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 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 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 David Pilgrim suggests that a necessary pragmatism and a form of " mutual tolerance " ( Goldie, 1977 ) has forced a co-existence of perspectives, rather than a genuine " theoretical integration as a shared BPS orthodoxy.

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 Howard S. Becker has written about The Americans as social analysis:

Sociologist Max Weber wrote that the state has a " monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force ", or, in Karl Marx's words, the state was only the repressive apparatus of the bourgeois class.

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

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 Amy Ryan has argued for the need to differentiate those groups that may be dangerous from groups that are more benign.

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 Ray Oldenburg has attributed the generation gap and the " increasing segregation of youth from adults in American society " to " adult estrangement and fear of youth.

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

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

* 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.

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

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

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 Jonathan H. Westover, Ph. D. found that much of the evidence on the effectiveness of microfinance for alleviating poverty is based in anecdotal reports or case studies.

Sociologist Dennis Gilbert states that it is possible for households to out-earn other households over higher class standing through increasing their number of income earners.

Sociologist Jonathan H. Westover says that much of the evidence on the effectiveness of microfinance for alleviating poverty is based in anecdotal reports or case studies.

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

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 principle problem is that of classical sociology, the issue of macro-micro linkage: as first articulated by French Sociologist Émile Durkheim, the question of how individuals within a social system influence and are influenced by the macrosocial level.

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 Michael Schudson argues that " the belief in objectivity is a faith in ' facts ,' a distrust in ' values ,' and a commitment to their segregation.

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 James Hughes mentions Walter Truett Anderson, author of To Govern Evolution: Further Adventures of the Political Animal, as an example of a technogaian political philosopher ; argues that technogaianism applied to environmental management is found in the reconciliation ecology writings such as Michael Rosenzweig's Win-Win Ecology: How The Earth's Species Can Survive In The Midst of Human Enterprise ; and considers Bruce Sterling's Viridian design movement to be an exemplary technogaian initiative.

Sociologist Anne-Cécile Bégot considered the Antoinist healing of the first decades a form of protest against ( 1 ) the efficiency of medicine, ( 2 ) the traditional representation of disease — the real healing can be attained only through a new approach to the disease, which is never considered a particular misfortune and thus is not reduced to its biological dimension — and ( 3 ) the management of disease — sick are always responsible for their own illness.

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

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