In The News: Department of Sociology
Sandi Benks has worked at the Love Ranch, a legal, licensed brothel seven miles outside of Carson City, for the past two years. She sees many clients on a regular basis 鈥 a relationship she鈥檚 been creative in maintaining during the coronavirus pandemic.
The path was fairly straight and no more than 10 feet wide, and as my wife and I approached another walking her dog Sunday, the woman veered left to travel another route.
Mention the phrase 鈥渟ex tourism鈥 in conversation and most people will cringe in disgust.
McCartney and Lennon said it best - we get by with a little help from our friends.
Not male, not female.
Each year, thousands of people are born in the U.S. with sex characteristics that don鈥檛 typically identify them as one gender or the other.
Las Vegas is one of America鈥檚 booziest cities. And beer has played a big part in developing that reputation.
UNR was thrust into an uncomfortable spotlight in 2017 when one of its students was photographed at the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a counter-protestor was killed and several more injured when a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd.
With white supremacist violence on the rise nationwide, a 性视界传媒 sociologist is studying how the Internet can turn hateful feelings into deadly actions.
In his office at 性视界传媒, sociology professor Simon Gottschalk tapped his keyboard.
Perusing through websites filled with threads espousing hatred toward Jews and other minorities isn鈥檛 exactly the sort of reading 性视界传媒 sociologist Simon Gottschalk enjoys.
性视界传媒 researchers wanted to understand what moves people from expressing their private thoughts to like-minded individuals online to violent actions off line.
How does the echo chamber of online chats groups transform hate speech into hate crimes?