Sociologists have long known that a college education improves the chances that an individual will volunteer as an adult. Less clear is whether everyone who goes to college gets the same boost in civic engagement from the ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2010
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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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Despite increased racial and ethnic diversity, American neighborhoods continue to be segregated, and some of the progress made toward integration since 1980 has come to a halt this decade, according to a new report by Brown ...
Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2010
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Small towns are home to about 10 percent of the U.S. population but continue to play an outsize role in American culture, according to Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow.
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2013
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Medical examiners and appointed coroners are less likely to underreport suicides than are elected coroners, that's according to a new study from Temple University.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2011
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The grass might not be greener on the other side of the border, a new study from the University of Leicester has found.
Social Sciences
Aug 31, 2010
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A major concern related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the impact on people living in coastal areas. News reports provided anecdotal evidence that those living along the coast and reliant on the fishing or ...
Social Sciences
Oct 7, 2011
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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.
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2013
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Over 300 historical maps spanning 200 years of Mancunian history have been digitised and published online by The University of Manchester Library.
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Dec 14, 2012
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The pay gap between the sexes grows substantially over the first ten years of a woman’s career, new research has shown.
Social Sciences
Sep 10, 2010
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