Sociology: Customs & Traditions

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...

Medieval Christmas roaring fires, Yule logs, boars head on a platter and carols. So many of our best-loved traditions have their origins in the me...

The summer of 2022 saw the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation, the first time in British history that a mo...

Puck Fair, Irelands oldest festival, was established by a royal patent in October 1613, granted to the Welsh planter, Jenkyn Conway, of Killorglin....

The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds. It is also...

The Little Book of Hogmanay is a feast of information exploring the history, folklore, tales, customs, food, drink and celebrations of Hogmanay, fr...

In this lively illustrated anthology, Anne Harvey recreates the spirit of childhood Christmases past, from Washington Irvings Christmas Day in 1820...

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime ...

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime ...

Why was the partridge in the pear tree? Who was Good King Wenceslas? And what are the pagan origins behind The Holly and the Ivy? Discover the hidd...

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in England, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of...

How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends ab...

In this enchanting new book, one of the countrys most celebrated storytellers has gathered together traditional tales that have their roots in the ...

How our shifting sense of what's normal defines the character of democracyA provocative examination of social constructs and those who would altern...

Lavishly illustrated and fact-filled, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration is a fascinating and informative look into one of the world's...