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...McDonald's restaurants and movie theaters has fostered the perception that almost no place is safe anymore. Fear has led to a boom in the security industry and the transformation of homes and public places into fortresses. "People are worried more. They're worried sick," says Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist at George Washington University. "There is a new level of fright, one that is both overdone and realistic at the same time...
Many experts dig deeper -- but the roots they pull up are a messy tangle of societal ills. "We have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
...America a fixation on assassination conspiracies? After all, the latest furor over who really killed J.F.K., inspired by Oliver Stone's movie, has only recently abated. There remain rabid challenges to official versions of the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X murders. To sociologist Amitai Etzioni, the fascination with these questions reflects a need to explain life's inexplicable dark side: Why did all these heroes die? That tendency is encouraged by America's individualism, which encourages an instinctive distrust of authority and officialdom...
Come on along, fiction lovers, James Wilcox writes your kind of book. GUEST OF , A SINNER (HarperCollins; $20), his sixth novel, is a funny, rambling chronicle of half a dozen people in New York City whom any sociologist would label misfits. Eric Thorsen gets by as a piano teacher and accompanist. His sister sells espresso machines at Macy's. Their father brews trouble. So do the people drawn to the Thorsens, mostly by Eric's good looks -- to which he is indifferent. Wilcox's skill is in taking the reader by the hand into his shaggy narrative and filling...
...challenges facing all these movements run far deeper than electoral miseries. The collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe exposed the bankruptcy of the collectivist doctrines that lay at the heart of all socialist thought. "Socialism is a dirty word today," says French sociologist Alain Touraine. The French and Italian socialist parties are even considering changing their names to avoid the opprobrium that voters attach to them...