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Sissela Bok's father, noted economist-sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, shared the economics prize...
...weeks ago, David Featherman, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, picked up the phone and heard Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky at the other...
...expanded their admissions, prompting many students to take the SAT who would never before have applied. A variety of other social factors, including television, the frequency of divorce and the softening of high school curriculums, have also been blamed. "Nobody knows why the scores went down," maintains Northwestern University Sociologist Christopher Jencks, a critic of the SAT, "so nobody knows why they went up. Be cautious until you see next year's scores before you reach any conclusions...
Indeed, Nast sensed before most other men that American women were growing serious about taking care of themselves. (There were no beauty parlors in Muncie, Ind., in 1900, the sociologist Lynds found; by 1928 there were seven.) Nast also hit upon the heretical notion that a publication could prosper by appealing to a small, select audience. If he seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known...
...There are two strains in penology now," says Franklin Zimring, a University of Chicago sociologist. "The liberals, stressing equality, draw the sentencing grids. Conservatives say Fine, but let's erase this four years and put in eight.' " Yet, as more nearly equal and certain punishment is achieved, those who blithely double sentences on paper may find them ruinously expensive...