Sentences with phrase «sociology professor finds»

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.

Not exact matches

Most recently, one by University of Massachusetts sociology professor Michelle Budig finds that women who have never married make about 96 percent of what men make.

A 2000 study by University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt and Columbia University sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh found that the availability of drugs and their prices fell by 20 to 30 percent during gang conflicts.

Along with his colleague, the Indiana University sociology professor Stephen Bernard, they designed a series of lab experiments to find out.

Richard L. Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology and founding director of the Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of New Mexico.

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.

Reyes - Foster, sociology associate professor Shannon K. Carter and assistant professor Melanie Sberna Hinojosa, published their findings in this month's edition of the Journal of Human Lactation.

A new analysis by American University sociology professor Celine Marie Pascale finds that U.S. news media coverage of the disaster largely minimized health risks to the general population.

«It's very surprising and disappointing to find such low rates of people helping each other and that African - American patients and those in poorer counties are left to wait longer for help,» said lead author Erin York Cornwell, assistant professor of sociology and Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow.

Reich, a professor of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at CU Denver, found that middle and upper class «vaccine - refusers» are mothers who have the resources, education, and time to make decisions regarding vaccinations.

«For years we've been scouring the literature,» said lead author Steven Alvarado, assistant professor of sociology, «and we haven't found anything about how or if MESA is effective on the things it wants to be effective for: increasing the STEM engagement outcomes of minority and other underrepresented students.»

Todd Callais, an assistant professor of sociology at UC Blue Ash College, presented his findings on how ex-inmates cope with life after prison at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, held Aug. 16 - 19 in San Francisco.

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.

In a companion study published online on 1 September in the American Sociological Review, Evans, Rzhetsky, and Jacob Foster — an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is also a co-author of the PNAS paper — found that this possibility of prize - winning is «the most plausible explanation» for why researchers take the risks they do.

This pattern isn't new, but a team of researchers led by BYU sociology professor Ben Gibbs studied why that educational dip occurs and found that there are exceptions to the trend.

And time spent with kids is highest among better - educated parents — a finding that somewhat surprised study co-author Judith Treas, UCI Chancellor's Professor of sociology.

«One thing we found is that even when people don't have these external demands on time, such as a job, they still have a very gendered way of doing things,» said lead author Claudia Geist, an assistant professor at the University of Utah with joint appointments in sociology and gender studies.

«We also found that couples in which both individuals have equal levels of education are now less likely to divorce than those in which husbands have more education than their wives,» said Christine R. Schwartz, lead author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The findings are dire, but they should inspire action rather than hopelessness, said Adrian Raftery, a professor of statistics and sociology at the University of Washington and author of the study on temperature forecasts.

UBC sociology professor and study co-author Rima Wilkes said the findings highlight a need to show greater diversity of skin tones in teaching tools used by medical schools.

The findings «weren't unexpected, but they were sobering,» said study co-author Kevin D. Dougherty, Ph.D., an associate professor of sociology in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences.

«These findings debunk the widely held belief that ambulatory blood pressure is usually lower than clinic blood pressure,» said lead author Joseph E. Schwartz, PhD, professor of psychiatry and sociology at Stony Brook University, in a press release.

«These findings add to our understanding of how childhood stress is a more important driver of long - term weight gain than adult stress, and how such processes differ for men and women,» said Hui Liu, MSU associate professor of sociology and an expert in statistics, population - based health and family science.

In a study done by University of Ohio Sociology Professor Dr. Andrea Baker, research found online dating sites facilitate the sharing of interests and beliefs expressed over an extended period of time, without the sexual tension of in - person encounters.

«It's an incredibly efficient way of finding people who are like you,» said Christine Whalen, a sociology professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - Aug 17 - A research led by Michael J Rosenfeld, the associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, has found that 82.2 % of people with access to the web at home had a spouse or partner, compared to 62.8 % of those without an internet connection.

says Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington sociology professor and author of «Finding Your Perfect Match.»

The research, which was carried out by academics including Becky Francis, director of the UCL Institute of Education and Louise Archer, professor of sociology of education at King's College London, found 120 secondary schools which taught lessons in ability sets.

In 1959, he moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he founded what became the Department of Sociology, and returned to Chicago as University Professor in 1973.

He previously held a number of roles at the University of Warwick, including senior pro vice chancellor, founding director of the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (a cross faculty research centre), and professor of Sociology.

Robert Vargas Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab, University of Chicago

February 15, 2018 Northwestern University Robert Vargas Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab, University of Chicago

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.

After tracking U.S. undergrads in the Midwest for five years, Laura Hamilton, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced, found when parents funded their children's education, the kids» grades dropped.

The National Marriage Project was founded in 1997 by Rutgers University Sociology Professor David Popenoe.

In 1983, the National Center of State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia, was contracted to serve as secretariat of the organization, and Stanley Cohen, a sociology professor at the University of Oregon Health Sciences and a founding member of AFCC, was named executive director, serving in that role until 1988.