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...retired Harvard sociologist David Riesman'31, a longtime student of higher education, saysthat naming overseers to the committee was a smarttactical move...
...well-known liberal sociologist William Julius Wilson (who is Black) has observed, race-conscious policies "benefit the relatively advantaged segments of the designated groups" while the underclass remains "severely underrepresented among those who have actually benefited from such programs...
Ultimately, men will have to be willing to draw the line for themselves and others. "A lot of us are unwitting accomplices," admits sociologist Edward Gondolf of the University of Pittsburgh. "It takes prompting and confrontation from women to make us understand." He knows. As a college football player, he watched a gang rape and laughed. Gondolf awakened to women's suffering and men's responsibility when his wife told him she had been raped before they met. That is a harsh way to learn a lesson. Better if players would remember that to the ancient Greeks, athletes were...
...study, undertaken by Yale economics professor Robert Shiller along with Soviet sociologist Vladimir Korobov and economist Maxim Boycko, involved interviews with 391 people in Moscow and 361 in New York City last May. The objective was to compare the free-market inclinations of the two groups. Among the questions asked: Does a table manufacturer have the right to raise prices if the company can't keep up with private demand? Most of the Soviet and U.S. consumers responded just as Adam Smith would have: yes, the manufacturer ; should be able to raise prices...
...coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch, "and they're almost unschooled in how to look in different settings...