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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 …
Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
2023年9月7日 · 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 …
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
2009年9月15日 · 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.
Secrets of the Internet Adult Film Database
2013年3月10日 · John Millward, a self-described “ideas detective,” has done something intriguing. He cracked the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) and used a sample of 10,000 porn stars …
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
2014年5月31日 · 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 …
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
2012年2月27日 · 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 …
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
2013年6月21日 · While many American eugenicists railed about the threats posed by hordes of “dysgenic” immigrants (non-white, often, but also people from “undesirable” countries and …
A Sociological Look at Marijuana and Its Users
2018年4月20日 · 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 …
Virginity as a Social Construction - There's Research on That
2019年11月26日 · Research shows that by age 18, 65% of people in the US have had sexual intercourse. Graph via Guttmacher Institute.. Recently, the American rapper T.I. acknowledged …
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
2020年9月10日 · So, what are the boundaries of each socially constructed racial category? Generally, racial categories are constructed based on superficial biological characteristics of …