While the U.S. work week, or hours spent working for pay by the average employee, has not significantly changed over the past 30 years, the demands of work and family are certainly colliding.
A new study by sociologists at Washington State University suggests Native Americans and their lands are disproportionately exposed to hazards posed by the U.S. military's explosive and toxic munitions.
The U.S. Presidential candidates George Bush and John Kerry promise very different economic policies. But research sociologist and consumer debt expert Robert Manning argues that the expansion of the global consumer economy will necessarily lead to diminished economic power.
Research to be presented at the American Sociological Association's (ASA) 99th Annual Meeting has found that neither longer work hours nor combining one's own longer work hours with those of a spouse, diminishes the health benefits women enjoy from their employment.
Today, adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. In the bridge to adulthood, also referred to as early adulthood, many more young people are caught between the demands of employment and economic dependence on their family to support them during this transition.
The American Sociological Association's (ASA) 99th Annual Meeting will convene August 14-17th, 2004, at the Hilton San Francisco and the Renaissance Parc 55. More than 550 sessions will be held on a wide range of topics including sessions on welfare reform, education, popular culture, and more.
With 40 percent of the American labor force working mostly during nonstandard hours"”in the evenings, overnight, on rotating schedules, or on weekends"”workers' family life and health are being adversely affected.
Being jailed in federal or state prisons has become so common for African Americans today that more young black men in the United States have done time than have served in the military or earned a college degree, according to a new study.
Community leaders and researchers will discuss the rate and impact of job loss in the rural county of Robeson County, NC, at a congressional briefing on Tuesday, March 30.
The new sexual harassment is not just for women any more. Research published this week describes workplace conditions for men and women who might be vulnerable to sexual harassment.
Most people living in cities have seen or been approached by homeless people asking for food or money, leading many city governments to pass laws restricting or prohibiting panhandling. Research has found that exposure to homeless actually improves public attitudes toward homelessness.
Sociologist Judith Stacey is an expert on prior research about the effects of parental gender or sexual orientation on children's well-being as well as gay marriage.
Asian culture in America has become more pervasive and Asians' acclimation more complete than that of other immigrants.
The Bush Administration's proposal to set aside federal welfare funds for marriage promotion programs has more to do with symbolism and is not likely to be effective at promoting model families and reducing poverty, according to a sociology professor.
The ASA joins social and health scientists around the nation to mark the defeat of California's Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color and National Origin measure. This success preserves the ability of scientists to contribute to our society through research that utilizes data on race, ethnicity, and national origin.
When California citizens next head to the polls, they will be asked to vote on Proposition 54, which would effectively end public agencies' ability to collect data on the racial, ethnic, and national origin categorizations of its citizens. The American Sociological Association (ASA) joins the American Public Health Association in urging California voters to vote "no" on this Proposition.
A sociologist has designed a disaster rating scale that would be useful to disaster researchers and practitioners alike. He reflects broadly on what sociologically constitutes a disaster and how the terrorist attacks on the United States impact upon earlier academic definitions.
Internationally known Egyptian-American sociologist and democracy and human rights advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim who was recently released from an Egyptian-government prison, will speak at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Race as social concept is very real in its consequences, especially within American society's education system where racial and ethnic segregation still persists. A press briefing at the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Annual Meeting will discuss the meaning of race within the education system.
Contrary to popular belief and media portrayals, big campaign contributions and lobbying do not necessarily win the political influence that determines votes in the U.S. Congress.
The American Sociological Association's (ASA) 98th Annual Meeting will convene August 16-19th, 2003, at the Hilton Atlanta and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, GA.
Troy Duster, New York University, was elected the 96th President of the American Sociological Association and will be in office as President during ASA's centennial year.
The federal government's most effective tool for reducing wealth inequality is the estate tax, but the tax is being phased out so that by 2010 the government will no longer collect taxes on the estates of the rich.
Knowing many kinds of people in many social contexts improves one's chance of getting a good job, developing a range of cultural interests, feeling in control of one's life and feeling healthy. Many know how important networking is, but the critical matter is the variety of acquaintances and not the mere number.
The American Sociological Association and the University of California Press are pleased to announce that the quarterly magazine Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds has been named as "the best journal in the social sciences for 2002" by the Association of American Publishers.
If current and former felons had been allowed to vote, the outcome of as many as seven U.S. Senate races and one presidential election since 1978 might have been altered.
The beliefs and behavior of Americans have changed dramatically in the last several decades. It is often surmised that attitudes and ideas of a younger generation displace those of their parents and grandparents, but sociologist Duane F. Alwin, Pennsylvania State University, discusses whether significant historical events, or processes linked to aging might have a greater impact.
The high-tech community offers flexibility, creativity and independence in the workplace. But with these benefits come problems of job insecurity, long work hours, and isolation from co-workers. Sean O'Riain, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, studied the characteristics of workplaces in high-tech communities, and uncovered a fiercely competitive climate that diminishes the benefits.
