In spring of 2020, the American Sociological Association joined with more than 50 scholarly societies to offer calls to higher education...
Contact: Johanna Olexy, ASA Director of Communications, at (202) 247-9873, communications@asanet.orgAs school districts grapple with how to...
A new study shows that rising income inequality in the U.S. has led affluent parents to increase spending on their children, widening the...
Mothers who leave work to raise children often sacrifice more than the pay for their time off; when they come back their wages reflect lost...
Rising income inequality, and the resulting scarcity of certain types of jobs, is a key reason a growing number of young Americans are...
A tiny hair barrette and an anguished moment marked the turning point for one mother in coming to fully accept that her child, who was born...
ASA speaks with sociologist Mito Akiyoshi at the 2016 ASA Annual Meeting on August, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Akiyoshi talks about what it...
The number of children in foster care across the country is driven not solely by child abuse and neglect, but by states' varying politics...
Heterosexual couples that split childcare duties have higher quality relationships and sex lives than those who don't, according to new...
The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared...