Sociologist Andrew Holden claims meetings create an atmosphere of uniformity for Witnesses, intensify their sense of belonging to a religious community, and reinforce the plausibility of the organization's belief system.

Sociologist Andrew Holden indicated they are highly selective in choosing with whom they spend leisure time, generally choosing the company of other Witnesses.

Sociologist Daniel Chirot claims that around 100 million people suffered and at least one million people, and perhaps as many as 20 million, died in the Cultural Revolution.

His research, focusing on whiteness, critical race theory, race and ethnic relations, social inequality, quantitative research methods, and statistics, has appeared in the journals Social Forces, Social Problems, and The American Sociologist.

Sociologist Karen Williams used it reluctantly in her research, with the disclaimer, " to follow the wishes of the participants.

Sociologist Dr. Sarah Horsfall's 2005 research article about the Inner City of Fort Worth explains ; “ The trustees, urged by the then-President, voted to relocate the campus and purchased land in the northwest of Fort Worth.

Sociologist Matthew W. Hughey explains that while prior research on stigma has emphasized individual and group attempts to reduce stigma by ' passing as normal ', by shunning the stigmatized, or through selective disclosure, that some actors may embrace particular markings of stigma ( e. g.: dishonor or select dysfunctions ) as signs of moral commitment and / or cultural and political authenticity.

Dr Neville Yeomans, an Australian Psychiatrist, Clinical Sociologist, Psychologist and Barrister pioneered Self-Help and Mutual Help in Australia through his pioneering work at Australia's first therapeutic community Fraser House ( 1959 – 1968 ), an 80 bed residential unit in North Ryde Sydney ; and former inmates of this unit started many self-help groups around Sydney.

Sociologist Paul Spoonley criticised the new version, however, saying that many Pākehā would not identify as European.

Sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod has noted that many of the cities participating in the 13th century world trade system grew rapidly in size.

Sociologist Frank Furedi has stated that CRB checks cannot provide a " cast-iron guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult ", and that their use has created an atmosphere of suspicion and is " poisoning " relationships between the generations, with many ordinary parents finding themselves regarded as " potential child abusers ".

Sociologist Susie Scott, in her book Shyness and Society ( 2007 ), is one expert who has sought to challenge the pathological interpretation and treatment of shyness.

Sociologist Louis Wirth defined a minority group as " a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

Sociologist William H. Whyte was among those who saw the tests as helping to create and perpetuate the oppressive groupthink of " The Organization Man " mid-20th century corporate capitalistic mentality.

Mention must also be made of the term " Conversational analysis ", which was influenced by the Sociologist Harold Garfinkel who is the founder of Ethnomethodology.

Sociologist Lewis Mumford, who often criticized the effect of superhighway construction on contemporary cities, always advised friends traveling up from New York to visit him at his house in Amenia that they should take the Taconic to do so.

Sociologist Morten Ender conducted the largest scientific study to date exclusively on career military brats ( those who had at least one parent in the military from birth through high school ).

Shyamji Krishnavarma ( Shyamji Krishna Nakhua ) ( 1857 – 1930 ) was an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.

Sociologist W. Phillips Davison, who first articulated the third-person effect hypothesis in 1983, explains that the phenomenon first piqued his interest in 1949 or 1950 upon learning of a Japanese attempt during World War II to dissuade black U. S. soldiers from fighting at Iwo Jima using propaganda.

His involvement with The Indian Sociologist brought him into contact with Har Dayal, who combined anarchism with his Indian Nationalism, based on his view of ancient Aryan culture and Buddhism.

Sociologist Roy Wallis reports that Scientologists connected to a suppressive would usually be required to handle or disconnect, although he found some " Ethics Orders " which ordered unconditional disconnection.

Sociologist Geoff Dench has stated that Hewitt discourages male involvement in child rearing by questioning " whether we can trust men with children " and she concluded that it would be necessary to adopt the practice of " not leaving men on their own with groups of children ".

Sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, for instance, attacked the state as an entity that uses force to acquire wealth and secure market-distorting privileges for elites, with the implication that a market free of such privileges would undermine elite power.

" Sociologist Stephen Hunt, on the other hand, writes in Alternative Religions ( 2003 ) that " the movement has declined since 1985, and some would argue it is now, for all intents and purposes, defunct.

Sociologist Stephen Steinberg explained in 2010, that the Moynihan report was condemned " because it threatened to derail the black liberation movement.

Sociologist Helmut Schoeck similarly considered envy the motive of collective efforts by society to reduce the disproportionate gains of successful individuals through moral or legal constraints, with altruism being primary among these.

Sociologist, author, and financial journalist Alfred W. Jones is credited with coining the phrase " hedged fund ", in contrast to prior nomenclatures, and is often erroneously credited with creating the first hedge fund structure in 1949.

Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested that it is the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation — coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution — that has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.

Sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority ; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as " charismatic authority ".

Sociologist Barry Wellman presents the idea of “ glocalization ”- the ability for the Internet to extend participants ’ social connections to people around the world while also aiding them in further engagement with their local community.

Sociologist Anthony Giddens adopted a post-empiricist frame for his theory, as he was concerned with the abstract characteristics of social relations.

* Sociologist G. William Domhoff strongly disagrees with Dahl's view of power in New Haven, CT in the 1960s: " Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven?

Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz argues that left-wing fascism in the United States consists of a rejection of American democracy and a devotion to socialism that is merely an idealized abstraction, combined with an unwillingness to confront the actual history of communism.

Sociologist Phoebe Price posed three possible hypotheses as to why brats are better behaved: firstly, military parents have a lower threshold for misbehavior in their children ; secondly, the mobility of teenagers might make them less likely to attract attention to themselves, as they want to fit in and are less secure with their surroundings ; and thirdly, normative constraints are greater, with brats knowing that their behavior is under scrutiny and can affect the military member ’ s career.

Sociologist and sexologist Pepper Schwartz states that the smirters are " defiant and angry, they don't buy the second-hand smoke argument, and want to share this grudge with someone else.

Among them, all between 22 and 26 and with links to the University of Concepción, were Doctors Miguel Enríquez and Bautista Van Schouwen, Professor Marcello Ferrada-Noli, Medical student Luciano Cruz, Sociologist Nelson Gutiérrez, Lawyer Juan Saavedra Gorriategy, Civil Engineer Aníbal Matamala, and Economist José Goñi ( Goñi later became a Minister of Defence and ambassador of Chile in the USA ).

Sociologist William Julius Wilson has said that the economic restructuring of changes from manufacturing to a service-based economy has led to chronic joblessness in the inner-cities and with it a loss of skills and inability to find jobs.

Frank Webster, a Sociologist with interests in Information Society issues and sympathy for the ' cultural turn ', joined the newly formed Centre for Cultural Studies and Sociology in 1999, but left for City University London when the Centre was closed in 2002.

Sociologist Orlando Patterson has seen the controversy as a dispute between liberal and conservative criminologists in which both parties focus on a single aspect of the causal net, with liberals focusing on factors external to the groups in question and conservatives focusing on internal cultural and behavioral factors.

Shyamji was disappointed with the response and he published all his abortive correspondence on this matter in the next issue of the Sociologist appearing in December 1920, after a lapse of almost six years.

Sociologist J. Gordon Melton has stated that along with Stewart Lamont's Religion Inc., Miller's book is " by far the best " among the books published by Scientology critics, though he notes that the Church of Scientology has " prepared statements on each indicating factual errors and omissions.