Articles

These articles are contributed by NUS Sociology's Society Subcommittee team to give you their Sociological perspectives on various aspects of our everyday life and current affairs.

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Differently Deviant: Moral Panics and Political Polarisation in the United States

Winston Wee

Feb 24, 2022
5 min

Differently Deviant: Moral Panics and Political Polarisation in the United States

Left: The Capitol bombing in the Netflix hit series Designated Survivor (Kinberg, Sutherland, Bymel, Sood and Pepper, 2016) Right: The...

The Stalled Revolution in Singapore: the consequence of resisting gender roles

Hamizah Myra Bte Mohammad Hamdan

Feb 24, 2022
4 min

The Stalled Revolution in Singapore: the consequence of resisting gender roles

Introduction The Department of Statistics reported that the percentage of dual-income families has risen from 47.1% in 2010 to 52.5% in...

Chong Kai Qing

Feb 24, 2022
4 min

The Optimised and The Non-Optimised

The December-January-(February, in some years, for those who celebrate Chinese New Year) line-up of months is most likely a period in...

Deviant Performance - An Examination of the Persistence of Deviant Behaviours in Deviant Groups

Yap Yi Yang

Feb 24, 2022
4 min

Deviant Performance - An Examination of the Persistence of Deviant Behaviours in Deviant Groups

Introduction When we speak of deviance in the Sociological canon, analysis is likely to occur on two distinct registers: (1) Structural...