The CATI system is designed so that a central computer randomly selects a telephone number and dials it, thus avoiding the problem of unlisted telephone numbers. First the questionnaire is typed into the computer; then, as the sociologist reads the questions from the questionnaire, he or she ...
Without agreement on what is worth struggling for, the struggle would not have been possible. The perception of Bourdieu as a theorist of struggle may be attributed to his focus on competition for capitals. He likely does not prioritise integration in his theoretical framework because he does not...
The creation and maintenance of “urban order” has been called one of the central scientific questions of urban studies [5]. Sociologist Alan Latham lists three central questions on urban life; his second question is “how cities manage to generate order despits their size and heterogeneity” (...
While humans have the basic neural wiring to hate, getting a entire group of people to hate requires convincing them that another person or group of people is evil or dangerous. Rutgers University sociologist Martin Oppenheimer, who with his family fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s, argues that...
Altruism is a selfless action performed by a person or animal. In certain cases, the selfless action might come at the expense of the entity expressing the altruistic action. Altruism can be understood in many different ways including spiritual, neurological, sociological, and cognitive explanations...
The sociologist Pamela Stone studied a group of mothers who had made these decisions. Typically, she found, they phrased their decision in terms of a preference. But when they explained their ‘decision-making process,’ it became clear that most had made the ‘choice’ to quit work only as...
In her book "Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945," sociologist Emily S. Rosenberg identifies five components of the American dream that have shown up in countries around the world. These include the following: ...
Roy F. Baumeister, a world-renowned sociologist and researcher, concludes that a meaningful life has four properties, including a purpose that guides our actions and gives us direction, values that allow us to know good from bad, and allow us to see our life as good, and positive progress ...
An engineer contract is an endeavor as well as a commitment by an individual as well as the company to do specified tasks under particular terms as well as circumstances. Engineer contracts are legal contracts among a corporation as well as an en...
''BEING ABLE'' Negotiating the meanings of reflective practice and reflexive research in journalism studies Sarah Niblock In attempt to define a methodology, journalism scholars use the term ''reflective'' as a way to distinguish their critical study of journalism from that of a non-practitioner....