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Joblessness has a similar ripple effect. The greatest source of stress is not the actual loss of the job but rather the gradual domestic and psychological changes it imposes. These can be devastating, says Sociologist M. Harvey Brenner, professor of health services administration at Johns Hopkins. Brenner has found that over a period of about 25 years beginning in the late 1940s, for each 1% increase in the national unemployment rate, there were 1.9% more U.S. deaths from heart disease and cirrhosis, 4.1% more suicides, and an upturn in the number of first-time admissions to state mental health facilities...
Ever since the widespread social protests of the '60s gave way to the economic shocks of the '70s and '80s, pollsters and academics have noted declining American confidence in the nation's institutions. In The Confidence Gap (Free Press; 434 pages; $19.95), Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider of the American Enterprise Institute attempt to discover how steep that decline has been and what caused...
...fellows over the years have gone on to win 13 Nobel Prizes (four in 1981) and uncounted Pulitzers. Recalls M.I.T. Economist Carl Kaysen of his years as a fellow: "I was able to range more widely and do things I would not have done as a conventional graduate student." Sociologist George Homans, a fellow from 1934 to 1939, says of the society: "Its record is absolutely terrific. There have been imitations, but nobody's in a class with...
Mayer and several deans were unable to enter the packed Ballou Hall yesterday morning, but the officials were allowed in for a 2 p.m. meeting with eight student representatives. The meeting lasted for about two hours, and Tufts senior Daniel Poor said afterward that Mayer held firm on denying sociologist Peter Dreier tenure but was considering proposals to alter radically the university's tenure process by allowing more student input...
...computers. Most Asians regard education as the best avenue to recognition and success. Bronx Science Principal Milton Kopelman is reminded of "the youngsters who came out of the homes of East European immigrants several decades ago. There is pressure to work, and there is also great respect for education." Sociologist William Liu, who directs the Asian-American mental health center at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus, stresses the importance of cultural conditioning. "In the Confucian ethic, which permeates the cultures of China, Japan, Viet Nam and Korea, scholastic achievement is the only way of repaying the infinite debt...