Sociology Department
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| Married Couples Pack On More Pounds | Sociologist Jay Teachman, at Western Washington University, examined data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. The data included info about more than 3,000 African Americans over a 20-year period. Teachman tracked body-mass-index, BMI, a measure of obesity, from adolescence to middle… |
2016-05-04 | |
| How diets of single men and women differ from their married counterparts | Delhi-based Mona Mishra, 45, has had a rocky relationship with her food. Straight after college, when she was working and single, it was a carefree, erratic one. No breakfast. At times, no lunch. Then drink and dine big time. Things changed when she got married. "We put a lot of… |
2016-03-21 | |
| Two-child policy reform changes the lives of Chinese women | China’s two-child policy came into effect this year. But for many Chinese women, raising more than one child will require more effort in caring for their families, which in turn, may add more difficulties to their career development. |
2016-03-10 | |
| Free-range education: Why the unschooling movement is growing | On a late Monday morning in this rural New Hampshire town, Dayna and Joe Martin’s four children are all home. Devin, age 16, is hammering a piece of steel in the blacksmith forge he and his parents built out of a storage shed in the backyard. Tiffany, 14, is twirling on a hoverboard,… |
2016-02-16 | |
| Lecture to discuss similarities between black, Palestinian struggles for human rights | 2016-02-05 | ||
| Screening, discussion to look at community of romance readers, writers | 2016-02-03 | ||
| Not Your Grandma's Romance Novel | The novels are also instantly recognizable because romance is the most profitable genre by far. Romantic fiction is a woman-dominated industry. And despite its successes, romance authors often face a stigma that is particular to their work. Pacific Lutheran University sociologist Joanna… |
2016-01-19 | |
| Food and the Single Girl | On a recent morning, my run took me past our local bagel shop, just early enough that the blooming scent of carby goodness wafted out the front door and chased me down the street. When I got home, I dished out my usual breakfast of plain, full-fat yogurt, topped with fruit (a pear that day) and… |
2016-01-14 | |
| People living alone are thinner and have a lower BMI, study finds | All by yourself? Savor it. A new study shows that being single might help you look better in those skinny jeans. Those who live without a romantic partner are more likely to have a lower body weight than people who live with a significant other, according to a study published in the… |
2015-12-07 | |
| Does living alone make you thinner? | Score one for the singles crowd. People who live alone tend to be thinner than married couples or co-habiters, according to research out of Western Washington University. But the difference is, well, slim. On average, single people weighed about three pounds less than their coupled… |
2015-12-07 |