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...inhabits itself again, more or less comfortably. One of the most encouraging aspects of the current self-confidence is that it signals an acceptance of great changes. "Healthy societies, like individuals, need periods of rest and < consolidation after periods of strenuous activism and crisis," says Jeffrey Alexander, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Many of our social critics are selling the American people short with this notion that the upbeat mood is some kind of pseudo-event engineered by Reagan and the money he spent on commercials...
...that some capital-punishment statutes were constitutional, state legislatures promptly began passing new laws that conformed with the high court's criteria. The murderers convicted under those statutes are only now exhausting their appeals. "The people who are getting executed have already had stays," says University of Florida Sociologist Michael Radelet "And the people on death row are running out of issues for the courts to rule...
Pulitzer prize-winning sociologist Paul E. Starr, currently on leave as a visiting professor at Princeton University, wrote that advances in health care for the poor have come at great cost. He said that infant mortality has been cut in half since 1968 and that the average life expectancy has gone up by four years...
...Minimal Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing from Freud's theories of personality to the condition of society as a whole. He argues that contemporary culture fosters narcissistic personalities. The discrepancy comes when Lasch, as a faithful son of Sigmund, attacks writers who do just what he is doing Criticizing Herbert Marcuse, a noted re-interpreter of psychoanalytic...
...coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the commission should sanction the murder of an important judge or politician, or approve the assassination of an uncooperative Mafioso in New York. Sometimes this system works. But on numerous occasions, says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist on the staff of the Italian legislature's anti-Mafia commission, it does not. In fact, Arlacchi warns against giving too much importance to the structure Buscetta has described. "Certainly there are divisions of territory, and Mafia chieftains do meet periodically to coordinate activities," says Arlacchi. "But more than...