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A growing movement within the discipline raises questions about promotion, peer review, the nature of research and the future of the field.

Social scientists are more worried now than during McCarthy era, survey finds. Sociologists consider why and what to do about it.

U.S. leads European peers and Japan in foreign student enrollments and spending on higher ed, but lags on educational attainment, study finds.

Group looks to use education, not pop culture, to get young people excited about voting in '08 -- and to make sure they can.

President of the University of California, Robert C. Dynes, will resign in 10 months, a year after weathering a major compensation scandal.

Scores of colleges, lenders and others comment on proposals to change U.S. rules governing student loan programs and college-lender relationships.

Sociologists -- especially those who study sexuality -- have for years done research that was considered controversial or troublesome by...