... the parent-child dynamic. "Parents have trouble saying no," said Allison Pugh, a University of Virginia sociology professor. She says parents often buy toys to avoid guilt and ensure their children feel in sync with school classmates ...

... letters to editors. Although the South has had more racial violence than most of the country, Randy Blazak, a sociology professor at Oregon's Portland State University, says white supremacists live all over the United States. Blazak, who ...

... year ago. "The reality of these numbers are worse than what they're showing us," said Kevin Fitzpatrick, a sociology professor at the University of Arkansas. "There are more people looking into shelters and showing up in soup kitchens and ...

... Bliss Hicky, city president of Regions Bank - Conway/Clinton, will serve as president. Allison Vetter, sociology professor at Henderson State University, is first vice president; and Tom Hardin, an attorney with Rose Law Firm in Little ...

... come to grips with one another. Gary Marx, a sociology professor at the University of Colorado, notes that all ... on this one? Nobody knows yet. Like Marx, the sociology professor, says: It's a continuous game of catch-up ...

... reason: That a chasm separates the lives, histories and experiences of blacks and whites in America. Harvard sociology professor Orlando Patterson, in his book "The Ordeal of Integration" published last year, noted: "We have a tendency ...

... Etheridge said. "That was really special." Another story involves a black woman who gets in touch with a white sociology professor 2,000 miles away to help trace her ancestry back to the days of slavery. The two women eventually discover that ...

... Reading Program. After some anecdotes, he dove into the meat of his lecture: his relationship with his college sociology professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz. Albom had first been drawn to Schwartz while a student at Brandeis University in ...

... agreed to downsize the livestock operation, but kept it near a residential area. Albert Schaffer, a retired sociology professor at Texas A&M, saw the battle as typical of those fought with universities over environmental issues. "Livestock ...

... competing for converts among the same group: the unchurched, said Marie Cornwall, a Brigham Young University sociology professor. "Put together the incredible growth in the South with the increasing anti-Mormonism rhetoric that comes out ...