15 Survey research is the most frequently usedmethodologyin sociology. Sociologists employing this method study samples, limited numbers of people representing an entire group of people who share similar characteristics, called populations. For example, a sociologist might measure a sample of 300 prison ...
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: The belief that other nations should replic...
A short mutant in a patch of tall plants would be shaded out. That problem isn't relevant when a human plants a patch or field with nothing but short plants. And short plants may be earlier than tall ones, or less subject to lodging (falling over) in the rain or wind. They also ...
A short mutant in a patch of tall plants would be shaded out. That problem isn't relevant when a human plants a patch or field with nothing but short plants. And short plants may be earlier than tall ones, or less subject to lodging (falling over) in the rain or wind. They also ...
we were coming to some insights that were now ready to share that weren't just hand-me-down wisdom, but actually had evidence behind them. And I thought that that would be useful, that if people could understand what grit is and where it comes from, that they might have a head start...
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 ...
government, but also actively intruding upon the autonomy of the family. It would lead to calls to curtail the opportunities of others and strip away their inherited advantages. No one would want to live in a society in which the liberal logic of equality of opportunity had worked itself out...
It would be interesting to write a plugin that flags up TOS flaws or changes on every site you visit, so that as you surf the web, you are alerted to potential offences against your sensibilities. On sites where you already have an account, where the TOS has changed, you could be alert...
While not a cultural sociologist, Sun speaks to important topics in the field. In their paper on breastfeeding among urban Shanghainese women, sociologists Hanser and Li attend to cultural meanings of what Blair-Loy (2005) calls norms of “intensive motherhood” and adds an important dimension ...
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...