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Questions tagged [sociology]
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Does Islam lead to higher crime rates?
I live in a mostly atheistic country. I have often heard the claim that Muslim people commit more crimes than others, especially that they are thieves due to their religion. Is there is any truth to it.
Does Islam proclaim thievery?
Is there a…
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Does smiling too much indicate low social status?
According to this article:
http://www.epjournal.net/articles/smiles-as-signals-of-lower-status-in-football-players-and-fashion-models-evidence-that-smiles-are-associated-with-lower-dominance-and-lower-prestige/
Evidence that smiles are associated…
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Do mass shooters tend to have been bullied as kids?
(Originally posted on Psychology.SE, it has been suggested that I post here instead)
The media frequently claims that mass shooters are or were bullied as children. Does the scientific evidence back up this claim? Evidence that is reported in…
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Did Robert Putnam find that diversity has "incredibly negative consequences"?
According to a comment on this 9gag post about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcoming immigrants:
queen_boxxy 1042 points · 28 Jan 2017
diversity has in fact incredibly negative consequences. biggest study done was by harvard professor…
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Do 5 percent of cancer patients in the U.S. end up in a clinical trial?
Joe Biden's A Moonshot to Cure Cancer call claims:
5 percent of cancer patients in the U.S. end up in a clinical trial
Is that number true? The page doesn't give any reference.
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Are these homeless people drug addiction figures accurate?
I'm sure you've heard the claim before that
Giving money to homeless men and women is just supporting their drug
addiction.
But how true is that claim?
In any instance where I've tried being generous and buying them food -as opposed to simply…
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Will people start running against glass doors if they cannot see through?
We have a bit of a discussion with the administration of our university about putting up posters on the glass doors in our campus buildings.
The hallways have a lot of doors made of glass which would make a great place for people to see information…
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Are chances of succeeding in life increased if in school you were either the best or the worst?
I heard one day on the radio about a study that showed that people that in school were the best or the worst are the ones more likely to succeed in life. If you are in the middle of the bunch you will be an average dude basically.
I tried searching…
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Are there cultures who swear oaths of servitude for saving of a life?
In the book Robinson Crusoe (and to a lesser extent the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), there is a character who, when his life is saved by the protagonist, swears allegiance (and, basically, servitude) until death or the favor is returned. It…
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Are people happier in the countryside?
Over and over again sociologists have found that people in the countryside report a higher happiness index than people who live in cities. Is this effect well received by all sociologists?…
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Have any questions where the underlying cause was thought to have had both a psychological and social component been thoroughly settled?
In an answer to Are human beings naturally predisposed to believe in God? one answer makes the following claims:
Note that social-mental questions as basic as "is Sex innate?" or "IQ, breeding or rasing?" are not at all answered with any clarity,…
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Did the Palestinian Authority exaggerate their census numbers by 50%?
A claim is here:
In 1997, the PA published census figures that exaggerated its population figures in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem by nearly 50 percent. The PA double counted Arab Jerusalemites, included hundreds of thousands of emigrants to…
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Do we judge people consistently based on what they eat?
Leon Rappaport claims in his book How We Eat that people judge each other based on what food they eat. From the book:
Social psychology studies have demonstrated that people will make fairly consistent judgments of others based on their grocery…
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Are women biologically (rather than culturally) equally inclined to take technical jobs?
Google fired James Damore for his memo about Google's gender diversity policies. Quoted are these parts of the memo that claim that in spite of significant overlap, innate biological differences between men and women may be responsible for the…
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Is divorce caused (or influenced by) genetics?
From Independent headline:
Divorce does run in the family and could be genetic, researchers have suggested.
... the study – carried out by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Lund University in Sweden
The study seems to be based on people…
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