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...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...
...neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.”Fifty years ago, C. Wright Mills, the intellectual rebel and prominent sociologist, uttered these words during a period of American history in which bureaucratization was on the rise and, as a result, imagination was quickly disappearing. Mills worried that Americans, increasingly unable to cultivate themselves, were morphing into passive receptacles filled by the social norms and mores of their time...
Obama's memoir displays more familiarity with the ideas of the far left than most American politicians would advertise. His interest in African independence movements led him to the seminal work of Frantz Fanon, a Marxist sociologist, and he speaks in passing of attending "socialist conferences" at the Cooper Union in New York City. But as Obama told TIME, this was in the Reagan years, and he was also reading works by conservative giants like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. He browsed among the ideologues but never bought in, he said. "I was always suspicious of dogma and the excesses...