Sentences with phrase «state sociology professor»

«The Obama Administration has never really tried to do much on the topic of climate change,» Michigan State sociology professor Aaron McCright told Discovery.

Kent State sociology professor Jerry Lewis refers to such incidents as «automatic riots.»

Not exact matches

Globally, it's a $ 97 billion industry, according to Kassia Wosick, assistant professor of sociology at New Mexico State University.

«I understand why job seekers that are minority or female would want to do that; it makes perfect sense based on what we know about the hiring process,» says Steve McDonald, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

«Some people have talked about marriage as a luxury good,» said Susan Brown, a sociology professor at Bowling Green State University and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research.

The porn industry, which Kassia Wosick, assistant professor of sociology at New Mexico State, estimated was a $ 97 billion global industry in 2014, has always embraced new technology.

Curious about the reason for this gap, we reached out to Michael Fortunato, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University (@SamHoustonState) in Huntsville, Texas, who studies entrepreneurs.

A professor of sociology at Williams College, Nolan profiles four foreign visitors to the United States — Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb — and lays out their distinct views of American culture.

Roof, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, and McKinney, professor of religion and society at Hartford Seminary, are interested not in issuing a jeremiad or an apology about the state of American religion, but in ascertaining just how the landscape of American religion is being altered.

In Bavaria, Catholic bishops have the right to veto the nomination of a professor of theology, philosophy, pedagogy and sociology / political science at state universities if the candidate does not entertain the standpoint of the Catholic Church.

Among the experts Richtel spoke with was Virginia Rutter, an associate professor of sociology at Framingham State University in Massachusetts, who suggested that perhaps our obsession with weddings is hyping up our expectations of marriage itself.

Susan Stewart, a professor of sociology at Iowa State University and author of the «Co Sleeping: Parents, Children, and Musical Beds», found out that many of the parents still bring their babies into their bed at some point or least a part of the night.

«It's every penny counts,» says Kevin Wehr, an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento.

But this study was considered groundbreaking because it compared siblings rather than unrelated children, where demographic differences and whether a pregnant woman smokes or drinks can bias studies in favor of breast - feeding, said Cynthia Colen, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University and the lead author of the study.

[5] Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, has stated that Sanders is a social democrat and not a democratic socialist -LSB-...] Mike Konczal, an economic policy expert at the Roosevelt Institute, also characterizes Sanders» positions as «social democracy» rather than «socialist», noting that social democracy means support for a mixed economy combining private enterprise with government spending, social insurance programs, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and democratic participation in government and the workplace - all of which are a part of Sanders» platform.

«We started this study thinking we would identify the individual characteristics that motivated rescuers, because that's what most previous research had pointed to,» said Hollie Nyseth Brehm, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

Brehm conducted the study with Nicole Fox, assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento.

«Our research so far has shown pretty clearly that although most farmers believe that climate change is occurring, a minority attribute it to human activity,» said Arbuckle, an associate sociology professor at Iowa State University.

The study has created somewhat of a buzz, said Riley Dunlap, co-author and professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University.

The key for these state programs is often patience and modest expectations, says University of Illinois sociology professor Kevin Leicht, the study's lead author.

«It's not surprising,» said Aaron McCright, sociology professor at Michigan State University, who is a white male himself.

The study suggests that women who didn't spend a lot of time on academics but are «intelligent enough» have an advantage over women who excel in school,» said researcher Natasha Quadlin, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State.

But it is the first to find that the growth of the pharmaceutical industry itself may be associated with worse rather than better health,» said Hui Zheng, lead author of the study and associate professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

«Becoming a widow is one of the most difficult transitions that people face later in life,» said Dr. Ben Lennox Kail, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at Georgia State University.

For starters, it's important to recognize that cooperation between humans makes no sense, said David Melamed, an assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«We recommend for the folks that are talking with farmers one on one, it's probably a more effective communication strategy to talk about more extreme weather rather than saying, «Let's take care of anthropogenic climate change,»» said J. Gordon Arbuckle, a sociology professor with Iowa State University who helps conduct the survey.

