The Primate Police: Monkey Cops Keep Groups in Line
Elected to protect and to serve, these elders break up fights and encourage group interactions. Adult male pigtailed macaque photographed in Thailand. Credit: Frans de Waal New research reveals that monkey cops help keep social groups in ... [... more]
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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
 Sociology with a Human Face: I've read other sociological works on inner city residents and was invariably disturbed by the soulless way in which the subjects were portrayed. No doubt, the authors of those works would defend their method as being [... more]
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How to Sniff Out Online Phonies
You're out in that sea of people seeking friendship or among the singles again, and have discovered it to be a very different scene today. Yes, bars, clubs and other social groups are still a large part of mingling, but now many people have found ... [... more]
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How to Overcome Marijuana Addiction
Over 15 percent of individuals who enter drug rehabilitation programs report addiction to marijuana. Marijuana addicts often withdraw from social groups, neglect work and family responsibilities, become depressed and center their lives around ... [... more]
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About Secret Santas
Secret Santa is a fun way to exchange gifts at work. Some clubs, social groups and families also use Secret Santa as their preferred gift exchange method. Secret Santa adds mystery, humor and spending control to a group Christmas ... [... more]
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How to Determine if a Friend is a True Friend
We all have those people in our social groups with whom we spend time, we call friends, but on some level are never really sure about. You socialize, share experiences but somehow, inevitably, situations always become about them- what they want, ... [... more]
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How to Prevent Prescription Drug Scams
It's unfortunate, but senior citizens are one of the most vulnerable social groups for con artists and scams. With the new Medicare prescription drug benefits, the con artists and fake companies are at it again, taking advantage of the program to ... [... more]
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Urban Social Disparities
It is a truism of epidemiology that disease is not uniformly distributed across society-that some social groups or geographical areas experience higher disease rates, while other social groups or areas experience lower disease rates. Thus, some ... [... more]
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Archons and Acolytes
Author: Clarence C. Walton Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305.52 EAN: 9780847689972 ISBN: 0847689972 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1998-08 [... more]
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Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: ...
Book Description: This extraordinary book combines social history, anthropology, religion, politics, women's studies to chart a genealogy of class transformation in the 20th century. Using the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional [... more]
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Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in ...
Immensely disappointing: An angry Dotson's adds nothing but his own value judgments on male beauty (or the male physique) in today's culture. There is very little objectivity in the book as Dotson bashes everything from advertising to working out. A [... more]
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Growing Up in Twentieth-Century America: A History and ...
Author: Elliott West Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305.230973 EAN: 9780313288012 ISBN: 0313288011 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 1996-04-30 [... more]
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