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...what about Rule #5 of the delegate selection rulebook? (I may be the only person who has read this horribly long and boring document): “Discrimination on the basis of ‘status?? in Democratic Party affairs is prohibited.” Again, the DNC would not comment on the obvious hypocrisy between this rule and the existence of superdelegates, who are merely high-status Democrats...
...chief interpreter of law, the Supreme Court, has long struggled to create a working definition of religion that is both inclusive and effective at distinguishing secular from sacred. During the Vietnam War, for example, in U.S. v. Seeger, the Court approved “conscientious objector status?? for people who held a “sincere and meaningful” belief which “occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief...
...While many of us would rightly reject this caricature, we would not waste too much time doing so. Dwelling too long on the elaborate tapestry of social rules and symbols that would separate a country bumpkin from a blue blood at Harvard would betray an unhealthy obsession with status??as if one’s admissions letter was not enough to allay feelings of social insecurity...
Rockey Akpan understands the dilemma. Andre’s father grew up in Nigeria, where education is the key to wealth, status??“everything,” Rockey says...
Historian David Blackbourn introduces you to Max Weber, the German founder of sociology. Learn what your “life chances” are (and be grateful that a Harvard diploma boosts your “social status??). Even if you aren’t fascinated by the three-component theory of social stratification, you might feel like a genius throughout the semester if you manage to interpret Weber’s work; and that just might be worth the effort...