Word: sociologist
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...choose your friends, but you're stuck with your family" is how an adolescent might put it. That's good news and bad news for friendship. "Friends don't make the demands that family members do. Friends generally won't be asked to give money or nursing care," says sociologist Jan Yager, author of Friendshifts. "They are probably going to mainly have fun together." On the other hand, she notes, "because it's optional, friendship can be withdrawn more easily than family relationships...
...since outgrown the old simplisms in which the parties tend to think, in which the lefties and righties of talk radio and television tend to bray and hoot. Bill Clinton instinctively grasps the truth of the new American sympathies. One thinker who understands them perfectly is Alan Wolfe, a sociologist who has done admirable research in the cross-grained, complex American attitudes toward gay rights, abortion and other signature issues of the millennium...
...rights workers say they've killed over 180 gang members over the past two years. Suspected of being off-duty cops and soldiers hired by local businessmen, these groups are not particularly discriminating. "Any kid who has a tattoo is fair game," says Human Rights Commission member Hugo Maldonado. Sociologist Ernesto Bordales concurs. "The general feeling here is that the only way to deal with the gangs is to kill them...
Many mothers shift between home and office several times in the course of their child-rearing years in a process called "sequencing," a term coined by sociologist and author Arlene Rossen Cardozo to refer to the phenomenon of having it all--career, family and marriage--but not all at once...
That is not to say mifepristone makes abortion morally simple. In fact, some doctors argue the opposite. Carole Joffe, a sociologist of reproductive health and visiting professor at Bryn Mawr College, believes mifepristone could make abortion "more emotionally wrenching because women who take mifepristone experience something like a miscarriage, where they have to confront the product of conception." Women who undergo surgical abortions don't usually see the fetus. With mifepristone, a woman typically passes large blood clots in the toilet within 24 hours after taking the second pill...