General Social Survey (GSS) Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. The GSS aims to gather data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes; to examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role played by relevant subgroups; to compare the United States to other societies in order to place American society in comparative perspective and develop cross-national models of human society; and to make high-quality data easily accessible to scholars, students, policy makers, and others, with minimal cost and waiting. GSS questions include such items as national spending priorities, marijuana use, crime and punishment, race relations, quality of life, and confidence in institutions. Sociologists Doing Research.pdf. Useful Links.
Sociological Writing. Gender Differences. Society Breakdown. Quick Look: Blogging as Therapy for Teenagers. Everyday Sociology Blog. Social Network Analysis. Sociology resources. The Sociological Imagination. The Sociological Cinema - Home. Holy Taco’s Flowchart to Help You Determine What Religion You Sh. People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests. Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline.
In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. What exactly explains this decline? Study co-author Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, points to the fact that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence. The History and Evolution of Social Media. Social media has become an integral part of modern society.
There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. What is social media? Here are 34 definitions... Earlier today I was once again asked to wrap a neat definition around social media.
Social media can be a lonely thing. Social Media - A Good Thing or a Bad Thing? Social media is a good thing or a bad thing?
That is the most frequently asked question today. Sociology of Social Networking. I was deep in thought yesterday, when I fell into one of those “the lights are on but no one is home,” trance-like states.
The kind of intense reflection that makes the people around you wonder if you were abducted by an alien or something. As my stream of consciousness took over, a myriad of memories, to-do lists, worries, jokes, friends I need to catch up with, and who knows what else flashed through my mind. For a millisecond, my thoughts wandered to the declaration that I truly enjoy the whole social networking thing. Being connected with so many impressive industry leaders makes me feel like I have been transported to some top secret facility, where I am the proverbial fly on the wall in this grand conference room, happily eavesdropping on some of the most forward-thinking, inspiring conversations around.
What your email style says about your personality - tech - 27 September 2013. Our emails are a dead giveaway.
The words we use in the messages we send can reveal not just our gender but also our emotions and maybe even our personality traits. Saif Mohammad and colleagues from the National Research Council Canada, used sentiment analysis to uncover the feelings buried inside email. Sociology. Sociology. Introduction to Sociology. About the Course We live in a world that is changing very quickly.
Sociology gives us the tools to understand our own lives and those quite remote from us. The premise of this class is that in order to benefit from the sociological perspective, we need to learn how to ask certain basic questions. Social Norms. First published Tue Mar 1, 2011.
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason . Perspectives . Myths and Sacred Tales. DOES MAN NEED MYTHS?
— ARE MYTHS TRUE — MYTHS FOR THE 21st CENTURY IT TAKES A VILLAGE — 150 FLOODS. Group Size and Cognitive Limitations. Dunbar and others established an important relationship between brain and cohesive group size.
The basic idea is that the cohesion of primate groups is limited by the information-processing capacity of the neocortex. One human can only maintain social and working relationships a limited number of individuals by meaningful personal contact. About Sociology - Articles on Sociology Topic. Understanding Society. Friends to count on. Evolution is, at best, a Heath Robinson affair: we accumulate novel adaptations that seemed like good ideas at the time but that, millennia later, turn out to be hostages to fortune.
Our long evolutionary history since we last shared a common ancestor with the chimpanzees has left us with many such scars of evolution. Walking upright produced many benefits, not least the capacity to invade novel habitats, eventually making possible the long series of migrations out of Africa that resulted in our peopling every habitable corner of the planet. But bipedalism put added strain on the spine, and so back problems remain the most common cause of lost days at work. Bipedalism had other unexpected side-effects. Understanding Society. Lesson6_StratficationonTitanic.