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...After years of talking about women and computer phobia, it turns out that women were simply reticent about a technology for which they didn't have compelling uses," notes sociologist and M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle. At alloy.com a top teen site with a 60% female audience, that means horoscopes, advice and message boards. But pegging women's interests isn't always that pat. Ann Wrixon, CEO of www.seniornet.org says, "Three years ago, women on our site were only interested in special topics like knitting or book clubs. Now they're just as likely to tell someone...
DIED. WILLIAM WHYTE, 86, reform-minded sociologist whose 1943 book on Italian-American gangs, Street Corner Society, became a best seller; in Ithaca, N.Y. A prolific and outspoken author, Whyte taught at Cornell University and, despite having suffered from polio, conducted extensive fieldwork...
Most important, unemployment has dropped from an alarming 12.6% when Jospin took office to 9.8%, still appalling by U.S. standards but a substantial improvement. The turnaround has also shifted the public mood from a decade-long depression into an exuberant optimism. Says sociologist Robert Rochefort, head of the CREDOC, a Paris-based think tank: "We have seen a spectacular return of confidence, a sort of alchemy in which everything seemed to turn from lead to gold...
...Dalton Conley, a sociologist at New York University, doesn't know why low-birth-weight babies are nearly four times as likely not to graduate from high school on time as their siblings. But he and Neil Bennett of the Baruch School of Public Affairs know that it happens, having parsed reams of University of Michigan data on families going back to 1968, and came up with the longest view yet of how underweight babies (5.5 pounds or less) turn...
...Where I teach," says Richard Zweigenhaft, a sociologist at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., "fewer and fewer students seem to think government is capable, or likely, to solve the kinds of problems they are most concerned about...