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...international students really have a responsibility to their native countries? According to Assistant Professor of Sociology Jason A. Kaufman ’93, a comparative cultural sociologist, even the worst traditional cases of brain drain may not be so bad for less developed countries. By increasing the economic, cultural, and social linkages between first-world and third-world nations, he says, ex-pats in America can still be doing a service to their countries. “In many cases, those students who stay here end up sending business to their home countries, which is beneficial to them...
...effort is in full swing to separate the eternal message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual freedom in Islam. Although non-Muslim readers may be daunted by the quotations and counter-quotations from hadiths (the reported sayings...
...pressing issues such as race, poverty and inequality—produce a large number of public intellectuals. “I think there is a high correlation between being a public intellectual and working on issues that are high on the public agenda,” says Wilson, a sociologist. “One of the reasons black scholars are disproportionately represented among public intellectuals is because they address issues such as race...
...answer, thank goodness, is no. The seemingly paradoxical combination of large informal areas and walled off, elaborate master suites makes perfect sense, says Bernard Beck, a sociologist at Northwestern University. As children have become more powerful and vocal, and present, adults have a greater need to pull back. "I love my children, and I spend enormous amounts of time with them--there is no escaping them," chuckles Veronica Fowler, a mother of three, who added a new master bedroom suite next to the expanded living room. "But there is [the idea of] creating a buffer zone. I desperately want...
Today we're busily grinding away in an economy that's going nowhere, and our homes are a reflection of that. Sociologist Beck says Americans are so severely deprived of time, particularly leisure and vacation time, that they are trying to make up for it in their living quarters--and are doing a bang-up job. The master suites, the bathroom spas, the game rooms, the professional kitchens and the lobby-like great rooms are our way of turning our once humble abodes into luxury hotels. Feel free to put some chocolate on your pillow. --With reporting by Harriet Barovick...