Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the research sparked by this startling epiphany focused on Japanese economic strategies, and why they were so much better than ours. In his study of Japan, Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel pointed out the many aspects of Japanese life and society that inevitably led to economic hyper-growth. His book, which quickly became a best-seller in Japan, was simply titled Japan As Number...
...parade of highly visible corporate misdeeds has sparked the outrage. According to a study by sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of FORTUNE 500 companies were convicted between 1975 and 1985 of serious crimes, from price fixing to illegal dumping of hazardous wastes. Executives at Beech-Nut tried to pass off flavored water as apple juice. Ivan Boesky and a ring of Wall Streeters traded on insider information. Even such an upstanding company as Eastman Kodak, which has won awards for its minority-hiring and other social programs, has felt the heat. Residents...
...common male attitude that when a woman says no she really means yes. Many experts believe that such films may be a contributing factor in date rape, one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes. "Teenagers are only doing what they are told to do," says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Boston's Wheelock College. "They are being conformists, not deviants...
...Children play video games in which they win points for killing the most people. They watch violence-packed cartoons. They listen to songs titled Be My Slave and Scumkill. Or they are baby-sat by vastly popular movie videotapes like Splatter University and I Spit on Your Grave. Says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Wheelock College in Boston: "What we are doing is training a whole generation of male kids to see sex and violence as inextricably linked...
...alone, however, bears only part of the responsibility for the time famine. All the promises of limitless leisure relied on America's retaining its blinding lead in the world's markets and unfolding prosperity at home. No one quite bargained for the Middle-Class Squeeze, what Paula Rayman, a sociologist at Wellesley College's Stone Center, calls "falling behind while getting ahead." The prices of houses have soared, inflation erodes paychecks, wages are stagnant, and medical and tuition costs continue to skyrocket. So now it can take two paychecks to fund what many imagined was a middle-class life...