MacKenzie believes the sociology of markets can shed light on problems and help to fix them.
The Washington Post's chief art critic, Philip Kennicott, was honored for writing on the sociology of images.
Whelan got the idea to start teaching self-help classes, which she framed as the sociology of self-improvement.
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The Scandinavians are in general more interested in the sociology of crime than in the goriness of it.
Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages and A Sociology of Globalization.
Understanding it is in the domain of the humanities, particularly the sociology of science and the genesis of religious belief.
The Internet also seems to be inaugurating a new sociology of business as well--one in which experience, market research, even corporate stability are as outmoded as, well, profits.
Mr Albrow also doffs his cap to Alain Touraine, a radical French sociologist who has been trying for two decades to rid sociology of the concept of society.
Professor Linda Woodhead, professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University and co-host of the Westminster Faith Debates, said modern medicine advances had seen a change in people's attitudes about death.
The Piazza San Marco is timeless, but the sociology of its tourist population has changed markedly, a leading indicator for sure as to the health of Euroland if not the world.
The feeling that the top of your head has been taken off, a definition of what makes a quote quotable that Shapiro takes from Emily Dickinson (who took it, basically, from Kant and Burke, who took it from Longinus a nice example of the sociology of quotation), is a feeling that readers of poetry expect from every poem they read.
Anthony Elliot, professor of sociology and director of the Hawke Research Institute, entitled his new book Reinvention.
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Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, isn't surprised at the trend.
Earlier this summer Dr Bearman reported, in the American Journal of Sociology, an examination of high-school students' sexual activity and romantic relationships.
"Nowadays, peppering our speech with nonstandard English is being a regular Joe, " says Jason Riggle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
"Retirement used to be a male transition that wives really just accommodated, " says Phyllis Moen, a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.
Social commentator Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent said parents were under "enormous pressure" from schools and society to mould their children and oversee their achievements.
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The trouble is that Mr Blackburn, who is a professor of sociology at the University of Essex and the New School University in New York, and for many years edited the New Left Review, is not very keen on capitalism.
Experiencing abuse from several directions at once is especially damaging because it can leave kids feeling they have no place to turn, says Heather A. Turner, the lead author of the study and a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University ( www.saskiasassen.com).
They all adhere to the "ring-true" standard of sociology rather than the falsifiable standard of physics.
Mr Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, looks first at missing, confusing and scary numbers.
They advocated tougher rules in cases of children who were abducted by relatives, said Joel Best, professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware.
Co-author of the research and a professor of sociology, Julia McQuillan believes the image of the stern, career-focused father who is ambivalent about childcare may be made-for-TV.
Michael White, professor of sociology at Brown University, said the rise of minorities fits into a longer-term evolution of the U.S. population, a mosaic that has been adapting to ethnic change since the first Census was recorded in 1790.
When assistant professor of sociology Christine Whelan, 33, set out to study the rise of the self-help industry ten years ago, she was skeptical.
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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%.
He's an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University who studies hate groups.
You will be more likely to fall ill ( American Journal of Sociology).
Peter Bearman is the chair of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University.
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