Despite major changes in the roles of men and women, gender still determines who does the housework. A Swarthmore College sociology professor finds that not only do married women continue to do the bulk of the chores, but that their daughters do more than their sons.
An Arkansas professor's research indicates that a language barrier exists between Native Americans (NA) and whites -- even when both speak English. Further, this lapse of communication may contribute to high dropout and suicide rates among NA youth.
An Arkansas anthropologist's examination of the links between identity and place finds that increased globalization has changed the way people view themselves and their origins.
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Mikhail Gorbachev made his mark on the world a decade ago by helping bring down Communism in the Soviet Union and end the Cold War. Today he is a man with another mission: saving the earth from environmental disaster.
Eight critical risk factors for suicide in patients with major depression have been identified in new research reported in the December issue of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
1- teenagers grow as a shopping force, 2- Indiana must increase labor force pool, 3- directing volunteer staff difficult.
There are 80 small Chernobyls waiting to happen, in the form of Russian nuclear submarines parked near the Arctic Circle. "Arms and Environment: The Perils of Nuclear Disarmament," an international symposium to be held December 9 - 10 at The University of Tulsa College of Law will feature this issue.
Overall private-agency adoptions in Michigan were up 2 percent in 1998--thanks to recent national efforts to increase permanent placements of older children, says a University of Michigan researcher.
The frenzy of holiday shopping that comes over the country at this time of year is not just an expression of crass consumerism, according to a University of Michigan anthropologist.
Previous studies have raised concerns about the potentially harmful effects of cholesterol-lowering diets on children's psychological well-being. However, a new study shows no adverse psychological effects after three years on such a diet.
Americans' trust in other people has declined steadily for at least 20 years, research at Ohio State University suggests. Results showed that trust in individuals declined about 10 percent between 1975 and 1994, a rate of about one-half percent each year.
In "SWF ISO LTR: The Quest for Love and Meaning in the Personals," presented at the 1999 American Anthropological Association 98th Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 17-21, professor of anthropology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, examines the role gender plays and the cultural elements found in personal ads.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. says of the new book, "Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light,"that it is a keen and judicious meditation on the two great revolutions that created the modern world..."
"Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism" edited by Williams College post-doctoral fellow Kimberly Springer, examines the political activism of African American women since the civil rights movement.
A professor of occupational therapy at BU's Sargent College and President of the American Occupational Therapy Association, offers tips on- moving luggage, sitting comfortably on a plane and driving long stretches.
In his new book ìSacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994î (1999), UAB anthropologist Chris Taylor gives a personal account of his life in Rwanda leading up to and during the massacre of the Tutsi minority that left a million people dead.
The University of Georgia's Center for the Study of Global Issues will host a delegation of top government advisers from North Korea who will visit Nov. 29 and 30.
PetSafe gives abused individuals who own pets peace of mind by providing a temporary safe place for animals at no charge while their owners seek more permanent solutions.
The Combination of a still-strong U.S. economy, strengthening economies abroad, and the gathering evidence that tight labor and tightening materials markets are tipping the balance toward increasing inflationary pressures.
Regulating automobiles as a consumer product has reduced injuries and deaths from vehicle collisions. Now there is increasing evidence that the public supports the same sort of regulatory approach to firearms as a means to cut injuries and death from guns, UCLA researchers report in the Nov. 19 edition of Science.
A national model, Resource Mothers pairs pregnant teenagers with older mentors -- usually mothers themselves -- who provide guidance and support through the pregnancy and first year of life. In fostering this relationship, the program aims to improve the health of the teen mother and her infant.
A new book explores how environmental features can foster aging and autonomy.
"Unbound Voices," a new book by UC Santa Cruz historian Judy Yung, portrays the social history of Chinese American women in a very moving and personal medium--their own voices.
In a study of 238,292 individuals who legally purchased handguns in California in 1991, researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center report that suicide is the leading cause of death among recent purchasers of handguns. In the first week following handgun purchase, the firearm suicide rate for handgun purchasers was 57 times higher than the adjusted rate for the state's population as a whole. Within the first year after the purchase, suicide accounted for 24.5 percent of all deaths and 51.9 percent of deaths among women ages 21-44. And for the next five years, the risk of committing suicide with a gun remained at least twice as high for the handgun purchasers as for the general population.
