Sentences with phrase «many sociologists»

As one pair of sociologists from The University of North Texas and Rice put it, «in a society that encourages men to be dominant and women to be submissive, having the image of tall men hovering over short women reinforces» the very idea that men must be the aggressors and the chasers when it comes to romantic relationships.

The University of Tennessee sociologist Michelle Brown tells Fortune she has seen exhibits that were just voyeuristic entertainment, «based around a really uninformed sense of spectacle.»

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

In his landmark 1965 12 - country time - diary study, German sociologist Erwin Scheuch found that the more industrialized a country became, the more activities its people crammed into a 24 - hour period.

On his blog recently, he recommended a number of reads, including Evicted, by Gates Foundation grantee, Princeton sociologist, and MacArthur Foundation «Genius» grant winner Matthew Desmond.

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

«For many workers, psychological stress has replaced physical hazards,» sociologist Sarah Burgard, who led the study, observed in a science journal.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

Conceived in the 1960s by sociologists Eugene Weinstein and Paul Deutschberger, the method involves characterizing people as certain personality types in order to nudge them towards a specific behavior.

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg looks at the implications of single - person households in his latest book.

«There's a huge change in the composition of households,» said Paula England, a sociologist at New York University.

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The son of a psychoanalyst and a sociologist, Bilinkis grew up in Buenos Aires, went to a prestigious private college on a scholarship, and graduated at the top of his class.

Menon referenced research by sociologist Mark Granovetter, who found that most people don't secure job opportunities through strong ties — think mother, father, significant other.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

Sociologist Pontell and his colleagues Kitty Calavita, at U.C. Irvine, and Robert Tillman, at New York's St. John's University, have demonstrated this in a number of compelling academic studies.

In fact there is, according to Christine Carter, a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

The decline in wealth actually started long before the recession, says sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, research assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

This is also called the Thomas Theorem, coined by the sociologist W.I. Thomas in 1928.

Writing on the Greater Good Science Center blog recently, sociologist and positive psychology expert Christine Carter made much the same case, writing that the secret to accomplishing more is to stop doing everything you dislike doing.

And a recent study by Kristen Schilt, a University of Chicago sociologist, focuses on exactly those experiences among female - to - male transsexuals.

INSIDER's Kim Renfro reported that some sociologists think there could be a link between declining divorce rates and more people deciding to live together before marriage.

«Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world,» writes sociologist Waqar Ahmed, stating the obvious.

Reynolds, a sociologist, began surveying random samples of adults and simply asking them, Had they started their own business recently?

Moynihan, at the time a sociologist and research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for more government action to improve the economic prospects of black families.

Two sociologists, Jaclyn Wong of the University of Chicago and Andrew Penner of the University of California at Irvine, looked at how physical attractiveness relates to income.

The piece looked at research done by Rutgers professor Keith Hampton, a Canadian sociologist, on whether technology really is causing separation between people, as the conventional wisdom goes.

According to sociologist Roman Krznaric, empathy is produced two ways: through proximity and shared experience.

However, as the sociologist Susan Shapiro points out, third parties merely shift the trust problem from one entity to another.

Techno - sociologist Zeynep Tufekci pointed out that Facebook's website pushes users to follow Zuckerberg's profile page.

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci said on Twitter that she believes while media outlets seem incapable of resisting the lure of an email dump from a prominent figure, there are risks to publishing indiscriminately from such hacks that could have long - lasting impact.

«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»

Sociologists who study the Nordic model have found that social cohesion between citizens and the government goes a long way toward ensuring a (mostly) peaceful society.

Comedian Aziz Ansari teamed up with sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg to write «Modern Romance,» an in - depth investigation into the reality of what it's like to date and look for love in the digital era.

Dr. Esteban Calvo, a sociologist at Columbia University, has conducted research which indicates there's truth to the maxim «use it or lose it.»

Gummi Oddsson, a cross-cultural sociologist from Northern Michigan University, has found that Nordic governments go to great lengths to build trust in local communities.

Duke University professor and sociologist Jeffrey Swanson, who specializes in studying the link between violence and mental illness, told Vox that even if everyone who suffers from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression in the US were cured overnight, violent crime in the US would only fall by around 4 %.

wondered celebrated sociologist Jean Twenge in The Atlantic earlier this year.

The most interesting result, however, is based on an idea proposed more than 50 years ago by the German sociologist Theodore Adorno.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

Between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, homicide reduced drastically in societies, which sociologist Norbert Elias noted is best seen in European countries, in which there was «the consolidation of a patchwork of feudal territories into large kingdoms with centralized authority and an infrastructure of commerce,» Pinker said.

Yes, answers Christine Carter, a sociologist, author, and positive psychology expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, in a recent Washington Post op - ed.

In the 1970's a sociologist named Mark Granovetter introduced a concept called «the strength of weak ties.»

As sociologist Zeynep Tufekci described it in a recent paper:

No doubt time travelling sociologists are using us in a large lab test to prove theories on mass delusion; the worse the climate gets, the more we will deny it is happening.

As a mother myself, as well as a sociologist who studies families, I have experienced firsthand the unexpected costs associated with having a child.

Panelists included Kate Crawford, a researcher with Microsoft, Andrew McLaughlin of Betaworks, and University of North Carolina sociologist Zeynep Tufekci.

«Given today's precarious economic situation, the «happy working parent» needs to be able to adapt and adjust,» said Baruch College sociologist Caryn Medved in an email, referring to a series of studies she conducted of two - income and reverse - traditional couples.

«Net worth dropped long before the recession, if you exclude housing wealth,» says sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, research assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who adds that wealth for many Americans began to decline in the mid-1980s.

Sociologist Charles Perrow coined the phrase «normal accidents» in the 1980s to describe how large accidents, although rare, are inevitable, and even normal in a complex system.