Nancy Whittier’s areas of specialization are gender, social movements and women's movements, social change, sexual violence and sexuality. She teaches courses on gender, sexuality, social change, ...

Scientific: Sociology employs scientific principles, such as objectivity, empirical evidence, and hypothesis testing, to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As a sociological specialty for investigating group phenomena, collective behavior set the benchmark at mid-twentieth century for the study of ...

In June 2015, a white supremacist opened fire inside the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine black congregants, including the minister. The massacre ...

is an assistant professor of sociology at Clemson University, and a research associate at the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

When a crowd of passengers on a burning ship jumps overboard, when schoolboys go calmly through a fire drill, when four clubmen stage a drinking spree, when a mob of strikers overturns police cars, ...

In addition to being visually stunning, schools of herring, herds of wildebeest and countless other groups of organisms that act in concert can help complex ecosystems maintain their diversity and ...