Sociology

New research finds they are more likely than their black counterparts to be portrayed as victims of mental illness.

• By Tom Jacobs

Pacific Standard spoke with a sociologist who has interviewed dozens of former members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christian Identity sects, and other white-ethnicity hate groups.

• By Francie Diep

Two Chinese tourists gave the Nazi salute in Berlin, breaking the law and garnering international media attention.

• By Massoud Hayoun

What our profile pictures and swipe-rights can tell us about human behavior, according to sociologist Jessica Carbino.

• By Tanya Basu

Smiling your way to happiness is indeed possible—but the emotional labor economy is about as unfair as the rest of the economy.

• By Angela Chen

We're more open to certain genres than we were 20 years ago, and more closed to others.

• By Tom Jacobs

Or, asking ladies about penises.

• By Lisa Wade

Hate groups provide violent ideologies for terrorists who have killed dozens of Americans over the last 14 years.

• By Francie Diep

Throughout the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our second-annual list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young people we predict will have an impact on the social, political, and economic issues we make it our mission to cover every day at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

We’ve long known that student evaluations of teaching are biased, but what are students really saying when they evaluate their professors in gendered ways?

• By Tristan Bridges, Kjerstin Gruys, Christin Munsch & C.J. Pascoe

Carolyn Chernoff talks about "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media," which she'll be teaching this summer at Skidmore College.

• By Paul Hiebert

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

The “sexy model face” isn’t built into our DNA, bone structure, or psychology, but projected.

• By Lisa Wade

A new paper argues that academics have been missing important connections.

• By Ryan Jacobs

A new paper provides an epic theoretical defense of humor in sociological research.

• By Ryan Jacobs

College can be a bewildering new challenge, but a bit of advice can go a long way.

• By Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp

When people are paid to win a game with a set of arbitrary rules, people will break the rules. We're almost always OK with that—except for one thing.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon

Choire hopes people hate his book. Caleb just wants people to get his. Jane Hu spoke to the two of them—when they weren't talking to each other.

• By Jane Hu

Can a sociologist and a journalist get an ethnically fractured city engaged?

• By Joel Smith

How an average fighter used racially coded language to tap into some dark insecurities and rise through the ranks of the UFC.

• By Tomas Rios