Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...According to William Julius Wilson, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and sociologist who has written on race and poverty, the implications of electing Obama would be international in scope...
...sure.” When the two returned a week later, their report was baffling. Metabo had nothing to do with the talk. Apparently the University of Tokyo was interested in the Food Literacy Project only in terms of its ability to foster a community. Professor Yasushi, the sociologist who arranged the Food Symposium, has been closely working with Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 to create a more integrated campus for first-years. Food, Professor Yasushi seemed to believe, had the power to unite. He hoped that establishing a version of the Food Literacy Project...
...others have agreed to come hang out with frosh. But amid all this bonding with authority figures, there's a risk that some students won't learn independence. "A very small percentage of students see me as a father figure, but I try to discourage that," says sociologist Tony Brown, who opens his dorm apartment on Friday evenings for rap sessions, using bait like cookies, Wii Tennis and his pet rabbit. "At move-in, I can't tell you how many parents said to me, 'Oh, good, you're an adult. Please take care of my kid!' But this...
...QUESTIONING METHODS, QUESTIONING MOTIVES Light, a sociologist who is also a research fellow at University of Pennsylvania, and a colleague submitted a critique of the paper to the JHE in 2004, questioning the validity of the data and methodology used in the report, as well as raising possible conflicts of interest due to pharmaceutical funding...
...education and the effects of outside forces such as nondiscrimination policies. But gender was always the constant. What if it didn't have to be? What if you could construct an experiment in which a random sample of adults unexpectedly changes sexes before work one day? Kristen Schilt, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and Matthew Wiswall, an economist at New York University, couldn't quite pull off that study. But they have come up with the first systematic analysis of the experiences of transgender people in the labor force. And what they found suggests that raw discrimination remains...