Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence may support this theory. In a study published five months ago, sociologist Linda Williams of the University of New Hampshire tracked down 129 women who, as children, had been taken to emergency rooms in the late 1970s for abuse-related injuries. Nearly two decades later, 20 of them said they could not remember their hospitalization. Williams determined that the children who had been the most severely abused-and abused at the youngest age-were the most likely to have forgotten the experience...
Barry Dank, a sociologist at California State University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...
...Sociologist Christopher Jencks argues correctly that "American liberals have a habit of trying to help the neediest. Because AFDC benefits have always been low, welfare mothers look like the neediest of the needy. As a result, liberals have fought hard to help welfare recipients, while largely ignoring single mothers with low wage jobs. Welfare recipients have always gotten Medicaid for example while equally impoverished working mothers seldom have...
...first state to deny additional cash benefits to welfare mothers who give birth to another child. And while Gingrich's proposal to bring back orphanages has been denounced as a racist attack on black families, one of the first proponents of the idea was Joyce Ladner, a distinguished black sociologist...
...crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races. "It's incredible, really," says Mark Baldassare, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine. "How do you explain that one of the wealthiest counties in the nation is now bankrupt...