sociologists

When there are no conservatives available, the Left turns on its own. “An Antifa group at the University of Texas at Austin is calling for 'revolutionary violence' against assistant professor Robert L. Reece after he wrote a column running afoul of feminist dogma,” Matthew Vadum writes in The American ...

According to sociologists, the reason white men are killing themselves is not because of guns but the white-oppression complex. “(It's) the feeling that if whites express pride in their heritage, they are branded as racists and bigots,” said Mitch Berbrier, a sociologist and dean of The College of Arts, ...

On the stand, Rose's attorney brought out his client's background: recipient of the Bronze Star Medal in World War II; Fulbright professor in Europe; trained sociologist; author of 150 papers and a half-dozen books; a member of the DFL Party, though he'd voted “a couple of times for Republicans.”.

A study released Thursday by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism shows some jobs related to tourism pay better in Hawaii than on the mainland, but for almost everyone else, the price of paradise is a lower paycheck. “Hawaii's Working Population: An Analysis by ...

Sociologist: 50 Years After The Fair Housing Act, Discrimination Looks Different. Cate Cahan, Mariah Woelfel. April 11, 2018. 4 min Add to queue. President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. AP Photo. President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights ...

One way would be for financial institutions to enlist the services of sociologist and psychologist by making them part of their credit evaluation teams. It is the mind and attitude of the borrower that determines whether they will default or not. Sociologists and psychologists are in this case better placed to judge ...

At a time when the Supreme Court is taking up cases involving gerrymandering and redistricting, UChicago sociologist Robert Vargas warns of the social consequences of redistricting beyond politics. In his research, Vargas examines how ward redistricting can affect rates violence on clusters of blocks by ...

Vegans and vegetarians typically cite a variety of reasons for going on plant-based diets and giving up animal-based products, ranging from health concerns to environmental. But according to a sociologist, men who go on vegan and vegetarian diets are actually promoting “white masculinity,” reported Fox ...

“As a sociologist, I am glad to share with you that sociology has more than 600 branches today. Sociology pervades human life as a whole. Let it be an individual, an institution, a society-let it be customs, traditions, health, development, backwardness, rites, rituals and life styles-let it be human behavior, ...

Vegan Syda ProductionsMove over, feminized glaciers—there's a new absurd-sounding social science paper making the rounds in conservative media: "Meatless meals and masculinity: How veg* men explain their plant-based diets." The study purports to show that although being vegan is a feminine trait, ...

Joseph O. Baker, associate professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University, is the co-author of the 2011 book Paranormal America, an exploration of the belief in UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot, and beyond. Here, Baker explains where our schema of aliens comes ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Sociologist Matthew Desmond, author of a groundbreaking study of evictions in Milwaukee, told a Cleveland crowd Thursday that people being thrown out of their homes is a cause rather than a symptom of poverty in the United States. Desmond, whose book, "Evicted: Poverty and ...

This was not an opinion that I expected to hear from a panel discussing the ethics of interview-based research in sociology. The panel was organised as part of a recent conference held in St Petersburg, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the St Petersburg Association of Sociologists. There was, of course, ...

The 67-year-old sociologist is a leader in what's known as "masculinities studies," and an in-demand purveyor of insight on why men are the way they are. The field he helped develop has long had men's misdeeds as an area of focus, but it's gained newfound exposure and relevance with #MeToo and ...

CO, Jakarta - Gadjah Mada University sociologist Arie Sujito said that hoax and hate speech that commodifies issues of ethnicity and religion has intensified heading towards the 2018 simultaneous regional election and 2019 presidential election. Arie argues that hoax-related issues are a threat towards ...

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci wrote in an essay published in The New York Times on March 10 about experiments she performed on YouTube during the 2016 election, where she noticed that no matter what kind of political content she searched for, the recommended videos were always more extreme and ...

The US-educated, Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz has established a reputation as the sociologist of love, sex and power. Her book, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, .... French society is still shaped by those courtly institutions. Sociologists know that most behaviours trickle down.”.

Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington. Wuthnow's work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America.

Amid the new calls to stop violence against women in India, Deepa Narayan, a sociologist based in Delhi, kept turning one question over and over in her head -- how did Indian society come to accept this treatment of women? "What is it about our culture that leads to such violence against women and this ...

As the sociologist for the dating app Tinder, and now Bumble, she offers an unparalleled look at relationships, technology and decision-making. Her television appearances include ABC's Good Morning America, 20/20 and Nightline, as well as The Doctors, CNN, HuffPost Live and Pivot's Take Part Live.

