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...Miami-Dade, which is 40% Cuban, suddenly looked like a rogue republic in the Everglades. And Al Gore--plainly campaigning for Cuban-American votes--broke with Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno by siding with the exiles who want to keep Elian in the U.S. Says University of Miami sociologist Max Castro: "Try as it may, the U.S. can't escape the jihad of Cuban politics...
...within Florida. In a poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...
...Kavita Srivastava, then 30, was a sociologist working in a government-supported program in Rajasthan state devoted to raising awareness among rural women about their legal and social rights. Srivastava, whose previous exposure to rural life had come entirely through train windows, believed she was making real progress toward improving the lives of Indian women--until a brutal act demonstrated how powerful the repressive force of misogyny can be. Bhanwari Devi, a local woman who was working with Srivastava, was gang-raped by upper-caste men after she tried to stop a Brahman child wedding. Though the rape was witnessed...
...shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...
...hard it will be to restigmatize extramarital sex. Sure, we think adultery is a bad thing, just not bad enough to disqualify anyone from ruling the world. Meanwhile, there have been few takers for covenant marriages, showing that most people like to keep their options open. Tulane University sociologist Laura Sanchez speculates that the ultimate effect of covenant marriages may be to open up the subversive possibility of diversifying the institution of marriage--with different types for different folks, including, perhaps someday, even gay folks...