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

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 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.

Venkatesh also profiled the area, its residents and the Black Kings, a Chicago gang known for selling drugs, in his 2008 book " Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets " ( ISBN 978-1-59420-150-9 ).

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 Frank Furedi also deems VHEMT to be a Malthusian group, classifying them as a type of environmental organization that " the worst about the human species ".

Sociologist and former American Sociological Association president Joe Feagin argues that the United States can be characterized as a " total racist society "

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 Stephen A. Kent wrote that as a 22-year-old hippie, he found Rawat's message to be banal and poorly delivered, though his companions spoke about it glowingly.

* Sociologist Michael Erben explored the use of prosopography to investigate what might be called a street biography in " A Preliminary Prosopography of the Victorian Street ", ( 1996 ).

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 Roy Wallis commented that this interpretation seemed to be " contradicted by the words on the page, and by actions taken against those regarded as enemies of the movement.

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 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 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 John Carroll described the practice of " booing the Members " as dismissive of any claim to authority or superior social status on the members ' part, although good-natured and based on the egalitarian nature of watching sports.

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 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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

Bruno Bettelheim had predicted that kibbutz education would yield mediocrity: " children will not be leaders or philosophers, will not achieve anything in science or art.

Journalist Bruno de Latour coined the term domotic in 1984. Domotic has been recently introduced in vocabulary as a composite word of Latin word domus and informatics, or a contraction of domestic robotics, and it refers to intelligent houses meaning the use of the automation technologies and computer science applied to the home.

In particular, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Bruno Latour, Barry Barnes, Steve Woolgar, and others used social constructionism to relate what science has typically characterized as objective facts to the processes of social construction, with the goal of showing that human subjectivity imposes itself on those facts we take to be objective, not solely the other way around.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

* Bruno Latour ( born 1947 ), anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of science and technology studies.

More recently, a novel approach pioneered by Bruno Latour and known as Mapping controversies has been gaining momentum among science studies practitioners, and was introduced as a course for students in engineering, and architecture schools.

Bruno Latour (; born 22 June 1947 ) is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies ( STS ).

Developed by science and technology studies scholars Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, the sociologist John Law, and others, it can more technically be described as a " material-semiotic " method.

In 1958 he participated in Bruno VeSota's science fiction horror film The Brain Eaters.

As Bruno Latour recently put it, " Scientists always stomp around meetings talking about ' bridging the two-culture gap ', but when scores of people from outside the sciences begin to build just that bridge, they recoil in horror and want to impose the strangest of all gags on free speech since Socrates: only scientists should speak about science!

Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, based in the sociology of science, treats non-living things as active agents and thus bears some resemblance to hylozoism.

The image was traced to Flammarion's book by Arthur Beer, an astrophysicist and historian of German science at Cambridge and, independently, by Bruno Weber, the curator of rare books at the Zürich central library.

On a deconstructive level, theoretical work is being undertaken on technoscience to address scientific practices critically, e. g. by Bruno Latour ( Sociology ), by Donna Haraway ( History of science ), and by Karen Barad ( Theoretical physics ).

Bruno Gollnisch studied law, political science and far-eastern languages with the view to becoming a diplomat.

Figures engaged in technocritical scholarship and theory include Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour ( who work in the closely related field of science studies ), N. Katherine Hayles ( who works in the field of Literature and Science ), Phil Agree and Mark Poster ( who works in intellectual history ), Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler ( who work in the closely related field of media studies ), Susan Squier and Richard Doyle ( who work in the closely related field of medical sociology ), and Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault ( who sometimes wrote about the philosophy of technology ).

Adam Mitchell is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Bruno Langley.