Word: sociologist
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...upheavals that reordered the regimes in Central ) and Eastern Europe, a handful of extraordinary women have seized this moment in history to join in the challenge and begin the work of catching up with their sisters in the West. One is an economist turned Prime Minister, another a sociologist who presides over a parliament, a third a onetime model who speaks for her government. Then there is the former law clerk who has taken over a Prime Minister's office and influences government policy from within...
...revisionist scholars are mapping, she contends, is the influence of socialization -- meaning that society expects different things from the sexes and trains them differently. Class, education or ethnic background may be more important than sex in shaping psychological growth. The new theorists are "overgenderizing," says Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, a sociologist at City University of New York. "Seeing distinctions and stereotyping are so much a part of our culture...
...silence. She carries no pictures. Jiang Junsheng, a senior engineer in a Beijing auto-parts factory, says he wasn't upset when his only child, a daughter, was born, but "my mother did not like it." That's an understatement, says his wife Chen Yiyun, 50, a well-known sociologist. "His mother would not take care of our daughter," she says. "Yet when my husband's brother had a boy, she showered him with attention...
Many theorists describe the hegemonic influence of modern mass media. Sociologist and cultural critic Todd Gitlin argues that the structure and content of television programs propagate materialist values and political complacency. Historian Stuart Ewen contends that American industry spreads a consumerist ideology through advertising to maintain the authority of the capitalist mode of production...
Many Catholics believe the time has come for the hierarchy to consider ordaining married men, or perhaps even women. As the synod was concluding, an Italian newsmagazine poll reported that 53% of the country's Catholics favor a married priesthood. In the U.S., priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley, himself no opponent of celibacy, claims that a change in the requirement "would probably lead to the ordination of 1,500 more priests a year...