Other people’s backgrounds shape their social position, but I worked hard for mine – the paradox in how we view status

Fifty per cent of them ranked “hard work” as the most important reason, but 7% said it had no part to play. At the same time, ...

Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

What does 'everyday' peace look like? Mapping how people think about peacebuilding

A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, ...

James Warren: Fake images and videos are proliferating online. What’s the average news consumer to do?

My NewsGuard colleague Chiara Vercellone, a senior staff analyst, identified five phony and out-of-context still images and ...