Word: sociologists
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...Roosevelt's next two Inaugurations featured a Protestant minister and a Catholic priest. Then in 1949, Rabbi Samuel Thurman from Harry Truman's home state of Missouri joined a Baptist pastor and Catholic priest to deliver a prayer at the Inauguration. This was right around the time when sociologist Will Herberg was working on a book called Protestant, Catholic, Jew, arguing that the three religious traditions had separately shaped mid-20th-century America. It seemed both natural and fair, especially in the wake of the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel, to make sure that Jews were...
...response to the dramatic surge in crime in the 1960s, lawmakers across the country and at all levels of government responded with a novel and dangerous policy known today as mass incarceration. Sociologist David Garland defines mass incarceration as the policies that produce a national imprisonment rate that exceeds the historical and comparative norm for similar societies. Since then, the U.S. incarceration rate has skyrocketed to 715 per 100,000, the highest in the world (Russia is a distant second...
...pretty much all there in the subtitle. Conley, a New York University sociologist, asks why middle- to upper-class professionals who were once able to put in a full day's work at the office, enjoy their leisure time, save up for a house and retire well now find themselves working more for seemingly less. There's a new class of Americans in town, says Conley. "Changes in three areas - the economy, the family and technology - have combined to alter the social world and give birth to this new type of American professional. This new breed - the intravidual - has multiple...
Conley's a sociologist, and at times he writes as if he's submitting a paper for review rather than penning a book for mass-market consumption. Still, Conley's concept of intravidualism - "an ethic of managing the myriad data streams, impulses, and even consciousnesses that we experience in our heads as we navigate multiple worlds" - is fascinating. So is another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world...
...this had happened in the 1980s, when ETA was stronger, it would have been an important arrest, but not a crucial one," says sociologist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, ETA expert at the Juan March Institute, a Madrid-based think tank. "But there have been a lot of important arrests recently, which means that whoever replaces Txeroki won't have much experience, and that, in turn, will make them even weaker." (See Pictures of the Week...