How to slow down in an accelerating world

Massimo Introvigne | 06 July 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: religion, sociology, time management

Try losing time with those you love.

The mission creep of dignity

Mark Regnerus | 20 January 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: dignity, sociology

Dignity has less to do with autonomy or independence than with intrinsic worth and the ability to flourish.

Unpacking the slogans

Walter R. Schumm | 08 August 2013 | FEATURES |  

tags: same-sex marriage, same-sex parenting, sociology

Boosters of same-sex parenting rely heavily on sociologists’ surveys. But do these really prove their case?

“Going Solo”

Francis Phillips | 04 July 2013 | FEATURES |  

tags: book reviews, loneliness, singles, sociology

Not just in America, but all over the world, more and more adults are living alone. Should we celebrate their freedom or be dismayed?

Unhinged: an academic promotes adultery

Carolyn Moynihan | 21 August 2012 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: adultery, marriage, sociology

A British academic takes a hatchet to marriage by singing the praises of adultery.

The judicial murder of a promising and honest academic’s reputation

Michael Kirke | 27 July 2012 | CONJUGALITY |  

tags: Mark Regnerus, sociology

Coming Apart: The State of White America

Denyse O'Leary | 27 March 2012 | FEATURES |  

tags: books, marriage, sociology

A new book describes the white working class cut adrift from the institutions of marriage and the church.

What is civilization?

Francis Phillips | 24 August 2009 | FEATURES |  

tags: culture, history, philosophy, sociology

Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.