Sociological Images

A world without "he." Or "she."

Highly educated, middle-class parents are less likely to use corporal punishment to discipline their children than less-educated, working-class, and poor parents.

On the invisible norm of heterosexuality.

The Mosuo practice what they call a walking marriage, where the role of the biological father is discretionary.

It's driving.

Some positions have a disproportionate number of offenders.

The committed may derive many things from their church attendance and faith, but knowledge of religion isn’t one of them, according to a Pew quiz.