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- 2. Adolescent Phenoms: Now 27, she’s the highest-ranked female chess player in the world, but first became a grandmaster at the age of fourteen.
- 6. Adolescent Phenoms: In 2014, 17-year old Marcel Fernandes Filho of Brazil became the world’s fastest texter, when he typed a sentence about these genera of piranha in 18.19 seconds.
- 7. Social Science Icons: The third of sociology’s founding fathers (and the second from Germany), he is known for theorizing the “iron cage”, by which individuals are become trapped in systems or organizations that run on principles of efficiency, rationality and control.
- 9. Social Science Icons: Through indelible concepts like “double consciousness” and systematic studies of institutional racism, this figure’s writings offered a brilliant sociological record of 19th and 20th century America — contributions much of the discipline has only come to recognize in the last few decades.
- 11. Social Science Icons: Due to her English translation of August Comte’s Cours de Philosophie Positive (a publication that laid foundations for early sociology), and the sociological perspectives implicit in her own writings, many consider her the first female sociologist.
- 13. Adolescent Phenoms: This 13-year old Japanese competitor just became one of the youngest athletes ever to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
- 14. Social Science Icons: Theorist behind the ideas of social and cultural capital
- 15. According to economic theory, a higher minimum wage can increase both wages AND employment if it is in this kind of market.
- 16. A totally normal time to begin a class
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- 1. Social Science Icons: Often regarded as one of the three founding fathers of sociology (along with clues 5 and 7), you may know him best for his writings on class, (K)apital, and communism.
- 3. The process of taking variables of interest to a research project and deciding how to measure and study them.
- 4. How social norms are enforced
- 5. Social Science Icons: This frenchman formally established sociology as an academic discipline, maintaining that the social sciences are a logical continuation of the natural ones into the realm of human activity, and insisting that they may retain the same objectivity, rationalism, and approach to causality.
- 6. This effect slows our reaction time when we’re confronted with incongruent stimuli (such as a mismatch between the name of a color and the color it is printed on)
- 8. Sampling strategy that relies on respondents connecting the researcher to other respondents.
- 10. Social science method of embedding oneself in a setting or community to observe, document, and even participate in the social process that take place
- 12. Social norms that tell us what we should do