In December 2025, the US government sent more than 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge. They joined more than 700 agents already ...

A Russian flag flaps in the wind, with a large stately building visible in the background. “Russland-Flagge-Moskau” by Schlurcher is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ...

This study shows that just believing climate change is real isn’t enough to motivate people to take action against it. People ...

Cynthia Miller-Idriss (Professor of Public Affairs at American University) appeared on The Contrarian, discussing the ...

Despite longstanding media coverage and decades of calls for change by sport advocates, incidents of sexual and gender-based violence ( SGBV) in Canadian sport remain prevalent. Recent studies found ...

Our lives are socially structured in many ways. This means that we are frequently directed to behave in a certain manner, embrace particular values, and think about ourselves in socially patterned ...

Victor Ray contextualizes recent events in Minnesota in this piece “America’s ‘dual state’ is a racial state.” ...

Mallory Harrington (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a JD student at the Law School at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include online ...

Chris discusses his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps and life lessons that can be taken from the ...

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Read more… ...