Recent News Headlines : Sociology

MARRIAGE COULD HELP REDUCE RISK OF DEMENTIA, STUDY SUGGESTS


Experts conducted an analysis of 15 studies which held data on dementia and marital status involving more than 800,000 people from Europe, North and South America, and Asia... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 740

MAN (50S) KILLED IN CAR CRASH


A man has been killed in a car crash in Co Galway... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 134

BUDGET 2017: JEREMY CORBYN BLASTS GOVERNMENT'S LACK OF ACTION ON SOCIAL CARE


Jeremy Corbyn has blasted the 'uncaring, uncouth' attitude of Tory MPs while criticising Philip Hammond's failure to mention social care in his budget... READ MORE

22nd November, 2017 512

GOVT PLAN TO EXPAND SUBSIDY SO ELDERLY PEOPLE CAN HIRE A MAID


The government appears set to launch a scheme to help single elderly people hire a domestic worker... READ MORE

11th November, 2017 638

HAVE PSYCHOLOGISTS FOUND A BETTER WAY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO SAVE THE PLANET?


Today, researchers are applying social dominance theory to try to understand an even broader scope of behaviours... READ MORE

2nd November, 2017 5917

ASIA STEPS UP WAR ON FAKE NEWS


Fake news also thrives in social networks as users depend on other users not only for their information supply, but also for verification... READ MORE

30th October, 2017 1

JEFF FLAKE'S STUNNING SPEECH ON SENATE FLOOR


Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona delivered a sharp rebuke to President Trump on Tuesday as he announced he won't be running for re-election in 2018... READ MORE

24th October, 2017 5209

THE TORIES ARE IGNORING THE WORSENING CRISES IN SOCIAL CARE, HEALTH AND WELFARE


Faced with the double dilemma of a growing elderly population and chronic underfunding from central government, the social care system in Britain is at breaking point... READ MORE

13th October, 2017 362

STOP TELLING WOMEN TO BE ASSERTIVE, START LEGISLATING QUOTAS


To amplify progress towards gender equality, we need to shift norm perceptions about what others think and do ... READ MORE

9th October, 2017 127

SOMALIA GETS FIRST FORENSIC CENTER TO DELIVER JUSTICE IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES


Somalia has been furnished with a new forensic center in the northeastern semi-autonomous region of puntland to aid in delivering justice in sexual assault cases... READ MORE

27th September, 2017 17

WHY REJECTING THE MODERN WORLD IS A PRIVILEGED FANTASY


Dean Burnett The idea that a primitive lifestyle is healthier could only exist in the modern world... READ MORE

22nd September, 2017 1441

IN A SOCIETY TOO SHORT OF COMMON GOALS, IDENTITY POLITICS ARE AN IMPERFECT ANSWER


Now Lilla's op-ed has become a book, The Once and Future Liberal After Identity Politics... READ MORE

17th September, 2017 938

Trending News Headlines : Sociology

LORDS DEFEAT GOVERNMENT OVER CHILD PROTECTION PROPOSALS


Well done to the Lords for doing the government's job, listening to the concerns of social workers and campaigners, and standing up for children's rights... READ MORE

9th November, 2016 20677

HALF A MILLION OLDER PEOPLE SPEND EVERY DAY ALONE, POLL SHOWS


Age UK, which commissioned the research, said the results highlighted a growing number of chronically lonely older people, which was placing increasing demand on health services... READ MORE

6th January, 2017 12187

STUDENT WHO ATTENDED WHITE POWER RALLY LEAVES COLLEGE OVER DEATH THREATS


Fuentes said he made the decision to abandon his Political Science degree a month ago after being constantly threatened over his conservative views... READ MORE

20th August, 2017 7275

HOW VLADIMIR PUTIN AND RUSSIA ARE USING CYBER ATTACKS AND FAKE NEWS TO TRY AND RIG THREE MAJOR EUROPEAN ELECTIONS THIS YEAR


How Vladimir Putin and Russia are using cyber attacks and fake news to try and rig three major European elections this year... READ MORE

13th February, 2017 6902

AMERICANS HAVE LOST FAITH IN INSTITUTIONS. THAT'S NOT BECAUSE OF TRUMP OR 'FAKE NEWS.'


Declining trust in government has spread across almost all advanced industrial democracies since the 1960s 1970s, writes political scientist Russell Dalton... READ MORE

6th March, 2017 6406

SHOCK FIGURES SHOW TORY PLANS ARE 'MAKING SOCIAL CARE WORSE'


Under the Better Care Fund councils receive money, mainly from the NHS budget, in return for introducing schemes to reduce demand for hospital care... READ MORE

11th December, 2016 5955

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN, SOCIOLOGIST WHO WROTE IDENTITY IN THE MODERN WORLD, DIES AT 91


In informing friends in Poland of the death, Dr. Bauman's wife wrote that he had gone to liquid eternity... READ MORE

10th January, 2017 5123

LONDON BRIDGE: SOCIAL MEDIA REACTS TO TERROR ATTACKS


Armed British police rushed to London Bridge late Saturday after reports of a vehicle running down pedestrians and people being stabbed nearby... READ MORE

