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The main purpose and goal of Sociology Mind (SM) is to synergize sociological imagination in the 21st century toward a critical understanding of new social and cultural forces that call for scientific interpretation and analysis of facts and values. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigo…
William Elliott, Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Haotian Zheng, Subin Min
This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Two traditional measures of asset poverty (net worth equal to 3 months at the poverty line; 3 months of annual income), and a new measure we refer to as asset empowerment (on track to achiev…
William Elliott, Haotian Zheng, Benjamin Osafo Agyare, Subin Min
We posit that financial capability is a higher order construct that consists of both personal and governmental capabilities. Conversely, previous definitions of financial capability exclusively focus on an individual’s personal capability. However, because pe…
William Elliott
This introductory article to the special issue Wealth , Opportunity , and the New Social Contract : Integrating Financial Capability in American Social Welfare Policy argues for a paradigm shift in U.S. social welfare policy centered on the concept of financi…
Alexander A. Kharlamov, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1
Problem solving is an example of purposeful behavior that boils down to searching for a description of a chain of situations that lead to a target situation from the current situation in internal or external sources, or to synthesize such a chain if it is not…
Mario I. Aguilar
This paper (number 5) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of previous papers ( Aguilar, 2024a , 2024b , 2025a , 2025b ) but moves the material context of historically state sanctioned cemeteries to northwe…
Robb Shawe
The idea that human beings originated in Africa is supported by scientific research, but some individuals, past and present, resist accepting this fact. This resistance can stem from cultural beliefs, personal experiences, or education. Many cultures have the…
Karl M. van Meter
To study the role and place of religion in human societies, we must first describe the latter. In Sociology Mind , “Structures of Human Societies” (van Meter, 2014), we have previously described Agoramétrie’s results on how human societies are distributed ove…
Mario I. Aguilar
This paper (number 4) in the research project ‘Burying the Dead’ follows the introductory comments and typology of previous papers ( Aguilar, 2025 ) but moves the material context of historically state sanctioned cemeteries to a wider diversity of graves in C…
Edyta Just
I call a “space of in-between”, the space where the embodied/embedded subject finds itself after an unwelcome ‘presence’ has entered its life. I call manifestations of the body which impair a daily life, a “presence”. In this text, I want to outline the conto…
Arthur Sakamoto
In a recent article entitled “Racial Inequality in 8 th -Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements,” Carbonaro et al. (2024) argue that African American 8 th -grade students are less likely to be enro…
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The main purpose and goal of Sociology Mind (SM) is to synergize sociological imagination in the 21st century toward a critical understanding of new social and cultural forces that call for scientific interpretation and analysis of facts and values. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigo… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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