Sociologist Andrew Holden claims his research indicated many Witnesses who would otherwise defect because of disillusionment with the organization and its teachings retain affiliation out of fear of being shunned and losing contact with friends and family members.

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.

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 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 Ray Oldenburg states in The Great Good Place that people need three places: 1 ) the home, 2 ) the office, and, 3 ) the community hangout or gathering place.

Sociologist Carl L. Bankston has argued that a secular, leftist view of social justice entails viewing the redistribution of goods and resources as based on the rights of disadvantaged categories of people, rather than on compassion or national interest.

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 John Theobald argued that instead of providing factual material on the Soviet Union, Hergé depicted the Bolsheviks rigging elections, killing opponents and stealing the grain from the people, all of which was done in order to portray them in a negative light in the minds of his young readers.

* Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling, ' new historian ,' dies at age 67 Obituary in Haaretz, 21 May 2007

Sociologist Susan J. Palmer said that Cristini, a nurse, diagnosed Vorilhon as clinically depressed after he appeared at her door step in 1987, burnt out from the tasks he carried out within the movement.

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.

* Finlay, Barbara ; Lester Frank Ward as a Sociologist Of Gender: A New Look at His Sociological Work ; Gender & Society, Vol.

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 ).

Theda Scokpol: American Sociologist and Political Scientist at Harvard University

In 1905 he founded the India House and The Indian Sociologist, which rapidly developed as an organised meeting point for radical nationalists among Indian students in Britain at the time and one of the most prominent centres for revolutionary Indian nationalism outside India.

* Ravi Arvind Palat-Political Economist and Historical Sociologist, State University of New York at Binghamton.

*( 1946 ): A Sociologist Looks at the Community.

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.

Sociologist Anthony Synnott argues that the reality of misandry is undeniable when one looks to cultural, academic, and media depictions of men.

Sociologist Li Jinghan estimated that one out of six males in the city between the ages of sixteen and fifty was a puller.

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.

The group's long-term existence and historic roots in the sixties make it, according to Sociologist Shawn Young, one of the most contemporary significant groups from the Jesus movement era:

H. Freyer, as Philosopher and Sociologist, and the first Bearer of the German professorship for Sociology in Leipzig, keeps the mind that the notion of “ Ideal Type ” is “ a logical peculiarity of historical and cultural cognition ” and “ oversees the contrast of personal and general methods of thinking, on one hand, by defining the logical character in individual, and on the other, by progressing on the way to generalization only till showing the typicalness and not the pure general rule ”.

Sociologist David Trend called it " one of the most frequently cited essays about cloaked identity in cyberspace ".

Sociologist Stanislav Andreski argued that despite its flaws, Lévy-Brühl's How Natives Think was an accurate and valuable contribution to anthropology, perhaps even more so than better-known work by Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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 Scott Lash has recently put forth the idea that Cultural Studies is entering a new phase.

* Garry Crawford: Cultural Sociologist

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.

The term " social movements " was introduced in 1848 by the German Sociologist Lorenz von Stein in his book Socialist and Communist Movements since the Third French Revolution ( 1848 ) in which he introduced the term " social movement " into scholarly discussions-actually depicting in this way political movements fighting for the social rights understood as welfare rights.

Sociologist Richard N. Pitt argues that these organizations are only available to LGBT members of liberal denominations, as opposed to those in conservative denominations.

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.

* 1901 – Paul Lazarsfeld, American Sociologist ( d. 1976 )

Sociologist of religion Tex Sample asserts that it is a mistake to refer to a Muslim, Jewish, or Christian Fundamentalist.

* 1989 — Robert N. Bellah ( Professor / Sociologist / Author )

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 Dr. Suzanne Mcdonald-Walker states: " Marlon Brando, sporting leather jacket, jeans, and moody glare, became a cultural icon summing up ' the road ' in all its maverick glory.

Sociologist Margot Adler highlighted how several pagan groups, like the Reformed Druids of North America and the Erisian movement refuse to take their rituals seriously, instead incorporating into them a great deal of play.

Sociologist of science Bruno Latour and economist Romain Laufer may also be considered part of, or close to this group.

Sociologist Peter L. Berger characterised religion as the human attempt to build order out of a chaotic world.

Sociologist Gerhard Lenski differentiates societies based on their level of technology, communication, and economy: ( 1 ) hunters and gatherers, ( 2 ) simple agricultural, ( 3 ) advanced agricultural, ( 4 ) industrial, and ( 5 ) special ( e. g. fishing societies or maritime societies ).

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Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu used the term in 1972 in his Outline of a Theory of Practice, and clarified the term some years later in contrast to cultural, economic, and symbolic capital.