I planned a party. What I experienced instead was a deeper understanding of gratitude, family, and what truly lasts.

Not long ago, it was fashionable to deride Artificial Intelligence (AI) as merely another example of Natural Stupidity. Recent technical advancements have made the sentiment unpalatable. No one wants ...

This post is for academics who work so hard on their research that they often leave little time for relationships. It’s written to cheer us up as we navigate the messy, wonderful, and often ironic ...

Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...

Interactions between students and nature and students and their peers are central to learning processes in outdoor studies programs. This paper draws on symbolic interactionist social theory to ...

Abstract: Online communities provide a means for social interaction among persons with varying interests from different backgrounds. This paper examines issues of identity and identification in an ...

From picture-perfect Instagram couples to rom-coms, we are exposed to love and its varying forms starting at a young age. Love takes on such a prevalent role in our society that we grow up believing a ...

Thomas N & Emond R (2017) Living alone but eating together: exploring lunch clubs as a dining out experience. Appetite, 119, pp. 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j ...

E. Doyle McCarthy is Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Fordham University, working in the fields of sociology of knowledge and culture and in the interdisciplinary field of emotion ...