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...Japan, where the corporation almost has the status of a huge family, most people stay with the same company from their first day of work until retirement. Sociologist Hiroshi Minami argues that there is a "fusion of identity" between a company and those who work for it-not only in their eyes but in those of social peers and neighbors...
...committee of the U.S.S.R., reproduces many of its official documents on Xerox machines. As a result of the galloping ubiquity of office copiers, hardly anyone nowadays passes up an opportunity to use one. "It's a machine that generates its own demand, like cocktail nuts," says Boston University Sociologist Mark G. Field. "It is used because it is available...
...tenure. He had been granted two two-year leaves: the first to work as an aide to President Nixon, the second to serve as Ambassador to India. He had only been back one semester when he took the U.N. job. Harvard is insistent on "institutional loyalty," says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "There would be not much leeway with anyone, particularly someone like Moynihan who had shown a somewhat tenuous or peripatetic relationship to the institution."* Though he did not mention it, Moynihan may also run for the Senate. He had once said it would be "dishonorable" for him to desert...
...more that Sociologist Daniel Bell peers into the future, the more he seems to respect the past. It would be hard to find anyone more at home in such a variety of contemporary disciplines-economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense...
Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, an old Moynihan chum: "The capacity of Harvard to make people feel vulnerable is Incredible, and I think Pat felt that quite keenly. He felt demeaned by having to establish his liberal credentials, pulling out his origins, his work with the Great Society programs. It was the same with the blacks issue. He knows what it's like to be desperately poor; he is a man of very lowly origins, lower than most of the black intellectuals who attacked...