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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Sociologists."”.
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Understanding the Factors Associated with Engaged Scholarship: A Case Study of Sociologists in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana
… collected from fifteen (n=15) academic faculty (sociologists) from DSA and the CEGRAD using a questionnaire with mostly open-ended questions. The responses of participants of this research elucidated some of the major factors associated with the feasibility of the practice of public sociology. …
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Mental illness, social status and health care utilization: a test of societal reaction theory
… contributions has been in the area of theory. Sociologists maintain that social variables such as age, social class, marital status, gender, and race are important in understanding mental illness and its treatment. Although sociologists agree that social variables are important in understanding …
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An Analysis of the Effects of the Social Disorganization Theory on Juveniles in Georgia
… Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay were the first sociologists to denote this occurrence in Chicago. Shaw and McKay are examined as reputable sociologists and a summary of their work on this topic is discussed. This thesis sought to determine the social disorganization in Georgia by examining and …
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Social Capital Effects on Poverty and Technical Efficiency in Rural KwaZulu -Natal, South Africa
… collaborative efforts between economists, sociologists and/or anthropologists.
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SEX ROLE STEREOTYPES: A STUDY IN VERBAL INTERACTION
<p>Sociologists appear in agreement that sex is a primary role allocator in our society, or, in the perspective of Hughes (1945), sex is a master status. Parsons and Bales (1955) have implicity built upon this in the formulation of their Sex Role Differentiation Theory in which role sets for …
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Enhancing Identity Theory Measurement: A Case Study in Ways to Advance the Subfield
… shedding light on the multifaceted identities of sociologists as scholars, educators, activists, and beyond. It examines how these diverse roles intersect and influence behaviors within professional settings. The first article critiques traditional IT research's limitations and adopts a …
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Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012
… using the analytic heuristics of cognitive sociologists and the methods of ethnographic content analysts. Findings include the various axes upon which women and men are differentially characterized over time including men and women's behaviors within romantic relationships, involvement in …
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Charles Horton Cooley and the Social Gospel influence
… remained important for the next generation of sociologists. The last stage of this thesis examines the transition away from the Social Gospel influence through Cooley’s organic social process, while Cooley retained parallels with the Social Gospel.</p>
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
… architectural historians and theorists, sociologists, psychoanalysts, art writers and artists.
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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
… which it contains. Innumerable educators and sociologists have concerned themselves with the ideas in The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, thinkers of every variety have Interested themselves in these two paramount documents because their contents prove them to be genuine …
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The Prediction and Explanation of Actual Voting Behavior in a Presidential Primary Election
… respondents who they intended on voting for. Sociologists added on to prediction by using social characteristics of voters to explain their behavior. Political scientists added party affiliation along with other political characteristics of voters to explain their behavior. Social …
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The Extended Deliberation: Definitions of Sociology
… made to determine the extent of agreement among sociologists as to what sociology means. The Procedure: Chapter II, Part A, is concerned with the early European conceptions of sociology, from Comte through Pareto. The extent of agreement among these conceptions is examined. Part B is concerned …
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An economic analysis of the causes of unionization of college faculty
… Unionization has been studied by economists and sociologists. Economists tend to emphasize aggregate analysis and relate unionization to environmental factors, such as the inflation rate and unemployment rate. Sociologists tend to relate prior socialization and attitudes to unionization. This …
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Moral Landscapes: Religion, Secularism, and Symbolic Boundaries
… these distinctions. Ultimately, it argues that sociologists need to take into account the saliency and moralization of arguments and ideologies for individuals rather than assuming these things a priori or from fringe members of groups.</p>
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Technological innovation in forest harvesting
… models developed by historians, philosophers, sociologists, and other scholars to explain technological change. A case study of technological innovations in industnal forestry and timber harvesting practices provides a basis for a critique of these previously proposed models and for an argument …
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Constructed Images: The Influences of News Organizations and Socialization in Photojournalism
Media sociologists have produced much research on the systems of production of media content. Photojournalism, however, largely has been ignored in these studies. This paper presents the findings of an ethnographic study of work routines and photojournalism practices at three newspapers. The study …
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The ‘fluidity’ of beings portrayed through human-robot interaction: an analysis of human-to-Roomba robot relations
… their device. I end with the suggestion that sociologists continue to consider the implications of people’s increasing interactions with technological objects and further investigate different areas of human-robot emotional connection.
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The great divide: Exploring the attitudes of sociology and economics faculty toward certain aspects of economic globalization
… many analysts allege a divide exists between sociologists’ and economists’ perspectives. Using survey methodology, I explored this alleged disciplinary divide on a small scale by investigating the attitudes of sociology and economics faculty about the socioeconomic consequences of certain …
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