Word: sociologist
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Addressing the conflict between schools’ role in educating citizens and multiculturalist demands for diversity, sociologist Nathan Glazer posed this question in his book We Are All Multiculturalists Now: “Groups, racial and ethnic, and women want to see themselves in the curriculum…But what will this emphasis on multiculturalism, on ‘recognition,’ do to our efforts to teach our children truth and the best way to reach it, to promote American unity, to encourage civic harmony...
...Cafe Laumer Try the famous Frankfurter Kranz, a ring-shaped butter-cream gâteau garnished with candied cherries and chopped caramelized nuts at Café Laumer at 67, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, the favorite haunt of philosopher-sociologist Theodor Adorno. www.cafe-laumer.de...
...founded on companionship; men typically define their best friend as someone with whom they can do things. Women usually count a close friend as someone with whom they can talk and share feelings. "Men often find it difficult to become emotionally close to other men," says Peter Nardi, a sociologist at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. "They're more comfortable revealing their emotions to a woman." Each sex looks to the other for aspects of the other's form of friendship. While men want a deep emotional connection, women crave undemanding companionship. Alexandra Robbins, an author and self-professed tomboy...
...dehydrated and weak to be saved. The August vacation period had lowered the staffing levels of rescue squads and hospitals. And well before that, many elderly people had already become cut off from regular human contact. "Heat waves reveal conditions that are always present but difficult to perceive," notes sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago - a hot spell that killed over 700 in 1995. "Primary among those is the rise of an elderly isolated population that lives at the margins of major cities." The remainder of the fatalities - between...
...Iraq war, partly as a result of the U.S. government's harsh criticism of the country for failing to admit U.S troops. Paradoxically, Uzan's troubles with Motorola are probably helping him politically. The Motorola case "is a point of pride among his supporters," argues Arus Yumul, a sociologist at Istanbul's Bilgi University. "The fact that it was America he conned earned him points." In last November's elections, the party's slogans - "Turkey belongs to the Turks!" and "We don't need you, IMF!" - appealed to young Turks, who make up a disproportionate share of the Turkish population...