Sentences with phrase «say sociologists»

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.

«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.

We talk all the time, says sociologist Sherry Turkle in a recent interview, but «all of this talk can come at the expense of conversation.»

It is, says sociologist Nick Wolfinger, whose latest book, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos, was just published.

«If there's a bigger buzz - kill than kids, I don't know it,» says sociologist and sexologist Pepper Schwartz, AARP's relationships expert and the author of numerous books.

«I think there's an incredible amount of deep resentment for women in America about divisions of labor,» said sociologist Lisa Wade when I asked her to comment on this contradiction.

Social infrastructure is just as important, says sociologist Robert Sampson

«Everybody's an expert on this issue, but we're relying on anecdotes,» says sociologist Michael Rocque of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

But the extensive data from Rwanda tell a different story: An individual's willingness to take part in genocidal violence depends on many personal and social factors that influence whether and how deeply a person participates, says sociologist and Rwanda genocide researcher Hollie Nyseth Brehm of Ohio State University in Columbus.

«When we communicate with a person we can't see, we create a mental image of them,» says sociologist Clifford Nass of Stanford University.

«It is more about lifestyle than ecologically sound cities,» says sociologist Saskia Sassen of Columbia University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel on cities.

«It's a major contribution toward [understanding] the relationship between economic indicators and social well - being,» says sociologist Fernando Rivera of Rutgers University in New Jersey.

«People in certain fields rise up the managerial chain by being experts,» says sociologist Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., author of A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back - Stabbers, and other Managers from Hell (American Management Association, 2006).

«Unprecedented,» says sociologist Kelly Moore, an expert on the intersection of science and politics at Loyola University Chicago.

«Engineering is a white male bastion,» says sociologist Carroll Seron from the University of California in Irvine.

«If you live in a poor Chicago neighborhood, bad things are more likely to happen to you,» said sociologist Katherine King, a visiting assistant professor of community and family medicine at Duke.

«My husband and I used a night nanny when our son was born last year,» says sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman, Ph.D. «We had a wonderful woman who is an RN, lactation consultant and baby sleep coach for six weeks, about two nights per week.

And that's important, says sociologist Natasha Kumar Warikoo, whose research indicates that college students in the United States often misinterpret affirmative action.

«There's really little to no evidence of that» in the U.S., said sociologist Aaron McCright of Michigan State University, lead author of the study.

Not exact matches

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

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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.

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.

«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.

At the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.»

Glen Elder, the sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the street.

Distinguished sociologist Peter Berger defends what he regards as American civil religion, the first commandment of which is (he says) «Thou shalt be tolerant!»

«There is a small decline in church attendance over time, but not nearly as large as suggested in popular culture, or even by some social scientists,» said University of Nebraska - Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel, who conducted the study.

«A lot of researchers and sociologists say nothing is changing, that religion is the same,» he says.

Most Wiccans identify as witches, and they form the largest branch of the burgeoning neo-pagan movement, said Helen A. Berger, a sociologist who specializes in the study of contemporary Paganism and witchcraft at Brandeis University.

«If I have offended you to say it's in the genes, it is so that I might provoke sociologists to do [new] research,» said Stark.

But I must say frankly that none of them impresses me, because to my mind all are neutralized and finally annulled by a fact of higher importance to which, I do not know why, sociologists seem to pay no attention.

In contrast to the economic perspective, every sociologist or anthropologist who reads that sex is a gift, but one that does not require dollar valuation, would have to nod and say, «sounds about right.»

Practices embody our ultimate beliefs, Smith explains, drawing upon the work of the twentieth century sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu, who says, «Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician — a logic that is performed directly in bodily gymnastics.»

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

Sociologist Edward Castranova says: «We're witnessing what amounts to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environments.»

Of the pain that this necessarily entails we shall speak later; here let it be said that it is erroneous to assume, as have some careless theologians and sociologists among others, that human wrong is located in self - concern.

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Sociologist and researcher Sherry Turkle says so well, «Who said that a life without conflict, without dealing with the past, or without rubbing up against the troublesome people is better?»

It may be said, speaking in very general terms, that in asserting the zoological nature of the Noosphere we confirm the sociologists» view of human institutions as organic.

«Sociologists tell us that — and it varies a percent or two year by year — but 43 to 44 percent of people will go through a major faith transition at some point in their life,» he says.

I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists), over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.

«I am, simultaneously, a gay man, a professional sociologist, and an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church,» he said.

Its development doubtless reflects the cognitive dissonance, as the sociologists would say, of those who long denied that the Cold War had much to do with anything except Harry Truman's crusty temper.

Sociologists say that the attitudes and behavior learned during the earliest years have the strongest controlling influence on a person's later behavior.

As a sociologist, I can not say that such a figure is impossible; I can say that it is unlikely.

But when sociologists of religion use the term, they invariably mean the «Nones» — people who say they lack any religious affiliation at all.

«The bottom line is this,» says University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox: «The erosion of the norm of premarital sexual abstinence, both in belief and behavior, has had serious emotional and physical consequences for our nation's teens ¯ especially young women.

A distinguished sociologist offers a rousing defense of the nuclear» she does not hesitate to say «bourgeois»» family.