Connecting Sociology and YOU!

Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline Still Existent Today?

The School-to-Prison Pipeline (STPP) is a theoretical construct that describes the results of harsh disciplinary practices that push students out of the public education arena and into the criminal justice system. In short, the School-to-Prison Pipeline is made up of three significant contributing components...

Continue Reading

Will Virtual Socialization be the New Norm? 

[caption id="attachment_116422" align="alignleft" width="300"] Miyako Fujimiya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Technology has drastically changed within the past decade, and with these changes, there have been various impacts on our society. Most notable is the impact technology has...

Continue Reading

How to Live Forever: Blue Zones & Public Health

[caption id="attachment_116418" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by Dio Hasbi Saniskoro: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-doing-group-hand-cheer-3280130/[/caption] The most recently reviewed data by the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has determined the average overall life expectancy in the United States to be 76.4 years. With a startling...

Continue Reading

On the Brink

By all accounts, the nation of Haiti has devolved to depths unseen since the Haitian Revolution of 1791. After the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, gangs took over the island nation's capital, Port-au-Prince, leaving the country's 11 million...

Continue Reading

By Any Other Name…

Throughout history the world has seen numerous geopolitical events involving genocide, the systematic killing of one group based on differences in race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Some examples include Name Year Victims Killed The Armenian genocide 1915 - 1917 800,000 -...

Continue Reading