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WWU professor receives neighborhood research grant
Kyle Crowder, a Western Washington University professor of sociology, received a two-year, $141,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his investigation into the effects of neighborhoods on families. Crowder's research, done in conjunction with his collaborator Scott South at the State University of New York at...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, professor, sociology, SOFTWARE, Western Washington University
Research articles 2008-04-01
"Development Anthropology is a Contact Sport" An Oral History Interview with Michael M. Cernea by Judith Freidenberg
The editors and editorial board of Human Organization are pleased to introduce readers to the following oral history interview with Michael M. Cernea, a development social scientist who has militated throughout his academic career and applied work for "putting people first," in the forefront of development projects and policies. Working...
Tags: bank, knowledge, Robert, Romania, sociology, World Bank
Research articles 2007-12-01
What if the leader of the Central Bank told hilarious jokes and did card tricks? A panel of experts
I Introduction ON APRIL 25, 2006, a panel of distinguished guests was assembled at Babson College in Massachusetts to discuss the linkages if any between the implementation of monetary policy and the personality of a nation's central banker. Why is the personality of a central banker important to...
Tags: bank, banker, Federal Reserve Board, financial, G., Governor, inflation, leader, M., Sam, Sociology
Research articles 2007-11-01
UC Berkeley professor to speak on families
PROVO -- Ann Swidler, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a lecture Thursday at Brigham Young University titled "Fighting for the American Family: Families in the Crosshairs of the Culture Wars." The lecture is sponsored by the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Chair in Social...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, sociology, SOFTWARE, University of California at Berkeley
Research articles 2007-10-15
Taylor completes CISR insuring personal residence course
Suzanne Taylor of Bob Wallin Insurance Agency of Bellingham completed the Certified Insurance Service Representatives CISR insuring personal residence course in July. The course, held in Seattle, is one of five the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research of Washington offers. Taylor, a Bellingham native who earned a bachelor's...
Tags: FINANCE, Insurance, sociology, Strategy, Washington State University
Research articles 2007-09-01
From world order to global disorder; states, markets, and dissent
From world order to global disorder; states, markets, and dissent. Brunelle, Dorval. Trans. by Richard Howard. U. of British Columbia Press 2007 201 pages $75.00 Hardcover JZ1319 The global framework created in the aftermath of World War II, with with its clear...
Tags: Globalization, Portland, sociology, Strategy, University of Washington
Research articles 2007-08-01
The making of Malveaux: CNN's White House correspondent discusses the impact of having educators as parents and how higher education shaped her journalism career
Known to millions for her incisive and scrupulous reporting, CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has drawn considerable praise as a broadcast journalist throughout her career. For the past five years, Malveaux has covered the Bush White House and national affairs for CNN, making her one of the most visible...
Tags: CAREER, CNN, education, Harvard University, journalism, journalist, sociology, White House
Research articles 2007-07-26
Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale Faculty.
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 June 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale FacultyC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27062007 New Haven, Conn. -- Elijah Anderson, one of the nation's most influential scholars in the field of urban inequality, will become the William K....
Tags: professor, Sociology, Yale University
Research articles 2007-06-27
Sandra C. Walstrom.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Sandra C. Walstrom Visitation for Sandra C. Walstrom nee Prust, will be from 11:30 a.m. until the time of a church service at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at Gurnee Community Church in Gurnee, Ill. Interment will be in Lakeside, Mich. Born May 20,...
Tags: Milwaukee, sociology, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Research articles 2007-06-15
Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision.(Book review)
Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision By Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 205 pages. $72 cloth, $22.95 paper Although the United States has championed liberty and individual rights, it has been consistently reluctant to support social rights, remaining deeply...
Tags: American Bar Association, FINANCE, Government, sociology, Strategy, U.S., vision
Research articles 2007-06-01
Hoover Fellow Joseph Berger Receives W.E.B. DuBois Award
STANFORD, Calif. -- The American Sociological Association announced recently that Hoover Institution senior fellow Joseph Berger and professor emeritus of the sociology department of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2007 W.E.B. DuBois Award. This is the highest award granted by the association in recognition of a career of...
