By Sally Raskoff With the historic presidential election of 2008, many might believe that racism is over, and some might be tempted to think that sexism is also a thing of the past. A sociological perspective on these issues shows...

By Sally Raskoff A friend sent me an e-mail that I found very alarming. Although I consider this person a friend, we have never really talked about politics. But I was still surprised when the missive below came from her....

I heard a woman tell her friends the other day she was “playing iPhone.” Do you play with your phone technology? The ways we use MotorolaPagernew and old technologies can illustrate not only economic trends but social change as well.

In many quarters, if I say that I am happy that I was not born or raised in the U.S., Americans of many stripes would a) become angry; b) become defensive; and/or c) wonder why I...

A common theme among my posts on this blog is the ability of immigrant and racial/ethnic minority groups to assimilate into American society.

By Sally Raskoff Are you a member of a club? Have you joined any organizations and spent any time or money with the group and the other members? You might be experiencing something that Emile Durkheim wrote about. Durkheim’s concepts of organic...

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By Karen Sternheimer Do you feel less confidence in the government? In corporations? In the press? If so, your feelings reflect a general trend found in the most recent data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative household survey...

By Janis Prince Inniss MoBull Messenger is the University of South Florida (USF) emergency text messaging system that faculty, staff, and students can register for, in order to receive emergency notices. As I mentioned in a previous post, on the...

By Sally Raskoff Janis Prince Inniss recently blogged about the cost of war and mentioned the rising rate of military suicides. As the New York Times reported, the suicide rate within the military is higher than that in the general population. The...