Word: sociologist
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Although Metz said that her dedicated senior year tutor helped her with her thesis and eventually inspired her to become a sociologist, he was a rare exception among the teaching staff. “There were very few faculty members who didn’t treat their female students like afterthoughts,” she said...
According to Kennedy School Professor J. Richard Hackman, a specialist in social and organizational psychology, the phenomenon of anonymous authorship recalls an argument made by sociologist Erving Goffman in his text “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life...
...makes sense that we associate largely with people of the same age. This phenomenon is common across age groups; a study by University of Berkeley sociologist Claude Fischer found that 72 percent of the close friends of Detroit men were within eight years of their age. However, the possibility of a non-age diverse friend circle is magnified at colleges because in most campus situations everyone living close to you is your age. “Residential proximity, age homogeneity, similarity and complementarity,” are the descriptors of adult friendships according to the “Encyclopedia...
Their goal, forming a “generative community,” stems from Rakesh Khurana’s training as a sociologist and his research on leadership in business...
...still playing out today. The percentage of the workforce employed in part-time, temporary and contract work has tripled since 1990, forcing workaholic Japanese businessmen, many of whom never married, into a lonely early retirement. "Their world has evaporated under their feet," says Scott North, an Osaka University sociologist who studies Japanese work life. "The firm has been everything for these men. Their sense of manliness, their social position, their sense of self is all rooted in the corporate structure...