Word: sociologist
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...goes well with Sobchak's economic reform plans, Chubais predicts a rise in the standard of living in the city by the end of 1992. The question is whether St. Petersburg residents will have the patience to wait that long. Leonid Keselman, a sociologist who specializes in public opinion surveys, believes they will. "The people of this city have suffered for a long time without hope," he says. "Now they have something real to hope for." If Keselman is right, it may be only a matter of time before Peter the Great's old capital reclaims its place among...
Dorothy Blake Fardan, an author and sociologist, spoke on the history of white supremacy and its modern-day expressions at a campus speech this weekend...
Columbus used native guides to exploit other islanders in his explorations, Fardan said. The sociologist compared this practice to the role of Black leaders, such as General Colin Powell and Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, in the Bush administration...
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian named both Harvard physicist Sheldon Glashow and Harvard sociologist David Riesman...
William Donohue, a sociologist at Pittsburgh's La Roche College, argues that this same extremism reflects a perverse view of freedom. "Civil liberties means the right of the individual to win against the majority," he says. "But civility and community are both predicated on the individual being subordinate to the interest of society. If you make a fetish of individual rights, you are going to emasculate that community...