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Opinion | Inside the Mind of an Addict
Addictions begin when people start using drugs for medical or recreational reasons, then take additional doses of substances they knew are dangerous. In his 1947 book, “Opiate Addictions,” University of Indiana sociologist Alfred Lindesmith found that human users become addicts when they realize that their painful withdrawal symptoms are the consequence of not having the drug in their bodies.
Opinion | My Benevolent Incarceration in a New Jersey Senior Home
Highland Park, N.J. I am 94 and have been living, comfortably, for several years in an assisted-living facility. Although three staff members contracted the coronavirus—and have recovered—none of our 15 male or 41 female residents has tested positive for it. Luck? Probably, but possibly also the result of restrictive rules that prevent residents from having personal contact with one another—or with friends, relatives or strangers from outside the facility. ...
Opinion | 14th-Century Solutions to Student Debt
Toward the end of the 14th century, the Medici family of Florence started a bank that became widely imitated. The secret of its success: The Medicis were skilled in evaluating the creditworthiness of loan applicants. A borrower who proposed a loan to finance a business venture had to be personally reliable, with an idea that was likely to succeed. The Medicis charged interest at high rates but most loans were repaid, benefiting the borrowers, the bank and Florentine society.
Opinion | ‘Free College for All’ Is an Experiment That Has Already Failed
The progressive Democratic presidential candidates mean well when they say they want to make a college education an entitlement. They believe that nothing but good can result from giving children from low-income families the opportunity to attend college. But they are mistaken.
Samuel Stouffer
During world war ii, when Samuel Stouffer led the research branch of the U.S. Army’s information and education division, the hundreds of surveys he directed on the attitudes of American soldiers were radical innovations. Despite the strong support of his boss, General Frederick Osborn, who knew FDR personally and had other social connections useful for bureaucratic leverage, the research branch endured a precarious status.
Opinion | Left-Wing Politics and the Decline of Sociology
When retired Harvard professor Nathan Glazer died Jan. 19 at 95, descriptive sociology lost its last great practitioner. Best known for “Beyond the Melting Pot,” his landmark study written with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Glazer also collaborated with David Riesman on a rare best-seller of 20th-century sociology, “The Lonely Crowd.” Glazer was not a descriptive sociologist in the sense of collecting interview and questionnaire data, though he analyzed such data to draw conclusions.
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