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...lectureship and Institute are named for the late sociologist William E. B. DuBois, a Black civil rights leader of the 20th century, who died in 1960 after joining the Communist party and renouncing his U.S. citizenship. DuBois earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895 and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Ahmed Mustafa, who was hanged by the Sadat government in 1978 for planning the murder of the former Religious Affairs Minister. To his followers, the charismatic Mustafa was an almost omnipotent authority on religious as well as personal matters. "Even after the death sentence had been handed out," wrote Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim in a study of the group, "Mustafa's followers would not believe that the government could take his life." Like many other fanatical Muslims, Takfir wa Hijra members seek to return to a purely Islamic society, and are willing to use violence to achieve that goal...
...dole actually hold down jobs in the clandestine "black economy." Nor are politicians unduly concerned about the 1 million youths without jobs. In Italy being jobless does not carry the same stigma as in Northern European countries steeped in the Protestant ethic. "Let's put it this way," Sociologist Ferrarotti explains. "An unemployed youth in this country is considered to be just waiting for his right chance. He is in parchéggio (in a parking lot). He is not on trial and alone, as he would...
...says John Ackerman, dean of the National College for Criminal Defense in Houston. "And few lawyers know how to do it. You get no training or any help at all on that issue in law school." The teachings of courthouse legend are all stereotypes. Prosecutors, says University of Illinois Sociologist Rita Simon, are alleged to favor 1) men, 2) Republicans, 3) the prosperous, 4) bankers, engineers and accountants, and 5) Germans. Defense attorneys supposedly favor women, Democrats, poorer people, social scientists and minorities...
...experts, like Sociologist Dr. Kersti Yllo of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., speculate that "loving" violence may partly be a byproduct of women's push for equality. Uncertainty about once traditional roles, she reasons, makes men more anxious to assert themselves and women more anxious to fight back...