This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In his contribution to this issue, Smith argues that sociology's house of culture is built on a foundation of sand. In my brief response to ...

The American Sociologist, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 2009), pp. 228-232 (5 pages) The paper examines the sociology of culture in Australia and New Zealand, with particular emphasis on the antipodean ...

W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, cited numerous studies about the state of the family and the benefits a stable marriage provides. W. Bradley ...

Why are poor people poor? For years, many scholars blamed it on a culture of poverty — the idea that behavior and attitudes played a key role. Then, the concept was blasted as blaming the victim, and ...

Ann Swidler, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present “Fighting For the American Family: Families in the Crosshairs of the Culture Wars” at a lecture sponsored by ...

On April 7, 2017, Ben Moodie, Lecturer in Sociology, Bates College, presented “What’s All the Fuss abut the Sociology of Culture?” for the last of the events for the Sociology Research Luncheon ...

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Penelope Spheeris's classic 1981 documentary The Decline Of Western Civilization, which has just been released along with the rest of the trilogy in a deluxe box set by Shout! Factory, isn't a movie ...

A liberal arts college in New York is offering students a chance to get schooled in the ways of Miley Cyrus.Skidmore College, a private campus in upstate New York, is offering a sociology course this ...