Word: sociologist
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...explains Vieira. "But I don't think being serious means that you can't show different facets of yourself. This was for fun. That's the spirit in which I took it, and the spirit in which I wish anybody else would take it." Others, though, see subtler motivations. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley cautions that some women may feel less feminine the higher up the ladder they go and thus have a greater need to advertise their attractiveness. "It's almost an unconscious way of balancing their act," she says...
...applicants for next year's freshman class have continued to follow some already established geographic trends, said Fitzsimmons, who is a sociologist by training. The applicant pool from California increased 5 percent, "topping 2000 for the first time," he said...
...longer. Nowadays America's seniors are giving the lie to that grim vision. Fully half of all people now 75 to 84 are free of health problems that require special care or that curb their activities, according to surveys. Says Sociologist Bernice Neugarten of Northwestern University: "Even in the very oldest group, those above 85, more than one-third report no limitation due to health." Declares Dr. Richard Besdine, director of the aging center at the University of Connecticut: "Aging doesn't necessarily mean a life that is sick, senile, sexless, spent or sessile...
...before the decision was made. "The foundations of religious broadcasting are being tested," declared the evangelist. "Our greatest need is moral integrity!" But the broadcasters required little prodding. "All of them recognize they cannot permit another bombshell to explode at their feet," observed Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia sociologist. One index of public discontent: a poll by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation last week showed that 40% of Americans think it should be illegal for preachers to raise money...
Gitlin is a skilled sociologist, an accomplished and witty storyteller, and a scrupulous historian. He inspires confidence in his work that is rare in Sixties chronicles; like the Arab-Israeli conflict, the period seems to exert a strange, objectivity-stripping influence on those who would describe or pass judgement upon it. Most impressively, perhaps, he is able to look back honestly on the student movement and his own involvement in it without losing his sense of humor and his compassion...