Word: sociologists
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...fire also complicated official expectations for crowd behavior: in the middle of a crisis, the basic tenets of civilization actually hold. People move in groups whenever possible. They tend to look out for one another, and they maintain hierarchies. "People die the same way they live," says disaster sociologist Lee Clarke, "with friends, loved ones and colleagues, in communities...
Rita Simon, a sociologist at the American University in Washington, tracked 200 parents and children from interracial families for 20 years. In 1971 she found the youngsters understood their race was different from that of their parents, but did not seem bothered by the fact. Twelve years later, the kids--then teenagers--perceived their parents as "very, very committed" to informing their children about black issues. "They would say, 'My God, not every dinner conversation has to be about black history,'" says Simon. When she returned again in 1991, the grown children told Simon, "We're not Oreos...
...industry is not a side effect of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi upward mobility. A paper from the Department for Education and Skills found that just one percent of Bangladeshis and seven percent of Pakistanis held “high managerial or professional” jobs. Professor Tariq Modood, a sociologist at the University of Bristol, has published research that supports this; he found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi weekly earnings being the lowest of all ethnic groups in Britain...
...unusual in the U.S. A single mother of biracial children pursuing a career, she foreshadowed, in some ways, what more of America would look like. But she did so without comment, her friends say. "She wasn't stereotypical at all," says Nancy Peluso, a friend and an environmental sociologist. "But she didn't make a big deal...
...deterioration of inner-city schools, as experts from academia, journalism, and the Boston Police Department have witnessed them. The roster of experts assembled to comment on “The Wire” and on the American drug trade included Boston Police Department deputy superintendent Nora Baston, Columbia sociologist Sudhir A. Venkatesh, and Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone. But the star of the panel was Simon himself, the creator and executive producer of “The Wire”.Simon began by speaking about the production and critical issues of the show...