Margaret Mead

Ford Foundation New York headquarters The Ford Foundation is a New York headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.[3][4][5][6] Created in 1936[7] by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford.[8] By 1947, after the death of the two founders, the foundation owned 90 percent of the non-voting shares of the Ford Motor Company. (The Ford family kept the voting shares to themselves.)[9] Between 1955 and 1974, the foundation sold its Ford Motor Company holdings and now plays no role in the automobile company. For years, the foundation was the largest, and one of the most influential foundations in the world, with global reach and special interests in economic empowerment, education, human rights, democracy, the creative arts, and Third World development. History[edit] After the deaths of Edsel Ford in 1943 and Henry Ford in 1947, the presidency of the foundation fell to Edsel's eldest son, Henry Ford II.

Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open Semis, Is Asked What Man She Wants To Date By Travis Waldron "Female Tennis Player Reaches Australian Open Semis, Is Asked What Man She Wants To Date" Eugenie Bouchard reacts to a reporter’s question about who she’d like to date. You’re a tennis reporter covering the Australian Open. Maybe you ask her how she feels about going farther than Serena Williams or Maria Sharapova. Instead of sticking to those questions, you — intrepid tennis observer that you are — ask 19-year-old Eugenie Bouchard, the story of the 2014 Australian Open thus far, who she would date if she could date any man out there. Many will be outraged by this, which you seem to realize when you make it clear that “they asked me to say this,” but your logic is impeccable. Of course, you’d never ask this sort of question of Rafael Nadal or anyone else in the men’s draw, especially not on the court after a big win.

Deutsche Hochschule für Politik The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (DHfP), or German Academy for Politics, was a private academy in Berlin, founded in October 1920. It was integrated into the Faculty for Foreign Studies (Auslandswissenschaftliche Fakultät) of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1940, was re-founded in 1948 and turned into the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin in 1959. Purpose[edit] The DHfP was to establish the elementary principles of a democratic community in Germany in a liberal spirit and thus help to strengthen the young Weimar Republic against anti-democratic tendencies. Sponsors or members of the founding board of trustees were amongst others Walter Simons, Ernst Jaeckh, Friedrich Naumann, Friedrich Meinecke, Max Weber, Hugo Preuß, Gertrud Bäumer and Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz. Weimar Republic[edit] Lectures and seminars for the first 120 students at first took place only in the evening, mostly with volunteer lecturers. Third Reich[edit] Post-war period[edit] Legacy[edit]

Androgyny - Dictionary & Encyclopedia Androgyny (Greek, ‘man-womanness’) is a term used to describe a person who has the characteristics of both masculinity and femininity. Androgynous figures appear in many art forms and in world mythologies. For example, in Greek myth, Teiresias lived life both as man and woman and so gained knowledge of sexual difference. In early feminism Virginia Woolf championed androgyny as a strategy to combat the unequal status of men and women. Contemporary feminists, such as Catherine Clement, have claimed that the androgynous figures of myth and religion are a means by which the dominant masculine order can use femininity on its own patriarchal terms.

C. Wright Mills Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, among them The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the U.S. political, military, and economic elites; White Collar, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, where Mills proposes the proper relationship in sociological scholarship between biography and history. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated public and political engagement over uninterested observation. Mills biographer Daniel Geary writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s. Biography[edit] C. Influences[edit] C. Books[edit] Legacy[edit] Outlook[edit]

Swedish toy firm Top Toy forced to become 'gender neutral' for Christmas catalogue Top Toy pictures girls holding guns and boys holding baby dolls in catalogueComes after company was criticised for discrimination in previous catalogueSales director: 'Gender debate in Sweden so strong that we had to adjust' By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 00:44 GMT, 26 November 2012 | Updated: 08:34 GMT, 26 November 2012 Sweden's largest toy chain has been forced to become ‘gender neutral’ by picturing boys holding baby dolls and girls brandishing toy guns in the pages of its Christmas catalogue. Top Toy - which holds the franchise for Toys R Us - made the move after being reprimanded by the country’s advertising watchdog for ‘gender discrimination’ in a previous catalogue, which featured boys dressed as superheroes and girls playing princess. A comparison between this year’s Toys R Us catalogues in Sweden and Denmark, where Top Toy is also the franchisee, showed that a boy wielding a toy machine gun in the Danish edition had been replaced by a girl in Sweden.

Paul Lazarsfeld - Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (13 de Fevereiro de 1901, Viena, Áustria - 30 de Agosto de 1976, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos) Biografia[editar | editar código-fonte] Influências[editar | editar código-fonte] O pai de Lazarsfed, um advogado de classe média, era um socialista ativo e a casa dos Lazarfeld era um ponto de encontro de intelectuais e artistas de correntes políticas diversas como Max Adler, Victor Adler, Friedrich Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, os poetas Rilke, Stefan George e a educadora Eugenie Schwarzwald entre outros. O ambiente cultural em Viena durante a juventude de Paul Lazarsfeld era intenso e criativo. Nesta atmosfera rica em estímulos culturais e políticos diversos, Lazarsfeld formou seu interesse acadêmico interdisciplinar que o levou da Matemática pura à Sociologia, Psicologia e ao interesses pelos estudos sobre Meios de Comunicação. Doutoramento[editar | editar código-fonte] Universidade Princeton[editar | editar código-fonte]

