Questions tagged [sociology]
For questions about the collective behavior of relatively large groups of people.
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How would I conduct a sociological study on hair bias?
For my intro to sociology class, I’d like to do a mock study about how strongly people associate specific categories of common hairstyles with economic status and racial identity. My problem is I’m ...
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How can we gain public Empathy?
I'm investigating how empathy operates within groups, focusing on identifying the specific factors that initiate and maintain collective empathy.
What key components are essential for triggering and ...
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Do psychological effects of sex discrimination have measurable effects on police-officer safety or productivity?
I would assume that sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace are correlated with workers' productivity and self-reported sense of well-being.
I am not particularly familiar with the ...
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What is the correlation coefficient between household wealth and educational attainment?
Educational attainment being years of education. I'm looking for r or r^2. Preferably in a western, anglophone country like the US or England.
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Do people really become more reserved in cities, if so why?
The rapid tempo of life in a city was such that people needed a "protective organ" to insulate them from the external and internal stimuli. According to Simmel, the metropolitan "...
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Possibility of a global consciousness
I am not sure if this site is the right place to ask this question but I believe this is the closest that stack exchange has to offer, so I am posting it here. The human brain is a complex organ ...
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Estimated distribution of maximal cliques in international social networks
Let a clique be a subset of the vertices of an undirected graph such that every two distinct vertices in the clique are adjacent. Let a maximal clique be a set of vertices that is a clique and also a ...
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Does the cohesion of groups stem from the need to be observed?
Morpheus is a fictional AI prototype appearing in the videogame Deus Ex. Interestingly, during in-game conversations, Morpheus says:
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by ...
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How much does money (or any desired good) influence a person on average?
I'd like to know if there's any study about that, I'm specially interested if it determines how much it influences a certain person behavior in a certain given percentage and the quantities from where ...
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Why do people tend to put stigma on victims of offences against the person such as rape or bullying?
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Blame against victims, regarding offences against the person, such as rape or bullying, seems to be a generally consistent social phenomenon, regardless of cultural or historical context....
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Does the functionalism view of sociology assume that institutions are intentionally designed to serve their functions?
From my limited knowledge, the structural-functional view focuses on the functions of different institutions.
However, that doesn't state what created these institutions in the first place. Even if ...
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Why does the Elaboration Likelihood Model not account for truthfulness of the message?
This is a sample problem with the answer I am stuck on:
Question: According to the elaboration likelihood model, which of the following does NOT predict whether a message will be persuasive?
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~20% threshold for perceiving minority populations as "others"?
Many years ago I read an article that said something along the lines of minority populations stop being "noticed" when they cross a threshold of something like 20%. Below 20% or so they are perceived ...
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Appropriate age grouping for studying linguistic development
I am publishing a survey on a crowdsourcing platform to study how people of different ages perceive certain aspects of non-literal language. The platform allows me to target people with ages in ...
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