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...Black sociologist at a convention at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis wanted to take dip in the hotel's swimming pool. But the lifeguard, for no apparent reason, refused to let him swim. The sociologist was enraged and marched to the front desk, insisting on seeing the hotel manager. When the manager did not appear, the sociologist kept standing in the lobby in his swimming trunks until a crowd had gathered. Someone called the St. Louis Human Rights Commission; somebody else notified the American Sociological Association (ASA). The local and national press appeared. Then ASA, which had about...
With little advance warning, Saunier-Seïté chose this academic year as the time to guillotine 1,131 or 30% of all master's and doctoral degree programs, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. Among them: a Sorbonne doctorate in educational sciences directed by noted Sociologist Vivianne Isambert-Jamati (who is a consultant to Saunier-Seïté's office) and Medievalist Pierre Jonin's acclaimed graduate seminar at Avignon...
Last week, however, Federal District Court Judge Richard Dean Rogers ruled in Topeka that Rodriguez is entitled at least to the protection of international law, the United Nations charter and basic human rights. His extended imprisonment, Rogers concluded, violated all three. Citing testimony by University of Kansas Sociologist William Robert Arnold, the judge said that inmates detained without a time limit endure "more mental strain than an ordinary prisoner." He ordered the Government to prove at a hearing that Rodriguez is dangerous to society or else grant him some form of relief within 90 days, ranging from assignment...
Still, reader curiosity about the future may be insatiable: How else explain the popularity of astrology columns? Probably the most ambitious and serious attempt to hunch the future was the Carnegie Corporation-financed Commission on the Year 2000, a gathering of distinguished scholars directed by Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. It met in the '60s but petered out by 1972. "It makes no sense to predict the future," says Bell. "There are too many contingencies. What you can do is identify relevant frameworks, and identify problems-but you don't know what will be done about them, which...
They do not predict the future." Agrees Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "The media want the pollsters to be seers. We want them to do more than they...