Questions tagged [sociology]
For questions about the collective behavior of relatively large groups of people.
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Differences between baseline trust of stranger across cultures
When encountering a new person, does the baseline level of trust (thinking the new person is "good") and it's change as result of new evidence, vary across cultures?
I can imagine controlling for ...
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Problem with IQ tests in Murray's "The Bell Curve"?
Murray's The Bell Curve came up in a discussion recently. I have a very clear memory of reading a review of the book at the time it came out. The reviewer claimed that one of the many problems with ...
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What does it even mean to have a male/female brain?
I have began taking a class on the sociology of gender and how gender is more malleable than previously thought and that femininity and masculinity exists in a continuum. What does this actually imply ...
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Do school teachers demand more from their children than other students?
Lets assume that there is a group of students and one teacher (typical school situation).
Child of the teacher is in that group.
Is there any evidence, that school teachers demand more from their ...
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Literacy and other traits of social network users vs. the larger society
Have sociological researches been made on the levels of literacy, culture, shared ethical values among the users of the many existing social networks compared to the larger national societies the ...
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Effect of enactive cognition on gender
I'm doing a PhD in archaeology and assyriology (cuneiform writing; Sumerian language), exploring the process of gendering that deities underwent during the 3rd millennium BC. I'm looking into using ...
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Empirical proof for social network models
I've recently encountered the domain of social network modelling while reading the papers on models of strategic voting (unpublished), opinion dynamics and influence spread.
All of these papers ...
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How can we realize when a sociological question is impossible to answer?
In my language there is a famous common sense statement which tells the populations are swinging back and forth from one extreme to the other.
The idea behind is that, at a sociological level, the ...
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Are there cultures in which leadership/hierarchy does not exist?
Unproven statement: Human cultures depend on the concept of leadership/hierarchy.
All the cultures I've seen until now depend on this concept. But I may be mistaked: It might be possible that my ...
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What study examined the effect of number of traumatic life events on falling into poverty?
I recall a study that concluded the risk of falling into poverty / homelessness increases dramatically after experiencing 5 (or 7?) traumatic life events, such as
Death of a loved one
Abandonment by ...
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Publicly available social networks in apes and hunter-gatherer societies
Social network analysis is an indiscpensable tool for sociology, and is becoming increasing popular in anthropology, social-psychology and other fields. There are many papers that examine the ...
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Does society swing back and forth from one extreme to the other?
Consider 2 groups of any number of persons. Assume that the "dominant" group acts without any regard for the other group.
Assume that there seem to be no consequences in the short time for the ...
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