Sociology

Sharing a home is what makes a couple a couple, but for some people, a romantic partner isn’t someone you live with

Love, hate or ambivalence about this vocal style may depend on our age and gender. Linguists and voice experts explain vocal fry’s origins and its place in society

Transformative festivals like Australia’s Rainbow Serpent are a global phenomena, and research on these grand social experiments is yielding insights into human organisation and cooperation

Researching racism in media and sport has taken Professor Karen Farquharson from post-Apartheid South Africa to youth sport clubs in Melbourne’s suburbs

By medicalising social anxiety as wholly a problem of the individual we risk overlooking the potential social drivers

The word ‘like’ is often frowned upon but, mainly because of young women, it’s here to stay and is far more sophisticated than we might think

Hundreds of years ago the two colours told a very different story, but the current status quo will be hard to budge

We get a boost in oxytocin or ‘love hormone’ levels after cuddling or positive interaction, now a world-first study shows pigs work the same way