Category: Sociology

Presidential Fashion Statements

Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and author of the forthcoming Nice Work If You Can Get It (NYU Press 2009), provided much of the commentary… READ MORE

Does Religion Make You Nice?

Or, does atheism make you mean? Those are the questions asked by Slate.com writer Paul Bloom in his review of Philip Zuckerman’s Society without God (NYU Press 2008). Many Americans… READ MORE

Podcast: The Criminal Brain

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Nicole Rafter, author of The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime (NYU Press 2008).

God Bless America(?)

Phil Zuckerman, professor of sociology at Pitzer College, is the author of Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell us About Contentment, (NYU Press 2008). The candidates… READ MORE

Podcast: The Criminal Brain

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Nicole Rafter, author of The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime (NYU Press 2008).

God Bless America(?)

Phil Zuckerman, professor of sociology at Pitzer College, is the author of Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell us About Contentment, (NYU Press 2008). The candidates… READ MORE

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