«Over 67 percent of never married women and 66 percent of divorced women perceive what happens to other women as having some or a lot to do with what happens in their own lives,» said Kelsy Kretschmer, a co-author of the study and an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University.

But a study by a West Virginia University sociology professor finds that women in developed countries — like the United States — are actually more likely to be physically assaulted than women in developing countries.

Previous studies have not examined how working or volunteering affects functional limitations, said Ben Lennox Kail, lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State.

«We know that after migrants come to the U.S., their health behavior and health status changes the longer they live in the United States,» said Bridget Gorman, chair and professor of sociology at Rice and the study's lead author.

«Genocide has been called the crime of crimes, and these accused perpetrators very much understood that,» said Hollie Nyseth Brehm, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

«If people are getting insurance from places other than their employer, these kinds of insurance tend to be less good,» said Ben Lennox Kail, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State.

Jeff Gruenewald, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, and colleagues Steven Chermak at Michigan State University and Joshua D. Freilich at the City University of New York examined characteristics of far - right, extremist homicides in the United States over the past decade.

The Florida State University Faculty Luncheon Series for Fall 2017 features the following distinguished speakers who will reflect on their scholarly research and creative activities: Tuesday, Sept. 12 Anne Barrett, professor of sociology and director of The Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, will discuss «Doing Our Bit: Older Feminists» Activism in London.»

The study's lead author is Dr. Eric Wright, a professor with appointments in Health Management & Policy and Sociology at Georgia State.

Stress and money troubles associated with being a single mom are likely the main culprits, says the lead author of the study, Kristi Williams, PhD, an associate professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, in Columbus.

According to the study, «the availability of illegal drugs and alcohol in the home while growing up is a critical factor in the later use of substances,» said study author Cliff Broman, a professor of sociology at Michigan State University.

Framingham State College sociology professor Virginia Rutter urges people to take the time and energy that it takes to troll a cheating Web site, and re-invest it in their existing relationships.

Finkel co-authored this report with Paul Eastwick, assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M University; Benjamin Karney, professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles; Harry Reis, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester; and Susan Sprecher, professor of sociology and psychology at Illinois State University.

In 2009, Stein Ringen, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Oxford, gave his assessment of the New Labour government and the state of the British constitution.

Rachel E. Durham (Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University) is the Evaluation Director / Assistant Professor with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium.

The thesis itself was perhaps too tidy — in Contemporary Sociology, California State University Professor Linda Fritschner pointed out that, according to immigration data, «a simple correlation between immigration and the school wars is nonexistent.»

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

Speakers: Gary Orfield, co-Director UCLA Civil Rights Project; Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies; Johanna Josaphat, Founding Teacher, Unison School; John B. King, Jr., President and CEO, The Education Trust; former United States Secretary of Education; Ann Owens, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California.

The moderator for the panel discussion is Annie Buckley (artist, writer, curator, and Associate Professor of Visual Studies at California State University, San Bernardino); and the panelists include Evonne Gallardo (Arts and Culture Consultant), Phung Huynh (artist and Associate Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College), Tiffany Lanoix (Associate Professor of Sociology at West Los Angeles College), and Jennifer Lynne Musto (Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College).

Oct. 3, 9:00 p.m. Updated A chart of «key components of the climate change denial machine» has been produced by Riley E. Dunlap, regents professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University, and Aaron M. McCright, an associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University.

Here are some highlights from particularly interesting non-anonymous comments (a perk aimed at fostering constructive discourse), along with thoughts sent to me by two prominent analysts of the intersection of science and human affairs, Brad Allenby, the professor of engineering and ethics at Arizona State University and co-author of one of my favorite books of 2011, «The Techno - Human Condition,» and Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in Britain and author of «Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What it Means to be Human,» which I look forward to reading over the holidays.

«It's not like they can't play Sudoku on their computer, they have no electricity,» said Frank Clemente, a sociology professor at Penn State.

«The colliding forces of human fertility, submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement are a huge problem,» said Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell University, in New York state.

Riley E. Dunlap is Regents Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University and Gallup Scholar for the Environment with Gallup.