To explore these tensions, the researchers collected lyrics from the European Song Contest Database, a repository of every ...

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota ...

In older age, when retirement, illness, and bereavement can thin the ranks of casual acquaintances, that shared social world matters even more. By “social connectedness,” we mean the everyday web of ...

Scientific experts widely agree that our climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and that human activity is (at least partially) to blame. Among the general public, the consensus is not quite as ...