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...Knowing someone who commits adultery puts flesh on a morally abstract situation," says John H. Gagnon, a sociologist who was a co-author of the Chicago study. "It's morally wrong, but if I know someone who did it, I know maybe they had a bad marriage; maybe it was an accident. Maybe there's a compelling narrative to explain why they strayed." In other words, familiarity breeds moral relativism. While President Clinton has yet to offer a compelling narrative of his own, this phenomenon may help explain the consistent findings in polls that while Americans don't like...
Although his ideology has changed since his days as an undergraduate member of the Communist Party, Robert N. Bellah '48, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, has spent his entire life at the cutting edge of the academy...
...been tremendously influential.... He's sparked new ideas wherever he's gone," says Ann Swidler '66, a sociologist who co-wrote Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life and The Good Society with Bellah...
...large conglomerates--the Timsco Group, named after his younger brother Timmy, and the Repindo Panca Group, headed by his second son Tareq Kamal Habibie. Many of the more than 66 companies in these two groups have fed off contracts from the state enterprises Habibie oversaw as Technology Minister, says sociologist George Aditjondro of the University of Newcastle in Australia. That does not bode well for a clean government under a Habibie presidency. "The Habibie-family companies are so deeply involved with the Suharto-family companies," says Aditjondro, that Habibie naturally "will try to protect Suharto and his family from impeachment...
...next significant--and much less entertaining--phase of futurology, the year 2000 was taken over by the think tanks. Most notably there was the Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000, set up in 1966 (rather rushing things). It was headed by the distinguished sociologist Daniel Bell and included 42 leading thinkers in fields ranging from science to mysticism. One of the commission's prominent members was that brilliant man-mountain Herman Kahn, who published The Year 2000 alongside the commission's report, Toward the Year...