In the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic, as many people figured out how to work and live in isolation, they turned to various virtual worlds and spaces for comfort. From games like Animal Crossing to Zoom, the popularity ...

The Second World War continues to shape the world to this day as academics and novices alike research and evaluate the cataclysmic conflict. Amongst their other atrocities, Hitler and the Nazi Party systematically looted ...

In the light of increasingly competitive global markets and rapid technological and demographic changes at home, it is imperative that America produce many more well prepared scientists and engineers from all backgrounds. ...

Social media and mobile apps are increasingly a part of college culture and are being mobilized in the college party scene. Through the use of digital ethnography, this paper focuses on the app Yeti: Campus Stories to ...

Arguably, the most popular current in school reform today is around "small schools". Small schools reforms are predicated on a body of research that suggests students learn better in smaller schools--or, schools of about ...

In case you missed it, last fall, The American Sociologist published a double issue on the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA). Rare is the opportunity for such open reflection by an organization. Spanning two dozen ...

I know I’m not the only one who is more than a little glad that 2020 is finally behind us. Yet while I was reflecting on all the tumult of the last year, I wondered if I should be so quick to try and wipe it all from my ...

It would be an understatement, I think, to say that the last few months have been an unexpected challenge. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the racial injustice sparking civil unrest across the country, the headlines that ...