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...award is intended to reward research carried out in fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The other prize winners are University of Chicago sociologist Edward Shils and an Italian scholar in Oriental Studies, Francesio Gabreli. An awards ceremony is scheduled for February in Switzerland...
...John Toner will speak on the topic "College Athletics: Sport or Profession," on November 14 along with sociologist Harry Edwards, who organized the Black athlete protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City...
Lowered expectations affect students at all levels. Says Northwestern University Sociologist Christopher Jencks: "What we are seeing is not so much
...battering, which involves a pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report it. Sociologist Murray Straus, an expert on family violence, nonetheless estimates that each year 282,000 men are beaten by their wives...
Historically, batterers have fallen between the cracks, being neither nuts nor criminals, at least by the standards of the day. "A man beats up his wife because he can," says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, one of the pioneers in the study of family violence. Indeed, a man usually does not beat up his boss or male acquaintances. The consequences?loss of job, a charge of criminal assault, an old-fashioned black eye?are simply too great. Now the consequences are rising for violence against one's wife. Shelters for abused women have created a safety...