A study by Indiana University sociologists found that many Americans had inflated views of minority students' opportunities to attend college, yet a large contingent - around 43 percent of people surveyed - believed that ...
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2011
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A question central to Gillian Einstein's research is, How can I do science that would not make essentialist assumptions about the body?
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2011
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Marriage in Morocco has an increasingly changing face these days as young men and women in search of lifetime partners head for the souk, in this case a "cyber" marriage souk.
Internet
Mar 25, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Long-standing problems are quite often solved simultaneously by various people working alone. Take, for example, naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, who separately proposed the theory of ...
Economics & Business
Mar 17, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Children of immigrants are more likely to live in households headed by two married parents than children of natives in their respective ethnic groups, according to Penn State sociologists.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2011
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Determining who cooks and who cleans in a household may feel like a personal decision couples make, but UC Irvine sociologist Judith Treas says culture and societal characteristics have a major influence on how such duties ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2011
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Most Ponzi schemes, like almost everything else these days, enjoy a limited life in the public eye. Despite its explosive nature, the same would have been true of the Madoff con, except that nobody cooled Bernie's marks out.
Economics & Business
Feb 25, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women scientists must confront sexism when competing for scholarly awards, according to a new analysis.
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2011
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Death by homicide, the victim is probably black. By cirrhosis, the decedent is likely Native American. These stereotypes have small but clear effects on the racial classifications used to calculate official vital statistics, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While young women's educational and career opportunities have skyrocketed over the past two decades, their opportunities for stable, long-term relationships have declined, according to new research from sociologists ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2011
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