Osama bin Laden may have operated from a cave in one of the least-developed countries in the world, but his radical Islamic movement is thoroughly modern. In many ways, radical Islamists are a mirror image of Islamic liberals, whose peaceful struggle to establish democracy is generally more popular among Muslim populations.
While working parents in the United States struggle to find and afford private child care of even mediocre quality, parents in most European countries easily find publicly funded programs offering good-to-excellent care, according to University of Massachusetts-Amherst sociologists Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel.
A unique, multi-faceted program developed and spearheaded by the American Sociological Association successfully addressed racial disparities and encouraged more people of all races and ethnicities to benefit from higher education.
What if the U.S. government stopped measuring race? Would the results be positive, negative, or indifferent? Under what conditions does the classification of people by race for the purpose of scientific inquiry promote racial division, and when does it aid in the achievement of justice and equality?
Assessing the intelligence of students for the purpose of college admissions is difficult and controversial. On the one hand, the higher overall performance by whites on tests raises questions about whether they are fair or not.
The image of the "fatherless" child in low-income families may be an oversimplification. While many children in inner-city neighborhoods are being raised by single mothers, some of these mothers receive support from the children's "social fathers" who appear to substitute for the children's biological fathers.
Racial profiling is widely associated with "DWB" (driving while black)--where minorities are pulled over for humiliating searches while driving. Police practices where race is used as a key factor in deciding whether to make a traffic stop, however, is not the only context where racial profiling occurs.
Although some of the best sociologists have been studying ascriptive inequality (i.e., inequalities that are a function of race, ethnicity, nativity, sex, age, etc.) in employment for the last 30 years, surprisingly little progress has been made in explaining disparities in this area.
Major social changes over the past fifty years in the United States have profoundly reshaped how intimate unions are formed. As sexual ties have increasingly become decoupled from marriage, the nature and formation of relationships have taken on new forms and meaning--with significant implications for different subgroups in the population, and for the quality of life in general.
A press conference will be held on Friday, August 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the Private Dining Room (PDR) 2 of the Chicago Hilton Hotel to release a report on Promoting Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education through Department Change, published by the American Sociological Association (ASA).
While reparations for slavery in America remains a remote dream of activists to be settled by politics, it is an interesting topic to examine in order to shed light on how racial differences emerged and persist in America. "It is worthwhile to do the math," says a New York University sociology professor.
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a 63-year-old sociology professor at the American University in Cairo and founder and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, was convicted for the second time on July 29, 2002, to seven years in prison by the Supreme State Security Court in Cairo, Egypt.
Group panic and irrational behavior did not occur at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Instead the event created a sense of "we-ness" among those threatened, says a Rutgers University sociology professor.
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley, was elected the 95th President of the American Sociological Association, and Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University, Bloomington, was elected Vice President.
The American Sociological Association's 97th Annual Meeting will convene August 16-19th at the Hilton Chicago and the Hilton Palmer House in Chicago, IL. More than 550 sessions will be held on a wide range of topics including racial profiling, social dimensions of terrorism, disparities in health care, welfare reform, education, popular culture, and more.
Being able to understand and trust surveys is critical to Americans becoming informed citizens, but mass media often report surveys without the requisite practical guidance on the context of the results or how to interpret and evaluate them. To help guide the public in comprehending the significance of surveys and questionnaires, sociologist Howard Schuman explains in plain language the nature, importance, and problematic aspects of surveys.
In recent years, political and legal debates have focused on whether reverse discrimination favoring African Americans is justified. What the debates neglect to address is the fact that employment discrimination against African Americans, though illegal, is "alive and well" in America.
An important aspect of Americans' religious beliefs changed dramatically in the 1990s. The proportion of Americans reporting "no religious preference" doubled from 7 percent to an unprecedented level of 14 percent between 1991 and 2000, and this increase is attributable to changes in both population characteristics and the politicization of religion.
The American Sociological Association announces the appointment of its new Executive Officer, Sally T. Hillsman, a sociologist with a specialty in crime and justice. Hillsman is currently the Deputy Director at the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, where she has served since 1996.
Skyrocketing violent crime rates obsessed Americans for decades. Over the past ten years, however, crime rates have been dropping. What has happened, and what can we learn? The context and possible explanations for the recent decline in crime are explored in an article by Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri.
The long war between English-only and bilingual education appears to have been settled, with English-only education winning. But its costs are high for immigrant families, the communities in which they reside, and society as a whole.
The mass media consensus seems to be that, with apparent decreasing sexual activity, a new teenage conservatism is emerging. Sophisticated academic studies are substantiating these assumptions. Is the sexual revolution really over? Are teens returning to conservative sexual values? Are we witnessing the end of sexual liberalism?
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