Sociologists sometimes use snowball sampling to study groups that are not part of the mainstream. This include people who use drugs or don't have homes. How it Works: The researcher finds a few people in the community who are willing to talk about their experiences. These people are asked t...
How do these factors differ from each other? What are growth factors? What are the biological components of human sexuality? Why do sociologists see most sexual behavior as learned rather than innate? List three factors that influence the age of the animals. What are the factors that contribute...
Joe: Well, so in lots of places when societies are rooted completely in subsistence, there’s no need to do very much trading and trading is often done through personal relationships. But as societies scale up, there’s a lot of economic opportunities in trading with people who have ...
Surveillance Capitalismis a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and it will be read with great interest by sociologists, psychologists, economists and political scientists alike. Zuboff does an apt job of illuminating a new mode of capital accumulation, and the efficacy of her presentation in...
guns accrue for people and communities when these guns are not shooting bullets or causing mortal wounds; in other words, focusing not just on death data, but on life data as well. For instance, how do people in gun-dense regions narrate the roles that firearms play in their daily lives?
Do I not fit in the scene? I’ve been told by my female friends that I may come across too tough. Japanese men aren’t impressed by “sexiness,”“attitude,” and “confidence” as the Western men. If and only if I can find a way to hide them away in a little box and focus ...
PG Watkins, an activist withNo New Jails Detroit, eloquently illustrates the ways in which carcerality is ingrained in our way of living. In doing so, PG proposes a thought-provoking question: What do we use the police for? PG Watkins ofNo New Jails Detroiton Reliance on Police ("Beyond...
Regular seminars and guest lecturers:Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. ...
we as a culture have “lost” what it means to be masculine. Sociologists, pundits, and writers – male and female, feminist and otherwise – have been wrestling with the idea of what makes a man, whether we’ve lost sight of it and if we have, whether this is a good or a bad t...
That is, the possibility that, if we just talked to each other more, and more effectively, everything would be fine. But it is also possible that value sets do not exactly align. If you had to choose, what is the most important...