It is, in fact, a powerful lens with which to study a society because it offers a view, not just into intimate life, but also of the bigger picture: politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors.
"Kobe Bryant, Joakim Noah and Roger McDowell are not any different from many people in our society who use offensive language like that on a daily basis, " said Jarrod Chin of the Society for the Study of Sport in Society at Boston's Northeastern University.
In addition, they study philosophy and society, art and web design and Spanish is about to be introduced.
According to a 2002 study by the Society for Human Resource Management 20 percent of U.S. firms have policies on romance, while 81 percent of human resource bosses said office romances were dangerous.
In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day.
Captain ROSEMARY MARINER (Center for the Study of War and Society): You're welcome.
In spite of the obstinacy of some in APS management, APS members of good will are supporting the establishment of a politics-free, climate physics study group within the Society.
She's a retired Navy captain and a fellow at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, joins us by phone from her home in Knoxville.
The U.K. Medical Research Council and the Alzheimer's Society funded the study.
However, in the 1960s, as the abolition of most grammars was beginning, a study by the British Psychological Society failed to prove this widely touted claim.
One study by the American Cancer Society found that death rates from lung cancer increased 6% for every additional 10 microgrammes of fine particles in a cubic metre of air.
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) study found agricultural waste had been washed into Uphill Slipway beach from the River Axe.
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The best-known findings about the fluidity of British society comes from a study of two cohorts: one made up of people born in 1958, the other of people born in 1970.
The Temple study, presented at the Gerontological Society of America's annual meeting, found 25% of their subjects had "clinically relevant" levels of symptoms, yet only 8% reported having a current diagnosis of depression.
Then in March 1996, another challenge: A bill to study the effects of gambling on American society.
Study of the database indicates that as society's attitudes change, so do the terms children use as their "nuclear words" - especially harsh insults.
We spoke to Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, to put this study in perspective for the everyday smoker.
The results of the study were reported at the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Meeting, which is being held from June 12 to 16 at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
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Weightlessness not only sees animals use their muscles less, but causes changes in the chemical reactions within the muscle cells, explained Nathaniel Szewczyk from the University of Nottingham, who is the lead author on the new study in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.
The Society of Actuaries just released a study estimating that premiums on individual health plans will jump 32% over the next three years.
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Nobody knows for certain, but the British Psychological Society research blog reported on a study that gets us closer to a few answers.
However, another study, presented this week at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference, in Atlanta, cast doubt on the idea that the mechanisms for facial recognition and reading emotions are tightly linked.
Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
The study was presented to the Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America.
Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.
Just two weeks ago, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society revealed that deadly combinations of common medications such as antidepressants and antihistamines are killing the elderly at alarming rates .
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Julie Stoor, president of the Infection Prevention Society, said it was an "interesting study" that would need to be built on.
The study was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
The British Fertility Society (BFS) said it understood the study could cause concern, and that it would continue to review such reports carefully.
In the second study, Dr. Michael Thun at the American Cancer Society and his co-authors examined 50 years of smoking-related health data collected by the organization since 1959.
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