Polyclass’ of 6 million people consider themselves to belong to more than one social category, researchers say ...

Changing course on decades of deepening inequality requires bold action and vision. The U.S. is in the grips of an inequality emergency. Decades of deliberate, regressive policy choices have rigged ...

It is hard nowadays to find topics on which people agree. Ironically, though, all agree on one point: that disagreement has reached peak levels. People are united in recognising that society has ...

Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...

There is no such thing as a society where everyone is equal. That is the key message of new research that challenges the romantic ideal of a perfectly egalitarian human society. Subscribe to our ...

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI has already significantly impacted our daily lives. Perhaps AI’s biggest potential lies in its ability to tackle some of the world’s most pressing ...

Social Stress Theory explains how factors like poverty, discrimination, and social inequality create chronic stress that harms mental and physical health. This video simplifies how external social ...

Corporations, billionaires and celebrities are all shrill champions of social justice causes — so why haven’t the problems been solved? That’s the central question that sociologist Musa Al-Gharbi aims ...

The 2024 US presidential election is unfolding under conditions of unprecedented crisis and social breakdown. There is a pervasive sense that the political system is dysfunctional, incapable of ...