Word: sociologist
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...sociologist published a report last April in the British science journal Nature which compared the difficulty of vocabulary used in situations such as mothers talking to their three-year-old children with a scientific journal article on a complex biochemical reaction...
...comes to the Asian American can community, it is economic stability and family involvement that gives them a significant advantage in producing qualified candidates for college admission. The Asian American family now earns an average of $35,900 a year--more than the average for white American families. Sociologists have also noted how heavy family involvement in education contributes especially to Asian American academic success. In 1987, Stanford sociologist S.M. Dornbush found that Asian high school students spend an average of 11.7 hours per week doing homework, compared to 8.6 hours for whites and less for Blacks and Hispanics...
...World's Fair (just before Hitler marched into Poland) was organized around the sleek theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow." In 1965 (just before the Vietnam War began in earnest), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences brought together its "Commission on the Year 2000." The chairman, sociologist Daniel Bell, declared, "The problem of the future consists in defining one's priorities and making the necessary commitments." In other words, as Barkun observes, "We get the future we are prepared...
...paradise is in trouble. "Forever, or so it seems," says sociologist Mark Baldassare, who has studied Orange County for 10 years, "this place was on the steepest of upward curves. But today, with every index down, the people who thought they were immune to recessions, the Republican white collar workers, have been caught. Bush will likely carry the county again, but if he doesn't get a 300,000-vote plurality here, there's no way he'll take California." And that, says Representative Robert Dornan, one of the county's five Congressmen, "is iffy at best, unless there...
...ordinary citizens, a 30-second warning might be of limited use unless they had rehearsed what to do. Where it might be most helpful, according to sociologist Dennis Mileti, a warning expert at Colorado State University, "is in schools and offices where people can practice responding to bells." Here too Japan has led the way. Its communities regularly conduct earthquake warning drills, while in California such drills are done only sporadically in some schools and workplaces. Still, most Californians know that when the ground starts to rumble, they must get away from the windows, duck beneath a sturdy table, stand...