News on Sociology

Roller Skates For Kids

2010-03-14T08:32:35Z

The 80's and 90's saw an explosion of different types of rollers and roller skates, this has now become of form of exercise and sport, best for sociable meetings and really effective in burning fats and raising muscle mass. The rest is history, the roller blade and roller skate hysteria has caused city's to shut down as thousands take to the streets with their skates and join together in a demo of amazing human traffic, new sorts of sports were created as skates started to be the new way to m...

What to Expect from the Introductory Sociology CLEP Test

2010-02-23T12:10:43Z

Author: Speedyprep

Many college students have to take an introductory level sociology course in order to meet the course requirements for their degree. These students include nursing majors, psychology majors, and sociology majors. Although the introductory sociology course is typically not extremely difficult, this course still requires three hours per week spent in the classroom for an entire semester and involves outside studying to prepare for examinations. CLEP (Colle...

Competency hearing ends for Smart kidnap suspect

2010-02-23T19:49:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal court competency hearing ends for accused Smart kidnapper; decision expected later</div><div>Ten days of testimony in a federal court competency hearing shed new light on the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart but also raised some persistent questions about his mental state.The federal hearing ended Fri...

Educated wives can mean a longer life for men: study

2010-02-24T22:03:51Z

<div>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Men wanting to enjoy a long life should marry a well educated woman, according to a Swedish study.Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found that...

Choose an educated wife for a longer life: study

2010-02-24T22:10:50Z

<div>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bachelors take note: If you want to enjoy a long life, marry a highly educated woman.In a study, researchers found that a woman's education was a stronger factor in her husband's risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man's own level of education.And a husband's social class based on his ...

NYC on pace for record-low number of homicides

2010-02-25T05:41:50Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC on pace for lowest number of homicides since 1962; crime down nearly 12 percent from '08</div><div>More New Yorkers are out of work, and the cash-strapped city isn't graduating a new class of police cadets this year. And yet crime is going down — way down.The city is heading toward its lowest number of murders in almost 50 ...

What Are the Best Forms of Child Social Development?

2010-02-25T13:02:02Z

Child social development is a very important and sometimes ignored aspect of the ?growing? years of a child. Many parents seem to focus only on the surface of child development, which will mainly be the emotional and educational development of a child. Marginalized sometimes is the psychological development that the child often experiences when they have experiential encounters as they are growing up. More importantly is the cognitive and sub conscious learning that these children often use a...

Experts say death penalty doesn't deter murder

2010-02-26T19:46:39Z

<div>The death penalty fails to deter crime or lower murder rates, according to an overwhelming majority of top criminologists questioned for a US university study published this week.Just over 88 percent of 79 experts from the American Society of Criminology said they did not think the death penalty "acts as a deterrent," researchers at ...

Carradine family seeks FBI, forensics expert help

2010-02-27T01:31:23Z

<div>The family of David Carradine is asking the FBI and a private forensics expert to help investigate the "Kung Fu" actor's death, attorney Mark Geragos said Saturday, the same day Thai pol...

Dispelling the Canine Alpha Myth

2010-02-27T07:48:03Z

Dispelling the Canine Alpha MythBy Niki TudgeIt is first important to understand some basics of canine social systems. Dogs live in social groups and they establish a social structure, called a hierarchy, within the group. This hierarchy or "pecking order" serves to maintain order, reduce conflict, and promote cooperation among pack members. This social order must be estab...

Britain DNA Database

2009-05-07T15:50:49Z

FILE -- In this Jan, 2003 file photo, an assistant forensic scientist extracts DNA from crime scene samples, at The Forensic Science Service in south London. Britain promised Thursday, May 7, 2009, it would remove the DNA records of hundreds of thousands of individuals from its vast national registry of...

WORLD LABOR DAY

2009-05-04T12:29:05Z

Union and social groups participate during a rally in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica, 01 May 2009, against the laboral flexibilization and some Government policies, at the World Labor Day

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Forensic scientists bury 27 corpses at local cemetery of Ciudad Juarez

2009-04-14T22:14:19Z

Forensic scientists burry 27 corpses at local cemetery of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, 14 April 2009. Some of the corpses were identified but they were never claimed by their families. 26 of them were man and one women who were murdered between 2008 and 2009, according to forensic scientists and Procuraduria General de Justicia

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French Sociologist Alain Touraine

2009-04-06T20:13:24Z

French Sociologist Alain Touraine speaks during the presentation of his new book 'The World of the Women' in Santiago, Chile, 02 April 2009. Touraine warned that when a society gets in crisis it becomes authoritarian. The Sociologist is in Chile to participate in several conferences

Gender Identities

2010-03-03T14:53:49Z

Gender IdentitiesBy John KeeganMy first respondent was a middle aged woman with a full time job and two adult children. The second was a university student who is gay. Both come from lower middle class, white backgrounds.During the first intervi...

Forensics team at murder scene

2009-03-19T13:35:44Z

20090317;ON;News;GT5 -- A Peel police forensics team stand outside the home of Fatima Lima, found dead in the basement yesterday

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Five heads found inside plastic containers in Mexico

2009-03-17T17:55:06Z

Mexican Forensics work at the place where five human heads were found inside plastic containers in Guadalajara-Saltillo, Municipality of Ixtlahuacan del Rio, Jalisco, 10 March 2009

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Introduction to E-Discovery

2009-03-01T09:43:28Z

Introduction to E-DiscoveryBy Jason PerryNew Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became law on December 1st, 2006, which most corporate lawyers and attorneys are either unfamiliar with or have not been required to use.There are three rules specifically that impact Computer Forensics and E-Discovery which need to be considered when building ...

How Computers Are Used For Forensics

2009-03-01T08:15:47Z

How Computers Are Used For ForensicsBy Eric GehlerDecades ago, proving the guilt or innocence of someone who had been charged with a crime had to be accomplished without reviewing computer files. Today, forensic scientists regularly collect and review files hidden on computers. The data they find can be invaluable. For example, it can prove that a defendant was knowledgeable about criminal details and communicated them to anoth...