Word: sociologist
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...household to interview, again at random. Next they rigorously trained a cadre of 220 interviewers on the delicate art of conducting a frank discussion of sex. "Our feeling was that you could get people to talk about anything if you approach them right," says Edward Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...involves exposure to the darkest corners of human nature, cynicism and denial serve as a handy emotional vaccine. But that coldness can take a personal toll; and at worst, the day's violence bleeds into the home. In a study by Arizona State University sociologist Leanor Boulin-Johnson of 728 officers in two East Coast departments, some 40% responded that "they had gotten out of control and behaved violently against their spouse and children." Last week in Alexandria, Louisiana, deputy sheriff Paul Broussard shot his estranged wife Andrea five times because she was filing for divorce. He fled across...
Readings of sociologist Emile Durkheim, political philosopher John StuartMill and economist Adam Smith will be condensed ormodified to allow time for the new section,Vichniac said...
What does it take to be truly great lawyer? Or an outstanding psychologist? Or historian, or computer scientist, or sociologist? Is it an encyclopedic memory of all the details in one's field, which could be spit back at will? Knowledge of facts may help you get a job, but would it make you truly great? Most people would say no, as even the most mediocre scholar could look up the details of his trade in seconds. And as Albert Einstein has said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...
...sociologist Christopher Jencks writes in a recent book, the "claim that many ethnic minorities overcame discrimination and achieved extraordinary affluence in America is clearly correct...