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...Later-borns, however, don't try merely to please other people; they also try to provoke them. Richard Zweigenhaft, a professor of psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., who revealed the overrepresentation of firstborns in Congress, conducted a similar study of picketers at labor demonstrations. On the occasions that the events grew unruly enough to lead to arrests, he would interview the people the police rounded up. Again and again, he found, the majority were later- or last-borns. "It was a statistically significant pattern," says Zweigenhaft. "A disproportionate number of them were choosing to be arrested...
...Where I teach," says Richard Zweigenhaft, a sociologist at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., "fewer and fewer students seem to think government is capable, or likely, to solve the kinds of problems they are most concerned about...
Furthermore, as Guilford College's Zweigenhaft points out, many of the men and women he interviewed with William Domhoff for his 1998 book, Diversity in the Power Elite, ended up in the upper echelons of the civil service only after many twists and turns along their career paths...
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