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...When Sociologist James Makepeace, 35, surveyed undergraduates at Bemidji State University in Minnesota during the spring of 1979, he came on a finding that surprised him: one of every five students reported being punched, slapped or shoved by their dates or lovers. Says Makepeace, an expert on premarital family violence: "It used to be said that a marriage license was a hitting license, but now we've discovered that on college campuses there's an awful lot of hitting without the license...
...Sociologist Laner blames cruelty at coeducational institutions in large part on a "violence-loving society" that has nurtured this college generation on murder movies and newspaper stories detailing crimes of passion. Other experts speculate that lack of parietal rules has put too much sexual and emotional strain on the young. College students have always had a hard time deciding what comes first-school work or a loved one. On today's openly sexual, highly competitive campuses, even the most solid balancing act can come unbalanced. In such a zero-sum scenario, each hour spent with one's partner...
President Bok will delay a ruling on tenuring sociologist Theda Skocpol for as much as three years while be studies her record as a scholar and reviews the "needs and priorities" of the Sociology Department...
...sociologist as moralist peaked in the late '40s and '50s. Americans who had endured the pangs of the Depression and wartime rationing enjoyed an unprecedented feast of goods and services. Focusing on the problems of affluence more than on its benefits, Scholars David Riesman, Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer published The Lonely Crowd. More lightly credentialed observers got into the act. Books such as The Organization Man, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Status Seekers became bestsellers to a "we" generation confused about keeping up with the Joneses...
...Sociologist Dane Archer calls reading such signals "social intelligence," but the phrase's greatest usefulness was probably in completing the title of his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient. Urged Archer: "We must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore silent behavior and to prefer words over everything else." The evidence all over is that while people meander the earth through thickets of verbiage (theirs and others), many, perhaps most, do pay more attention to wordless signals and are more likely to be influenced and governed by nonverbal messages...