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Neither could University of Kansas Sociologist Jill Quadagno, who doubled her salary and got a lush travel allowance when she switched this fall to Florida State University. It was also -- in the trade's patois -- a "two- cushioned" slot, with a job for her physiologist husband David. "We just had to do it," he says with a smile. So did Professor of Italian Aldo Scaglione, who left the University of North Carolina for a chair at New York University, the chance to shape an Italian studies center and -- a dollop of icing he requested -- an elegant apartment on Washington Square...
Activists like Skolrood believe that the Religious Right, far from fizzling, will now be "more sophisticated and more encompassing." There are compelling signs of a quieter political competence. Sociologist Nancy Ammerman of Emory University points to "grass-roots organizations all over the place putting the conservative agenda in place -- locally, not nationally. Now they walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation...
...problems has gained currency on the national scene--but not to the benefit of conservatives. Jesse Jackson has become the undisputed leader of Blacks partly on the strength of his call for young Blacks to recognize that despite their disadvantages they are "somebody." And it was a progressive Black sociologist, William Julius Wilson, who built a top academic career on arguments that racism fails to account for Black exclusion in America. His analysis has a strong class component...
...assassinated in 1981. Mubarak has expanded democratic freedoms at a time of severe economic problems and rising Islamic fundamentalism. When he was chosen for his first term in the tense period immediately after Sadat's death, "the big turnout was not for Mubarak, it was for Egypt," said Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim. "This time the turnout...
...example, that the proportion of women who claim that they share child-care duties equally with their partners has actually dropped in the past three years, from 40% to 31%. "The big disappointment is that younger men aren't that different from their fathers," says University of Texas Sociologist Glenn...