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...women still feel the need to assert themselves, to be the center of attention." Among other things, he says, the phenomenon shows "how we Italians have not yet overcome our sexual problems. This puts the clock back a century to keyhole sex." Other experts disagree. Says University of Trento Sociologist Gian Paolo Fabris: "Sex on the tube produces no guilt complexes. On the contrary, it creates an atmosphere of harmless complicity among the most repressed couples and can even stimulate desires...
...structures. Unless we want careful empirical analysis by experts to degenerate into a chaos of untested, untenable extrapolations, Devore and sociobiology should not be taken too seriously--not because it might tell us what we do not want to know, but because its methods are questionable at best. No sociologist would try to apply his social theories to a rabbit warren or a nest of squirrels; by the same token, someone who has spent his life studying insects or baboons should not try to explain human phenomena--which is qualitatively different--by causal theories based on the observed motivations...
...debate on the academic left continued this weekend in a conference on "Sociology and History," which featured as speakers the Marxist historians Christopher Lasch '54, Eugene Genovese and the well-known sociologist Norbert Elias...
...champion of free choice, he did not question the North House men about whether they felt free to choose domestic work and full-time child raising rather than a career. As a sociologist, he raised no question about social structures that still rigidly assign to women the work of child-rearing, cooking, laundry and cleaning. His concern was that highly educated women might find it no longer acceptable to choose total economic dependency and the channelling of their own energies into the development of their sons...
...book, Lying, Bok-the wife of Harvard President Derek Bok and daughter of Swedish Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal-traces the history of convoluted arguments on the subject. For instance, Grotius said that speaking falsely to an intruder is not a lie. This, Bok suggests, would be something like knocking a man to the ground, then explaining that you did not hit him because he had no right to be there. Kant insisted that all lies were immoral-even those told to a murderer to protect an innocent life. Erasmus disagreed, but Cardinal Newman sympathized with Kant. His solution: instead of lying...