Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

Every complex society faces the difficult task of placing its members into roles that are necessary for the society to survive. These roles must be filled with as little conflict and confusion as ...

As South Asia faces the escalating impacts of climate change, the region’s ability to respond effectively hinges on more than ...

Mathew Ingram at The Torment Nexus] Mathew Ingram on blaming social media for the stratification of society: "In the end, that is too simple an explanation, just as blaming the New York Times' ...

UW's department researches and teaches social movements, social stratification, crime, religion, the evolution of social behavior, politics, globalization, immigration, and health. A degree in ...

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In ...

Historically, the Indian society had had social divisions based on birth-ascribed or primordial identities. Most of the medieval Indian Muslim rulers also adopted a non-egalitarian and ...

Tuesday’s red wave has hopefully reminded Princetonians that their engagement with change cannot begin and end at the ballot ...

Instead, the rest of the world gets to listen to how America’s rotten id let the Donald win again — a triumph of racism, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient Bronze Age town under an oasis in Saudi Arabia’s Madinah province that ...

Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional stage of urbanization during the third to second millennium BCE, ...

Settlements in northern Arabia were in a transitional stage of urbanization during the third to second millennium BCE, ...