On the occasion of the American Sociological Association’s centennial, The Chronicle asked seven sociologists to discuss what attracted them to the field, what they consider to be the discipline’s ...

Review of Explosive Emotions: How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel, by Eva Illouz (Princeton University Press), 261 pp., $29.95. Emotions are often regarded as the products of unique experiences and ...

Since the inception of the communist party, China has had contentious relationships with major foreign powers, and its political structure has been under the scrutiny of the international community.

A new study suggests that while AI remains far from achieving such a status, the conceptual groundwork for machine culture ...