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...Dublin. "Child care is underdeveloped and expensive. And if women take time out from the labor force to have children, they are discriminated against in the workplace." If it wasn't for the high level of births to unmarried mothers, Ireland's fertility rate would be in trouble, says sociologist Tony Fahey. "In 1980, just 5% of births were to single mothers; now 1 in 3" kids are born out of wedlock, he says. The Catholic Church played a role in that change. In the 1970s and '80s, it decided that having children outside of marriage was a lesser evil...
...there are new pressures given the long hours of working couples," says sociologist Arlie Hochschild, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, found that through the mid-'80s, women still did the lion's share of cleaning. "I think the ideal of shared housework has caught...
...served as a template for its civil institutions and cultural assumptions. Huntington, a cheerleader, has credited it with our "core culture" of "individualism, the work ethic, and moralism." Protestant tropes of human perfectibility and the city on the hill continue to echo through political rhetoric. Comments Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "the mainline always thought, we are America. What's The Big Deal...
...THAT'S THE CASE, SHOULD EVEN NON-PROTESTANTS MOURN ITS DECLINE? Not necessarily. By now, Protestantism's main nontheological message of radical individualism (or, as Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah skeptically lampoons it, "You can be anything you want to be ... and if you don't make it, you have no one to blame but yourself") is deeply encoded in our national self-understanding--and even upon other religions, once they have spent a few generations here. "Catholics for choice?" Snorts John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "That's Protestantism." Not quite, but it is proof that whatever...
...They meet each other in university classes and scientific seminars. They have this ingrained genetic friend-foe identification system." Khomyakov warns that both the government and established neo-Nazi leaders are losing control of this kind of grass-roots group. "Nobody knows what's brewing down there," he says. Sociologist Starovoitova agrees that neo-Nazi beliefs are slowly creeping into the mainstream. A few years ago, she says, neo-Nazis wouldn't dare court publicity over the murder of a scholar like Girenko who defended ethnic-minority rights. Now, they do. Neo-Nazism is like radiation, says the University...