Sentences with phrase «sociologist in»

Robert Cialdini — probably the most quoted sociologist in the study of persuasion — likes to talk about the time when he worked at a medical clinic in which patients were taking almost 100 per cent of the advice given by physicians, but rarely taking that of the clinic's physical therapists.

The most potent critique of Kuhn is by Steve Fuller, an American philosopher - sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.

Alongside its arts programme, Bluecoat will also host a sociologist in residence, Dr Paul Jones from the University of Liverpool, for the duration of 2017 as part of a pioneering programme focusing on architecture, culture and society.

Describe the role of sociologist in mitigating the major problems people encounter in the social structure.

Timothy Smeeding was incorrectly identified as a sociologist in an earlier version of the story.

Today Brown is a leading sociologist in the field of environmental health.

Since there are no tradition - free descriptions, the «neutral» sociologist in the example is also operating from a tradition, most likely positivism.

A vigorous man, a medical sociologist in Calgary, Frank was felled around his 40th year by a heart attack and then cancer.

In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to the sociology of American religion.

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.

But recently a team of sociologists in the United States and Italy revealed a twist in this pattern.

In a 2015 press release from Drexel University, he called for the greater involvement of sociologists in the climate change cause, in order to «answer questions like, how can we change our culture of consumption, how will we respond to extreme weather events caused by climate change and how do we bridge the political divide on this issue.»

Sociologists in the U.S., as well as legal scholars, have studied the phenomenon, and it appears that most not guilty verdicts in fact let go a guilty person.

Not exact matches

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.

... 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

In The Asian American Achievement Paradox, sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants.

Rallying together makes us feel less alone in the experience, explained the sociologist Christine Carter, a fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

The source of most opportunity is documented most extensively in research called «The Strength of Weak Ties» by Mark Granovetter, a sociologist and professor at Stanford University.

The Angus Reid Institute (ARI) was founded in October 2014 by pollster and sociologist, Dr. Angus Reid.

A Princeton sociologist chronicled the human toll of eviction in one city in a 2016 book.

After Ronan Farrow compared ISIS content to the radio broadcasts in Rwanda that many believe helped fuel a genocide in that country in the 1990s, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argued that in some cases social platforms probably should remove violent content, because of the risk that distributing it will help fuel similar behavior.

He is a sociologist with a doctorate in education from Harvard University.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

According to the sociologist Harriet B. Presser, as of 2003, two - fifths of American workers were working non-standard hours — «in the evening, at night, on a rotating shift, or during the weekend» — and she wasn't counting those who bring their work home and do it on their off - hours, or who are self - employed.»