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Sociology and Social Science
The study of society, groups, and social behavior.
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- How did Cremer's working-class origins as a carpenter's apprentice contrast with his later political career?
- How did the mass adoption of the Model T reshape American suburbs and infrastructure over the following decades?
- How do the private stories people tell about being wronged at work go on to shape their later behaviour?
- How does the game-theoretic model determine when a rational gossiper should lie rather than tell the truth?
- What broader social changes has the separation of sex from conception risk been linked to since 1960?
- What correlation did Stack and Gundlach find between country music radio play and suicide rates?
- What did David Sims's paper 'You Bastard' examine about how employees narrate their own workplace indignation?
- What did Vatle propose the choice of sample container might reveal about a patient?
- What dispute was Emmy Noether fighting with the University of Göttingen while she proved the theorem?
- What does the case demonstrate about how incentives degrade as they pass through layers of an organisation?
- What is the Peter Principle and how did the Catania physicists test it mathematically?
- What is the U-shaped curve Claudia Goldin found in American women's labour force participation since the nineteenth century?
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- What made Lagerlöf's 1909 Nobel Prize a milestone for women in literature?
- What organisational lesson did the Rogers Commission draw about flying with known risks until they stop seeming extraordinary?
- What role does gossip play in enforcing cooperation within social groups, according to the study?
- What scholarly methods did Penfold borrow from the study of churches and trade unions to analyse doughnut shops?
- Who was the only woman to win the Literature Nobel before Deledda, in what year?
- Why did random promotion outperform merit-based promotion in the simulations?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee classify a scented suit under environmental protection?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee consider the doughnut shop a legitimate subject for academic sociology?
- Why did the Washington Metropolitan Police Department dispute Hagelin's claimed 24 percent drop in violent crime?
- Why does a country's age distribution affect its aggregate savings rate under this theory?
- Why does the library represent a genuine act of cultural custodianship?
- Why might incomplete or falsifiable historical birth records inflate reported rates of extreme longevity in certain regions?
- Why might weaker social norms at night appeal particularly to people high in dark triad traits?
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- Emmy Noether proves her symmetry theorem
- FDA approves first oral contraceptive pill
- Ford Model T introduced
- Ig Nobel Prize in Demography
- Ig Nobel Prize in Environmental Protection
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Management
- Ig Nobel Prize in Management
- Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace