Advice From Social Scientists, Fall 2018
Golden Ticket to the American Dream Like Lucas, several of our interviewees highlighted the importance of a college education. They saw it as a method to attain their personal American Dream—usually a career and a…
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By Emmett Rees A policy paper published by New America, “The Graduate Student Debt Review,” analyzes the trends in graduate school student borrowing between 2004 and 2012. The results indicate a staggering increase in student…
Religions often have strong views and teachings regarding sex, but rarely openly discuss it. Our podcast, “Sex and Scripture,” explores the sexual mores of three prominent religions: Islam, Judaism, and Catholicism through research and personal…
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One article from the “Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion” is entitled “Religiosity and Premarital Sex in Adulthood.” In this article, author Steven K. Barkan explores the relationship between the degree of religiosity of…
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While statistics about the medicalization of end of life care in the United States were briefly touched on in this podcast episode, statistics about end of life care in other countries were not touched on. As…
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Follow Up to The Digital Age of Love Throughout this week’s episode of The Digital Age of Love, one interviewee, Eli, mentioned how they displayed them-self through their Tinder profile: From humor to the seriousness…
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Sex and Ethnic/Racial Differences Education was universally voiced as one path towards the American Dream, or at least the chance to achieve greater. All participants valued their higher education and in the podcast, we described…
A follow-up to The Digital Age of Love The distinction between personal preference and racial bias is not often clear when it comes to dating. In our podcast episode, I wish we would have had…
A follow-up to The Digital Age of Love The article “How The Internet Has Changed Dating” by The Economist touched on several ways dating apps are changing romance in society that related to the survey…
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