Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quick flip-through, by male in jokey mood: Woman sociologist gets big grant, does ten years of research, writes book proving that men don't do housework. Complains...
Maybe. At any rate, it seems likely that sociologist Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (Viking; $18.95) will turn up in empty fridges, on piles of undone laundry and taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...from a shore, allow people to change their mind or to be discovered and rescued. According to some experts, for each successful suicide, there are at least 20 attempts. But one study has found that when people use a gun, the rate of death is 92%. Says Tulane University sociologist James Wright: "Everyone knows that if you put a loaded .38 in your ear and pull the trigger, you won't survive...
...they bet. Dr. Howard Shaffer of Harvard's Center for Addiction Studies figures that the proportion of American adults who bet at least occasionally has risen from 60% two decades ago to 80% now; other estimates range up to 88%. Nor is betting confined to adults: Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York City, found in a 1987 study that 86% of New Jersey high school students had gambled within the previous year and 32% gambled at least once a week, mostly on sports events. "At first I didn't believe the rates," says Lesieur...
...tone down and blend in: that would slash at the heart of the gay- rights movement, they charge. Says Sherrie Cohen of the Fund for Human Dignity: "We're for embracing diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile argument used before Stonewall and abandoned afterward." Some gays believe, too, that the conservative approach may actually encourage homosexuals to remain invisible; the better gays succeed in blending in, they suggest, the easier and more tempting...