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...response, China has launched a 10-city "Break Internet Addiction" tour aimed at the nation's imperiled youth. If the problem isn't tackled now, says sociologist Tao Hongkai, it could have grave consequences. "The kids who are are already in their late teens or twenties don't want to find a job," he laments. "They just want to stay at home and play games...
...party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing fealty to male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist Deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that Ségolène is no longer acting as a 'comrade' but as a rival is completely astonishing for them, and completely insufferable." There...
...happy to discuss from the pulpit hot-button topics like sex and even politics. But the relative absence of sermons about money--which the Bible mentions several thousand times--is one of the more stunning omissions in American religion, especially among its white middle-class precincts. Princeton University sociologist Robert Wuthnow says much of the U.S. church "talks about giving but does not talk about the broader financial concerns people have, or the pressures at work. There has long been a taboo on talking candidly about money...
...Silas Lee, a Xavier University sociologist, has written that New Orleans has a "troubled soul" where racism and poverty hide behind a mask of serenity. White illustrates that reality with the story of a simple ritual he adopted when he sought haven in Houston with his elderly mother and aunt. Before Sunday dinner, they would take a drive and tour the city's schools. "My mother and aunt would end up in tears," White said, "even the worst of the Houston schools were ten times better than any in New Orleans...
DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...