The Society Pages is an online, multidisciplinary social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. The Society Pages’ mission is to bring social scientific knowledge and information to broader public visibility and influence.

There are three groups of websites hosted on The Society Pages. First, there are sites directly produced by The Society Pages editorial team at the University of Minnesota. These include:

  • Citings & Sightings: a blog that tracks social science research in the journals and in the media in a concise, snappy style.
  • Office Hours: a podcast featuring conversations with leading social scientists talking about their research and the social world.
  • The Editors’ Desk: Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen, editors of The Society Pages, highlight great public social science and articulate their vision for The Society Pages.

These projects form the foundation for The Society Pages at launch, but we will be rolling out new features throughout the next year.

Community Pages

The Society Pages also hosts a community of social science blogs that share our passion for communicating social scientific concepts and findings in an open, accessible manner. Community Pages include:

  • Sociological Images: a prolific, influential, and fun blog that encourages people to exercise their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals.
  • ThickCulture, a multi-disciplinary blog about politics, culture, and technology
  • Sexuality & Society, which explores relationships between social institutions, cultural practices, sexual health, and sexual policy.
  • Graphic Sociology: a blog exploring the visual represantation of social data
  • Sociology Lens: daily posts, video files and news items from a team of contributors affiliated with the journal, Sociogy Compass.

Contexts Magazine

The Society Pages is also proud to host contexts.org, the website for Contexts magazine. Through the Fall 2011 issue of Contexts, The Society Pages and Contexts are both edited at the University of Minnesota and share editors (Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen) so the ties between the two projects are obviously strong and significant. Contexts, as a print publication, has been, and remains, an inspiration for what we’re trying to online at The Society Pages and we’re proud to host the magazine’s online presence. To explore Contexts, go to contexts.org or jump straight to the following pages: