Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group, under the leadership of prominent sociologist Amitai Etzioni, took public shape just a few weeks ago with the launching of a quarterly journal, Responsive Community. "To the A.C.L.U., libertarians and other radical individualists," Etzioni and his co-editors declared in their statement of purpose, "we say that the rights of individuals must be balanced with responsibilities to the community...
...indicate that teenage vulnerability to compulsive gambling hits every economic stratum and ethnic group. After surveying 2,700 high school students in four states, California psychologist Durand Jacobs concluded that students are 2 1/2 times as likely as adults to become problem gamblers. In another study, Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York, found eight times as many gambling addicts among college students as among adults...
...Renowned sociologist David Reisman '31 says he, for one, was ready. But others, including former Watergate special prosecutor and Loeb University Professor Archibald Cox '34, would have liked to stay on longer...
...teaching my Gen. Ed. course, but that doesn't mean I am prevented from working with students," says sociologist Reisman, who retired in 1976. Today, Reisman continues to advise theses, write, occasionally teach a North House seminar and serve on the Hoopes Prize committee. "I do what Harvard asks of me," he says...
...Kuwait ever comes to exist, the complaints about a lack of democracy may be moot. The Emir has promised to restore the parliament and increase political freedoms in general. No one claims to have spoken to a Kuwaiti who doubts that pledge. "After liberation," says Professor Ibrahim, the Egyptian sociologist, "I foresee Kuwait as an ever more democratic state -- and for that alone it is worth fighting for. But more, you would be fighting for all the principles that the people in the Arab world aspire...