Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this argument lays to rest any crudely deterministic model of social change. Yet it provides us with a bit more sociological instruction than Donne's parallel insight that "No man is an island." For it suggests an essential unity to our social existence; that, for instance, there can be no society of opulence without complementary austerity, and that the middle class depends for its [nomenclatural] existence on the perpetuation of a lower...
Cohan says there is also a social welfare argument to be made in favor of diversity recruiting. He says many indicators, including GPA, record a lower performance by African-Americans--even among those whose parents fall within the same income range...
...argument is being made that eliminating such measures will increase alcohol abuse among college students, I would want to see some data from other states that would bear that out," the dean added...
Well, have I got validation for you. Several of the country's most powerful lawyers, in briefs and in oral argument before the Supreme Court last week, trotted out those stereotypes and more in a last-ditch attempt to save the 157-year-old, state-supported Virginia Military Institute as an all-male preserve. According to VMI's argument, women respond more naturally to an "ethic of care" than to an egalitarian "ethic of justice," and those few women who are confident need to go to a women's school to be "reminded" that female "leadership" carries "the hazard...
During oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender grabbed the rapt attention of the Justices when he harked back to a certain law school that refused to admit women, claiming they would run in tears from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...