Volume 7, Issue 1
From stem cell research to teaching evolution in public schools, religion and science are frequently pitted against one another in the public discourse. But do scientists themselves see religion as an opponent? Are college campuses today as secular and hostile to religion as stereotypes suggest?
Also in this issue, what effect has today’s wave of immigration had on American society? Does the “Hugo-centrism” of discourse about Venezuela impair our understanding of the country? And what does New York Times columnist David Brooks think about sociology today?
Scientists aren't as anti-religion as the conventional wisdom leads us to believe—a surprising number of believers teach at the nation's top academic institutions, but they approach religion and spirituality differently than the general public.
Strong evidence indicates a new story needs to be told about religion in the academy, one that recognizes the resilience of the study of the sacred in higher education.
Self-immolation poses the theoretical puzzle of why it makes sense to die without inflicting any tangible cost on the opponent.
Immigration tracks the reduction in crime in the United States since the 1990s. It thus pays to reconsider the role of immigration in crime, cities, culture and societal change.
Sociologists are helping question the colorblind ideology—treating people as individuals rather than members of the racial groups to which they belong—and its impacts on American law and culture.
Focusing on Hugo Chávez the man seriously impedes our understanding of the social changes unfolding in Venezuela and the politics that grow out of them.