About the talk:

To assess “what is happening to the family?” in the United States, we need to understand basic trends in family patterns. An area in which there are gaps in our knowledge—but is of deep importance to individuals and the public—is trends in divorce. Prior research shows declining divorce rates since the late 1970s. Does…

About the talk:

This talk argues for understanding climate change as a form of macro-social change and analyzes it as such. While it is commonly argued that sociology is not well-suited for understanding climate change due to its neglect of the natural world, I argue that sociology is, in other ways, uniquely well-positioned to understand…