Dr Shyon Baumann, a sociologist involved in the study, said: "What the research shows is that our aesthetic preferences operate to reflect moral preferences.
But as Dutch sociologist Herman Roodenburg—the chief authority for the history of handshaking—wrote in a chapter of an anthology called A Cultural History of Gesture, "More than in any other field, that of the study of gesture is one in which the historian has to make the most of only a few clues".
Steve Freakonomics Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh calculated that Chicago drug dealers seemed to value their entire lives at ,000 to 0,000 - low indeed, even for poor young men whose career choice indicates a taste for risks.
"Around 1980 many Japanese, especially young people, abandoned the values of economic success and began searching for new sets of values to bring them happiness," writes sociologist Yasuhiro Yoshizaki in Comparative Civilizations Review.
Kathrine McAleese, a sociologist and psychotherapist.
Li Jianxin, a sociologist from Peking University, carried out a separate research based on the UN's "World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision" and arrived at similar results.
National University of Singapore sociologist Paulin Straughan said there is a limit to how much the TFR can be pushed up, so other strategies are needed to sustain population growth.
Between 600,000 and 700,000 elderly descend on Sanya every winter, almost doubling its population, said Huang Cheng, a sociologist at Sanya University.
A recent study conducted by a University of Texas sociologist may give soon-to-be grads some food for thought.
Gift giving "is an expression of truly seeing the other person and knowing what they want," said Allison Pugh, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who studies consumption.
"Most of our brain activity, and certainly all of our nervous system, operates on a subconscious level," Christine Carter, a sociologist says.
When I contacted the lead researcher of the study, J Robin Moon, a sociologist now working on health systems in the Bronx, a poor borough of New York City, she said her statistical analysis might reflect "reverse causality": in other words, people may have been forced to retire because they already had cardiovascular disease, not the other way around.
It started with sociologist Max Weber, who distinguished between forms of authority.
"This is not an individual problem, it is a social problem," said Mary Blair-Loy, a sociologist and the founding director of the Center for Research on Gender in the Professions at the University of California, San Diego.
(She relies on a rich description of Shinohata by sociologist Ronald Dore.
, sociologist and author of When Friendship Hurts.
Nicholas Wolfinger – a sociologist at the University of Utah – reckons the chances of your marriage ending in divorce increase with every year after the age of 33.
Sitting at the table were a historian, a sociologist, a linguist and a dozen other scholars.
Sitting at the table were a historian, a sociologist, a linguist and a dozen other scholars.
Happily, that has changed with a new typology offered by the Polish sociologist Julita Czernecka, author of Single and the City.