Tags: CAREER, professor, sociology, Stanford University
Research articles 2007-03-15
Immigration Slows Rate of Racial and Ethnic Intermarriages in United States
To: SOCIETY EDITORSContact: Sujata Sinha of the American Sociological Association, +1- 202-247-9871, ssinha@asanet.org; or Jeff Grabmeier of Ohio State University, +1-614-292-8457, grabmeier.1@osu.edu COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Immigration played a key role in unprecedented declines in interracial and inter- ethnic marriage in the United States during the 1990s, according...
Tags: immigrant, immigration, Ohio State University, sociology
Research articles 2007-02-06
Tennessee State University
DR. ROBERT HAMPTON has been appointed executive vice president and provost at Tennessee State University. He had been the chancellor's faculty fellow and a professor of sociology at the City University of New York. Hampton earned a bachelor's from Princeton University and a master's and doctorate from the University of...
Tags: chancellor, City University, Princeton University, professor, sociology, University of Michigan
Research articles 2006-12-28
Affect control in international interactions.
This research tests the proposition that national leaders generate international interactions in the process of maintaining sentiments about nations and international actions. The analysis deals with 1,934 international incidents in which one of 25 Middle Eastern nations responded twice within four weeks to an instigation by another of the 25...
Tags: identity, Sociology, theory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, variance
Research articles 2006-12-01
Richard Leo to discuss American justice at presentation in Norman
"Police Interrogation, False Confessions and American Justice" will be topic of a free, public presentation set at 12:30 p.m. Friday in George Lynn Cross Hall on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Richard Leo, associate professor of law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, will...
Tags: professor, psychology, sociology, SOFTWARE, University of California at Berkeley
Research articles 2006-11-30
When "where" is more important than "when": birthplace and birthdate effects on the achievement of sporting expertise.
Abstract In this study, we assessed whether contextual factors related to where or when an athlete is born influence their likelihood of playing professional sport. The birthplace and birth month of all American players in the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, Major...
Tags: athlete, baseball, Cohen, environment, M., NHL, Sociology, Thompson
Research articles 2006-10-01
Baylor Scholars to Unveil Results from Most Extensive Survey Ever Conducted on Americans' Religious Attitudes
News Advisory: Scholars from The Institute for Studies of Religion ISR at Baylor University will share the initial results of the most extensive survey ever conducted on Americans' religious attitudes and their impact on politics and everyday life. WHEN: 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept.11 WHERE: National Press Club Ballroom,...
Tags: Baylor University, MARKETING, professor, scholar, sociology, survey
Research articles 2006-09-07
Study: 25% of Americans have no one to confide in
Americans have a third fewer close friends and confidants than just two decades ago -- a sign that people may be living lonelier, more isolated lives than in the past. In 1985, the average American had three people in whom to confide matters that were important to them, says...
Tags: Duke University, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, professor, sociology
Research articles 2006-06-23
UC Davis Experts on Water Supply and Flooding.
Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 8 AScribe Newswire -- The following University of California, Davis, faculty will be available to comment on aspects of California's water issues. If you need assistance on similar topics, please contact Sylvia Wright, News Service, ...
Tags: California, sociology
Research articles 2006-02-08
A seminar with Talcott Parsons at Brown University: "My Life and Work" Saturday, March 10, 1973
Seminar Faculty: Robert M. Marsh, Martin U. Martel, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Albert F. Wessen, and C. Parker Wolf in sociology; and A. Hunter Dupree in the history of science. Faculty Visitors: George H. Borts and Mark B. Schupack economics, Erwin C. Hargrove political science, and Philip L. Quinn philosophy of science....
Tags: Brown University, conception, economist, Germany, Harvard, HUNTER, Marshall, Robert, sociology, theory
Research articles 2006-01-01
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