Sociology Now, Census Update
Age affects our sexuality, both directly and indirectly. After a certain age, younger people tend to have more sex than older on ...
2 million lesbian, gay, and bisexual middle and high school students have been the “frequent” targets of homophobic harassment i ...
their own subcultures, with their own gathering places, social hierarchies, norms, val- ues, and group cohesion (that is, a feel ...
In fact, the gay rights movement may have been too successful to remain a counterculture or a subculture; it is now part of the ...
been the task of religion to regulate sexual activity, and it is increasingly the task of the state to do so. For example, laws ...
Some countries, such as Thailand, have become destinations of choice for sex tourists (mostly middle-aged men from Germany and t ...
further investigation by the researchers found that it was the violence in the videos, and not the sexually explicit scenes, tha ...
teach sensible sex education and reduce unwanted pregnancies and increased rates of sexually transmitted infections than teach a ...
The global politics of birth control has become more evident in light of the global AIDS epidemic. One of the primary methods to ...
344 CHAPTER 10SEXUALITY born bisexual. In the United States, the Kinsey reports were the first large-scale investigation into se ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 345 CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTIONS The gender difference in responses is not large, but it is ...
11 ■Age and Identity The Stages of Life Childhood Adolescence Young Adulthood Middle Age Old Age Aging and Dying ■Age and Inequa ...
OUR SOCIETY IS OBSESSED WITH YOUTH. Supermodels are over the hill at age 25, and actresses over 40 are rarely cast as anything b ...
Age and Identity What does oldmean, anyway? Sociologists believe that age is less a biological con- dition than a social constru ...
The Stages of Life All societies—whether tribal, agrarian, or industrial—have always divided the life span into stages, seasons, ...
■65–75: “young” old age ■75–85: “old” old age ■85 and over: “oldest” old age (Moody, 1998) Of course, the boundaries of these li ...
sins and would invariably go to heaven. English common law agreed: Because chil- dren were innocent, they could not distinguish ...
1929 study of a typical American community, Middletown, sociologist Robert Lynd discovered that nearly half of “little boys” (me ...
In 1950, close to half of all women in the United States were married for the first time by age 20 (and men a few years later). ...
Middle Age Because they’re starting young adulthood later, people are also starting middle age later, in their 50s instead of th ...
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