A sociologist investigates how businesses navigate legal gray areas.

What the fight over an iconic Philadelphia skate spot means for cities everywhere.

Herbert Gans’s (PhB’47, AM’50) sociology is for and of the people.

In blues clubs, cocktail bars, and zoos, David Grazian, AM’96, PhD’00, investigates the artifice of authenticity.

Martha C. Nussbaum argues a culture of rage and retribution is harming American society.

Harvey Choldin, AB’60, AM’63, PhD’65, finds himself plumbing the archives for an exhibition on the Chicago school of sociology.

Sociologist Howard S. Becker, PhB’46, AM’49, PhD’51, talks about his career studying deviance.

How the Chicago school of sociology changed the field.

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman conducts research among a strange, sometimes hostile tribe: computer hackers.

For 40 years, the General Social Survey has cultivated a vast body of knowledge about Americans’ personal attitudes and opinions.