Tag: sociology

• The Decline of Deviance

  December 14, 2025

  Where has all the weirdness gone? https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-decline-of-deviance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• The Anti-Social Century

  January 9, 2025

  Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/ more ›

• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

  April 1, 2024

  Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story… more ›

• What place should COVID-19 vaccine passports have in society?

  February 21, 2021

  This report is an interim summary of the findings and recommendations from the Ada Lovelace Institute expert deliberation, chaired by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery. A fuller report of the deliberation… more ›

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Video Gaming and Our Digital Lives

  March 31, 2020

  Economic crises, natural disasters, and other long-tail events tend to accelerate underlying trends, exacerbate balances of power, and unravel businesses, business models, and business practices that were sustained by a… more ›

• What a liberal sociologist learned from spending…

  October 25, 2016

  What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump's America » <p>Five years ago, right as the Tea Party was becoming a major force in American politics, Arlie… more ›