All 7 sins
At the same time, women are twice as likely as men to regret their first experience of intercourse and three times as likely to report being the less willing partner. For example, the proportion of women with one partner for life has fallen and the proportion reporting concurrent relationships has increased. This reveals that changes in sexual behaviour have been considerably more marked among women than men. Professor Kaye Wellings analyses evidence from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles to observe trends in sexual activity. LUST – Changing sexual behaviour in the UK For adults, women are more likely than men to report being persistently angry and 30-somethings with no partner are more likely to report angry feelings than their contemporaries with partners. Among their findings are the facts that children from lower social classes are more likely to have been reported as frequently irritable or having tantrums and that angry children do not necessarily become angry or unhappy adults.
Thus, a peaceful future does not have to be built by attempting to cleave individuals from their valued community identities.ĪNGER – Anger, irritability and hostility in children and adultsĭr Eirini Flouri and Professor Heather Joshi document our experience of anger drawing on the 19 birth cohort studies, people who are now in their thirties and forties. And bias can actually disappear when the level of sectarian conflict is relatively low – a true 'peace dividend'. Indeed, warmth towards the in-group tends to be positively correlated with warmth towards the out-group. It is not inevitably linked to sectarian views. They find that pride in one's 'in-group' can be thought of as benign, acceptable and indeed positive in many ways.
Professors Ed Cairns and Miles Hewstone explore attitudes of 'pride and prejudice' among the Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland.
PRIDE – Northern Ireland: in-group pride and out-group prejudice This report brings together studies by a group of leading social science researchers using large-scale data resources – like the three big birth cohort studies of 1958, 19/1, the British Household Panel Survey, the General Household Survey, the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, and the British Election Study – to provide invaluable insights into the patterns of our lives in the early twenty-first century. A new ESRC report, published to launch Social Science Week 2005, uses the seven deadly sins – pride, anger, lust, avarice, gluttony, envy and sloth – as a way of looking at some pressing issues of modern life: religious conflict, rage in kids and adults, sexual behaviour, corporate greed, binge drinking, rising personal debt and political apathy.Įxploring these issues afresh – and often questioning conventional wisdom – demands a look at the evidence, drawing on the wealth of information now available on people's health, incomes, education, employment, families, relationships and social attitudes.