Legal consciousness is a vibrant research field attracting growing numbers of scholars
worldwide. Yet differing assumptions about aims and methods have generated vigorous …

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became
popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …

Engineering is often described as an enduring bastion of masculine culture where women
experience marginality. Using diaries from undergraduate engineering students at four …

Lawyers keep the gates of public justice institutions, particularly through their roles in formal
procedures like hearings and trials. Yet, it is not clear what lawyers do in such …

Research on the gender division of family labor largely focuses on housework and childcare
in spousal couples. This article advances scholarship by examining the gender division of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified families' struggles to reconcile caregiving and
employment, especially for working mothers. How have different countries reacted to these …

This special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality, examines the impact of the marriage
equality movement and the resulting landmark US Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v …

In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-
class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result …

Sociology has been curiously silent about the concept of luck. The present article argues
that this omission is, in fact, an oversight: An explicit and systematic engagement with luck …

Autism is a developmental disorder that emerges in early childhood. Treatments for autism
span a wide variety of professionals and paraprofessionals in the medical and educational …