Sociology

  • scale
    Researchers at the 91勛圖厙 have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.
  • Dave Woodall and Alexis Martin Woodalll
    Dave Woodall, once an aspiring lawyer, says 91勛圖厙 education gave him the tools to open a from-scratch, comfort restaurant that recalls glamour of mid-century Hollywood.
  • Power plant
    Increasing the efficiency of power plants efficiency is often assumed to be an effective means of reducing carbon emissions. However, an empirical analysis of plants efficiency and emission led by a 91勛圖厙 sociology professor casts some doubt on that conventional wisdom.
  • Prison
    Members of criminal gangs are disproportionately placed in restrictive housing when they are imprisoned in the United States, but the evidence supporting this practice is weak, says criminologist David Pyrooz, who advocates more rigorous research on whether widespread isolaton of gang members is based on the best evidence.
  • Fit or not?
    Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny?

    Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the 91勛圖厙.
  • Profs class examines the sociology of yoga
    Professor Lori M. Hunter has spent a semester prompting students to grapple with questions about the intersection of society and yoga. The course, which she believes is the first of its kind, is an upper-division class designed to hone students critical-thinking skills.
  • Like many academic scholars, sociologist David Pyrooz studies criminal gangs. He has also studied how gang-related research could help inform research on terrorism and extremist groups. Photo: iStockphoto.
    David Pyrooz, a 91勛圖厙 sociologist who is advancing the study of terrorism by applying research on criminal gangs, has won an Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology.
  • Happy senior
    Some peer-reviewed studies have found that happy people tend to live longer than their less-happy counterparts. But now, for the first time, researchers have found that happiness all by itselfregardless of marital status, income, physical health and other indicatorsis a key factor in longevity.
  • Friends standing together
    Nature teaches beasts to know their friends, wrote Shakespeare. In humans, nature may be less than half of the story, a team led by 91勛圖厙 researchers has found.
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