Winner 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological AssociationWinner 2024 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological AssociationAs autism has grown in prevalence, so too have our attempts to make sense of it. From placing unfounded blame on vaccines to seeking a genetic cause, Americans have struggled to understand what...

For over half a century, Stanley Milgram's classic and controversial obedience experiments have been a touchstone in the social and behavioral sciences, introducing generations of students to the concept of destructive obedience to authority and the Holocaust. In the last decade, the interdisciplinary Milgram renaissance has led to widespread interest in rethinking and challenging the context and nature of his Obedience Experiment. In Morality in the Making of Sense and Self, Matt...