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The interdisciplinary Youth Research Council works with Mason’s Early Identification Program to invite students to investigate social issues of their choosing, using the tools of community-based research.

In an op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, James Witte, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and director of the Institute for Immigration Research, describes a positive message in the National Football League's response to the Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin's serious injury.

Professional male athletes, particularly in the National Football League, have often been held up as the epitome of toxic male masculinity. This is not without good reason. In the past decade, NFL players have been arrested and convicted in cases of domestic violence, driving under the influence, illegal drug charges, involuntary manslaughter and, in the case of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, even murder.

In a Washington Post article about evidence of increased activity in Chinese crematorium facilities in the past weeks, Huwy-min Lucia Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, remarks on traditional urban cremation practices.

In an op-ed piece in the Indian Express, Rashmi Sadana, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, writes about the new opportunities made possible by the introduction of the Delhi Metro transportation system.

IIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Marissa Kiss, was interviewed by the Associated Press to discuss nepotism in the NFL. In recent decades immigrants have been underrepresented in the NFL. This is changing and hopefully immigrants along with African Americans will be able to bring their talent to the ranks of NFL coaches.

People across classes enter a new social contract on the metro. It not only creates a new form of mobility through urban space and over time, but also across a large swathe of the working and middle class of the city.