Confidence in the Japanese economy soared in the 1980s on the strength of Japan's business sociology.
In a talk at Columbia University's sociology department, renowned social scientist Donald MacKenzie gave some words of warning and advice about the financial markets.
"This 'wailing wall' just makes me suffer too much, " Juliana's mother, sociology professor Dolores Pereira Coutinho, earlier told the BBC.
The university sociology department's Web site said he was the recipient of a dean's award for his graduate work in sociology in 2006.
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He's an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University who studies hate groups.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University ( www.saskiasassen.com).
It will be left to Brazil's Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the summit's host, to carry the banner for France's universities: he taught sociology at Nanterre in 1967-68 and, later, at other French universities (as well as holding posts at Stanford and Cambridge).
Ms Lee had been studying international relations and sociology at Birmingham's Aston University but she ended their relationship when it "turned nasty".
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Several of Mr Merton's students who later made important careers in sociology have written about his presence in the lecture room.
Henry's experience also echoes what Paula England, a Stanford University sociology professor, learned when she co-edited "Unmarried Couples with Children, " which was published in 2007.
According to one recent study on "Marriage and Divorce's Impact on Wealth, " published in The Journal of Sociology, divorced people see their overall net worth drop an average of 77%.
Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Washington Post's chief art critic, Philip Kennicott, was honored for writing on the sociology of images.
In Cardiff this week a professor of sociology at last put his head over the parapet to reclaim his discipline's place in the sun.
Karen Sternheimer, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California, compared the attraction of Dorner's story to admiration for famous outlaws like Billy the Kid and Bonnie and Clyde.
"Without the legally binding contract that the European retailers have signed, it's just putting lipstick on a pig, " said Bob Ross, a critic of sweatshops who teaches sociology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
After receiving a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Shriver worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life.
"There's been a tremendous increase in fatal pharmacy errors over the past 20 years, " said David Phillips, a sociology professor at the University of California-San Diego who has studied this issue.
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