WASHINGTON -- An obituary of the anti-busing rabble-rouser Louise Day Hicks has sat in my in-basket for weeks. I stumbled upon it while researching the Boston school-busing crisis of the 1960s and ...

This story, as told by Heidi Anthony, is part of an oral history series. I started working at Miami International Airport in 1988. My mind was young and impressionable and clueless. I was a public ...

The racist, homophobic "Dirty Harry" Callahan has retired in Detroit. Sgt. Highway of "Heartbreak Ridge" may not wear his stripes, but he still keeps his rifle loaded. And William Munny, the haunted, ...

When Marvel Comics needed a writer for its character Riri Williams (the “new Iron Man”), a suggestion came promptly—via Twitter, of course: “@eveewing 100%,” suggested one user. The next day, a Change ...

Carol Miller is willing to go to great lengths to help her provide better lessons to her sociology students. In fact, 5,000 miles isn’t out of the question. In early August, Miller and her husband, ...

In 1893, eminent sociologist Emile Durkheim strove to address the question “What holds society together?” Ultimately, he described modern, complex society as being held together by “organic solidarity ...

Sociology is the social scientific study of human social relationships and institutions. At Boston College, sociologists conduct methodologically sophisticated and theoretically engaged research on ...