Word: sociologist
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...book was by German sociologist Max Weber; West, the man whom DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. Calls "the Preeminent Afro-American scholar of our generation," was even then no intellectual slouch...
...debates, the Administration has been endlessly weighed down by the sheer complexity of its 1,342-page bill. "Sure it's complicated, because it's working with the existing system and the existing system is phenomenally complicated," says Princeton sociologist Paul Starr, an architect of the plan. But that explanation is no help in winning support. Asked if even he comprehends all the details of the plan, a White House aide who is helping develop the Administration's sales pitch replies incredulously, "Of course...
...political theater is familiar to New Orleans, but it seems only to heighten public cynicism. Observes Xavier University sociologist Silas Lee: "We've taken a Mardi Gras approach for too long, covering up all the problems with costumes. But we were dying on the inside." That can change, others say, if New Orleans draws on its inner grit and bonhomie. "It has things going for it that others don't," says Renwick. "Who would want to eat in Atlanta compared to New Orleans anyway?" In times like these, a little civic chauvinism should be forgiven...
...have shamed the Navy into its decision last year to permit women on combat ships. The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is already being reoutfitted to take aboard the first of them. "It's largely due to the Tailhook embarrassment," says Northwestern University professor Charles Moskos, a military sociologist. As with a lot of drunken festivities, maybe the headache that followed will stay in memory more sharply than the party itself...
...political correctness on campus is that its proponents have managed to convince their students and the media that they are authentic Sixities radicals. The idea is preposterous. Political correctness, with its fascist speech codes and puritanical sexual regulations, is a reactionary reversal of Sixties progressive values. except for Berkeley sociologist Todd Gitlin, not a single Sixties political activist of my age holds a tenured professorship at any of the elite schools, coast to coast...