“Hookups,” or uncommitted sexual encounters, are becoming progressively more engrained
in popular culture, reflecting both evolved sexual predilections and changing social and …

College students are a vulnerable population for dating violence (DV) because of the social
environment in which they live and interact with other students. Campus climate surveys are …

In an advanced society like the US, where an array of processes work against gender
inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social …

In this article, the author describes swee** changes in the gender system and offers
explanations for why change has been uneven. Because the devaluation of activities done …

We did not realize it at the time, but we were observing a new cohort of students being swept
up onto the party pathway that defines a swath of undergraduate social life at this university …

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in
people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the …

Although theories of romantic stage development suggest that youth in the period of
emerging adulthood are fully capable of commitment to an intimate romantic relationship …

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social
problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at …

This article investigates the determinants of orgasm and sexual enjoyment in hookup and
relationship sex among heterosexual college women and seeks to explain why relationship …

Current work on hooking up—or casual sexual activity on college campuses—takes an
individualistic,“battle of the sexes” approach and underestimates the importance of college …