Online communities provide spaces for people who are vulnerable and underserved to seek
support and build community, such as LGBTQ+ people. Today, some online community …

A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

Recognizing that social forces shape sexual behavior and sexual identities, we examined
whether the recent liberalization in attitudes toward same-sex relationships has been …

Abstract Using Strauss-Howe generational theory as a guiding structure, this chapter
examines differences between generational identity for LGBTQ+ individuals compared to …

Previous research established a substantial increase in support for same-sex marriage in
the US, but it is unclear if this increase is due to cohort (a change that affects only the …

Background Over the last 40 years, there has been a cultural shift in attitudes toward same-
sex marriage in the USA. While there has been a great deal of focus on attitudes toward …

This study examines the idea that attitudes toward marriage are liberalizing in the US in the
face of federal recognition of same-sex marriage legislation by examining attitudes toward …

Sport has increasingly been posited as a vehicle for confronting racism and sexism in
traditional patriarchal cultures. This chapter investigates the processes, practices and …

Drawing upon 217 in-depth interviews and the concept of the “social imaginary,” we
introduce the “abortion imaginary”—a set of shared understandings regarding abortion and …

Americans now obtain college degrees at a higher rate than at any time in recent decades in
the hopes of improving their career prospects. At the same time, the rising costs of an …