... want," said Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern California ... amounts of money, said Julie Albright, a sociologist at the University of Southern California ... eccentric habits, said Albright, the sociologist. "It's almost expected in some ways ...

... usage, is what really matters." This is, after all, a generation of young people known for what University of Toronto sociologist Barry Wellman calls "media multiplexity." College students he has studied tell him how they sleep with their smart phones ...

... the Family "merely rearranging the deck chairs on its big, intolerant ship." D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist who studies evangelicals and politics, said that although Dobson will continue to be Focus on the Family's public face ...

... Muhammad in 2005 that were deemed offensive.) Of course, a minority of Iranians perhaps the 10 percent of society that sociologists estimate is hard-line still hate the Great Satan. But the strain of anti-Americanism in Iran is more mellow than the ...

... to raise boomers' tender and flagging happiness, when what we want to say is, BUCK UP ALREADY. But according to some sociologists, there is no cure for a collective funk that exists simply because of when you are born. Yang Yang, an assistant professor ...

... blood, culture and belonging. The same, of course, goes for elite attitudes toward religious identification. Pioneering sociologists half a century ago patently assumed that broad-scale socioeconomic mobility would undermine Americans' attachment to religion ...

Honest sociologists and economists teach that the sales tax is the cruelest and most brutal form of taxation known. It's called "regressive" or ...

Sociologists have long taken exception to the notion ... interest in the practice of religion,'' sociologist Michael Hout said. "They weren't ... Mark Chaves, a University of Arizona sociologist, sees American religiousness as historically ...

... University of California, Berkeley, sociologists say. Michael Hout and Claude Fischer ... adulthood before then, Hout said. The two sociologists discount suggestions that new-age ... one, according to Indiana University sociologist Clem Brooks, occurred with the dramatic ...

... in Littleton, Colo., has provoked a lot of adult reactions. Parents, school officials, law-enforcement personnel, sociologists, politicians and others have all expressed their horror about such events occurring at an American high school. So imagine ...