Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enrique Rauch, Argentina's new Interior Minister, issued a communiqué attacking four other Cabinet ministries and calling for a raft of new reforms before the July 7 elections. Instead of compromise and cooperation, today's Argentina seems only to invite collisions of extremes. As one Argentine sociologist put it: "There is no community in Argentina. We form a conglomeration. Instead of life, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated by coups...
There is a kind of privacy even in the mass. "You find it driving to work, alongside all those other people, but alone with your thoughts," says California's Sociologist Edward McDonagh. "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond...
...prices: lightweight oxygen tanks, walkie-talkies, 13 tons of freeze-dried food, vitamins, Metrecal wafers. Then Dyhrenfurth picked his team: 20 men, each an experienced part-time mountain climber, each a specialist in his full-time field-a physicist, a psychologist, a philosopher, a geologist, a geographer, physicians, a sociologist. The expedition was more than a sporting assault: on Everest, Dr. William Siri planned to measure the effects of solar radiation, study the effects of high altitudes on the human mind and body. Even the team's diarist was something of a specialist: Novelist (The White Tower) James Ramsey...
...talk was informal and rambling. Goodman described a phenomenon of contemporary fiction; he recounted two chapters of a forthcoming novel; he criticized contemporary American society. The three turned out to be as inextricably intertwined as the lecturer's several roles of critic, author, and sociologist...
...company empire; Hans Giinther Sohl, who as boss of Thyssen since war's end has turned a family ironworks into West Germany's biggest steelmaker; and Munich's Rudolf Miinemann, one of the nation's biggest and boldest financiers. Yet, for all its wealth, says Sociologist Dahrendorf, the Geldaristokratie "is searching above itself in the social hierarchy for its behavioral standards. But the space above it is empty." This, he suggests, accounts for the joyless, frantic materialism that characterizes much of postwar German life-"the medieval choir stall in the dining room, the conspicuous consumption...