Sociologist Harry Lefever states that verbal skill and wit is just as valued among African Americans as physical strength: " Verbal facility is thus a criterion that is used to separate the men from the boys ".

Sociologist Herbert J. Gans used Willingboro as the subject of his 1967 book, The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community.

Sociologist Deena Weinstein points to the large number of terms used to describe more commercial forms of heavy metal, which she groups together as lite metal.

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

Sociologist Robert K. Merton used the parable of talents to describe the reward system in science in which famous scientists often receive disproportionate credit for their contributions, whereas lesser known scientists receive less credit than their contributions actually merit.

Sociologist Susan Starr Sered used the term in her 1994 book, Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, which includes a chapter titled, " No Father in Heaven: Androgyny and Polydeism ".

Comparisons between economics and sociology have resulted in a corresponding term Homo sociologicus ( introduced by German Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf in 1958 ), to parody the image of human nature given in some sociological models that attempt to limit the social forces that determine individual tastes and social values.

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.

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 Edward Sagarin described this as a compromise between the term neurotic and the more colloquial phrase " nervous breakdown.

He wrote an academic paper supporting the theory in 1964 in Wisconsin Sociologist ; he published a slightly more popularized version, in 1972, in the trade journal Industrial Research.

Sociologist and Economist Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class illustrates how individuals imitate other group members of higher social status in their consumer behavior.

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.

According to Caribbean Sociologist, Corey Alexander Lane, " The reaction from music is based on the memory induced emotion that some songs create.

Sociologist Dennis Gilbert, argues that the white and blue collar divide has shifted to a divide between professionals, including some semi-professionals, and routinized white collar workers.

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.

" 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 Robert Nisbet finds that " No single idea has been more important than ... the Idea of Progress in Western civilization for three thousand years.

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.

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, 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.

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 ”.

The British Sociologist David Lockwood argued for a contrast between social content and social transmission in his work on social structure and agency.

Sociologist Mary Bernstein writes: " For the lesbian and gay movement, then, cultural goals include ( but are not limited to ) challenging dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity, homophobia, and the primacy of the gendered heterosexual nuclear family ( heteronormativity ).

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

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.

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.

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.

Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild argues in The Second Shift that despite changes in perceptions of the purpose of marriage and the economic foundations for marriage, women continue to do the bulk of care work to the detriment of the American family.

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 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 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 ).

American Sociologist, 8 ( 4 ), 159-164.

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.

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

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