Word: sociologists
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...suffered under Kaczynski's government. They are also anxious to see economic reforms that would make Poland as business friendly as their adopted countries, allowing them to return. In the previous election in 2005, the Civic Platform failed to appeal to voters beyond Warsaw's elite. This time, said sociologist Tomasz Zukowski, "The Platform won because it became the leader of anti-PIS camp...
...dilemmas of American mothers, a quiet revolution is occurring in fatherhood. "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late 1970s, sociologists at the University of Michigan found that the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled in the past 10 years. The Census counts less...
...among junior faculty. In 2004 then-University President Lawrence H. Summers’ refusal to tenure Marcyliena Morgan—the resident hip-hop scholar of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department—led to her departure as well as that of her renowned sociologist husband, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo. After interim President Derek C. Bok approved a tenure offer for Morgan last spring, University President Drew G. Faust wooed the couple back, bringing the the two luminaries back into the fold...
...Sandinista revolution in the 1980s diversified the quotas of power in the country," said sociologist Cirilo Otero. "There was a displacement of the oligarchy; a lot of investment left the country, and what is left is the remnants of a class whose influence and power are almost...
...oligarchy is in a profound crisis; it's in its final days," says sociologist Orlando Nunez, author of the briskly selling Oligarchy in Nicaragua...