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What if three schools in Maine decided to offer more courses on Eastern Europe? Harvard sociologist David Riesman has a proposal: "I can imagine Colby, Bates and Bowdoin, for example, deciding that one would concentrate on Romania, one on Bulgaria and one on Czechoslovakia. They could have interchangeable programs that all students could use for semesters abroad...
...dissolve such atavistic rages. A Japanese management expert says, "People don't want nationality and soil; they want satellites and Sony." A little glib, perhaps. But ultimately there is a universal desire in the Third World to achieve the better life that the developed world promises, or, as sociologist Alvin Toffler puts it, for the slow world to catch up with the fast world. The U.S. and other advanced nations will have to help. It is ironic that at this very moment the U.S. itself seems threatened by a kind of tribalism, flying the "multicultural" flag...
...might have been paralyzed into inaction." At the same time, most of them never planned to be rescuers. They found themselves responding to a need first and the danger second. Many shared a sense of universalism. "They saw the Jews not as Jews but as persecuted human beings," the sociologist says. In her research, Tec, who was herself sheltered in Poland, found that only 10% of the rescuers had confined their help to friends they had known before...
Also this year, the BSA has helped bring rappers Chuck D and Sister Souljah to campus, along with Nation of Islam representative Conrad Muhammad and Dorothy Fardan, a white sociologist who has been affiliated with the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers...
...restores peace and respect for human rights. Though the West was concerned that such violence could become the norm in other former Soviet republics, recent flare-ups have been limited to ethnically divided Moldavia and the Caucasian states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Most of the population, says Russian sociologist Yuri Levada, has proved -- for now, at least -- to be "more democratic, more restrained and more peaceful than many expected...