4th June, 2017 4380

INDIA'S GOVERNMENT IS NOW SHAMING PEOPLE INTO USING TOILETS


Rama Lakshmi The Washington Post NEW DELHI -- India's government has been on a public toilet building spree... READ MORE

9th September, 2016 4145

SWEDISH PARENTING HAS CREATED NATION OF BRATS


New book on parenting warns that children in sweden have been turned into self-centred brats... READ MORE

25th August, 2015 4075

WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR SONS MORE CHORES THAN YOUR DAUGHTERS


A study by UNICEF shows that girls across the world do 50 percent more chores than boys... READ MORE

10th October, 2016 3879

DONALD TRUMP APPEALS TO 'FOLKS WHO FEEL LEFT OUT'


These are the people who seem to have the most suspicion about you... READ MORE

4th September, 2016 3448

ALEPPO CLOWN WHO ENTERTAINED CHILDREN HAUNTED BY WAR IS KILLED IN AIR STRIKE


He was killed on Tuesday in a presumed Russian or government missile strike on the Mashhad neighborhood in the besieged, eastern side of the city... READ MORE

1st December, 2016 3225


"For Ulrich Beck, the construction of Europe was important as a stage toward the kind of tempered globalization he advocated," the French daily Le Monde wrote in a weekend obituary... READ MORE

5th January, 2015 2561

UNDER ARMOUR CEO LATEST TO DROP OUT FROM TRUMP COUNCIL


Kevin Plank's announcement comes after Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier announced he was leaving U.S. President Donald Trump's business advisory board... READ MORE

15th August, 2017 2513

CARE CUTS 'LEAVE OLD HIGH AND DRY'


Hundreds of thousands of older people who need social care are being left high and dry... READ MORE

28th January, 2015 2340

LET'S EXPOSE EVERYDAY CLIMATE DENIAL. HERE'S HOW


Equally if not more damaging, however, is the daily climate denial that passes mostly unremarked all around us... READ MORE

9th June, 2017 2277

ONLINE HATE IS REAL-WORLD HATE. IT'S ABOUT TIME THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES


The minute Alison Saunders announced the Crown Prosecution Service's crackdown on hate crime online, a torrent of loathing spewed forth on Twitter... READ MORE

21st August, 2017 2001

JOHN MCDONNELL SAYS EMERGENCY FUNDS COULD SOLVE SOCIAL CARE CRISIS


Shadow chancellor calls on government to use autumn statement's 'fiscal headroom' to protect the elderly and the vulnerable... READ MORE

19th December, 2016 1649

15,000 LAWYERS SIGN LETTER DEMANDING DONALD TRUMP RESCIND APPOINTMENT OF STEVE BANNON


We write to ask that you call upon President-elect Trump to rescind his appointment of Stephen Bannon as White House Chief Strategist, the letter read... READ MORE

22nd January, 2017 1601

AMERICAN ATHEISTS LAUNCH PROVOCATIVE CAMPAIGN IN RELIGIOUS DEEP SOUTH


America remains deeply religious relative to Europe, with not a single self-professed atheist among the 535 members of the US Congress... READ MORE

2nd December, 2014 1583

SHOULD TEACHERS USE MINECRAFT IN OUR CLASSROOMS?


So could "Angry Birds" help with trigonometry, or "The Sims" with social science?... READ MORE

30th March, 2015 1564

CANADA'S CONSERVATIVES VOW TO CREATE 'BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICES' HOTLINE


Canada's Conservatives vow to create 'barbaric cultural practices' hotline... READ MORE

2nd October, 2015 1267

SOCIAL MOBILITY IS THE WRONG GOAL - WHAT WE NEED IS MORE EQUALITY


Director of programmes and development, The Prince's Trust o The latest report from the Social Mobility Commission makes grim reading... READ MORE

29th June, 2017 1264

THE 'DARKER LINK' BETWEEN ANCIENT HUMAN SACRIFICE AND OUR MODERN WORLD


Of the 20 egalitarian societies they studied -- so termed because they didn't allow inheritance of wealth and status between generations -- just 25 percent practiced human sacrifice... READ MORE

5th April, 2016 1260

'WE THE WORKERS': ON THE FRONT LINES OF CHINA'S RECORD-LEVEL LABOR UNREST


Zhang is one of a shrinking number of Chinese labor activists helping workers in the world's second largest economy fight for their rights... READ MORE

28th February, 2017 1233


"For Ulrich Beck, the construction of Europe was important as a stage toward the kind of tempered globalization he advocated," the French daily Le Monde wrote in a weekend obituary... READ MORE

5th January, 2015 1199

THE INTERPRETER A LESSON FROM BREXIT ON IMMIGRATION FEELINGS TRUMP FACTS


A June 20 poll by Ipsos MORI showed that 47 percent of voters planning to support Brexit said that immigration had been bad for Britain's economy... READ MORE

26th June, 2016 971

GOOD SOCIAL WORKERS ARE INVALUABLE. SO LET'S GIVE THEM PROPER SUPPORT


Social workers are crying out for support and encouragement, Laming says... READ MORE

21st March, 2017 933

LIVERPOOL PLANS REFERENDUM ON 10% COUNCIL TAX RISE


Liverpool plans referendum on 10 percent council tax rise... READ MORE

11th November, 2016 931


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