WASHINGTON -- An obituary of the anti-busing rabble-rouser Louise Day Hicks has sat in my in-basket for weeks. I stumbled upon it while researching the Boston school-busing crisis of the 1960s and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

High school sociology has historically been and largely continues to be neglected by the discipline's professional organizations and by academic sociologists. The few past reforms of high school ...

In January 2024, Florida officially voted to reduce the number of students enrolled in sociology courses. That might sound baffling if you haven’t tuned into this cultural skirmish. But for me – I’m ...

LUCKNOW: The triple talaq law, proposed by the central government, has found its way into Lucknow University (LU) curriculum. It will be taught in LU’s sociology department at the postgraduate level ...

Carol Miller is willing to go to great lengths to help her provide better lessons to her sociology students. In fact, 5,000 miles isn’t out of the question. In early August, Miller and her husband, ...

In 1893, eminent sociologist Emile Durkheim strove to address the question “What holds society together?” Ultimately, he described modern, complex society as being held together by “organic solidarity ...

Alex Campbell’s sociology classes consist of typical students each year, but once they step into room 206 at Elizabethton High School, they become ...