Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern way. We spend much of our lives--in the street, on the bus, in the store--with people we don't know. There is a certain comfort in this, a kind of transient absolution from social niceties; after all, we'll never see these people again. Aptly, the sociologist David Riesman '31 has called our culture "the lonely crowd...
...Sociologist Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, who was skeptical of religious broadcasters' claims to big audiences in his 1981 book Prime Time Preachers, says the Nielsen report shows a "much larger" audience than he and other experts had thought. The preachers, he now asserts, "have greater unrestricted access to media than any other interest group in America." Powered by TV evangelism, he predicts, the Christian right "is destined to become the major social movement in America" during the late 20th century...
...sociologist Myrdal grew up on a farm in an atmosphere that discouraged education. "She overcame tremendous environmental obstacles," to attain her success, PresidentBok said...
...HARVARD SOCIOLOGIST Daniel Bell tells of trying to drum up funding for a 50-person commission to predict how society would change by the year 2000. He appealed to and eventually received financial support from the Ford Foundation in 1964, but not before undergoing some questioning...
...vacant Craigie Arms apartment building. Critical Legal Studies hero Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64 receives a surprising letter from Law Dean James Vorenberg '49 announcing that Kennedy has a new job running MATEP, which will provide power to North House--once renovations there are completed in 1993. Sociologist Theda R. Skocpol is named to head the Middle Eastern Studies Center...