But it gets tricky when academic and political norms collide. Unz is behaving in a perfectly reasonable waypolitically, dodging criticism as much as he can, fighting it where appropriate, and occasionally making a strategic concession of as little as possible in order to stay ahead of the story...
Sociology App Android|IOS|Window Search WebSociologyguide.com Home>>Marriage Family and Kinship>>Marriage Marriage is one of the universal social institutions established to control and regulate the life of mankind. It is closely associated with the institution of family. Infact both the institutions...
Previous literature looking at objective indicators such as employment rates and health suggests that migrants’ reasons for migration relate to major differences across groups in these types of well-being indicators. In contrast, our analysis suggests that differences in subjective well-being with the ...
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the concept of social capital and to distinguish its different forms, focusing on their potential effects on health. According to many scholars, social capital comprises social networks, norms of reciprocity or social support and social trust....
(Personal Communication, Spring 2007).In contrast, other social science fields have a long established history ofsharing research data (Feinberg, Martin and Straff, 1985). Researchers in disci-plines like political science and sociology, particularly those engaged in quanti-tative research, routinely...
These performances and interactions are embedded in social norms, which in turn are reproduced through individual interactions (West & Fenstermaker,2002; West & Zimmerman,1987). Following this social constructivist and ethnomethodological premise (Garfinkel,2006), class must be understood as an “ongoing...
There is no doubt that research paradigms and (social) theories influence practices, not only in the public sector but also the private sector. To get to the root of the problems facing society and the ways and means we utilise water resources, we need t
Here, we will first discuss the possibility of replicability and replication,2 drawing from a few landmark studies in the sociology and history of science, with questions of desirability reserved for the next section. In his landmark study of replication, sociologist of science Harry Collins ...
The focus of this article is not the analysis of biological characteristics adjacent to sexual orientation, but only on their impacts on established social networks—that is, we focus on sociology and the study of social constraints specifically. The analysis of sexuality can be carried out from ...
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