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The Department of Sociology offers both the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Sociology. The department also participates in an interdisciplinary program leading to the Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology. Courses offered by the Sociology Department examine the development of social classes, gender roles, racial prejudices, social analysis of politics, economic structure, the development of modern industrial society, religion, law, and a variety of other issues relevant to the study of society and social structure. These two topics are studied at two different levels: (1) theoretical understandings of major social issues through critical analysis; and (2) practical application of research skills through training in statistics and research methods. Sociology is an appropriate field of study for many students, including those minoring in anthropology, history, political science, economics, journalism, criminal justice, psychology, and business.
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Sensitive Research and the Collision of Advocacy and Research: Consequences for the Researcher
(Journal of Research Practice, 2016)Doing sensitive research presents particular problems over and above other social science research because of the nature of the issues being asked about and their potential impact on both the participant and the researcher. ... -
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Is 8:30 a.m. Still Too Early to Start School? A 10:00 a.m. School Start Time Improves Health and Performance of Students Aged 13-16
(2017)While many studies have shown the benefits of later school starts, including better student attendance, higher test scores, and improved sleep duration, few have used starting times later than 9:00 a.m. Here we report on ... -
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Making Memories: Why Time Matters
(2018)In the last decade advances in human neuroscience have identified the critical importance of time in creating long-term memories. Circadian neuroscience has established biological time functions via cellular clocks regulated ... -
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Identifying the Best Times for Cognitive Functioning Using New Methods: Matching University Times to Undergraduate Chronotypes
(2017)University days generally start at fixed times in the morning, often early morning, without regard to optimal functioning times for students with different chronotypes. Research has shown that later starting times are ... -
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Strong Welfare States Do Not Intensify Public Support for Income Redistribution, but Even Reduce It among the Prosperous: A Multilevel Analysis of Public Opinion in 30 Countries
(2018)How tightly linked are the strength of a country’s welfare state and its residents’ support for income redistribution? Multilevel model results (with appropriate controls) show that the publics of strong welfare states ... -
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Private Self-Consciousness as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Value Orientations and Attitudes
(2001)The author examined implications of private self-consciousness (PrivSC; Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) for the relationships between social values and issue attitudes. Indeed, the author expected that the value ... -
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Inept Reasoners or Pragmatic Virtuosos? Relevance and the Deontic Selection Task
(2001)Most individuals fail the selection task, selecting P and Q cases, when they have to test descriptive rules of the form “If P, then Q”. But they solve it, selecting P and not-Q cases, when they have to test deontic rules ... -
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A Preliminary Examination of Burnout among Counselor Trainees Treating Clients with Recent Suicidal Ideation and Borderline Traits
(2011)Treating suicidal clients with borderline traits can be conducive to burnout. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may assuage this burnout in counselors. As part of a DBT treatment outcome study, 6 counselors in training ... -
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How Voluntariness of Apologies Affects Actual and Hypothetical Victims' Perceptions of the Offender
(2012)Apologies are important in social interactions. Study 1 investigated participants’ reactions after being insulted by a confederate and receiving no apology, a voluntary apology, a coerced apology with consequences (i.e., ... -
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Life Task Pursuit in Social Groups: Balancing Self-Exploration and Social Integration
(2002)Personal well-being and resilience are contingent on the ability to negotiate and successfully pursue personal goals through life tasks and opportunities afforded by one's social environment. Our research addresses these ... -
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Rethinking Individualism and Collectivism: Evaluation of Theoretical Assumptions and Meta-Analyses
(2002)Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups? The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL), meta-analyze cross-national and ... -
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Cultural Psychology, A New Look: Reply to Bond (2002), Fiske (2002), Kitayama (2002), and Miller (2002)
(2002)M. H. Bond (2002) (see record 2002-00183-002), A. P. Fiske (2002) (see record 2002-00183-003), S. Kitayama (2002) (see record 2002-00183-004), and J. G. Miller (2002) (see record 2002-00183-005) joined D. Oyserman, H. M. ... -
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What Research Participants Learn from Rewards: A Conversational Logic Analysis of Rewarding Reasoning Performance
(2004)Based on a conversational logic framework (Grice, 1975), we examined the implications of rewarding performance on a reasoning task. We argued that, in the interaction between experimenter and participant, financial incentives ... -
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Culture as Process: The Dynamics of Cultural Stability and Change
(2012)This special issue brings together contemporary research and theories that advance our understanding of culture as a process. The papers are loosely grouped by the types of cultural processes they address. Overall, the ... -
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Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas
(2003)Racial-ethnic minorities are at risk of academic disengagement: pulling back effort in school. Our model focuses on implications of content of racial-ethnic self-schemas (RES) for disengagement. We postulate that risk ... -
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Telling What They Want to Know A Replication and Extension
(2014)According to a conversational approach, survey respondents provide answers they believe to be relevant to an interaction. Norenzayan and Schwarz (1999) demonstrated that participants provide dispositional accounts for an ... -
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Need for Closure and Political Orientation Among German University Students
(1997)EVER SINCE THE PUBLICATION of The Authoritarian Penalty by Adorno, Frenckel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford (1950), there has been a debate over whether general political orientation is associated with differences ... -
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Effects of Islamist Terror in Muslim Students: Evidence from Turkey in the Wake of the November 2003 Attacks
(2009)Following the November 2003 attacks in Turkey by Turkish Islamist extremists, we designed an experiment to assess the religious identification of Turkish Muslim students using the inclusion/exclusion model of social judgment ... -
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Can Deception Be Desirable?
(2017)Critics of deception in research allege harm to society, the discipline of psychology, the researchers and participants. However neither empirical findings nor a ‘reasonable-person’ test seem to support those allegations. ... -
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Authoritarianism and Candidate Support in the U.S. Presidential Elections of 1996 and 2000
(2004)Kemmelmeier sought to replicate and extend the findings of a link between a person's candidate preference and the degree of his or her authoritarianism in the US presidential elections of 1996 and 2000. The findings confirm ...
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