Indeed, sociologists label relationships that involve less frequent contact, lower emotional intensity, and limited intimacy as weak ties [3].
The problem comes if institutional frameworks in, say, the higher education system or the labor market are distorted in favor of the powerful — a process the sociologist Charles Tilly labeled "opportunity hoarding".
Gaddis, in one letter, describes to his daughter why he and his wife have separated by pointing to his second book: "It's got to do," he says, "with what sociologist David Reisman labeled as 'inner directed' vs. 'outer directed' people, and very much what JR is all about".
But the label, "summer vertigo", that American sociologist Kieran Healy gives to the feeling academics get when contemplating those long free months, imagining the projects they could finish, isn't what it used to be.
People began to conflate what the sociologist Erving Goffman labeled the "backstage" and "outside regions" in the theater of the self.
Sociologist Erving Goffman labels people's desire to control their appearances for different audiences as impression management [7].
It has long been one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, a place sociologist have studied and labeled as concentrated poverty.
She falls in the expatriate category of "third-culture kids," or TCK, a label coined in the 1950s by the sociologist Ruth Hill Useem.
As a sociologist myself I know it's unwise to label situations as "normal" but the Thatcher-Major era sight of Tory wives dutifully rallying round sleaze-hit male ministers just looked weird, as did John Gummer's daughter embarrassingly being force fed a burger at the height of BSE.
Perhaps because Latinos themselves may have an interest in perpetuating the idea of a Hispanic swing vote, politicians have lagged behind sociologists and (naturally) marketers in recognising that the label "Hispanic" obscures a relatively thin confluence of concerns and interests.
