Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DANGEROUS FRIEND by Ward Just. A well-meaning American sociologist arrives in Vietnam in the mid-1960s on a quasi-official mission to help prop up the civil government. What follows is a small, tense drama that foreshadows the wartime tragedies that lie ahead. Knowing how reality turned out makes this fiction not a whit less engrossing or enlightening...
...researching his recently-released report entitled "Credit Cards on Campus: Costs and Consequences of Student Debt, " Georgetown University sociologist Robert D. Manning says he found that mass marketing has helped hasten major changes in consumption patterns...
While the sensitive '90s guy has grown larger in our cultural consciousness, more and more women have been entering the corporate workplace and imbibing its values. "They've learned to keep their own counsel and are proud of themselves," says Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington. They're just as likely as their male counterparts, she says, to react with "'What's all this whining? Just get the job done...
Nevertheless, many Chinese are looking to Buddhism, Taoism and even brand-new religions to slake a thirst that all the Cokes in the world won't abate. Explains William T. Liu, an American sociologist working in Singapore: "Chinese communism is a system of economic development, but there is no theology to explain what people should believe in. China is very fertile ground for any religion right...
However far we have drifted from Weber's conception of American academics, StudentU.com has underhandedly transformed the sociologist's theory from a nostalgic ideal of the past to an urgency for the now. Once again, whether or not the students flock to a teacher will be "determined in large measure, larger than one would believe is possible, by purely external things: temperament and even the inflection of his voice...