Religiosity and Misanthropy across the Racial and Ethnic Divide

The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in U.S. Marriage Patterns.

The United States shows striking racial and ethnic differences in marriage patterns. Compared to both white and Hispanic women, black women marry later in life, are less likely to marry at all, and have higher rates of marital instability. Kelly Raley, Megan Sweeney, and Danielle Wondra begin by reviewing common explanations for these differences, which first gained momentum in the 1960s (thoug...

Exploring the Racial Divide

 Donald R. Kinder is Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Professor of Psychology, and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1248 ([email protected]). Nicholas Winter is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1248 (nw...

Racial and Ethnic Descriptors

In response to the lack of easily retrievable clinical data to address health services and medical effectiveness questions, especially as they relate to racial/ethnic minorities, the Center for Information Technology (CIT), Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) recently sponsored a project on record linkage methodology applied to automated medical administrative datasets containing...

Racial and Ethnic Groups

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...