Sociology Now, Census Update
Why do parents homeschool their children? The most important reason cited was concern about the environment of traditional schoo ...
The Sociology of Higher Education In 1949, there were 2,400,000 college students in the United States. Fifty years later, there ...
Preparing for College Although college is rapidly becoming a necessity for middle-class and even working-class lives, the qualit ...
But it is not just elite colleges. Across the spectrum, colleges are drawing more members from upper-income households and fewer ...
academic life—studying, homework, reading in the library, doing research—is almost an incidental after- thought, the least impor ...
Recent surveys support Small’s observations, consistently finding that students are working harder and longer today than they ev ...
The University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit uni- versity in the United States, is also the largest university in the Unite ...
Germany, and 28 percent in France (Figure 17.5). Both Aus- tralia and New Zealand are actively trying to turn their edu- cationa ...
will not. Some members of majority groups will acquire the skills necessary to combat injustice. Most will not. Inequality will ...
584 CHAPTER 17EDUCATION KeyTerms Charter schools (p. 574) Credential society (p. 556) Education (p. 556) For-profit universities ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 585 CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTIONS The differences in survey response by race were striking. W ...
18 ■What Are the Mass Media? Types of Mass Media Saturation and Convergence: The Sociology of Media ■Media Production and Consum ...
ON APRIL 20, 1999, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, walked through th ...
What Are the Mass Media? Media(the plural of medium) are the ways that we communicate with each other. If I am talking, I am usi ...
Who decides what gets put on television anyway? Or in movies, video games, or comic books? Are they tapping into the tastes and ...
were being published in 1880), and mass-market magazines similarly reached an increasing range of readers, bringing novels, poli ...
Globally, one can discern the difference between rich and poor nations by their newspaper circulation. Norwegians are the most a ...
Radio, Movies, and Television.Before 1880, if you wanted music, you had to make it yourself or hire someone. Individuals who cou ...
immerse the population in the latest game shows and reality series. Among poorer countries though—with 58 TVs per 1,000 people i ...
Poker Tournament was held in 1997. Today, those figures have increased by a factor of ten—1.8 million players bet $300 million o ...
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