Let's ban 'bossy' – and not just because Sheryl Sandberg and Beyoncé said so | Jill Filipovic Do a Google Images search for the word “bossy” and you get results that fall into three camps, more or less: the children’s book Little Miss Bossy; lemon-faced little girls; and adult women glaring and pointing their index finger at you. There’s even an image of a woman in a skirt suit with one high-heeled foot on the head of a very sad-looking man. “Bossy” has a bad rap. Now Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg is trying to change that, with her #BanBossy campaign that launched this week. “Bossy” as a rejoinder has been applied, among kids themselves – kids on playgrounds, kids in classrooms, kids in more and more places – to seemingly any outspoken girl who asserts herself. Boys also hear that “bossy” is bad – and they hear that opinionated, forceful or self-assured girls are unpleasant people to be chastised, while their own assertiveness is rewarded. Yes, boys occasionally get called “bossy”, too – but not nearly as often as girls do. I’m not “bossy”, I’m the boss.

National Opinion Research Center NORC at the University of Chicago is one of the largest independent social research organizations in the United States, established in 1941. Its corporate headquarters is located on the University of Chicago campus, with offices in downtown Chicago Loop, Washington DC, and Bethesda, Maryland. History[edit] The organization was founded in 1941 as the National Opinion Research Center. Data from surveys are also frequently analyzed in a wide range of social sciences, especially sociology. Clients[edit] NORC clients have included: Notable projects[edit] 2012 NORC Presidential Election Study, September–November 2012 – Nonpartisan study of public opinion on candidate favorability, perception of the economy, issue knowledge, and healthcare before and after the presidential election.[18] Funded by NORC at the University of Chicago.Florida Ballot Project, February–May 2001 – Re-examined the approximately 180,000 uncounted ballots in the 2000 U.S. References[edit] External links[edit] Official website

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (U of C, UChicago, or simply Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The university consists of the College of the University of Chicago, various graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into four divisions, six professional schools, and a school of continuing education. The university enrolls approximately 5,000 students in the College and about 15,000 students overall. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the world's top 10 universities.[6][7][8] The university tied with Stanford University for 5th place in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities Rankings".[9] The University of Chicago is affiliated with 89 Nobel Laureates (including 10 current faculty),[15] 49 Rhodes Scholars[16] and 9 Fields Medalists.[17] It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. History[edit] Founding–1910s[edit]

Princeton Univ. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Robertson Hall, which houses the Woodrow Wilson School. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school grants undergraduate AB degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Public Policy (MPP) and Ph.D. degrees. History[edit] In 1930, Princeton established the School of Public and International Affairs, as it was originally named, in the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's interest in preparing students for leadership in public and international affairs. The School's initial venture was an interdisciplinary program for undergraduates in Princeton's liberal arts college. The phrase “Princeton in the Nation's Service” was the theme of two speeches Wilson gave at the University, first during its 150th anniversary celebration in 1896 and again at his inauguration as the University’s president in 1902. Today, the School educates a wide range of students from all parts of the globe. Today[edit]

Franklin Henry Giddings Franklin Henry Giddings, Ph.D., LL.D. (March 23, 1855 – June 11, 1931) was an American sociologist and economist, born at Sherman, Connecticut. He graduated from Union College (1877). For ten years, he wrote items for the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican and the Daily Union. In 1888 he was appointed lecturer in political science at Bryn Mawr College; in 1894 he became professor of sociology at Columbia University. His most significant contribution is the concept of the consciousness of kind, which is a state of mind whereby one conscious being recognizes another as being of like mind. Among his writings are: The Modern Distributive Process (in collaboration with J. Radio Project The Radio Research Project was a social research project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to look into the effects of mass media on society. In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation started funding research to find the effects of new forms of mass media on society, especially radio. Several universities joined up and a headquarters was formed at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The following people were involved: Among the subjects of the Project's first studies were soap operas, known as radio dramas at the time. A third research project was that of listening habits. Theodor Adorno produced numerous reports on the effects of "atomized listening" which radio supported and of which he was highly critical.

Ernest Burgess Scholarly Work[edit] Burgess conducted influential work in a number of areas. Introductory sociology textbook[edit] Five years after his arrival as a professor at the University of a Chicago in 1921, Ernest Burgess would publish one of his most celebrated works. He collaborated with sociologist Robert Park to write a textbook called Introduction to the Science of Sociology (Park & Burgess, 1921). This was one of the most influential sociology texts ever written. Concentric zone model[edit] Burgess method of unit-weighted regression[edit] In the field of criminology, Burgess conducted work on predicting the success or failure of inmates on parole. The results showed that the scale worked well. Family and marriage[edit] Ernest Burgess also spent a considerable amount of time studying the institutions of family and marriage. Aging[edit] Ernest Burgess also studied elderly people, especially the effects of retirement. Accomplishments[edit] References[edit] Burgess, E. External links[edit]