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Though the President invited a dozen scholars, including Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Samuel P. Huntington, Dillon Professor of Government Emeritus Richard E. Neustadt and University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson, Sandel made a particularly resonant impression on Clinton, insiders...
...city and country, on the left and the right, comes a shared sense of despair at the carnage. "There's an absolutely solid, growing sense that we've got to do something about all those guns," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Rice University in Houston. "Most Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what they're increasingly demanding is rational control over guns...
That is a tough audience to reach. "Guns are a status symbol," explains University of Pennsylvania sociologist Elijah Anderson, who has just finished a study on codes of sex and violence in the inner city. "If you have a new, powerful one, you get a certain amount of juice, of respect, and people are afraid...
TIME correspondents Margaret Carlson and James Carney talked with the President in the Oval Office last week. On his desk were a biography of Woodrow Wilson and the latest book by sociologist Amitai Etzioni...
...Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic mix of U.S.-born creeds -- everything from Branch Davidians to New Agers. In the future, says sociologist Wade Clark Roof, "clearly the bounds of religious pluralism will push further and further out, and that's very American...