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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 ...
A Sociological Look at Marijuana and Its Users
Apr 20, 2018 · In light of this, we rolled up some research on marijuana use. In the mid 20th century, social scientists studied how social forces shape marijuana use and the norms surrounding it. Howard Becker’s famous research illustrates that learning to smoke and enjoying marijuana isn’t a simple, intuitive process. Instead, users must take cues from ...
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
Feb 27, 2012 · Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda. Wendy Christensen on February 27, 2012. Edward Bernays (1891-1995) is largely considered the founder of public relations (or “engineering consent,” as he called it) but is not known very well outside of the marketing and advertising fields. A nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the first to ...
Families change. The way we support kids should change too.
Apr 8, 2024 · But when we look across the whole span of childhood, we see something quite different. Sociologists Susan L. Brown, Bart Stykes, and Wendy Manning described the family structure pathways experienced from birth to age 12 among adolescents in 2006-2010. They found that only 3 percent of children always lived with a single parent. Even among those born to a single parent, only 17 percent stayed ...
The Fate of Prisoners during Hurricane Katrina
Aug 27, 2011 · The American Civil Liberties Union gathered testimony from 400 of the 7,000 people locked up in New Orleans Prison at the time of Katrina, including approximately 100 juveniles. Many reported being left in their cells while the water rose above their heads; being beaten and sprayed with mace once evacuated (to state maximum security prisons ...
Race and Gender in “The Princess and the Frog” - The Society Pages
Aug 27, 2009 · Race and Gender in “The Princess and the Frog”. Gwen Sharp, PhD on August 27, 2009. As you may know, Disney has a movie coming out later this year called “The Princess and the Frog,” a retelling of the story of the princess who kisses a frog that then helpfully turns into a handsome prince for her to marry. The noteworthy aspect of this ...
The Evolution of the Gender Revolution - The Society Pages
Jun 15, 2023 · The article examines multiple indicators of gender progress–employment, education, occupational segregation and pay–between 1970 and 2018 to show that there’s been significant progress towards gender equality over almost 50 years but this progress has slowed in recent decades. Frances Goldschieder, Eva Bernhardt, and Trude Lappegård. 2015.
Fortune 500 CEOs, 2000-2020: Still Male, Still White
Oct 28, 2020 · The big picture is that almost 90% of the Fortune 500 CEOs are still white males. As can be seen in Figure 1, the slow increase in “new CEOs”, from a total of 19 in 2000 to 71 in 2020, has been accompanied by a corresponding steady decrease in the number of white male CEOs. Still, the white men, who make up about 35% of the population ...
Clippings – October 14th, 2024 TSP Media Report - Clippings
Clippings – October 14th, 2024 TSP Media Report. Former President Barack Obama will be joining the campaign trail with Vice President Kamala Harris, and is set to visit several swing states. Liz McKenna (Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University) commented that Obama’s 2008 campaign enlisted local supporters “to do the ...