Sociology
Indiana University experts discuss the A's and B's of sunglasses and UV, challenges parents of teens can face regarding their kids' potential substance use, and insights into pets and their caretakers.
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Considered a treasure trove of American history sought after by genealogists, urban planners, sociologists and a gamut of other researchers, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, first created beginning in 1867 for assessing fire insurance liability for buildings in U.S. cities, are now available to the public for more than 300 locations in Indiana.
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Indiana University faculty members will discuss their research, including studies of the relationship between alcohol sales and violent crime and the effects of 1990s welfare reform on poor women during the recent recession, at the American Sociological Association's 2011 Annual Meeting on Aug. 20-23 in Las Vegas.
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Polygamy among some 19th century Mormon men had the curious effect of suppressing the overall offspring numbers of Mormon women in plural marriages, say scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions in the March 2011 issue of Evolution and Human Behavior. Simply put, the more sister-wives a Mormon woman had, the fewer children she was likely to produce.
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The role that rural life and rural thinking plays in scholarship involving gender and sexuality will be the focus of a national two-day symposium at Indiana University Bloomington called "Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies."
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A joint study by Indiana University and Columbia University researchers found no change in prejudice and discrimination toward people with serious mental illness or substance abuse problems despite a greater embrace by the public of neurobiological explanations for these illnesses.
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