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...That ordeal was loneliness. "This generation came from a culture that really didn't prize having kids anyway," says Chicago sociologist Paul Hirsch. "Their parents just wanted to go and play out their roles -- they assumed the kids were going to grow up all right." Absent parents forced a dependence on secondary relationships with teachers and friends. Flashy toys and new clothes were supposed to make up for this lack but instead sowed the seeds for a later abhorrence of the yuppie brand of materialism. "Quality time" didn't cut it for them either. In a survey to gauge...
...When sociologist Zhou Duo heard that the tanks were rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, where he had been on a hunger strike to show solidarity with the students, his first thought was to wave a white flag. But he dismissed the idea as ignoble. Instead, Zhou, 43, and popular singer Hou Dejian approached the oncoming soldiers and negotiated an agreement that allowed the demonstrators to withdraw peacefully...
...wake of the desecrations, 2,000 French Jews applied to immigrate to Israel; the usual weekly average is 50. But experts on ethnic conflict caution against alarm. Says sociologist Pierre-Andre Taguieff: "Today antiracism is growing faster than racism. The anti-Semites are marginal...
...perhaps you will be like the millions of American families who struggle desperately to balance job, family, marriage and sanity. In most of these families, overworked women bear the brunt of the misery. But according to extensive research by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, the strain of the two-career family hurts men and children as well. It breaks up marriages, undermines careers and, perhaps most tragically, makes children feel unwanted...
...Mexicans and Dominicans, who are brought into the U.S. for $50 to $1,000. "It's a sliding scale depending on how far you travel and how familiar you are with the system," says David Simcox of the Center for Immigration Studies. Adds Douglas Massey, an immigration expert and sociologist at the University of Chicago: "I don't think Congress intended to create a black market, but it seems that IRCA's only impact has been to increase the efficiency and the cost of illegal entry...