America's "get tough" attitude with criminals is filling community jails beyond capacity and costing taxpayers millions of dollars, says a Ball State University study.
Colgate University will host The Second Annual Joseph C. Woodford Forum on Critical Social and Political Issues on Wednesday December 1. The topic of this year's panel discussion will be "Feminism, Careers, and the Family: Who has gained? Who has lost?"
National statistics show that 40 percent of violent crimes against kids, ages 12-19, occur in or around schools. But kids who believe they cannot walk away from a fight are paricularly vulnerable, according to a study by UAB sociologist Kevin Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., in the October Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
An initiative to make Brooklyn a leading center for graduate study in ethnogerontology (the study of the role of culture and ethnicity in human development) is underway, thanks to a $540,000 Career Leadership Award to Psychology Professor Carol Magai.
Lula Mae Phillips, Nursing Professor at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, with 5 foster children, begins volunteer childhood wellness program for homeless children and parents and is awarded a Hearst scholarship for a new nine-month program on child abuse.
Centre College, a liberal-arts school with 1,050 students, has become one of 12 finalists to host a presidential debate next year. Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, visited the campus this week and confirmed that Centre's facilites meet all the basic requirement for a host site.
A comprehensive study recently released by Centre College economist David Anderson shows that crime is now costing U.S. citizens, businesses, and the government more than one trillion dollars per year. Lost property and wages, as well as personal anguish, are diminishing the nation's productivity.
While the number of Americans on welfare has dropped significantly since Congress passed the 1996 welfare reform law, many former recipients still live in poverty.
More than two-thirds of bar patrons who acted severely intoxicated continued to be served alcoholic beverages despite laws prohibiting such sales, according to University of Minnesota studies.
A Cornell University research project on working families will collect data from 350 randomly selected families in Syracuse, NY. The Cornell Community Study hopes to glean insight into the challenges people face as they juggle work and family responsibilities, to determine how communities and companies could be structured to help them.
The more hours a child spends during the first three years of life in nonmaternal care the less positive the child's interactions with his/her mother, reports a new study published by the American Psychological Association.
The following UC Irvine's Department of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social Ecology researchers are available as sources for reporters writing about issues related to crime. Here's a sampling of what UCI experts are working on.
Tomorrow's computer keyboard might be played more like an accordion than a piano, says a Cornell University ergonomist. A prototype vertical split keyboard allows two to three times more typing movements to stay in safe, low-risk positions for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies will host their fourth annual conference, "NEW WORLD ORDERS: Millennialism in the Western Hemisphere," November 6-9.
The Senate's majority leader and the former U.S. agriculture secretary are among dignataries discussing Mississippi's legacy of Congressional leadership in a Nov. 11-12 Mississippi State University event.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped dissolve Communism in his own country while leading a crusade for global peace, will speak at the University of Georgia Dec. 3.
The publishers of The Wall Street Journal and the Mexican independent newspaper El Norte will join international human rights activists and others at MSU to grapple with critical issues surrounding press rights and human freedom in Latin America.
A new study about a population whose needs have been overlooked by welfare reform: those with mental health problems and those who suffer from drug dependence.
A new study by University of California, San Diego Psychologist Diana Deutsch, presented today at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, suggests that perfect pitch may not be so rare.
Depression is being identified as one of the most expensive occupational health costs for business. A new review of studies focuses on the factors of depression and the cost of depression it the work place.
Today's remarkable new information technologies are not only changing the way people work, shop and pay bills, they also are "transforming the very structure of our social institutions by radically changing the way organizations coordinate knowledge." a University of Illinois researchers explains.
A series of studies in the current quarterly issue of the journal Military Psychology provide a more comprehensive look at the 1995 Department of Defense survey of more than 28,000 military personnel, University of Illinois researchers report.
Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett "made the modern newspaper possible." So says the author of "The Golden Age of the Newspaper," a University of Illinois English professor.
After years of heading in the wrong direction, government policy finally seems ready to put the safety of children first when dealing with dangerous homes, according to a University of Illinois legal scholar.
Researchers have known for years that women experience depression more often than men do, but the reason for this gender difference has not been clear. A new study provides some answers.
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