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...Harvard psychoanalyst and sociologist Erik H. Erikson asked Coles to return to Boston to work with him. Coles says Erikson's Childhood and Society was a major influence on him, and he jumped at the chance...
Nathan Glazer, the Harvard sociologist, takes a different, less admiring view. "The mute memorial is all around us," writes Glazer in The Public Interest; and the most successful of them, the Vietnam Memorial, "does not tell us that [those killed] died for their country, or for liberty, or for democracy, or even that they died in vain. It says nothing except that they died." We may speak to the memorials, says Glazer, but they no longer speak clearly to us. Modern art has replaced excessive clarity with none...
...that men with naturally higher testosterone levels are more aggressive and take-charge than men with slightly lower levels. When two sports teams meet, both teams will show an increase in testosterone during the game. "In the face of competition, levels of testosterone will rise," says Alan Booth, a sociologist at Penn State University. "This prepares the competitor and may help increase the chances for a win. It could be that the rise in testosterone has physical benefits, such as visual acuity and increased strength. But only the winning team continues to show high testosterone after the game...
...that doesn't mean we can't worry about it. Y2K was a bust, but anxiety is still America's leading psychiatric disorder. "We're living in about the safest times in human history, yet people seem to be more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next year. The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook will cover such things as hostage situations and civil unrest. Meanwhile the Survival...
...democratic rules that the rest of the country observes. That was in evidence last month when Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas--widely considered a more progressive exile leader--vowed that his cops wouldn't help federal officials take Elian to his father. However, as University of Miami sociologist George Wilson points out, because Miami's Cubans are perhaps the country's most privileged refugee group, "most Americans refuse to believe that their civil disobedience over Elian is legitimate." Viewed from that perspective, shutting down freeways is no longer protest, merely petulance...