Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a week after snagging noted sociologist William Julius Wilson from the University of Chicago, the Kennedy School of Government yesterday announced three new prominent faculty appointments...
Distinguished sociologist, reknowned author and Afro-American scholar William Julius Wilson has accepted a position as Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph Nye announced yesterday...
...designing policy to combat alcohol abuse, Hobart and William Smith sociologist H. Wesley Perkins has found that students' perceptions of their environment plays a critical role in how they choose to approach drinking...
...ethnic makeup of that march will be worth keeping an eye on. Promise No. 6 is the pledge to reach "beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity." William Martin, a Rice University sociologist who specializes in modern revival movements, suggests that this multiracialism is the one part of the Promise Keepers' program "that would be moving participants to a new position, rather than reinforcing beliefs they already hold. It could have a remarkably beneficial result if enough blacks can be made to see that it is serious--not just 10,000 white guys looking...
...might argue that Catholics who were not content have left the church, thus eluding the pollsters. But the ranks of those defectors have not been growing in recent years. Father Andrew M. Greeley is popularly known as the author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also a sociologist who has spent more than 30 years analyzing his fellow American Catholics. He finds "practically no increase in those born Catholic who no longer identify as Catholic--the defection rate." How does Greeley account for this phenomenon? "They like being Catholic...