Sociologist Yu Xie is the director of Princeton's Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, which aims to conduct research on Chinese society through an interdisciplinary approach. Known for the statistical rigor he brings to sociology, Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of ...

In a new study that capitalizes on data from the National Center for Educational Statistics and methods that address causality, Cornell sociologists looked at an earlier portion of the pipeline -- in high school, when students' commitment to STEM fields tends to solidify. They are the first to analyze the efficacy ...

In 1905, German sociologist Max Weber wrote a warm letter to W.E.B Du Bois, offering praise for the American sociologist's landmark book of essays, “The Souls of Black Folk.” He even insisted it be translated into German. The missive was one of five Weber wrote, between 1904 and 1905, to Du Bois, one ...

Berkeley-based sociologist and writer Arlie Hochschild has spent much of her career looking at the chasms in America that divide people of different incomes, races and political beliefs. But for her next project, she's looking at programs that bridge those gaps. And she's starting in Kentucky. “I've spent the ...

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi sociologist is the keynote speaker for W.E.B. Du Bois Day, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth, Friday (March 2) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. James M. Thomas, assistant professor of sociology, will discuss “The Souls of Jews ...

However, paradoxically, though Oommen, having been immersed during all his nearly 50 years in teaching and researching sociology, at the end, censures and slams his fraternity of the Indian sociologists as “professionals without professionalism”. Moreover, as a reputed professional sociologist himself, ...

By the year 2060, the number of Americans over age 65 is expected to double, to 24 percent of the population, intensifying concerns about end-of-life care. In a Feb. 23 talk, sociologists Holly Prigerson and Libby Luth will speak on “Psychosocial Influences on End-of-Life Care: Leveraging and Application ...

The American opioid epidemic has defied all efforts to contain it, and the number of overdose deaths continues to grow. President Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency in October and said “we have to do something about it” in ...

Students gathered in Strong Hall Monday evening to hear Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), speak on interfaith leadership at UT. Hoping to connect his talk to recent campus events surrounding race and other aspects of identity, Patel elected to trace the history of American identity from its ...

Sociologists' observations about society and how its influences affect us generates important information used to help us relate to one another, whether as ... Dr. Carolyn Paul, a sociologist and faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), said that sociology is a field of study not well ...

Commenting on the appropriateness of electing Armen Sarkissian as President of Armenia, the sociologist said he has quite a big experience in communication which is very important feature for the president. “He, as a person representing the country, is quite experienced”, Aharon Adibekyan stated.

More young men than women have consistently held less egalitarian views on working mothers, according to a 2017 paper, “Trending Towards Traditionalism,” by sociologists Joanna Pepin and David Cotter. There's also been a decline in the number of young men and women supporting working mothers ...

Jessica Calarco, assistant sociologist professor at the University of Indiana joins the Matt Bubala show to talk about Utah's new free-range parenting law. So far, Utah is the first state to legalize this, where the law states that parents will not be charged with neglect for allowing “a child, whose basic needs are ...

Meacham Park is a historically black community, hemmed in by I-44, situated in the midst of an affluent, white town – Kirkwood. The relationship between Kirkwood and Meacham Park is a story that spans over a century. In 2015, Andrea Boyles, sociologist, author, and St. Louis native, tackled the intricacies ...

Viewed through a sociologist's framework, Zukin says the events' aspirational messaging—typical Silicon Valley-style futurebabble about changing the world—feels dystopian. Hackathons show “the fault lines of an emerging production system” by embodying a set of “quasi-Orwellian” ideas that are ...

Considering the number of baby boomers entering their senior years, the country needs more such institutions, sociologist, educator and author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot told an audience Tuesday at the Four Arts. According to population studies, 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. “We are healthier ...

The Malta Law Academy, a Foundation of the Malta Chamber of Advocates, jointly with the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Malta will again this year commemorate World Consumers' Day with its annual Consumer Law conference. As in previous editions, Dr David Fabri, head of the ...

Paula El Khoury is a research associate at the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. She has more than 20 years of experience as journalist and sociologist, during which she was involved in popularizing the social sciences in her ...

“We're always on, always plugged in, always stimulated, always in a constant state of self-presentation.” By Sean Illing@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com Mar 27, 2018, 8:50am EDT. Share Tweet Share. Share How we're becoming slaves to technology, explained by an MIT sociologist. tweet share Reddit Pocket Flipboard ...