Study untangles divergent US job-tenure patterns
Have American jobs become less stable? Do workers change employers more frequently than in the past?
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Feb 5, 2014
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Study examines effects of corporate downsizing on managerial diversity
A new study finds that corporate downsizing reduces managerial diversity, especially when layoff decisions consider workers' position or tenure. But when layoffs are based on performance evaluations, managerial diversity ...
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Jan 30, 2014
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Segregation in American schools still problematic, despite best efforts
As American schools struggle with issues of race, diversity and achievement, a new study in the American Sociological Review has split the difference in the ongoing discussion of resegregation. Yes, black, white and Hispanic ...
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Nov 1, 2013
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Study reveals Americans' surprising response to government during great recession
In response to past economic crises such as the Great Depression, Americans demanded government policy solutions to widespread unemployment and rising income insecurity. But a new study in the October issue of the American ...
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Oct 1, 2013
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Women Still Less Likely to Commit Corporate Fraud
Women are less likely to take part in corporate crime and fraud even though more women now work in corporations and serve at higher levels of those organizations, according to a team of sociologists.
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Aug 13, 2013
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Study challenges popular perception of new 'hookup culture' on college campuses
A University of Portland study challenges the popular perception that there is a "new and pervasive hookup culture" among contemporary college students.
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Aug 13, 2013
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A man's occupation linked to time spent on housework, study finds
A woman's work is never done—or so the saying goes. Though women still do about two thirds of household chores, the division of labor may depend on what her mate does for a living.
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Aug 13, 2013
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Love and work don't always work for working class in America, study shows
The decline and disappearance of stable, unionized full-time jobs with health insurance and pensions for people who lack a college degree has had profound effects on working-class Americans who now are less likely to get ...
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Aug 13, 2013
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Research examines masculinity and sexuality in sport
Preliminary research out of the University of Cincinnati is providing a rare look at the construction of masculinity on the covers of mainstream and gay-themed sports magazines. The research by Jodi Stooksberry and J. A. ...
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Aug 12, 2013
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From my living room to yours: Research examines race and social media discussions
Discussions surrounding race and racism are prevalent in an online community in which users can hide their own race, gender and any other identifying information. Russell Spiker, a doctoral student in the University of Cincinnati's ...
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Aug 12, 2013
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