Economic Disparity

Will Occupy Make a Comeback in 2012?

Jerry Lanson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Third Party, The 99% Declaration, Occupy Movement, Political Action, Economic Disparity, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Evicted, Congress Occupy, Barack Obama Occupy, Impact News
Jerry Lanson

The movement, with its encampments of protest and poverty, hope and homelessness, quickly captured the media's and the public's imagination, only to fade in the face of winter.

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Americans Have More Friends, and Not Just on Facebook

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Barry Wellman, Faux Friends, Friends, Sociological Analyses, Close Friends, Economic Disparity, Income, Emotional Sharing, Television, Relatives, Social Connections, Social Networks, Media Panic, Surveys, Robert Putnam, Claude Fischer, Neighbors, Internet Use, Nostalgia, Self-Disclosure, Confidants, Myths, Loneliness, USA Today, Education, Social Ties, Social History, Internet, Social Isolation, New York Times, Facebook Friends, Bowling Alone, Miller McPherson, Healthy Living News
Bella DePaulo

Remember the media panic from the summer of 2006 about lonely and isolated Americans? The publication of a sociological study had unleashed a cascade...

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