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...pretty much all there in the subtitle. Conley, a New York University sociologist, asks why middle- to upper-class professionals who were once able to put in a full day's work at the office, enjoy their leisure time, save up for a house and retire well now find themselves working more for seemingly less. There's a new class of Americans in town, says Conley. "Changes in three areas - the economy, the family and technology - have combined to alter the social world and give birth to this new type of American professional. This new breed - the intravidual - has multiple...
Conley's a sociologist, and at times he writes as if he's submitting a paper for review rather than penning a book for mass-market consumption. Still, Conley's concept of intravidualism - "an ethic of managing the myriad data streams, impulses, and even consciousnesses that we experience in our heads as we navigate multiple worlds" - is fascinating. So is another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world...
...this had happened in the 1980s, when ETA was stronger, it would have been an important arrest, but not a crucial one," says sociologist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, ETA expert at the Juan March Institute, a Madrid-based think tank. "But there have been a lot of important arrests recently, which means that whoever replaces Txeroki won't have much experience, and that, in turn, will make them even weaker." (See Pictures of the Week...
...According to William Julius Wilson, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and sociologist who has written on race and poverty, the implications of electing Obama would be international in scope...
...sure.” When the two returned a week later, their report was baffling. Metabo had nothing to do with the talk. Apparently the University of Tokyo was interested in the Food Literacy Project only in terms of its ability to foster a community. Professor Yasushi, the sociologist who arranged the Food Symposium, has been closely working with Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 to create a more integrated campus for first-years. Food, Professor Yasushi seemed to believe, had the power to unite. He hoped that establishing a version of the Food Literacy Project...