Word: sociologist
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Dorothy Blake Fardan, an author and sociologist, spoke on the history of white supremacy and its modern-day expressions at a campus speech this weekend...
Columbus used native guides to exploit other islanders in his explorations, Fardan said. The sociologist compared this practice to the role of Black leaders, such as General Colin Powell and Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, in the Bush administration...
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian named both Harvard physicist Sheldon Glashow and Harvard sociologist David Riesman...
...issue is not that words can hurt, or that civil rights and tolerance are essential in a democracy, but that hypersensitivity clouds rational discourse: how to knit a contentious American society together rather than allow it to become balkanized by competing interests. "We need to reset the thermostats," writes sociologist Etzioni, "not shatter windows or tear down walls. Extremism in defense of virtue is a vice...
William Donohue, a sociologist at Pittsburgh's La Roche College, argues that this same extremism reflects a perverse view of freedom. "Civil liberties means the right of the individual to win against the majority," he says. "But civility and community are both predicated on the individual being subordinate to the interest of society. If you make a fetish of individual rights, you are going to emasculate that community...