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...organization was partly inspired by sociologist Paul H. Ray’s theory of “cultural creatives”—50 million people in the U.S. who are concerned with environmental issues, sustainable development, peace, social justice and interpersonal relationships...
...from ancient barbarisms that refuse to die, sacrifice and sorcery are making a comeback. Sociologists explain the millions who now throng the two main Kali centers in eastern India, at Kamakhya and Tarapith, as what happens when the rat race that is India's future meets the superstitions of its past. Sociologist Ashis Nandy says: "You see your neighbor doing well, above his caste and position, and someone tells you to get a child and do a secret ritual and you can catch up." Adds mysticism expert Ipsita Roy Chakaraverti: "It's got nothing to do with real mysticism...
...Often this comes with an epiphany: 'Oh, my God, Dad's getting old,'" says University of Southern California sociologist Vern Bengtson. A small event, like superorganized Mom losing her checkbook, may be the trigger. Or the recognition of parental decline may dawn gradually. Some offspring fight off the reality until a crisis hits, while others fret and nag long before their parents need any help. Many folks, Bengston points out, enter old age relatively healthy, still helping their kids with baby-sitting and financial support, but their offspring may overreact to small, normal signs of their parents' aging...
...caricature of a hierarchy endlessly protective of its clergy but deaf to the agony of mere churchgoers. That portrait, composed as it is of worst-case scenarios, may well be distorted. But it has raised fundamental questions of authority. "It creates a disconnect," says William V. D'Antonio, a sociologist at Catholic University of America. "It puts the whole system under structural stress...
...Japanese have their own word for these losers, oyaji, which literally means father. Long ago, it connoted respect, endearment, even awe. "They used to have all the power. They were supposed to protect the family," says sociologist Yoko Shoji. "Now people just pity them." So what does oyaji mean now? Kazuhito Suzuki, a 20-year-old construction worker who admits to beating up an oyaji, snorts and rolls his eyes. Sitting on the front stoop of a pachinko parlor, he takes a drag on his cigarette and watches a parade of older men passing by. None of them looks...