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...next time you see the words “Riesman Center” written on the Hillel façade, don’t let anyone tell you that it’s named after noted sociologist David Riesman. It has everything to do with your blushing future hubby...
...course, taught by Palmer in Spring 2004, was attended by more than 600 students. During each lecture, students grilled prominent activists and world leaders—including physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, well-known sociologist Juliet Schor, and left-leaning historian Howard Zinn—about their work and their visions for social change...
...medium of TV and of fitting all of these life stories and generational stories into four hours of TV is just an amazingly ambitious project,” said Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist by training, who said that she is used to studying personal histories for months at a time...
...motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they are happy men." --TIME, March...
...lifestyle choices and the spread of more permissive, Western attitudes toward sex, Chinese are copulating earlier, more often and with more partners than ever before. Today 70% of Beijing residents say they have had sexual relations before marriage, compared with just 15.5% in 1989, according to Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old. Says...