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...rising sense of unease among South African whites is matched by a feeling that people have no control over what is happening. Many are spending less money, staying home more, not taking small children out with them. John Pegge, a Cape Town sociologist, is convinced that attitudes are changing and that "nobody is complacent anymore." He thinks that most whites have become inured to the reality of violence but that they have been impressed by the growing evidence that blacks are organizing themselves nationally, from labor groups like the Congress of South African Trade Unions to such political bodies...
...franca dispersion of English is both a cause and an effect of pop's global reach, but American pop commodities are also successful abroad because they work. Blue jeans are well designed and rugged. Most Hollywood filmmaking is technically impeccable. "American TV is extraordinarily beguiling to the Poles," says Sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb, who lived in Warsaw for 18 months, "for the technical quality alone...
Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't, and James will show in a page or so that the proposition makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year...
Average household debt now amounts to 19% of annual disposable income, an all-time high. The outstanding credit balances on the 97 million MasterCards have ballooned from $11 billion to $28 billion since 1983. David Caplovitz, a sociologist at the City University of New York and author of Consumers in Trouble, estimates that between 20 million and 25 million households are financially overextended or "entangled" in debt. Says he: "Within the span of one or two generations, America has been transformed from a cash society to a credit society. People are in over their heads, and it is ruining their...
...closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member of a fraternity...