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Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
...Eisenhower period," says UCLA Political Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander, "and we're moving into something not unlike the 1960s. The 'era of good feeling' that Reagan presided over is ending, and people are ready for the next cycle of history, for a new period of activism and social change." But as Alexander well knows, the future never merely recycles the past. The nation cannot return to federal taxing and spending on a Great Society scale. Most candidates in 1988 will focus wistfully on new ways to engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will...
...Fifty years is too long for anything in this business," said Stanford sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. An expert on the McCarthy era, Lipset pointed to a personal experience that exhibits the tension between scholars and universities...
...example is Susan Cavin's Lesbian Origins, hailed by Women's Studies enthusiasts as a future "classic" in the field. Cavin doesn't screw around, so to speak. The book's first sentence is blunt: "I am a lesbian feminist sociologist." Pages later, having uncovered "a logic to the ideology of sex," debunked "capitalist patriarchs" and explored "Cross-Cultural Lesbianism," Cavin waxes philosophical...
...among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pa. Rarer still is a flamboyant personality, a braggart, a show-off or, at the other extreme, someone who is deeply depressed or suicidal. In this community of quiet-spoken, humble pacifists, such behavior "really stands out against the social landscape," observes Medical Sociologist Janice Egeland, who has spent more than 25 years among the Old Order Amish, as the group is formally known. When it does occur, the Amish often have an explanation: "Siss im blut," they say; the peculiar behavior is "in the blood...