Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
Sep 7, 2023 · My own collaborative research results from the 2018-19 National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS), that asked 4,000 U.S. adults about the extent to which they (dis)agreed with allowing transgender athletes to compete with their choice of male or female athletes found majority support for transgender athletes’ rights to choose. Taken together, these findings show increasing opposition to ...
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
While many American eugenicists railed about the threats posed by hordes of “dysgenic” immigrants (non-white, often, but also people from “undesirable” countries and bloodlines of all sorts), the core of eugenical science was based in field studies of poor rural whites.
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
Sep 15, 2009 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development.
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Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence
Jul 24, 2013 · Thank you for this excellent essay with its critical, balanced analysis, which focuses our attention and needed actions -- on initiatives and understandings which include realistic critical historical analyses on race, and on conceptual frameworks which avoid simplistic, reductionistic "happy talk" - changing bloody reality to milk toast "diversity without …
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
May 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared.The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
A Sociological Look at Marijuana and Its Users
Apr 20, 2018 · Photo by Cannabis Culture, Flickr CC. April 20th isn’t exactly your average holiday, but ever since the late 1970s, 4/20 has been commonly associated with marijuana, as many refer to this date as “Weed Day.”
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
Feb 27, 2012 · I know I'm late on this post, but Bernays did not fabricate this idea out of thin air. In the 1900s, in particular pre-war Greenwich Village, rebellious women, many of whom called themselves feminists, consciously smoked in public as a protest of male dominated culture.
The Social Consequences of Conflict - There's Research on That
May 3, 2018 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Does Social Media Make People Less Social?: A Research Note
Jan 3, 2018 · In last week’s much-anticipated conversation between Barack Obama and Prince Harry, the pair turned to the topic of social media.Here’s what Obama said: “Social media is a really powerful tool for people of common interests to …