INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 01: A view of SoFi Stadium as workers prepare for Super Bowl LVI … [+] on February 1, 2022 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) Getty Images We’re just days away from the big game – and the Super Bowl remains the one event of the year where many […]
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — At its December 10 pinning and hooding ceremony in the Gheens Recital Hall, Campbellsville University’s Carver School of Social Work recognized students for completing Bachelor of Work programs Social and Masters in Social Work. “Today in this pinning you go from student to professional social worker,” said Dr. Helen Mudd, dean of […]
Falk College professor Jennifer Cornish Genovese first met Al-amin Muhammad in March 2018, when Muhammad gave the keynote address for Falk’s annual Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Awards program. The clothes that Al-amin Muhammad received from the School of Social Work holiday gift drive will benefit homeless people in the Syracuse community. Muhammad […]
December 3, 2021 Indigenous peoples are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic – as well as many other challenges they face – by building on their strengths and resilience, say two faculty members and a graduate student from the Arizona State University. School of Social Work who are members of the tribe. Assistant professor Matt Ignacio is […]
FSU College of Social Work 2021 Alumni Award winners: Joy Jinks, Jessica Harbor, Pamela Brooks, Pam MacDill and Shevaun Haris The FSU College of Social Work hosted its 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award and student scholarship event on Tuesday. The virtual event honored more than 120 university students. Over $ 128,000 in scholarships has been awarded […]
Louisiana Christian University’s new quality improvement plan puts experiential learning at the forefront, a new concept for many degree programs. This is not the case with social work – social work students have gained valuable learning experiences outside of the classroom to supplement their textbook training for years. Bobbye Roberts, Associate Professor and Director of […]
File photo by Easton Thompson / The Sunflower Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Combating Human Trafficking, Karen Countryman-Roswurm, talks to a writer from The Sunflower in 2019 about the importance of giving students the opportunity to work directly with victims during a interview at Lindquist Hall. The founder of the Center for […]
Double alumnus Kelly Sydnor graduated with BA and MA in Social Work from the FIU in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Today, after working in the field for several years, she uses her experience to help guide students in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work. As the Student Services Coordinator, Sydnor serves […]
Social Work Students Advocate at Trenton Statehouse for Student Loan Relief. Seton Hall’s Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program recently launched a unique and innovative certificate program in Social Work Policy and Justice (SWPJ). No other undergraduate social work program in the country offers such an offer. Open to students of all disciplines, it incorporates […]
In the United States, someone commits suicide every ten minutes. It is a public health epidemic that has grown steadily over the past 15 years and has resulted in more than $ 70 billion in medical costs and lost productivity. In the aftermath of an individual’s suicide, it has become all too common to hear […]
By Geoff LoCiceroVCU School of Social Work Miriam Kuttikat, Ph.D., has traveled to India several times to study Tamil refugees displaced by the civil war in Sri Lanka. His work began with a visit to a refugee camp in 2007 and included six additional trips over the following decade. Along the way, Kuttikat’s efforts have […]
Dr Tara Mandalaywala On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the psychology departments of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women, with the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honor Program at Yeshiva College, hosted Dr Tara Mandalaywala, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. In his talk, “A Kid’s Eye View of […]
When preparing for a job interview, you might want to think about changing the way you speak. Potential employers can accurately gauge a respondent’s socioeconomic status after hearing them say just 7 words, researchers have found. This can affect their perception of the interviewee and even cause them to offer a higher starting salary to […]
Job interview candidates expect to be assessed on their experience, conduct and ideas, but new research now provides evidence that interviewees are judged on their social status seconds after they start speaking . The study, which will be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that people can accurately assess […]
Employers judge the social status of potential employees just seconds after hearing them speak for the first time, according to researchers who say it could affect job prospects and pay. The researchers argued in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the idea that the United States is meritocratic – summed up […]
Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Social status determines how rhesus macaques respond to a key stress hormone, glucocorticoids, according to a new study. Research in recent years has established a link between a person’s physical or social environment and their well-being. Stress wears down […]
People with strong egalitarian values believe that all groups in society should be equal. Alternatively, anti-egalitarians believe that some social groups should be at the top of society and others should be at the bottom. Which group – egalitarian or anti-egalitarian – would express more empathy towards the misfortunes of others, for example, someone whose […]
Credit: Yakov Filimonov/Shutterstock Popular movies, magazines, and TV shows often highlight the abundance of money and free time available to the wealthy. For example, in Downton Abbey, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, asks, “What is a ‘weekend’? because she has no idea that most people work five days and then take a two-day […]
In Western society, where following the Joneses – or, better yet, surpassing them – is expected and even encouraged, status matters. It is so important that for many people, physical and emotional well-being is directly linked to their place in the social hierarchy. It’s not news to anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara, but they were […]
Researchers have long known that people are very often overconfident – that they tend to believe they are more physically talented, socially adept and competent at their jobs than they actually are. For example, 94% of college professors think they do an above average job (which is almost impossible, statistically speaking). But this overconfidence can […]