Seminar Series

In this talk, Pearce will highlight key findings from her book A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents, coauthored with Melinda Lundquist Denton (Clemson).

Date
10/12/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

That women live longer than men may be a well-known phenomenon. But why women live longer than men is much less well understood. I first briefly review the state of knowledge about sex differences in mortality and identify gaps in this knowledge.

Date
9/29/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

In this presentation, the Multiphasic Response model is used as a foundation for understanding the relationship between land use change (agricultural development), fertility and human migration in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Date
9/21/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

In 1950 men and women in the United States had a combined life expectancy of 68.9 years, the 12th highest life expectancy at birth in the world.

Date
9/14/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

There is growing evidence that local conditions, particularly economic considerations, shape the geographic dispersion of immigrant groups. Yet our understanding of the impact of local variation in public policies on immigrants internal settlement patterns remains rudimentary.

Date
9/07/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian Mortality Crisis").

Date
4/13/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

Extant estimates of the number of deaths that resulted from the Khmer-Rouge ruling of Cambodia range from half a million to over three million excess deaths--a huge range considering that the country's total population size was about 8 million at the outset of the Khmer-Rouge regime.

Date
4/06/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

Executive functions are a suite of related cognitive functions that allow one to hold in mind goal relevant information and exclude from mind goal irrelevant information.

Date
3/16/2011
Time
8:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

Sampling from a network using a random walk based approach such as Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is difficult because the sample can get stuck in isolated clusters of the network, reducing precision.

Date
3/02/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

Populations across the globe are experiencing demographic transitions related to aging, migration and women joining the paid labor force.

Date
2/23/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Rubenstein Hall 200