Word: sociologist
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...long it takes most members of the service to complete basic plus some advanced training--has climbed by a third over the past decade. "What we're ending up with is a kinder, gentler drill sergeant who is trying to keep attrition down," says Charles Moskos, a leading military sociologist at Northwestern University. "And kinder, gentler drill instructors are not necessarily creating the kind of force you want to go to war." Although the military denies it, many male soldiers and outside experts also believe that mingling men and women in boot camp--as the Air Force has done since...
...doubled abroad, where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size meetinghouses a year and adding 15 cathedral-size temples to the existing 50. University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark projects that in about 83 years, worldwide Mormon membership should reach 260 million...
...delicate cases in the future. The Army has reduced its number of adultery-related courts-martial from 95 in 1992 to 81 last year; the Navy from 27 in 1995 to 15. But the Air Force will probably keep moving in the opposite direction, according to Northwestern University military sociologist Charles Moskos. The Air Force is the most civilianized (only 20% of its members fly planes) and feminized (26% of its new recruits are women) of the services, and its generals are notoriously sensitive lest their troops become indistinguishable from those of, say, a civilian corporation--and equally unfit...
...university admissions policies to the way civil rights laws are enforced. Even more important, it may ultimately transform the way Americans identify themselves and the tribe or tribes they belong to. In one grandiose vision , shared by conservative analyst Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute and communitarian sociologist Amitai Etzioni of American University, the ambiguous racial identity of mixed-race children may be "the best hope for the future of American race relations," as Besharov puts it. Letting people define themselves as multiracial, Etzioni argues, "has the potential to soften the racial lines that now divide America by rendering...
...legendary recruiter as well as a producer of legendary recruiting stories, Gates snagged Weiner Professor of Social Policy William Julius Williams while chatting with him in the living room of Vice President Al Gore '69. The recruiting dinner for prominent UCLA sociologist Laurence Bobo included John F. Kennedy...