Word: sociologists
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...lifestyle choices and the spread of more permissive, Western attitudes toward sex, Chinese are copulating earlier, more often and with more partners than ever before. Today 70% of Beijing residents say they have had sexual relations before marriage, compared with just 15.5% in 1989, according to Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old. Says...
...Moore, who was independently wealthy and lived largely off his grandfather’s trust fund, did not need the financial incentives tied with tenure. Another theory as to why Moore never became tenured, according to Walder, was because of his fundamental disagreements with Talcott Parsons, the monumental Harvard sociologist who taught at the University from 1927 to 1973. Moore “just did not see eye to eye with Parsons on intellectual matters. I don’t think they got along very well,” Walder said. Moore was reclusive, sharp, and demanding in the classroom...
...Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus...
...happened that a scholar of his reputation and standing was not in fact consulted,” he said.Washington said it is important for academics to remember that, in the past, the work of African American scholars was often ignored by white intellectuals. Anderson was the first black sociologist hired by Penn, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “Given a historical context of marginalization, blacks become invisible sometimes,” Washington said.In his statement, Anderson acknowledged that he and Edin had settled their disagreement a few months ago.“I was satisfied by the agreement...
...anyone isperfectly situated to study retirement, it's sociologist Robert Weiss. In addition to his stellar academic affiliations (Harvard Medical School; the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston), he is living the life. "My occupational status is retired," explains Weiss, 80. "My way of life is, I work as hard as I can." He talked to TIME's ANDREA SACHS about his new book, The Experience of Retirement (Cornell University), which sums up 15 years of research...