Word: sociologist
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...great award to win," said Starr this week. "It's the first time it's been awarded to a sociologist. I am very pleased to have won an award from another field...
...devises a successful "Boy Act," to unnerve and run off "coroners," his collective description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh teaches the need for patient observation: "If you go around beating the world with questions like a reporter or federal oral history junior sociologist ... all the answers will go back into mystery like fiddlers into pluff...
...homeless, downtown can be a terrifying bedlam, a place of cold stares, harassment by police and occasional attacks by violent punks. "You walk the streets out of loneliness," says Salvation Army Sociologist Ronald Vander Kooi, "and you start talking to yourself." Joseph Hanshaw, 19, has kept his bearings so far. Last spring he was kicked out of a Job Corps camp for selling marijuana. "Stupid," he admits. "I blew it." He has spent most of 1983 sleeping where he could around Manhattan. A job has eluded him, but, he says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make...
...That's just it, of course everyone does know where they were," remarks Harvard sociologist David Ricsman, who himself was attending an anthropologist's conference in San Francisco...
...that Yale was more "American" In fact, throughout its first two centuries. Yale had a more geographic diversity. The less affluent New Haven had no equivalent of the Boston Brahmin and hence was less status conscious. It was hardly a Jacksonian democracy, but it was more open than Harvard. Sociologist David Riesman (Harvard '33) describes the differences during his undergraduate days, writing that at Yale, membership in secret societies was based on personal characteristics, but "at Harvard, it was ascribed not achieved. No matter how much of a lout you were you could get in a final club [with connections...