In the digital age, social media has become a powerful tool for amplifying voices, sharing stories, and fostering accountability. However, it has also given rise to cancel culture—a phenomenon where ...

Human development and socialization unfold within cultural contexts that shape cognition, emotion and behaviour from infancy through adulthood. Cultural norms and values determine parenting ideals, ...

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...

The U.S. government has long had an ambivalent approach toward economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR). The United States played a central role in articulating these rights and ensuring that they ...

Margaret Mead and the Samoa: In a previous post, I explained that, at the most abstract level, all human cultures are the same and there is only one human culture. Nothing illustrates this point ...

More than 30 years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter coined the term "culture wars." Since then, those wars have poisoned American politics. James Davison Hunter, professor of religion, culture ...