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25776
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Dr. Robert Lee Maril, chair of the East Carolina Department of Sociology, has spent countless hours exploring the lives and work of U.S. Border Patrol agent at McAllen Station in southern Texas. Maril’s work has led to questions about drug trafficking, immigration reform, and organization changes.
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26060
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There are many brands of democracy today, each with its own successes and failures. At Carolina, a large group of researchers is working to understand these new democracies. Several areas they are exploring include political parties, social and economic conditions, power, and religion.
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26157
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Barbara Entwisle, professor of sociology, is studying how couples in Thailand choose to use contraception. Using maps to help communicate with locals, she’s learned that easy access to contraception and family-planning services encourage people to use them.
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26232
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Joanne Waghorne, an assistant professor of religious studies, and her husband Dick Waghorne, a professional photographer, documented ritual in modern Hinduism of India. According to sociologist Max Weber, emphasis on religious ritual fades as economic development grows. However, the Waghornes found that ritualism in South India is actually growing.
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31553
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The North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service conducted a study of community leaders in forty rural counties of North Carolina. Led by Dr. Maurice Voland, an extension sociology specialist at North Carolina State University, the study examined the leaders’ degree of flexibility-rigidity and their community orientation. Overall, the leaders tend to be more flexible and more community-oriented than their national counterparts, and they do not fit the stereotypes of being old and poorly educated.
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31614
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Dr. David Knox, a sociologist and associate professor at East Carolina University, discusses his research on marriage, counseling, and modern family life. He also discusses current marital trends in North Carolina and a behavioral contract approach to keeping couples happy.
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