Kei Nomaguchi and Melissa A. Milkie, “What Should Children Learn? Americans’ Changing Socialization Values, 1986–2018,” Socius, 2019 Popular culture complains that parents have become too focused on making kids feel good about themselves and not focused enough on encouraging hard work and effort. However, in their new article, Nomaguchi and Milkie demonstrate that support for […]

Sociologist Jacqui Frost demonstrates that some nonreligious people have certainty in their beliefs and others experience uncertainty as positive and motivating.

Family tensions that arise during holiday meal times are often rooted in bigger social conflicts and play out differently depending on a family's social location.