Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While every vote counts, the power of Jewish ballots in a general election for President has been historically overstated. "For Jews, voting Democratic is like being circumcised," says William Helmreich, a City College of New York sociologist. "Neither is easily reversed. The Democrat gets 70% without blinking an eye. Barry Goldwater's 10% share in 1964 represents the G.O.P'S low point, and no one expects Bush to do that poorly." But assume he does. Look at California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Maryland, four states with significant Jewish populations (and 109 electoral votes in 1992) that Bush carried by less than...
...conduct." Perhaps not fast enough. The dominant attitude among naval aviators seems to be that it is not possible to be both an officer and a gentleman. "Subjecting these guys to classes in sexual harassment is like telling them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials fret (anonymously, of course) that curbing Navy pilots' sexual feistiness will remove the edge they need for combat. Democrat Patricia Schroeder, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, responds...
...year-old boss of a crew of teenage cocaine dealers, who suffers from a stammer and an ulcer; and Rocco Klein, the jaded white cop who investigates a murder to which Strike's brother Victor has confessed. "I'm not a social-policy maker, nor a journalist or sociologist," says Price, 42, an edgy, high-energy presence. "I want you to read about Strike and Victor and say, 'There but for the grace of God go I. And if I were born in the projects in 1970, where would I be today...
...states during the '80s. The chances of large-scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs out there, in the long term, it is just going to be self-defeating...
...corrected loudly when he mispronouncedthe name of Black sociologist W.E. Dubois "Dubwa"instead of "Duboys...