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...women cops doing the job? The most negative answer came last fall in a study by Sociologist Patricia Weiser Remmington. After a year of riding five shifts a week on police patrols in Atlanta, Remmington concluded that males cope with the presence of females on the force by dealing with them as natural subordinates -and the females accept the situation. A policeman talks to a policewoman in a teasing kind of banter, as if the female cop were a tomboyish kid sister. Because women cops were not trained in the martial arts or encouraged to handle tough assignments, they often...
After giving birth, most women lapse into some sort of melancholy. Though no one knows precisely what causes post-partum depression, most theories focus on medical factors or psychological ones. British Sociologist Ann Oakley, after a five-year study of 55 first-time mothers in a London hospital, has a different idea: postpartum depression is mostly caused by society...
Oakley opposes the use of pain-killing injections during birth, particularly the ones that numb the lower half of the mother's body and, according to the sociologist, make her feel more like a spectator than a participant. "It is a profoundly alienating experience," she says. "The mothers felt like it was someone else's child." Her advice: proper support from husband and hospital will eliminate anxiety, and thus reduce pain to a bearable limit without drugs...
Patriotism should have higher ambitions. Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni sees the current stirrings as a fitful groping toward some kind of national unity. The most significant symptom he detects is the jump in the proportions of voters casting ballots in the primaries this year. Because of Iran and Afghanistan, says Etzioni, "we have what I call a hinge effect. All projections up to that point have to be redone. We largely put behind us the Viet Nam complex. This is the turning point in political apathy. We had a decade and a half of retreat from institutions, identity, directions...
Because of the unprecedented savagery, some experts concluded that a kind of madness was a cause of the carnage. Said Pedro David, a University of New Mexico sociologist who studied the prison in the early 1970s: "There were people in the prison who were very disturbed mentally and belonged in a hospital." Indeed, prison officials reported that the riot was caused by a hard-core group of about 50 inmates, who through intimidation enlisted about 150 more active participants...